iWork for iPhone Now Available

Following the announcement that Steve Jobs will unveil iOS 5 and iCloud at WWDC next week,
Apple has announced that its productivity suite, iWork, is now available for the iPhone. Keynote, Pages and Numbers were made available on the iPad last year, and Apple has now released iPhone versions in the App Store.
The existing iPad apps can now be updated with universal support for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Pages will allow you to create and edit documents on the fly. Keynote will create stunning presentations straight from the iPhone, and Numbers will make and edit spreadsheets on the go.
Screenshots and press release after the break!

Press release:

“CUPERTINO, California—May 31, 2011—Apple® today announced that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®. Created for the Mac® and then completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface, Keynote, Pages and Numbers allow you to create and share stunning presentations, beautifully formatted documents and powerful spreadsheets on the go. iWork apps are available on the App Store™ for $9.99 each to new users and as a free update for existing iWork for iPad customers.
“Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organize and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.”
Keynote, Pages and Numbers import and export documents from iWork for Mac and Microsoft Office; print wirelessly using AirPrint™; and include beautiful Apple-designed themes and templates. All iWork apps now include improved document management with thumbnail images that let you find your files quickly, organize them and group them into folders using intuitive gestures. From the Tools button in the toolbar, you can easily share any presentation, document or spreadsheet without leaving the app.
Keynote makes it easy to create impressive presentations, complete with animated charts and transitions. You can play your presentation in Full Screen view on the stunning, high-resolution Retina™ display or connect to a projector or HDTV for a large audience. Available separately, the Keynote Remote app allows your iPhone or iPod touch to control a Keynote presentation on any iOS device or Mac.
Pages is the most beautiful word processor ever designed for a mobile device and has everything you need to create amazing documents. Pages takes full advantage of the high-resolution Retina display on iPhone 4 and iPod touch so you can see all the detail and richness of your documents. To make working with text easy on iPhone and iPod touch, Smart Zoom automatically zooms in to follow the cursor while you’re editing and zooms back out when you’re done.
Numbers uses Multi-Touch gestures and an intelligent keyboard to help you create compelling, great-looking spreadsheets with over 250 easy-to-use functions, flexible tables and eye-catching charts. Just like Pages, Numbers takes advantage of the high-resolution Retina display and Smart Zoom to make working with text and cells on iPhone 4 or iPod touch easy.”

Keynote, Pages and Numbers are now universal apps available for $9.99 each in the App Store. Download them today and let us know what you think of the new iPhone versions!

This is What I Want iOS 5 to Look Like

We’ve seen our fair share of iOS 5 concepts lately. From multitasking and app switching tospeech
recognition, these concepts are basically all we got while waiting for iOS 5 to be unveiled at the WWDC next week in San Francisco.

Designer Frederic Bianco spent countless hours working on his iOS 5 concept and the results are spectacular. His work consists in a 97 slides presentation, going through different part of the UI, and sharing his vision of what the lockscreen, widgets, the settings, etc, should look like on iOS 5…

If iOS 5 looks anything like this, then I’ll know I’ll be a happy camper.

Click here to access Bianco’s extensive work and check out the rest of his concepts. It’s worth your time!

What do you think? Do you like what you see?

Rumor: iPhone 4S This Summer With A5 Chip, 8MP Camera, GSM/CDMA Support, Integrated SIM

