Today’s TiPb Top 5 will be directed towards our iPhone and iPod touch wielding readers who love First-Person Shooting (FPS) games. Just like our other TiPb’s top 5 must-have posts, all of these applications are available in the App Store. For the full overview, follow us after the break!

Wolfenstein 3D Platinum

Wanna kick it old, old school? Wolfenstein 3D (Wolf3D) started it all. What is great about this version of the game is that you get A LOT of levels. You get episodes 1-6 plus the Spear of Destiny add-on pack for a total of more than 60 levels. Wolf3D has customizable controls and a super-fast framerate. This is a great version of the original and a bargain price. [$1.99 - iTunes Link]

• Old school fun
• Customizable controls
• So many levels!
• Fast and smooth gameplay

DOOM Classic

Ah, DOOM — one of my all time favorites. The iPhone version is top-notch. Fast and fun. The controls have been tweaked a little more than with Wolf3D, but are similar. If you can play one, you will be instantly at home with the other. DOOM takes the Wolf3D premise and adds a grand 3D element to it. Mars is invaded by devils from hell and it is up to you to eradicate them over 36 levels. Future updates in include Doom 2 with in-app purchasing! Doom as multiplayer support over local Wi-Fi, but sadly, no online deathmatches are planned at this time. [$6.99 - iTunes Link]

• Just the way I remember it
• Customizable controls
• Fast gameplay
• Totally fun!

Eliminate Pro

One of the most anticipated apps for the App Store, Eliminate has arrived! This illustrates what mobile online multiplayer can be about. This game revolves around playing matches and winning; that simple. The catch is having “energy” when you play. If you win a match (or actually play a match) with energy you earn credits. Credits are used to buy weapons, armor and stats. After your energy is depleted, you can buy more with in-app purchasing, or wait 90 minutes (the time keeps changing as ngmoco:) finds the right balance) for a partial energy recharge. You can play over the Internet with Wi-Fi or 3G. A new map is on its way, but no word on voice chat. [$Free - iTunes Link]

• Internet multiplayer
• Upgradable weapons and armor
• Friend lists
• Private matches with friends

Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies

This game was a surprise that came out of nowhere! Like shooting zombies WWII Nazi-style? Well, look no further than Call of Duty: Zombies. You are in a room with boarded entrances. Zombies are closing in on every side. What do you do? destroy them of course! You can buy different weapons and choose from a few different control styles. This game gets tough fast, but in the end is hampered by a less-than-accurate control scheme. I have faith this will be fixed in a future update. You can play single player or multiplayer locally. Sadly there is only one map right now, but more are coming soon! [$9.99 - iTunes Link]

• Top-notch graphics
• Erie atmosphere make playing it stressful!
• Continuous onslaught of zombies to kill
• Local multiplayer

Modern Combat: Sandstorm

Looking for a FPS with a good challenge? Sandstorm will give it to ya! This is not a run n’ gun game, you have to use strategy defeat the relentless AI. This game has great controls and graphics. You can crouch, zoom, carry two different weapons plus grenades; all intuitively with fun. You are placed in the Middle East set to take down the bad guys. What is the big news about this game? There is an online update coming out before Christmas 2009 that will add  Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch modes! This looks to be an amazing addition onto an already solid single player title! [$4.99 - iTunes Link]

• Great control scheme with lots of functionality
• 10 different missions
• Great visuals  and story
• Very challenging compared to other FPSs on the App Store

Conclusion

Winner: Eliminate Pro

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Time.com Mobile [Free - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch re-configures the current events, editorial, and entertainment aspects of Time’s online presence for Apple’s portable, connected platform. Easy to navigate tabs include News, Top 10 Lists, Quotes, Popular Stories, and Media, and you can choose to view all of those in either list view or a coverflow-eque Image Flow presentation.

If you give it a try, let us know what you think. Plenty more screenshots after the break!

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CNNMoney.com News, Stocks, and Video [free - iTunes link] for iPhone (and iPod touch) is the latest big name entrant into the App Store financial news and media space. Leveraging their brand and resources, it looks like CNNMoney.com’s mobile site while working like an iPhone app. iPhone-likeness aficionados may take a few blinking moments to adjust, but it’s a deliberate design decision that will no doubt appeal to the massive user-base of CNN.com’s existing web services.

