LinkedIn launches their upgraded iPhone app

Best business oriented social network in the world, LinkedIn has just launched an upgraded iPhone app for users of their social network. One of the main differences is that this upgrade works incredibly faster, perhaps even ten time faster than its predecessor. In addition, they have at the same time released an HTML5 based web app for other mobile devices accessing their website. LinkedIn claims that their main goals and efforts are pointed toward these features: Updates, Inbox, Groups and You.

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.

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.

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.

Jailbreak tweak: how to turn on LED flash or start the Camera on the lockscreen

We are pretty sure that Apple didn’t imagine using the LED flash on iPhone as a great auxiliary flashlight, but users and especially those jailbreak iPhone users have unexpected and innovative ideas and requirements. Bit if you want to use the flash as a flashlight you have to make a few steps every time you want to turn it on. And here is a tweak which enables yo uto do it quickly and efficiently. Flash Cam is a jailbreak tweak you can find in Cydia store if you add the Big Boss repo to you list of sources. After you install the tweak you’ll get two options on your iPhone’s lockscreen. One of those will enable you to start up your camera app and the other is for turning your LED flashlight on. SO instead of searching for the proper key in the dark alley, just fire up your iPhone 4 flashlight and you will quickly solve your problem. Nice, isn’t it?

Jailbreak tweak: how to add compass to your iOS maps

We wrote recently about an iOS map tweak which adds an speedometer to your maps app. And while this is not as precise as a real speedometer it can greatly improve your iOS map capabilities. Now the creator of Speed for Maps, jailbreak app developer Evan Colleman has released another map related tweak: Compass for Maps. Like Speedometer for Maps this is another simple tweak in your toolbox. When you install the tweak, a small compass will appear on your map showing you the exact direction you are moving to.

Jailbreak tweak: Speed for Maps on iPhone introduces speedometer for maps

One of the best map related apps in the smartphone world is the one available in iOS world as a native iOS app. But one of the missing features with it is that it lacks a speedometer. But again thanks to jaiblreaking and jailbreak app developers we have another great solution and improvement. Speed For Maps ia a new jailbreak tweak which is available for all iPhones which are on iOS 4.x.x and solves that problem. When you install this tweak, it will add an indicator for speed in the bottom of the screen when you use the Map app.

FBI launches children safety related iPhone app

We have recently seen that even Chinese military is thinking in terms of Apple and iOS as they have released an iOS app representing themselves. Now Federal Bureau of Investigation of US has also started releasing their own iPhone and iPad apps. The first app coming from FBI is Child ID. This app is sort of a digital document with various informations about your kids. You can keep all relevant informations about the physical characteristics of your children with this app (weight, height etc.). Child ID has several important uses like for example you can easily show it to law enforcement officers in case your child is missing (in situations like airports and similar). You can also quickly call 911 or the Center for Missing Children from within the app with a quick tap on the screen. There is also an option to send the information about your children to appropriate government agencies through email.

Chinese army launched an iPhone Jailbreak app!

Chinese army also known as PLA (People’s Liberation Army) which is according to statistics second most powerful army on the globe second only to USA armed forces. To increase their PR image they have just pushed out an iPhone app which represents Chinese armed forces and its intentions to the global public in a form of an iPhone app. Interesting as it comes when an officially communist army releases an high tech application like in these case, it is even more interesting that they have released this app outside of Apple’s app store. This means that only users which have jailbroken devices will be able to use this app!