With WWDC right around the corner, the last, pre-summer iPhone rumors are coming in fast and strong.
The latest one seems a little far fetched, but it does make some interesting claims about hardware announcements we’ll see from Apple this year.
Instead of an iPhone release this fall, Macotakara claims that the ‘iPhone 4S‘ will be released this summer, and that the iPhone 5 will be released in spring of 2012. The iPhone 4S will supposedly be a minor upgrade from the iPhone 4 (like the 3G/3GS), while the iPhone 5 will be a complete revamp. Sound crazy to you?
Macotakara is a Japanese-based Apple site that recently dropped this rumor bombshell. In the report, Macotakara references the story from a similar site, DigiTimes, about Apple shortening iPhone 4 shipment volume in anticipation of a new iPhone release very soon.
Allegedly, the iPhone 4S will be a “variant” of the iPhone 4, release this summer, and possess an A5 chip, 8 megapixel camera, support for GSM and CDMA networks, and an integrated SIM. The report from Macotakara could not confirm if the device will be single or dual core.
It was reported last month that Apple was sending iPhone ’4S’ prototypes to developers for testing purposes. These devices supposedly had an A5 chip.
An 8 megapixel camera wouldn’t a stretch for Apple, as we’ve already heard piles of evidence for the next iPhone having an 8MP camera. Universal baseband support for both GSM and CDMA makes sense as well. If you’ll remember, a high-level Verizon exec recently spilled the beans that the next iPhone would be a “global device.”
The prospect of an integrated SIM card is a little more interesting. Macotakara is claiming that the iPhone 4S will have a SIM-less design with multiple antennas for multi-carrier support. Such an embedded SIM would allow the user to select the desired carrier and plan from the iPhone itself.
There have been recent rumblings of a change in SIM design from Apple, and the CEO of a French telecom recently said that Apple was looking at a “smaller and thinner” SIM card for future devices.
Interestingly, this report from Macotakara didn’t address the relocated LED flash that recent reports have suggested.
The specs of this rumored iPhone 4S device aren’t surprising, it’s the “summer release” part of the report that raises eyebrows. Until now, we’ve heard nothing but confirmation after confirmation that Apple will skip the typical release schedule for iPhone hardware and announce the next iPhone at an event this fall.
If Apple does in fact wait until next year for a totally redesigned iPhone, that’s great news for those that bought the iPhone 4 last year and are holding out for a big upgrade. The rest of us will have to wait and see.
WWDC will be the final word on any iPhone hardware for this summer. If there is no iPhone announcement next week, then you can bet we’ll see an iPhone release this fall.
What do you think? Does this whole ‘iPhone 4S’ business sound legit to you?

Sn0wBreeze Developer to Announce Mystery Project this Week

It appears that jailbreak developer iH8sn0w has been causing  some commotion in the Twitter world over the weekend.
The 16 year-old iPhone hacker has made quite a name for himself in the community over the past few years, and it doesn’t look like he’s slowing down anytime soon.
The Toronto-native has been advertising on the popular social site that he is going to unveil an all new, never-before-seen — well, we’re not sure. Whatever it is though, the young hacker seems to be pretty excited about it…
His new endeavor is titled projectif and before you iPad 2 hopefuls get too excited, Steven (iH8sn0w) has already made it clear that it isn’t related to Apple’s latest tablet. In fact, that’s about all he has said about the mysterious project.
Steven has accomplished quite a bit in the jailbreaking community at his young age. He is the sole creator behind jailbreak tools like Sn0wbreeze and f0recast, and actively responds to jailbreak-related questions via his Twitter account.
With that kind of credibility, you have to wonder what he could be debuting this week. You don’t just tell your 60,000+ followers that you’ve got something groundbreaking for no reason. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, projectif goes live at 5pm EST this Thursday on the iH8sn0w UStream channel.
What do you think?

iPad 2 Jailbreak to Be Released in 3 Weeks? [Updated]

Here is an interesting piece of news for iPad 2 owners out there.
According to iPhone hacker Veeence, the Chronic Dev Team is just 3 weeks away from being done with their new jailbreak, which will most likely work with the iPad 2 as well.
It was only last week that the Chronic Dev Team posted an update on their blog asking us to not bug them about the iPad 2 jailbreak, and here you have Veeence throwing a little more oil on the fire…
We’ve heard about those ETAs before and if you’re anything like me, you’ll probably disregard this one. I’m very supportive of the Chronic Dev Team but I don’t want to have my hopes too high for now.
The Chronic Dev Team hasn’t updated their GreenPois0n jailbreak since iOS 4.2.1 but I don’t doubt one second that they will surprise us again.
Thoughts?
UPDATE: Looks like we shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Veeence is saying on Twitter. I just received this DM from iH8Sn0w. So false alarm, folks, let’s move over.

