Archive for the 'Features' Category

28 OctMotorola DROID $199 With Contract, Coming On November 6th

We all new this thing was coming sometime in November, and now Verizon Wireless has finally made it official. The Motorola DROID will hit store shelves on November 6th for $199 on a contract and also offers a $100 mail-in rebate. The DROID is one of the first of many Android-laced phones coming to the carrier, and Verizon Wireless CMO John Stratton even stated that the phone “is wide open”.

Android 2.0 will be front and center, along with Visual Voicemail, a 3.7-inch display (854 x 480 resolution), 5 megapixel camera (with dual-LED flash), a bundled 16GB memory card and a beta version of Google Maps Navigation.

The DROID is the first phone to offer Google Maps Navigation, which transforms Google Maps into a turn-by-turn routing system that’ll have your dedicated TomTom / Garmin left behind. There’s also a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3G, WiFi, Read more…

23 OctNASA iPhone Application Is Space In Your Pocket!

NASA themselves have released an iPhone application in the App Store for free. This app enables users to stay on top of the latest NASA news, access to up-to-the-minutes news, videos, and photos from NASA missions. Users can also track the orbital locations of various NASA spacecraft in real-time over Wi-Fi. You can also see how far away the space shuttle is away from your exact location.

This is a neat little Read more…

19 OctRun Mac Applications On An iPhone (Dashboard & Expose)

Source Needed:
http://repo.beyouriphone.com/

Packages Needed:
- iDashboard
-Winterboard (To Activate iDashboard)
- Orbit

If you have any problems with the install process or something is missing, then leave a comment on this post or post your problem in the forum.

11 OctRock: The Best Cydia Alternative! Faster & Better Features!

This video speaks for itself, watch it!

10 OctTweetie 2 Features

So as you know Tweetie 2 was released recently for a price of $2.99 and it is definitely worth it! Here are some of the features:

- Seamlessly handle multiple Twitter accounts

- Explore all of Twitter, from your own timeline and mentions, to the favorite tweets of your followers and friends

- Full persistence: more than just caching tweets, Tweetie 2 restores your entire UI if you quit or get a phone call
- Fantastic new offline mode. Read, tweet, favorite, follow, save to Instapaper and more even when you don’t have a connection. Your actions will be synced as soon as you go back online
- Full landscape support (configurable of course)
- Live-filter your tweet stream
- Post photos and videos, even configure your own custom image host
- Vastly improved compose screen with recent hashtags, @people picker, URL shortening and more
- Compose screen multiple-attachments manager
- Drafts manager ensures you never lose a tweet (and you can even send drafts to Birdhouse)
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30 SepHow To Get Customized Keyboards On 3.0+ iPhone or iPod Touch

Written Guide:

1. Add the iAccess source from ‘More Package Sources’ on Cydia front page

2. Istall ‘iAccess OS3

3. Open the application that is newly added to your springboard and hit “OK”

4. Turn your device completely off

5. Boot it back up

6. Open that same icon again and now you can edit the stuff in there

7. Turn all the switches off except for the very top switch

8. Exit the application

9. Download the keyboard theme:
http://usershare.net/innb0hk56k0l

10. Unzip/un-archive the file

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06 SepSnow Leopard: Not Living Up To The Hype At All

So as you all know, Snow Leopard for the Mac was one of the most talked about topics rumoring across the web for a few weeks before and after the release. Now, I did a review on Snow Leopard a day or two after using it (that video can be viewed here) and I was quite impressed that I gained 20GB+ back of memory and the performance seemed to be faster. A few days rolled by and I was starting to get aggravated because my internet would keep going in and out and yet, before upgrading I never had this problem, that was the first of a few things to come.

The next problem that I found Read more…