If you own an iPhone 3GS you most likely use a tethered jailbreak on it. Until now, it was neccessary to plug the phone to a computer if you wanted to restart it. @Mribreakit developped a gadget that is able to restart your jailbroken iPhone without using a computer. A bit bigger than a 9V battery it is connected to the iPhone as soon as the iTunes logo appears. After a short time the iPhone boots and you can remove the “iDongle”. There only exist prototypes of the “iDongle” but if @Mribreakit gets enough donations/preorders it will be up for sale. If you are on the road a lot and don´t have a pc everytime with you, this can become quite handy. As bonus this thing jailbreaks and hacktivates your device if it isn´t already. Donations/Preorders can be placed at MyBoyfriendIsaGeek.com.
Many people are using their mobiles as alarm clocks nowadays, the old fashioned alarm clock is kind of retired. All mobile manufacturers include an alarm clock in their systems but nobody does it really good. Nightstand Weather Clock makes your iPhone alarm clock what it should be like. Many features and options make it a very customizable tool. What are the features an mobile alarm clock should have? And what features make sense even you don´t essentially need them?
As mentioned, the feature list is huge. But that alone doesn´t automatically make a good app. The app must work the way we want it to. That´s what Nightstand Weather Clock does and it does it very well. The menu and options are well structured, the look and behaviour is what you expect from being a menu on the iPhone. Nothing you can do wrong there but a lot you can customize easily. Never wake up again by a alarm tone that causes a heart attack instead of pleasing your ears in that most sad moment of the day. Wake up happily with the tune of your liking and check the weather directly from bed.
The features:
Alarms:
Sleep Timer:
Clock and Weather:
Wallpaper and Display:
No matter if used on the desk in your office or at the side of your bed, Nightstand Weather Clock makes your phone an eye-catcher. Especially the slideshow- and weather-feature makes it worth looking at it. If you use it together with a LayBag you will have a perfect nightstand alarm clock. The price of $ 0,99 is very low compared to what you get there.
Download Nightstand Weather Clock (iTunes Link)
If you remember, when the Nokia N97 was announced, it was told that Skype, the very popular VoIP Service, should be integrated. There was a huge discussion if Service Providers stopped it or not, whatever, that doesn´t really matter. What does matter is, that a Skype Symbian Client was released a few weeks ago – for 3rd Edition. Now, finally, Skype released a client for 5th Edition, finally, N97 users should be able to use Skype with a native client. But guess what, it doesn´t work on N97. At least not with the 21.x firmware. I thought it was the fault of my N97 but after asking on Twitter people told me that they get the same error. The app downloads and installs fine, then, when you fire it up, there are two screens you have to accept (Network connection and stuff) and after that, when the app should start, it just crashes. Ricky from SymbianGuru told me that there is a known issue with 21.x firmware when showing contacts, i can´t confirm that, because i don´t even get to this point.
I really hope, that Skype fixes that. I like clients that are doing ONE job, but do it good. I don´t need Nimbuzz or Fring, which have several services included, if i only want to use Skype. From what you can read around the web, the client does its job quite well, you can use your Skype credits and stuff, so quite a client i would like to use on the N97 which it was promised for…
Did you already try the Skype app on your 5th or 3rd Edition Device? What do you think about it?
To download (free of course) just point your mobile browser to http://www.skype.com/m.
Shortly after making the whole code of the most popular smartphone OS opensource, @Symbian started a twitter campaign to give away even more. Yesterday they started with giving away 2GB Flash Drives with the whole source code of Symbian on it, but what will it be today? Just give them a shout with hashtag #symbiangives to find out. A grand total of prizes worth $ 5.500 will be given away until February 19th, for full details just visit their giveaway site.
I think most people can´t imagine what a huuuuge thing it is to make a whole OS open source. People can do with it what they want, port it to devices they want, change it the way they want. I just hope that the mobile device manufacturers take the chance to make the best mobile OS ever and don´t try to cripple it down to nothing.
Shortly after the release of the iPhone OS 3.1.3, we are now already able to jailbreak and unlock, by creating a custom IPSW. Unfortunately, the new models of iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch (also known as MC models) are not supported, but people with an iPhone 3G or an old iPhone 3GS can enjoy full freedom again. It is important that you didn´t upgrade to 3.1.3 yet, because if you did, you also did upgrade the baseband version, which is not unlockable by now.
To create your custom IPSW, download it through iTunes and run Sn0wbreeze. You have two options, simple mode and expert mode. Simple mode will do all the neccessary steps, hacktivation and pushfix included. Expert mode gives a few more options, like the selection of blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone. But you can always install blacksn0w through cydia, if you need the unlock. So i recommend simple mode, especially if you have an older 3GS, because some people reported problems when using expert mode together with an iPhone 3GS.
After having built your custom IPSW, just restore it through iTunes and you are done. Enjoy your jailbroken iPhone! Sn0wbreeze only works on Windows machines, Xp, Vista and Windows 7 are supported (32 and 64 bit).
A new version of sn0wbreeze has been released which should fix some issues the old version had in some cases.
Download sn0wbreeze 1.51
As much as i hated my Nokia N97 until now, Ovi Maps Racing makes it worth to be used a few times a day. I just like the game, which is available for free from Ovi Store. Of course, the graphics aren´t what they should be in 2010 but then again, it is Symbian. The game is a lot of fun and the best feature is the track editor. It is pretty easy to design your very own racing tracks and drive around in your home city on your Nokia device. How easy it is, you will see in the video below. It is just a few clicks until you can drive wherever you want. If you don´t want to use the feature to be located, you still can create your own track by chosing a given city. Excellent game with excellent features. Together with free Ovi Maps Navigation the best thing Nokia gave us since the release of the N95.