UnFolder – Delete Entire Folders with a Single Tap

Getting rid of a folder can be quite time consuming, depending on how many applications it contains.
If there are just 2 or 3 apps then it isn’t that bad, but 5 or more can get pretty tedious.
That’s because to delete a folder, you must first drag every application from the folder back to the home screen. After the last app is removed, the folder deletes itself. A new utility is coming to Cydia though, that could change all of that…
From the creator of SlideAway, comes UnFolder. The yet to be released, jailbreak tweak will allow you to finally remove folders with a single tap, instead of the aforementioned cumbersome method.
With UnFolder, simply hold down on an app icon to enter “shake mode,” and the tweak spawns an ‘x’ over your folder icons. Are you more of a visual learner? ModMyi posted a demo video of UnFolder in action:



Though the utility is not available yet, the developer Filippo Bigarella promises it will be free and open source. If you’re dying to check out UnFolder before its official release, add http://filippobiga.me/repo/ to your Cydia sources. Once it’s installed, do a search for it.
What do you think?

RockLive – Building Apps for Celebrities and Someday Maybe You

Designing and building your own iOS application can be a tough task.
Aside from needing programming experience, you also need other skills like graphic design and project planning.
Well if build-your-own-app services like AppMakr won’t solve your dilemma, maybe these guys can help. Brothers John and Sam Shahidi took all the success from their popular RunPee app, and well, ran with it…
Though the free app was built simply to alert folks of the perfect potty time during movies, it gave the brothers the experience to startup their own company called RockLive. The firm was founded to help sports celebrities develop their own iOS apps.
As TUAW reports, their first 2 clients were Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals and popular, retired boxer Mike Tyson. Their title, Mike Tyson : Main Event, has since been download nearly a million times.
Now that their business is booming and the staff has multiplied 10-fold, the duo are reportedly looking to expand outside of sports into music and other areas. Maybe one day they’ll even be building you an app. I could see personalized app making becoming a popular service in the next 5 years.

MobileNotifier Beta5 Released: SMS Quick Reply, Enhanced Dashboard, Bug Fixes

In a surprising move, Peter Hajas has released his last version of the popular iOS notifications jailbreak replacement,
MobileNotifier. We covered another blog post of Peter’s yesterday, in which he declared that he was leaving as the head of the development team for MobileNotifier.
Right after we reviewed Beta4, MobileNotifier Beta5 “Ecstatic Eggo” has now been released in Cydia. And Peter is calling Beta5 the most “revolutionary release since the project’s inception.“
We speculated that Peter Hajas could have been hired by Apple to work on notifications in iOS. He even left an easter egg in his blog post that hinted at an allegiance with Apple.
Whether he has left MobileNotifier to join Apple or not, something interesting is definitely going on with Peter Hajas and MobileNotifier.
Here’s how Peter prefaced the MobileNotifier Beta5 release,

“After all the press surrounding my last post, I had to do something. Instead of confirm or deny anything, I decided to do something. Something big.
I’m presenting the final release of MobileNotifier that I’ll have a part in before my absence. MobileNotifier beta5,Ecstatic Eggo. This release is big in more ways than one. It’s the most revolutionary release since the project’s inception.”

So, what’s new in Beta5?

• MobileReply. Reply to text messages while within other applications! It works like magic!
• Full message text! Read everything in the alert, not just the first few words.
• Redesigned minimalist alert display!
• A brand new AlertDashboard!
• Dismiss alerts right from the popup! Hate going into the dashboard to remove alerts you’ve just archived? Simply hit the “X” in the popup to dismiss them for good!
• Recall the most recent alert easily with an Activator action. Then use MobileReply to reply to it!
• Way way faster.

What’s been fixed?

• Lockscreen no longer displays if you have it set to “off”
• Various small bugfixes.
• Did I mention way way faster?

If MobileNotifier wasn’t already good enough, it just got nearly perfect. The new design and usability improvements address almost all of the previous issues that hindered MobileNotifier from being the best notifications replacement for iOS.
Namely, in Beta5, you can now quick reply to incoming SMS messages without going into the Messages app (much like biteSMS). The process of deleting and working with multiple notifications has also been streamlined.
Here’s a video from Peter Hajas about MobileNotifier Beta5:



A huge thanks to Peter and the MobileNotifier development team for putting together another solid release of a very powerful notifications replacement. We don’t know for sure where Peter Hajas is going with his future endeavors, but we wish him the best.
You can download MobileNotifier Beta5 for free from Peter’s repo: phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo
Let us know what you think of MobileNotifier Beta5. Has it become your notifications replacement in iOS? Do you still prefer other tweaks like Notified Pro or LockInfo?

iPad 2 Jailbreak Is 3 Week Away ! And It's Not GreenPois0n !