TiPb had a chance to test drive CNNMoney, and from a pure content standpoint it’s impressive. When you first launch, you’re greeted with the News dashboard. At the very top is a rotating stock-ticker, then a sampling of latest news, stocks, videos, etc. Users can easily check or uncheck specific content options, and drag them around to re-sequence them in whatever order they prefer. (I immediately put technology news at the top).

The content itself isn’t merely a feed. In an effort to give mobile users the best experience possible, both statistical measures like popularity and hand-picked curation on the part of CNN Money’s editors determine which stories and in what order they’re made available to the iPhone app. Also, stories loaded into the app are cached locally in case you need to go offline (i.e. on an airplane).

The free app is supported by advertising, but when there is no appropriate or available ad, rather than filler or “house ads”, CNN Money cuts users a much-appreciated break and removes the ad space completely.

My Stocks is pre-populated with a few high profile favorites but can be easily customized. Tapping a stock brings up a details and graph view. As is typical with online stock reporting, quotes are delayed roughly 15 min. Once you’ve viewed a stock quote, a new section pops up on your dashboard News tab called Last 3 Quotes, and as the title indicates, it keeps track of your most recently views stocks.

Videos shows thumbnails and a brief description of the story. CNN Money typically produces over a dozen unique video segments a day, and they load quickly and look good on the iPhone.

The Add/Remove tab lets you do the content re-arrangement mentioned previously.

It should be noted that while CNN Money is compatible with iPhone 3.0, and the system-wide Copy functionality works fine, it doesn’t yet support push notification alerts, or automatic HTTP video stream optimization. Hopefully we’ll see these in an update. Along with a good James Earl Jones rendition of “This is CNN”.

Screenshots after the break…

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Steve Ellington from the theautomaticfilmmaker.com let us know that he’d shot the above music video entirely on the new iPhone 3GS. While Ellington had fun filming the little robot, he was also “quite impressed with the camera.”

CBS4 in South Florida must also have been impressed. They claimed the “new iPhone good enough for the evening news” when a producer shot a segment entirely on Apple’s latest handset as well.

While RED likely has nothing to fear — yet! — citizen journalism and individual creativity are likely in for a huge, Jobsian boom!

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TiPb’s 2009 BIRTHDAY BASH!!!!!!

That is right folks, here is a link for all of this weeks birthday madness. It isn’t too late to win the ColorWare unlocked iPhone 3G!!! Click here to find all of the birthday posts!

Star Defense: Rene is a playa!

Our very own Rene Ritchie recruited for ngmoco:)’s Star Defense Challenge… for the record, I think Rene came in ninth. I don’t think tower defense games are his strong suite.

Quick App: Bento 2 for iPhone

I like Bento 2. It is a simple Mac database app. Now you can can take that data with you. You can even use Bento for iPhone as a stand-alone app. It has multiple “libraries” to choose from. Event planning to Inventory management.

Quick App: My Wireless from AT&T

Add this to the “What took so long question” of the day. Basically, you can log in and check all of your minutes and even change your plan. Pretty cool.

Microsoft’s App Store= Apple’s App store?

Looks that way. Take a look at some of the restrictions they have posted!

Review: Case-Mate Vroom for iPhone 3G

If you like your case to look like tire tread, check this one out! Casey seems to like it!

$1.29 for music still not popular with consumers? What, really?

Like, um, we didn’t see this coming. So the greedy music industry STILL doesn’t get it. Will they ever learn?

Phone Different Podcast #38

The latest one is up! Listen on the web or download in iTunes for the latest news round up from Dieter and Mike!

Whoa! That was fast, the latest iPhone Beta is out, Beta 5!

Man, Cupertino sure doesn’t wait long do they! For our full coverage of iPhone 3.0, be sure to click the link!

iPhone apps must be 3.0 compliant!

Looks like iPhone 3.0 will be here soon! All new apps submited to the App Store must be 3.0 compliant! This is very exciting news!

Rumor: iPhone plan to drop by $10?

That would be nice, wouldn’t it? Well, that is what the Internets are saying. Well, the analysts are anyway.

Twiterrific 2.0 for iPhone

It is finally out. Personally, I think it is a little busy; too many feature. I am a Tweetie guy myself. So what does Rene think?

Do you want to legally rip your DVD’s to iTunes? I know I do!

But since DVDs are kinda… um… old school now, should Apple even bother?

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Rumor: Verizon to get two new Apple devices?

Well, it looks that the rumor mill is spinning with talks of Verizon getting a “media pad” and an iPhone “lite”. Personally I don’t think Apple wants to fragment their market with users having to get different contracts on other carriers, what do you think?

