FCC says u get 2 txt 911 [21st century 911]

On Tuesday November 23, an FCC chairman announced their plans to revoloutionize the nation-wide emergency response, 911. Their plans include broadband, being able to text 911, and MMS 911, and devices being able to dispatch emergency services.

Why Texting?

Texting 911 can prove to be a life-saving option. If you are in a position were talking can jeopardize your well-being, such as hiding in a hostile situation, sending a text message can be the most helpful option. Also, this can help the deaf or hard-of-hearing in requesting emergency assistance. 

Why MMS?

MMS will a great tool that can help law enforcements "catch the bad guys". If there was a robbery you can take a picture of it and send it to 911. You might even be able to record suspicious activity and send it to a dispatcher.

Greenpois0n iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak coming your way...

The Tweet

A tweet by @p0sixninja says that the Greenpois0n will be updated to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 within the next couple of days. Sadly, this is not going to be an untethered jailbreak. The good news is it will be a tethered or semi tethered jailbreak. Semi-tethered should be enough to entice those discouraged by a tethered jailbreak. 

What is a Semi-Tethered jailbreak?

Contrary to an untethered jailbreak that you can turn your phone on and off without any problems a semi-tethered jailbreak will allow you turn your phone on but you will not be able to use or launch any jailbreak tweaks, themes or applications.  This is also contrasted to a tethered jailbreak that will not allow you to use your device at all until you rerun the jailbreaking software on your computer if you reboot.

 

The Tweaks your App Switcher Has Been Begging For

There are many tweaks for the iPhone's App Switcher such as remove recent. However, 2 tweaks can prove to be especially useful; app switcher brightness, and app switcher rotator. The latter has proved to be something that iOS 4 should have had from the beginning.

App Switcher Rotator
This is a particularly useful tweak when you are in landscape mode. When you are in landscape mode the icons rotate to be easily readable in landscape orientation. The great thing is, it rotates the icons only and the icon drawer changing very little. Also it provides a bit an animation when the order of items in the drawer changes. After which the icons slide back into their new places.

App Switcher Brightness
This is a useful app similar to App Switcher Volume. Beneath the play, pause, next, and previous buttons it displays a slider that controls your screens brightness. This is a nice way to do so in an integrated way as opposed to  SB Settings that requires: activation, entering a sub-menu, and then changing the brightness. It is important to not that this will conflict with App Switcher Volume. Right now, App Switcher Volume seems obsolete unless you have broken volume buttons.

Whatsapp Update

The Update

The crossplatform messaging app for iPhone, Blackberry, and Nokia phones. You wont see a huge UI change but it comes with numerous improvements and features. Many you wont be able to notice immediatley such as the new message tone not playing while on a call. Some features, such as searching your messages and being able to edit and trim videos that are too large to send can prove to be very useful.

To see Whatsapp's description of everything new about the upgrade, scroll down.

What's New In This Version:
- message history search: you can now search you previous conversation history based on keywords
- copy image from buffer into conversation
- scroll bounce inside of the text input. also fixes text input issues for asian languages
- allow in-app video editing for videos which are too large to send
- generate and display thumbnails when sending video
- dismiss camera when application is moved into background
- tap and hold on "arrow up" icon
- tap and hold on individual conversation message to Delete or Forward that message
- accept audio/video media from Email and possibly other external apps (tap and hold on video or audio file in the Email app)
- generate high-res thumbnails when sending maps and pictures from iPhone 4
- don't play new message tone when phone call is in progress
- handle "low disk space" issues when trying to use Camera
- full localization updates
- index bar should now work with any alphabet
- voice notes recorder localization fixes and retina display updates
- you can now cancel multimedia download and upload in progress by tapping on the X icon in the progress bar
- network connection fixes and improvements
- add Dutch translation
- remove Facebook support
- preview picture before sending

You can purchase WhatsApp Messenger from the App Store for $0.99.

Bump now updated for sharing Music!