Well, it looks like we have some great news here about the iPad 2 jailbreak here.
A new tweet from the well-known iPhone developer @Veeence who claims that the iPad 2 jailbreak is roughly 3 weeks away.

From the tweet, P0sixninja seems told Veeence about the released date. It looks like no more predictions. The real ETA may be less or more than that rough ETA.

While you're waiting for the iPad 2 jailbreak, you can get in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter. We'll post guides for the necessary tools as it's available for download.

Oh, the next iPad 2 jailbreak will not be named GreenPois0n, are you surprised?

iOS 5 Notification System – Video

It might be possible that there is coming new release of iOS and Mac OS Lion,

but I think saying that there is coming a new iPhone and it will be named iPhone 4S is something unexpected.


But lets come back to the notification system. iOS notification system should look then like a Cydia Tweak called LockInfo or Intelliscreen.



iOS 5 what’s new Just weeks before WWDC, Apple’s yearly developer conference begins, we’ve been hearing more rumors than ever about what could possibly be unveiled. According to sources, we’ll see iOS 5 , with a complete rework of the existing iOS notification system, as well as widgets.

iOS 5

It will bring together Spotlight and your push notifications. You will also be able to but Widgets on your sites or in folders.

iOS 5 Video

This Cydia Tweak Allows Phone Calls, SMS Text Messages, And More on your iPad 3G [VIDEO]

Do you remember the Guys who authored Faceit3G which allows Facetime on iPhone 3G,
well those guys now come with a new hacking Cydia tweak called "PhoneItiPad" this tweak brings call and SMS text message support for iPad 3G.

iPad 3G only allows internet connection on SIM but it don't support call and SMS text message, but this problem now is solved by iPhoneIslam Team, as they hacked iPad 3G and enabled on it call, SMS text message and Facetime on iPad 3G with PhoneitiPad cydia tweak, first you will need to jailbreak your iPad to be able to download PhoneitiPad from Cydia, also the Cydia tweak works on iPad 2 3G model but you will have to wait some time as the Jailbreak still in Progress, iPhoneIslam will release the tweak in Cydia soon.

You can watch this Video which shows you what the tweak is able to do :

Microsoft Offers a Place for 14-year old Hacker After Being Caught Phishing Via Call of Duty Server. Sony, Are You Listening?

Today we have got some interesting news about a 14 years old  young Irish boy who caught by Microsoft after Phishing by call of duty server for scamming.

Really until now we don't know the name of this genius boy, but all what we know that this little boy has a chance to work with Microsoft or as it called it "the nefarious uses for his talent" and according Hacker news :

Microsoft is reported to be working with the 14-year-old Irish hacker who managed to stir up a little trouble with his Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 phishing scam alert. According to the managing director of Microsoft of Ireland, the company is helping the hacker “develop his talent for legitimate purposes.”

This little Move made some questions about : Why Sony didn't do as Microsoft did, by offering a place to George Hotz ?

iChromy: An Alternative iPad Browser With Chrome Envy

Looking for a more Chrome-like iPad browser? 
Google's not bringing the Chrome web browser to the iPad anytime soon, if ever, so app maker Diigo is trying to fill the void with iChromy.

The free alternative iPad browser, which launches in the App Store today, mimics the Chrome aesthetic. Tabs appear at the top of the screen, and a single bar handles web addresses and searches, just like Chrome's omnibar. There's even a star-shaped bookmark button to the right of the URL bar, just like Chrome.

Chrome flattery aside, iChromy's greatest asset is stability. When tab overload threatens to crash the browser, iChromy quietly shifts memory away from background tabs that you haven't opened in a while. These pages reload when you access them again, but it's a small price to pay for having lots of open tabs with minimal crashes. I've been playing with a preview version of iChromy on an original iPad for a few days, and it's far better at avoiding crashes than my previous iPad browser of choice, Atomic Web Browser.