Verizon getting Microsoft “Pink”

Who needs Apple when you have Redmond in your corner… looks like Verizon could be getting their own “iPhone killa”… oh wait, let me compose myself as I pick myself off the floor.

SplashData brings out Splash Photo and Splash Notes for iPhone

For those long time Palm users that migrated to Apple, your classic apps have been ported. Splash Photo has some nice features including Picasa and Flickr support.

iPhone Software 3.0, beta 4 is not available

You can follow our “beta 4” tag for all the goodies!

Review: Krusell Classic case for iPhone 3G

Looking for a new case for the iPhone 3G? Take a look at the Krusell! You might dig the leather…

TruPhone VOIP

Can’t get enough of VOIP apps? Well Rene gives us a look at TruPhone for iPhone. Not only is this a phone, but has IM as well. Does it beat Skype? Take a look and find out!

Typing Test in a rally car, who will win? iPhone or Netbook?

In this rather amusing video they pit an iPhone against a netbook. The goal: to see which will type better under extreme driving conditions. One guess as to who wins.

iPhone LIVE! Birthday Bash

This week we talk up the new Beta 4 new-ness and discuss our new birthday contest surprise!

iPhone wins #1 in customer satisfaction from JD Power!

This is not a big surprise, the iPhone is so incredibly easy to use, more so than the Palm or BlackBerry OS (used a Storm lately, ugh). What area were users NOT pleased with on the iPhone? Read on to find out!

iPhone to become video power-house?

Rumors are coming out that the new iPhone will have insane video recording capabilities and will directly compete with the Flip cameras. Can Apple do it? Of course! Something like this would not be too hard to implement.

XBox executive joins Apple

This could be interesting. What does Apple have up their sleeve?

TiPb Picks of the Week!

This week we have several staff members give their picks. What are they? Read on to find out!

Terminator Salvation

I gotta hand it to Gameloft; this game looks hot! Hot! Hot! Now if it only conrols well… check out the video!

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Every week I will be bringing you what I think are the week’s biggest stories and articles. Let’s get started, after the break!

Software 3.0 Walk-through

Curious to know about all of the fun new features in Apple’s Software 3.0 Beta? Well, our article has been updated, check it out!

HD out of iPhone, to replace Apple TV?

What? Well it looks like there will be new cables coming out that would support HD signal out of the iPhone. This means you could plug in your iPhone and watch HD movies, etc. Could it be? Heck, I don’t know about you, but I would like to play my games on the big screen!

Quickoffice is now available for the iPhone!

The first Office application is now available for the iPhone. Though limited in features, you do get Word and Excel-like functionality on your iPhone/iPod Touch with copy/paste. Now, I wonder what Dataviz is bringing to the table…

Voice Control coming to iPhone?

Maybe, at least that is what it looks like. Code-named “Jibbler” could add functionality to launch apps as well as voice dialing. For now it is a rumor, but an exciting one at that!

AT&T increasing their networks speeds?

Looks like it! AT&T has confirmed that they are doubling their network speeds to 7.2mps (for you non-tech nerds that equates to about 1MB a second… that is pretty quick for over-the-air data!). Will this speed bump work with the iPhone 3G? Well, that remains to be seen…

How to improve your iPhone photos

These week we look at how to improve the pictures that you take with the iPhone. There are apps and numerous articles to help you in this endeavor. Read on to learn more!

iPhone undisputed king of apps?

Um, with 1 billion apps just reached… do I even need to elaborate?

AT&T getting ready to duke it out with the Palm Pre?

There is a leaked AT&T internal document detailing why the iPhone is better then the Pre. AT&T says this document is to educate their sales staff to possible questions about the Pre. Hmm…

App Store reaches 1 Billion app downloads. That is “B”‘ as in a Billion

Wow. I don’t know if there is anything else to say about this…

Phone Different Podcast #37 is now available!

Dieter and Mike discuss all of the recent iPhone news. Listen on the web or subscribe in iTunes!

Bluetooth 3.0 Just announced… in time for iPhone 3?

Hmm, these are suspiciously close together. So why is this a big deal? For starters it basically doubles the data speed of Bluetooth making it much more useful for say, wireless syncing, wireless game playing, you get the idea…

TiPb Picks of the week!

Take a look at what our staff has picked this week for you! From GPS Maps (yes you read that right) to passwords and games. Check it out!

WOW (World of Warcraft) coming to iPhone?

