Jailbreak tweaks for iPhone efficiency: DoubleAt

Here is a new jailbreak tweak for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. This one is a really simple tweak, yet one that can help you in some situations. This tweak comes handy when you need to write down your email address in a text message email or some IM app. When you need to write it down instead of wasting precious time, just tap the @ sign on the keyboard two times and your email will appear in your text. Simple as that, but we think it is certainly useful for people who use their iPhone as their primary communication tool. To get this tool, you’ll need first to jailbreak your iOS device with Redsn0w, PwnageTools, JailbreakMe 3.0 or some other jailbreak which is available for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. You can get Double At in Cydia App Store and it comes as a free download. Enjoy and do let us know if you think it is indeed a useful tool for you.

Steve Jobs biography renamed and postponed

When an individual is so incredibly important fro such a huge corporation like Apple it is clear that even minuscule informations about him and his thinking will become hugely important and widely discussed from any possible angle. Such is the case with Steve Jobs and his biography.

Google purchases Motorola

CEO of Google, Larry Page has publicly announced on official Google blog the purchase of Motorola Mobility, one of the largest Android handset manufacturers. His announcements starts by mentioning the number of Android users worldwide, which he claims to be more than 150 million Android mobile devices and that Motorola is one of the most important Android smartphone producer, especially so with their popular Droid models. And this move is an attempt to enhance whole Android scene by boosting competition and improving innovation which will benefit better user experience and increased profits for the company’s shareholders.

Useful Jailbreak tweaks: Icon Commands

Here is a great tweak fro you if you have a jailbroken iOS device. Icon Commands which you can get from Cydia is a freshly developed Cydia tweak created by a developer known under his professional nickname FrozenSun. This tweak enables you to prescribe particular actions to taps on your Springboard.

You can perform special actions depending on how many times you tap on some icon. So if you decide to tap two times on some particular icon and the delete option will appear. There are default actions for this tweak and they include: AppInfo, delete, jiggling, hide etc. Icon Commands can be configured in your Settings app and it allows further customization, or if you are an developer you can develop your own plugins for the tweak!

Kindle Cloud Reader launched by Amazon

Amazon has just launched their cloud reader which will enable their users to enjoy in any book among their incredible huge collection of more than 900,000 ebooks. Users will be able to access this large collection of books directly from their browsers on almost any device including: iPad, Mac (using Safari browser) or PC running Windows or Linux ( through Chrome browser). So far iPod Touch and iPhone are not supported.

iPhone 5 launch date rumors

Different rumors on various predictions regarding Apple’s latest iPhone model launch are increasingly surfacing as time passes. Latest expectations have been that Apple will release iPhone 5 on 7th September but this rumor was quickly debunked.

There are now some indications that Apple plans to leave the launching event for as late as the beginning of October, perhaps during the first week of the month. The first launch will certainly be held in US as it is traditionally the first market to receive new Apple products. Could the next iPhone be an improved iPhone 4 dubbed as iPhone 4S? Nobody knows for sure. There is even a slight possibility that Apple could release both iPhone 4s and iPhone 5 at the same time, but this isn’t expected really, given the history of Apple product launches, where they have squeezed every ounce of PR and media attention for every new product release.

Mozilla releases FireFox 6

One of the best web browsers out there, the open source, Firefox gets upgraded to version 6. With this new versions no visible changes are available yet some bugs and issues are resolved and improved. For example one of the main complaints by users that Firefox is getting slower is being worked on, and according to reviews FireFox 6 is at least 20% faster than its previous versions. FireFox has also reduced its resource consumption.

Jailbreak tweak: Lock Gestures for iPhone

Here is an interesting tweak we just discovered in Cydia. This tweak was made by Tolani Akhil and it’s sole purpose is to allow you take action by doing gestures on your iPhones or iPads lockscreen. LockGestures will enable you to start or stop your music stream, start or close apps, call friends, unlock your device and much more all while your device is screen locked. All you’ll need to do is to perform your specified gesture like; swiping up down, left, right with your finger, pinching gesture with two fingertips or any other touchscreen gesture.

You could use your old iPhone 2G in some parts of the world

Do not throw out that old iPhone! It could serve you very well at least in some nooks and cronies of the globe. OFCOM from UK has concluded after an research that old technology is better suited for rural parts of that country, especially when compared with top smartphones of today. How is that possible? Well it seems that 2G technology offers better voice connectivity for remote areas. This is probably an effect stemming from the fact that 25G technologies use simpler cellular radio which connects exclusively to 2G network. New iPhones and Android smartphones are always switching between the 2G and 3G network according to the need and this seems to make problems in areas with lower signal coverage.

Apple’s new wonder: new headquarters plans!

City of Cupertino, California has just revealed a PDF document featuring Apple plans for their new headquarters which frankly look amazing! Apple plans to build s building which can host more than 20 000 people. The building is already named as the mothership and it indeed looks like some kind of space structure which has for some reason grounded itself into an wooden area. It was the old wise wizard himself, Steve Jobs who has announced the building of Apple’s new HQ, only a couple of days after the last WWDC conference in San Francisco.