Otherwise, iChromy is a no-frills browser. It lacks many of Atomic's powerful features, such as Dropbox connectivity, private browsing, full-screen browsing, swipe gestures, multiple search sources, find in page, adjustable font sizes and user agent controls. Even some of Safari's basic features are missing. You can't print from iChromy, nor can you set an app as a home screen icon. If you're looking for a feature-rich iPad browser, iChromy isn't it.

But truth be told, I didn't miss the majority of those features when using iChromy. My main gripes come from little frustrations that don't exist in other iPad browsers: The virtual URL keyboard lacks a dedicated ".com" button. You can't tap the top of the screen to jump to the top of a web page. There are no suggested search results as you type. These nuisances slow down the experience in an otherwise nimble browser.

On the bright side, iChromy does have built-in sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and others. You can easily send pages to Instapaper or store them in an offline reading list, and there's even a handy "copy" button for snagging URLs.

Although iChromy is free, Diigo hopes some users will invest in its premium web services, which store bookmarks, highlights and web page screenshots online. iChromy, of course, has the ability to send web pages to Diigo. The company later plans to offer a "pro" version of iChromy with advanced features.

Though it lacks frills and has a few frustrations, iChromy is yet another capable web browser that far surpasses the functionality of iPad Safari while conquering the stability issues that plague other tabbed iPad browsers. And to paraphrase Google, it's free and installs in minutes. Give it a try.

Let us know what's your opinion about iChromy in the comments section.

Could the Developer of MobileNotifier Be Working with Apple on Push Notifications?

MobileNotifier and Peter Hajas got a lot of attention on our site yesterday.
I reviewed MobileNotifier, a popular jailbreak replacement for notifications in iOS, and then we speculated that MobileNotifier’s developer, Peter Hajas, could have recently been hired by Apple and taken out of the jailbreak community to work on push notifications in an upcoming version of iOS.

This theory was propelled by a tip we received from who we assume to be an Apple employee at Cupertino. Our tipster told us that working on notification replacements for iOS, like MobileNotifier, was “bad timing for jailbreak developers” and that Apple was about to “take the jailbreak community by surprise.”

Directly following that tip, Peter Hajas announced on his blog that he was “taking a break” from developing for MobileNotifier to pursue “other opportunities.” Sound suspicious to you too?

While we may be grasping for straws here, another discovery from an iPhoneinCanadareader got our attention.

At the end of Peter’s blog post about discontinuing development of MobileNotifier, he ends with the line, “Stay hungry and stay foolish.”

In the 2005 Standford graduation speech, Mr. Steve Jobs himself was the keynote speaker. Steve Jobs ended his speech with a quote from the last edition of Whole Earth Catalogue. Guess what the tagline was?

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

Steve Jobs explained that the message behind that tagline has been what he has “always wished for myself.” Check out this video of the speech. The phrase is mentioned by Jobs at about the 13:50 mark.

Peter Hajas could very well be only giving a nod to Mr. Jobs by using that line at the end of his post, but there’s always the possibility that it could be something more. After all, Hajas couldn’t state the reason for why he was discontinuing development of MobileNotifier.

“I can’t say why, but it’s worth it. Trust me. If you look around hard enough, you’ll probably figure it out.“

That sounds pretty telling if you ask us. Apple got him. And he left that last clue in his post for some lucky detective to find.

When we broke the story that Peter Hajas could have been hired by Apple, he tweeted:

We can always dream, and that seems to be what Hajas wants us to do, if this discovered easter egg was left intentionally.

With WWDC right around the corner, it’s pretty obvious that Hajas wouldn’t be part of the team for a redesigned notifications system in iOS 5. But could Apple have hired (maybe contracted?) him to work on something else? Or even a future iOS release?

It could also be possible that the rumor of redesigned push notifications in iOS 5 is true, and that the new system from Apple has removed the need for a tweak like MobileNotifier. Only time will tell.

