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This is the official announcement of the iPhone life Biweekly Giveaway! Be sure to enter the giveaway at iphoneLife.com/giveaways to win prizes, which we'll announce November 16! We are raffling off tons of great accessories for FREE.

Thanks to everyone who entered the November 2 iPhone Life Biweekly Giveaway! Every other week we give away amazing prizes, so if you didn't win this time, make sure you enter the November 16 giveaway and tell your friends to enter too!

Don't forget to enter this weekend's Giveaway Contest! 

I'm always on the lookout for the perfect dock, and I usually have two on my desk to accommodate my iPhone 6s and iPad mini 3. So imagine my surprise when I saw the EverDock Duo ($69.99) from FŪZ Designs. This dock has two slots for two iPhones or two iPads or an iPad and iPhone. Technically you can also use it with Android or Windows Phone or other devices that have a microUSB port at the bottom. This is because the EverDock Duo doesn't include Lightning cables but rather has adapters for your own cables (or you can use the included microUSB cables.) This saves costs (theoretically; it's still a $70 dock) and allows the user to decide how to configure it.

I recently wrote about a dashcam offering that wasn't too impressive. It cost $180 and my impression was you would be better off using an iPod touch or older iPhone as a makeshift dashcam. Then I got to try the iPro2 Car Mount ($49.95) from iBOLT and it cemented my thinking.

This is the official announcement of the iPhone life Biweekly Giveaway! Be sure to enter the giveaway at iphoneLife.com/giveaways to win prizes, which we'll announce November 2! We are raffling off tons of great accessories for FREE.

Boy do we have the pinball for you this Halloween! Our advance play of Zombie Pinball (coming soon) turns out to be a themed but intensely fun version of mostly Quantic Pinball, but with zombies, ghosts, and more goulish thrills thrown in for good measure. You have to see it to believe it. You've been warned...Mwaahahaha!

Thanks to everyone who entered the October 19 iPhone Life Biweekly Giveaway! Every other week we give away amazing prizes, so if you didn't win this time, make sure you enter the November 2 giveaway and tell your friends to enter too!

And the winner is... (drum roll please):

Don't forget to enter this weekend's Giveaway Contest! 

Here's how it works: Every other weekend we raffle off tons of great apps and accessories for FREE then announce the winners through iphonelife.com, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. To enter, go to iPhoneLife.com/giveaways. If you win an app, we will email you the promo code. If you win an accessory, we will ask you for your mailing address.

Apple just boosted the iMac line so all devices support 4K or 5K resolution, and to coincide with that, it released a free update to iMovie for Mac OS X that lets users edit video at 4K resolution. The iOS version was already enhanced last month to match the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. For a short time, videographers could create and edit higher resolution videos on their iPhones than on their $2,000+ iMac computers!

This is the official announcement of the iPhone life Biweekly Giveaway! Be sure to enter the giveaway at iphoneLife.com/giveaways to win prizes, which we'll announce October 19! We are raffling off tons of great accessories for FREE.

Cloud-based storage is now an everyday thing, and I have reviewed several services at iPhone Life over the years. However, newer options are always becoming available, and if you are looking to back up, sync, or share your important data, then you might want to check out this review. Mainly I will focus on a lunchbox-sized storage gadget from Western Digital called the MyCloud Mirror ($309.99), but I'll also share some other options that I have tested.

I'm a stylus guy. I love to draw, sketch, doodle and tinker with design ideas on my iPad mini, and a stylus is often how I do that (even play a few games with one). I predict that the Jot Dash ($49.99) will be a favored stylus for many moons to come, Apple Pencil notwithstanding.

The Polk Omni S2 ($179.95) is a versatile speaker, offering users a variety of configuration options and visual styles. It delivers high-quality sound from its four drivers, which include two 50 mm full-range drivers along with two powerful bass radiators. The Omni S2 connects to your iDevice via the open-sourced, Play-Fi wireless technology, or of course, via a 3.5 mm-jacked audio cable, which comes in particularly handy for connecting the S2 to a TV.

If your nightstand is cluttered with iDevices and charging cables, Skiva's EnergySkin Battery Case and Dock + Wireless Charger for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch ($49.99) is a potential solution. Normally $119.99, the charger and dock are on sale for under $50.

This past summer, we posted a review of the Internet-of-Things wonder LightBlue Bean. Now, I am happy to announce that PunchThrough, makers of the original programmable Bluetooth gadget, have successfully Kickstarted a new iteration called the Bean+, which is even more power packed than the previous model. There are more pins, a rechargeable battery, and solderless connectors for those who don't like the risk of using hot liquid metal. Where are Bean developers taking this powerful, new bean? Where no man has gone before. Well, sort of.

A few years can make quite a difference in the technology world. From the time that Jaybird released its highly praised BlueBuds headphones, the company has been hard at work refining its winning formula of a lightweight, completely self-contained Bluetooth headset. Read on to find out if this objective been achieved with the release of Jaybird's X2 Wireless Buds ($179.95).

This is the official announcement of the iPhone life Biweekly Giveaway! Be sure to enter the giveaway at iphoneLife.com/giveaways to win prizes, which we'll announce October 5! We are raffling off tons of great accessories for FREE.

Spare external batteries for mobile phones and tablets seem as ubiquitous these days as headphones. Each provider offers more or less the same features (often even the same internals) as the other. In such a competitively crowded marketplace, how does Jackery's Giant+ Battery Pack ($29.99) differentiate itself from all the others? 

Tiny Empire ($2.99) is a physics game that appears mundane at first, but adds interesting new challenges as you progress. Rendered in 16-bit graphics that are exceptional, I would have appreciated a bit more on-the ground activity. Still, this is a solid game to kill time and goblins with, if that's what you're after.