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, voice-activated search and over-the-air Amazon MP3 downloads. With all that, who needs a GPS navigation system or an iPhone? Okay maybe I went to far with the iPhone remark but this thing does seem awesome!

I will be one of the first people to purchase the phone, as I will be heading up to Verizon before they open. You all know what that means, Unboxing!!

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 application for those interested in NASA and space shuttles but if you’re not then you should probably just ignore this app, although it is free.

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.

This video speaks for itself, watch it!

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)

- Link Twitter contacts to Address Book contacts
- Follow, unfollow, block and unblock from multiple accounts simultaneously
- Saved searches sync with Twitter.com and the upcoming Tweetie 2 for Mac
- Autocomplete recent searches and Go-to-user
- Threaded Direct Messages and improved conversation navigation
- TextExpander integration
- Rich integration with Follow Cost, Tweet Blocker, Favstar.fm and more
- Edit your own Twitter profile
- Specify custom API roots on a per-account basis
- Nearby map view
- Translate tweets
- Preview short URLs
- Safari bookmarklet support for easily sharing links
- In-app rich text email composition
- Tons of little things, including improved avatar caching, auto-refresh, refresh-all, seamless Twitlonger support, hashtag definitions and more
- This is just the beginning. Tweetie 2 is already built to take advantage of great new features coming from Twitter, so expect updates turning them on soon!

Review on this is coming soon in a video as well.

Spotted on: MacRumors

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

11. SSH into your iPhone/iPod (user = root , password = alpine)

12. Hit the back button/up button as shown in the video

13. Go to Stash

14. Drag the unzipped 1st storm (or whatever theme u have) into the folder named ‘themes’

15. Go to winterboard on your device and select the 1st storm theme

16. After respring, go to spotlight so you can test it out

17. Hit the globe and whatever else you may need to do (as shown in the video)

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 was that some of the applications would not work, now I understand that this is a new OS and coding is different but that is no excuse what so ever. Cyberduck had an update so that it would be compatible with Snow Leopard but not too many others are doing the same.

Also, many programs such as: Photoshop, Firefox, Safari, Screenflow, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro seemed to become unresponsive at random times and I would wait forever for it to come back but it didn’t so I was forced to ‘force quit’ the application, which caused great inconvenience because I was really working hard on whatever I may have been doing. I also did make a video on all of my problems and that will be below this article.

Overall, if you are planning on purchasing this software anytime soon then be expecting these problems, which I would think that after reading this you would not purchase it. There will be updates coming out in the near future for this buggy software so I would defiantly wait for that if anything.I do regret paying the 29 dollars because it was rather a waste of money and I now want to downgrade back to regular Leopard.

Showing off just a few of the new features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) that I found about 10 minutes after installing.

I will be uploading a full review tomorrow.

Snow Leopard is, as quoted by apple.com:

Upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard with Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X. It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new accessibility features. It’s the world’s most advanced operating system, finely tuned from installation to shutdown.

Now Snow Leopard is now available for pre-order in your local Apple Store and also online, which is a good route because it is free shiping and could save you some money by not having to drive up to the store. There are a lot of new in and out of the box features that will be available with Snow Leopard.

To see full details on everything to do with Snow Leopard, you can go here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL?mco=NzgxMDc2NA

As you may know, NFL 2010 was released by Gameloft on August 6th, 2009 and it was really a surprise to most people because there wasn’t much news being rumored around about it (Video below showing gameplay).

Instead, all the talk is about the new ‘Madden 2010′ coming out on August 14th by EA Games, this definitely is going to be a big competition between Madden 2010 and NFL 2010. Now in NFL 2010 you actually have all the real NFL teams and players just like Madden and the graphics and sounds actually sound very similar to Madden so it will be interesting. NFL 2010 is $7.99 in the App Store and Madden 2010 is going to be $9.99 when it is released on the 14th. Now Gameloft may be better because they will most likely listen to their customers and may give updates (one is already going to occur for sure, for online play) but EA will most likely just leave the game as it is for a while.

I will be having a video coming out on my AppReviews101 showing you the similarities and differences between the two and also which one is better and more worth your money so make sure you are subscribed to that channel and I will keep you all updated.