What do you think? Why would Peter Hajas have ended development for MobileNotifier so abruptly? In a very recent interview, he seemed super excited to continue coding and updating MobileNotifier. Why such a quick change of heart?

Jailbreak Killer: Apple Claims Its First Victim

It hasn’t been 20 minutes since I published a post about iOS 5 likely to take a stab at the jailbreak community that Apple may have already claimed its first victim.
Its name? MobileNotifier, the exact same app we reviewed and praised this morning.
After spending 8 months working on MobileNotifier, Peter Hajas announced on his blog minutes ago that he was “taking a break from MobileNotifier and Widge for a while”. Simple coincidence, or did Apple made him an offer he can’t refuse?

I’m taking a break from MobileNotifier and Widge for a while. I have other opportunities and priorities currently. I won’t be able to do much (if any) work on the projects, and I won’t have time to respond to many Tweets or emails. The project is in capable hands, with Kyle Adams, Tim Novinger and others (like Marc Easen) keeping things going. This is definitely not goodbye.
I can’t say why, but it’s worth it. Trust me. If you look around hard enough, you’ll probably figure it out.
I hope you guys understand, and I look forward to bringing you more awesome, great, free open source software in the future. Stay tuned for some amazing things!

Jeff and I briefly discussed this and we quickly came to the conclusion that Hajas was most likely offered a job at Apple. We might be wrong but if you look at parts of Hajas’s statement we highlighted above, it does make lots of sense.
Clearly Apple has already figured out notifications in iOS 5, but I’m sure some extra brains wouldn’t hurt the team working on that.
I wonder if our MobileNotifier review got Apple’s attention. The timing sure is right.
Apple: 1 – Jailbreak Community: 1?
Who’s next?
Update: Hajas just tweeted: “You guys have some lively imaginations!” This might just be coincidental timing.

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iOS 5 to Kill the Jailbreak Community?

On the 1st of January, I published my annual predictions for the iPhone for the coming year.
In there, I mentioned that 2011 was going to be the year of iOS, and even though we have yet to see what Apple is cooking up for us, it seems that I was right about that point.
My 2011 predictions for the iPhone didn’t stop there. On top of dropping a few features I think the iPhone 5 will sport, I also made the bold statement that Apple will open the doors to a world of apps and tweaks that are currently only available in Cydia. Want to call me crazy? Not so fast…
Earlier today, we received a tip via our contact form from an anonymous person who commented on Alex’s post about MobileNotifier. Here is what our anonymous tipster had to say:

bad timing for jailbreak developers especially those working on notification. im not working on that but i know we are about to take the jb community by surprise

It seems that this was sent from the same person who tipped us earlier this month about a new feature in iOS 5 that will transcribe your voicemails to text.
Interestingly enough, this tip came in a couple hours before MG Siegler published an article on TechCrunch about iOS 5 reportedly bringing widgets and revamped notifications. Same tipster? I can’t tell about that, especially because our guy didn’t specifically mention widgets, but it does look like stories match.
So is Apple going to kill the jailbreak community with iOS 5? Only a handful of people know for sure at this point, but these legit-looking tips sure make it sound that Apple is at least going to take a stab at Cydia.
At this point though, it’s hard to believe Apple would allow everything and anything in the App Store. I can’t see jailbreak apps like MyWi getting the seal of approval, but other tweaks such as my Cydia favorite Xpandr might.
So, why would Apple allow jailbreak apps in the App Store? The main reason that comes to mind is the big bucks that this market represents. With about 10% of all iPhones jailbroken, Apple probably wants its share of the cake.
What’s your take on this? Do you believe Apple would allow currently outlawed apps in the App Store? Is that something you’d be excited about, or would you prefer jailbreak apps to remain something for the underground connoisseur?

Apple offers Free iPod touch or $200 off on iPad At WWDC with Back To School Announcement?

As it was noted by BGR that Apple announced at WWDC that it offers a free iPod touch when you buy
a Macbook or $200 off on iPad with the purchase of new Mac for students. And all of this offers because of returning back to the School.

And here's what it was said at WWDC :

We have been told Apple will continue to offer educational discounts on computers and either a free iPod touch, or $229 towards the purchase of any other iPod. Our source also let us know that there might be something new in the works, as well… they heard that it’s possible Apple might offer students up to $200 off an iPad with the purchase of a new Mac.