The popular iPhone and iPod Touch application, Bump, for sharing photos and contact contact information has been upgraded to share music. Yeah, it's easy-to-use: simply select what you want to share and bump phones with who you want to share it with. Apart from sharing music you can perform other actions such as: becoming instant Facebook friends, transferring money via PayPal and follow each other on Twitter.
Take all of these great features into account combined with what is cross platform capabilities and what do you get? A revolutionary service for sharing information that could be quickly become a standard on all smart phones.

 

iOS 4.2 Jailbreak on its way; Cydia now iOS 4.2 compatible.

iOS 4.2 jailbreak has been held back due to the fact Cydia is not compatible with this new firmware. However Cydia has recently been made compatible with iOS 4.2. This means that the iOS 4.2 jailbreak is on its way. A tweet by @chpwn confirms this.

MyOS, Safely Enable and Disable iOS Features without a plist.

Today a new app on Cydia was released. It is called MyOS and allows you to safley enable and disable iOS 4 fgeatures on your iPhone or iPod Touch. After installing go to Settings and select MyOS, modify it to your liking, and then press the respring button. To date, this is the most elegant and effective way to safley turn services on and off. Here are the features you can toggle.

● Multitasking - Gives you the user the option to turn Apples native multitasking feature on and off at will.
● Homescreen Wallpapers - The ability to enable and disable Apples own implementation of backgrounds in SpringBoard on and off.
● Unified iPod - Whether you like iPod.app on your iPod Touch or having Music.app and Video.app on your iPhone, this gives you the choice.
● AppStore - Don't like what the official AppStore has to offer, or want to prevent people from using it? this gives the ability to turn off the AppStore.
● Contacts (iPhone models only) - Stand-alone contacts make no sense when you have the Address Book in Phone.app? using this option you can turn it off.
● HDR (Requires hardware camera) - Enable HDR on unsupported devices or disable it from your iPhone 4, the decision is yours.
● GameCenter (iPhone 3G only) - Enable GameCenter on your iPhone 3G.
● Camera.app (Requires hardware camera) - Disable the camera on your device.
● Voice Control (Voice control capable devices only) - Disable Voice Control on all supported devices. 
You can purchase MyOS from the Cydia Store for $.99.

 

Skyfire "Sold Out" due to overwhelming user response

The sky fire app browser has recently been pulled from the app store because it apparently sold out due to incredible response from users. The browser plays flash by downloading it onto it's servers and rendering it into an HTML 5 video playable on any iPhone or iPod Touch. The servers were overwhelmed in a couple of hours. So they announced that they will temporarily stop selling this application until they can take this kind of serve load. To put into perspective the kind of strain that their servers are taking, within five hours this application became the highest grossing app, the overall top paid app and the top in utilities

AlwaysOnPC

The AlwaysOnPC app is a great app that allows you to have your own personal workspace; a complete desktop equipped with FireFox, oppenoffice and many other vital apps. And because its your own workspace, you can save documents and keep your browsing history and bookmarks even when you log out. I am currently writing this blog post through this application. I works very well and handles flash well too It works fantastic on the iPhone 3G proving low battery and recourse usage. A for people who need to use their iPad as a computer there is simply not a better choice than this application. This application costs $20. But that is a fair price for what it does. If you like to "try before you buy" than you can use installous.

AlwaysOnPC
Version 1.8 3.0 MB
VoicEcho

iPhone QR Code

Super Simple Guide for First time Jailbreakers

After you've jailbroken you might be wondering what to do. For first time jailbreakers here's a super simple guide to help you guys started. It includes one tweak, one app, and a theme. Let me know how it all turns out or if you would like to remove any of the below.

1. Open Cydia, go to "manage" then "sources" and add the source "sinfuliphonerepo.com"
2. Search "android lock" You should see something like "Android Lock XT cracked" Select that but make sure it's "cracked"
3. Install "Winterboard" It is a program that allows you to install cool themes. Here is where select the themes you have downloaded. 
4. Install "Neuroline". It is a moving wallpaper similar to the Google Nexus One. After installing it go back to winterboard and select the theme like so:

Definition of cracked: an app that normally costs money but is a pirated version of that app.