I am not sure about that, but this video looks promising. If it were… I would then have to play, I have some friends that have been bugging me to join for a while. Very tempting…

Apps for Less

Yeah, them prices keep dropin’! Take a look at what is less expensive this week, there are some good ones to like WordFu and Enigmo and BeejiveIM!

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Stereo Bluetooth for iPhone 3G

Rene had a chance to check out the Motorola S9 Stereo Bluetooth headset on the iPhone 3.0 Beta Software. How did it pan out? Read on to find out!

App Review: FC Mobile Life

Franklin Covey has a new task app out called FC Mobile Life. Looks good, voice tasks, and bling. What did Brian think about it? If you follow the Covey method of tasks, this might be for you!

New iPhone 3.0 Beta is available!

To find out all the fun stuff we have found, search for tag ‘beta 3′ and enjoy!

Coupon’s in your pocket, yo!

Check this new free app out; it is location aware and gives you coupons for places nearby. How cool is that? They don’t’ have a large collection of participating vendors yet… but they are comin’!

Review: iharmonix Pro i-Series Stereo Headset for iPhone

Don’t we all need another pair of headsets for our iPhone? If you are in the market, take a look at Jeremy’s review of this cool headset!

Quick App: Leaf Trombone

Yes, it is finally out. Check out what Rene has to say about it!

Shake it!

Apple patents a new interface for accessing iPhone information while it is in motion. What do you think?

iPhone LIVE!: Bad Ash

Oh, yeah, Jeremy (AKA, Bad Ash) has joined the fray of iPhone Live! Take a listen to the most recent podcast!

Nintendo and Sony feelin’ the iPhone gaming heat?

Me thinks so. Trip Hawkins seems to dig the iPhone gaming platform. So who is Trip? Read on to find out!

Hulu app coming to iPhone?

This would be totally awesome if it did! For now, we can only hope…

App Review: MLB at Bat

Like Baseball? Have an iPhone? Then this is a no-brainer.

App Review: Convertbot

Do you have to convert stuff a lot? You know, kilometers to miles? Liters to gallons? Then this app might be for you! It converts it all!

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Cheap games holding back “great” games for iPhone?

Let’s look at the current structure of gaming; most mobile games on Nintendo DS and PSP go for $29.00. How much are games on the iPhone? Well, nowhere near as much. Why is this a problem? Read on to learn more!

Direct TV announces iPhone app!

For those of you that use Direct TV, this is an awesome announcement! What can the remote do? Read to find out.

Citrix native client comes to iPhone

This is one of the single most important apps for me. I use applications on Citrix everyday at work, so this will help me be more productive than ever when I am away from my laptop. Thanks Citrix!!!!

iPhone Beta 2 is now available!

What does this mean? Well, Apple is working diligently to develop their OS as fast as they can in time for this summer. Based off of the latest release, things are coming along quite nicely!

What? New iPhone betas gives us 180 apps!

Well, it is more than 148, but I want more…

Review: SPE Book Case for iPhone

Looking for a leather fold-over case that is accessible to the iPhone dock for your iPhone 3G? Take a look at this review!

QuickOffice coming to iPhone in April!

That’s right folks, native Office functionality is coming this month for iPhone. How much? An amazingly cheap $19.99! Sign me up, I want it now!

Palm Pre app walkthrough…

Ho-hum. Slow. But hey, it is still beta right?

Bigger camera coming for iPhone

3.5mp is the latest rumor. I for one am excited for this. The 2mp on the iPhone is good, but if I could squeeze out a few more megapixels…

Skype for iPhone: Served up 1 million downloads in two days.. oh SNAP!

Wow, this is quite an achievement! What message is this sending? All I know is that it works great!

AT&T beefing up their network?

Will LTE be here sooner than we thought? People say that the new routers are super-duper fast. Shouldn’t we worry about people not getting dropped calls first? Just a thought.

AT&T Changes their TOS, then changes their mind?

Yeah. Looks like there was enough grumbling over the Internets, that AT&T recanted their change. Let’s see how long this lasts. Click the link to read about the proposed changes.

New iPhone to have low-power 802.11n?

We can always use faster Wi-Fi on the iPhone and it looks like Apple might be delivering on this in the new iPhone. I can’t wait.

App Review: Vine2Wine

Are you a wine drinker? Then this app might be useful. We like it! I enjoy wine like the next person, but I am a total neophyte when it comes to grape varities, this is a great too to bring you up to speed.

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