The Back To School usually announced at May or June. As WWDC is going to kick off from June 6th. Apple might announce Back To School program with iOS 5 and Lion OS.

TidySpring, a New Jailbreak App to Clean Up Your iPhone Springboard

TidySpring is a new jailbreak application that brings easy springboard customization to your iPhone.
The tweak is pretty simple and straightforward.
After installing the app from Cydia, you will have to go to the Settings app as TidySpring doesn’t come with its own icon. From there, you will have loads of options to turn on and off in order to customize your springboard the way you want it. But don’t just take my word for it, check out the video below to see TidySpring in action…



TidySpring allows you to hide icons labels, folders labels, their badges, hide wallpaper background, and disable multitasking. You can also disable pages dot, icons reflection, and LockScreen. You can also enable “Grid Locking” functionality, disable volume HUD and take an invisible screenshot. There are probably a few other options that I forgot to mention.
The tweak is available in Cydia for $0.99. Although it doesn’t provide the same level of customization as its competitors SpringClean and Springtomize, it seems to do a pretty good job too.
What do you think?

MobileNotifier Beta4: iOS Notifications the Right Way

Notifications in iOS have always sucked.
Let’s be honest, whether you’ve grown to actually like and/or tolerate Apple’s system for push notifications on the iPhone, you still have to look at other platforms like Android and Palm OS and scratch your head.
Apple got one thing right: making sure you see your notifications in iOS. The problem is that there is no method of queuing, collecting, or saving notifications. When something gets pushed from an app, you have to deal with it right away.
Luckily, we have the jailbreak community to thank for several wonderful alternatives to the stock system of notifications in iOS. My favorite is called MobileNotifier. Let’s take a closer look…

General Overview

MobileNotifier is a different system of notifications designed by famed jailbreak developer, Peter Hajas. The tweak is a free download in Cydia from Peter’s repo (phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo).
We’ve talked about MobileNotifier before on iDB, and we recently highlighted an interview with Peter Hajas about the new release of MobileNotifier Beta4. Jeff actually reviewed a previous version of MobileNotifier back in February.
The great thing about MobileNotifier is that it’s free. The lack of price tag gives you no reason to not at least try MobileNotifier by the end of this review. I’ve been testing MobileNotifier since the Beta3 stage, and I wanted to wait until I had time to play with Beta4 before I wrote a review. I have been using MobileNotifier Beta4 on my primary iPhone now for almost two weeks.

Closer Look

MobileNotifier Beta4 handles notifications in iOS very well. After using Beta3, I was unimpressed with the lack of polish, but Beta4 has proven to be a significant upgrade that makes MobileNotifier a very worthy contender for any jailbreaker’s notification system replacement.
By default, notifications on iOS are obtrusive and demanding. MobileNotifier gives you more control over when and how you view your notifications. Instead of a centered dialog box, MobileNotifier shows you notifications through a sleek bar that appears at the top of your iPhone’s screen, no matter what you’re doing in iOS.

If you’re reading email, no problem. If you’re reading your Twitter timeline, no problem. MobileNotifier will politely appear at the top of your screen with the app that’s sending the notification, including a preview of the message itself.

When you see this delightful notification bar, you have the option to either say “Later,” or “Open” that specific notification. Opening will obviously take you to the desired app, and tapping “Later” will send the notification to a handy list for later viewing.

Perhaps the greatest design choice in MobileNotifier is the list view above the iPhone’s app switcher. When you double tap your home button, as though you were going to change apps in the app switcher, a new interface is placed above the switcher with a list of your pending notifications.

Other replacements handle lists for notifications in similar ways, but I find that MobileNotifier’s method is the simplest, most intuitive, and just plain clean. Notifications can be independently viewed and cleared, or the whole list can be cleared by the “Clear Pending” button.
So, that’s how MobileNotifier handles itself when you’re iPhone is unlocked. What about when you’re not using your iPhone?

