PimpMyNews is a new, free service that allows users with web browsers or MP3 players to listen to news and blogs instead of having to read them. This is accomplished with automatic text-to-speech conversion and played back with Quicktime enabling the service to work nicely on the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s like magic. You can customize your playlist from thousands of news and blog publishers. You can even share stories and playlists with friends, and rate stories in the community. PimpMyNews is ideal for productivity junkies who can satisfy their news and blog cravings while doing other things.
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Campfire, the group chat web application, arrives in style on iPhone and iPod touch. Campfire is part of a suite of award-winning web 2.0 apps from 37signals, the developers of business productivity and collaboration tools such as Basecamp, Backpack, and Highrise. Campfire is a real-time chat application that is kind of like instant messaging, but more targeted to groups, especially remote teams. Now you can interact with your team members using Campfire from any web browser, including mobile Safari on iPhone and iPod touch.
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TGIF, and you know what that means… Touchip’s Friday Roundup of user-submitted tips for iPhones and iPod touches!

We hope you enjoy these as much as we do. And don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

This week, you wrote in to share some very useful typing shortcuts using the virtual keyboard. You taught us new ways of extending our battery life, how to make the external speaker louder, and how to download and read PDF files. We also really appreciated that tip for restoring music from our iPods back into iTunes after a computer crash wipes out our iTunes library. Here are this weeks tips submitted by you…
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Weather forecasts can be a fairly mundane affair, unless of course, the weather person is a Maxim girl. Maxim’s Hometown Hotties delivers a banquet of babes alongside weather conditions making this iPhone-optimized web site a worthy replacement for the native Weather.app. Maxim provides a real humanitarian service here, especially for the young male residents of Honeyville, Utah, where it’s currently 1 freakin’ degrees outside and all they have to warm them up is a Maxim girl (pictured here). And if that’s not enough to bring a smile to their faces, maybe Maxim’s Joke-O-Matic will do the trick.
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We’ve been pretty impressed with the iPhone’s battery life, but still, with battery life there is no such thing as “long enough”. Thank goodness for the new Powerstick mobile device charger which is our new favorite accessory for iPhone and iPod touch. The Powerstick is a universal USB charger that fills with power via any USB device. It provides charging to power deficient mobile devices the same way, just plug it into a USB port and let it transfer the power back into the mobile device. At $69.95 it seems a little pricey just for a charger, but after you dig into the Powerstick’s specs, you’ll realize it’s worth every cent.
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When we’re not busy dishing out the best tips for your iPhone or iPod touch, we can sometimes be found inside a Halo 3 team slayer skirmish delivering the uber-pwnage to unsuspecting noobs. Halo 3 is our guilty pleasure, giving us a chance to burn off pent up work-related stress. And although we try never to mix business and pleasure, something like iHaloStats comes along and forces us to break our own rules. If you play Halo 3 on Xbox Live and own an iPhone or iPod touch, read on. Otherwise, move along, there’s nothing here to see.
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Two of the biggest names in online travel planning come to the iPhone and iPod touch. Today, Travelocity announced the iPhone optimized version of their airline flight reservation site, and last month Hotels.com released an iPhone interface for finding and reserving hotel rooms. Both sites are very quick to use and have some handy features making these very worthy of web clips for road warriors and vacationers alike.
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Thanks to everyone sending us tips for iPhone and iPod touch. Please, keep ‘em coming! You can submit them on our Share a Tip form, or by posting them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

This week’s submitted-by-you iPhone tips include how-to downgrade from 1.1.3 so you can Jailbreak your device, a tip about restoring bricked iPhones, some advice about using the new web clipping feature along with instructions for web developers to create custom icons for those clippings, a hack to enable cut-and-paste, and many more!
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