MobileNotifier chooses to manage notifications on the iPhone’s lockscreen in a collapsable list view. Depending on your personal preference, this could be a good or bad thing. Some people like being able to see the complete notification when it gets pushed to the lockscreen, while some people like hiding the message itself. I like to think that MobileNotifier offers the best of both worlds.
By default, MobileNotifier will hide each push and start collecting notifications in a collapsable list on the iPhone’s lockscreen. You can tap on MobileNotifier’s notification bar (with a nice badge of how many notifications you have pending) and view an expandable list of your awaiting notifications straight from your lockscreen.

MobileNotifier’s settings are also pretty straightforward. “Dash on Switcher” turns the pending notifications list above the app switcher on and off. “Lockscreen view” toggles MobileNotifier’s lockscreen presentation. “Auto-Later Alerts” automatically sends a notification to the pending list after a few seconds of inactivity. “Antique Lock Alerts” lets iOS send it’s normal push notifications alongside MobileNotifier on the iPhone’s lockscreen. I recommend turning that last one off.
Hopefully you have a good sense of how MobileNotifier Beta4 works.

Pros and Cons

MobileNotifier Beta4 is pretty great, but it’s not perfect. I thought it would be helpful to list some pros and cons.
Pros:

• Unobtrusive push notifications on the iPhone.
• Clean and simple design/interface.
• Easy to understand.
• Free.
• biteSMS support, for those of you that are addicted to that jailbreak app.

As far as stability goes, I will say that Beta4 of MobileNotifier has been pretty rock solid for me. The extension hasn’t caused my iPhone to crash or hiccup once. Cody questioned MobileNotifier’s reliability in his review of a competing notifications replacement, Notified Pro. I haven’t seen any evidence of instability in Beta4.
Now, on to the cons.
Cons:

• You can’t launch notifications from the iPhone’s lockscreen. I like the way the notifications are presented in the collapsable list, but the inability to actually tap and open them from the lockscreen is frustrating.
• LockInfo users should experience some bugs. It appears that the two tweaks don’t play well together.
• There’s no option to “Dismiss” incoming notifications. Instead of either opening or sending a notification to a pending list, there should be an option to totally dismiss a notification as it comes in.
• A general lack of customization.

MobileNotifier Beta4 is great, but it needs to have more customization. I’d like to be able to delete notifications from the lockscreen. Different alert style themes would be nice. Or how about a preview window for notifications in the lockscreen (much like the standard iOS method)? This type of tweak could definitely offer more customization for users.

Everything considered, MobileNotifier Beta4 is a very robust replacement for notifications in iOS. Peter made great leaps forward in Beta4, and he’s set to bring even more features and improvements in the next release. Namely, a “Quick Reply” feature for messages (like biteSMS) will be added in Beta5.
Kudos to Peter Hajas and the creative designer of MobileNotifier, Kyle Adams, for such an awesome tweak. MobileNotifier just surpassed 230,000 downloads, and the future looks bright. I’m in love with this tweak because it’s constantly being improved upon and enhanced. I’m sure that the next release will make it even more appealing.
If you haven’t already, install MobileNotifier Beta4 on your iPhone and see what you think.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Are there certain features you’d like to see in future releases of MobileNotifier? Any bugs or incompatibility issues would be great information to share as well.

iOS 5 Concept: ‘Slide to Unlock’ Push Notifications

iOS 5 is right around the corner, and there’s plenty of speculation taking place over what Apple will do with the next major version of their mobile OS.

We’ve shown you plenty of concepts for iOS, including different styles of push notifications and voice integration. Concepts are interesting, as they show potential for how Apple could reinvent parts of the iOS interface with its upcoming preview at WWDC…
This particular concept, by @macnavs, takes an interesting approach to push notifications on the iPhone’s lockscreen. The classic ‘slide to unlock’ bar would be used as a tool for either dismissing or viewing notifications.
The grey slider would be placed in the center of the ‘slide to unlock’ bar, instead of on the far left. Sliding to the left would dismiss a notification, while sliding to the right would “check” it. Sounds pretty clean and simple. However, Apple probably won’t implement this type of design in iOS 5.
These concepts are nice because they make you think about what could be done in iOS. They are by no means an indication of future features that Apple plans to implement.
What do you think?