Finally! An application has been made which allows you to have a fully functioning landscape SpringBoard on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Not only this but you can switch between easily by simply rotation your device (ie live rotation).

This add-on enables SpringBoard to rotate according to the device’s orientation! It does not rotate only the icons, it rotates the whole user interface!
Switches Landscape-portrait view , rotates SpringBoard in all 4 orientations according to where iPhone is tilted to, like many applications do.
It requires a 3GS for now.
It will soon be ready to be released.

The application is not yet released but is going to hit the Cydia Store pretty soon. The price has not been decided either. Here is a video demonstration created by the developer himself.

Deliverace is a classic top-down racing game that will be released on iPhone and Android soon.

It features the prettiest graphics, coolest physics and dirtiest powerslides ever seen on a handheld device.

There is no release date yet but should be relatively soon. The game will not only be released onto the iPhone but also Android phones.

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Name: Castle Conflict | Price: $.99(On Sale) [Link] | Rating: 5/5

“A truly stunning Campaign, great layout and amazing looks. It is on sale for 99 cents, but anyone in their right mind would pay up to $10 for this amazingly fantastic game.” -AppVee

Castle Conflict is a side scrolling 2D where the main objective is to get people to the other side, using a variety of styles, and a power scale of who can do damage to another. When they do get to the other side, or the opponent’s castle, the character inflicts damage. You can do that using a variety of ways. One by using Air style, Magic style, or Ground style. You are trying the destroy the opponents castle before they manage to kill yours.

All of the people used to attack, and the weapons/effects used.

Wood Cutter—collects resources

Thief—steals resources from the enemy

Foot Soldier—basic ground unit

Engineer—repairs castles

Armored Knight—strong ground unit

Mounted Knight—most powerful ground unit

Cannon—battles air units and castles

Blimp—basic air unit

Bomber—dominates air and land

Also, the new update allows mages, and mummys too!

So basically, too get the guys used to attack the other side, you use woodcutters. They cost either 15, or 5 gold. The more expensive woodcutters are better, and give better gold per tree. The trees spawn up all over the board, and it is your job to collect them, to get you money.

Woodcutters from the opposing red team, gather trees for money.

Another thing I like about this game is that it has a map, that has alternate paths. There is also over 55 levels, in 4 different scenerys, including egypt, so it is very hard to get bored. Another great setting, is that you can change the difficulty level, from easy, medium, or hard, so you can have many different ways to play.

There are many different maps, and styles you get to face.

I also want to say, on a concluding note, that this games learning curve is incredibly understandable. It is probably one of the easiest to learn games, while still being challenging, type of game on the app store I have ever seen.

Promo codes for Castle Conflict: Please comment below with the one you use.

Name: Castle Conflict | Price: $.99(On Sale) [Link] | Rating: 5/5

Eric Castro has finally update the MewSeek Twitter with an estimated date of arrival of an updated version of Mewseek, a P2P music downloading program.

He has also released the news that you buy the program, it is going to cost you $9.99. However, if you buy it now whilst the app is on discount you can get it for only $6.99. Updates are free.

There is also a free version of the app BUT the free version wont allow you to add music files to the iPod.app and therefore you will need to listen to the music in the MewSeek app. Unlike the current version of MewSeek, the music syncing to iPod.app DOES now work on 3.1.2.

Disclaimer: AllTechRelated does not support  downloading music files illegal. Buy your music!

The app he used to called iTextSpeed [Buy it]. How fast can you get it? Post in the comments!

A new report from a supposed ‘reputable source’ has hit the internet claiming that Apple next firmware OS 4.0 may include multi-tasking, a feature sorely missed on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

AppleInsider claim that this source, who has got a lot of Apple rumors correct in the past, say that Apple have found the perfect way to include the multi-tasking feature into the firmware.

From a user-facing perspective, Apple plans to deliver a multi-tasking manager that leverages interface technology already bundled with its Mac OS X operating system, according to those same people. It was requested that specifics be withheld at this time, as the iPhone Software 4.0 remains under development and reportedly has a quite ‘way to go’ before it’s ready for prime time.

Multi-tasking is ACTUALLY already included in the iPhone firmware but Apple have locked it to only a certain few applications, iPod, Mail, SMS and Phone.

This feature would also be welcomed for iPad pre-order buyers as this was one of the features that caused many to believe that the iPad is a flop.

The iDongle is a small gadget that runs off the iPhone’s internal battery and not only allows you to boot your tethered jailbroken device BUT can also jailbreak your unjailbreak-able iPhone/iPod Touch on firmware 3.1.2 or lower.

FAQ

• What is it ?
  This is a standalone piece of hardware able to boot your jailbreaked device (a.k.a “tethered boot”), and optionnally to jailbreak and hacktivate it if not already done.
• Why do I need this ?
  If your jailbreaked device is stuck into “recovery mode” (i.e Connect-to-iTunes logo) each time you restart or reboot your device, then it may be usefull for you =)
• I want one !
  From now, I only have a dozen of (working) prototype. I need to raise some minimal funds to start manufacturing them in quantities, to lower the price as much as possible for the community. You can help by buying me a prototype at good price, or simply donate as pre-order. If you place an order afterward, please remember me your Paypal ID, I’ll deduce your donation from your order, and if I can’t raise enough funds, I’ll return money back to anyone asking it.

• How do I know if my device is concerned ?
  Any iPhone 3GS made after week 40 (2009). The week number is usually the 4th and 5th digit of the serial number. iPod Touch 2G whose serial number begins with “MC” are concerned or any iPod Touch 3G.
• Which device is supported ?
  From now, iPhone 3GS and iPodTouch 2G/3G are supported, all with OS 3.1 / 3.1.1 / 3.1.2 only, but the later is recommended.
• Will you support OS 3.1.3 ?
  Maybe, or not. iDongle can be easily updated through USB. If jailbreak is available, I’ll try and post a free update.
• Does it provide unlock ?
  Not directly. Look for Geohot’s “sn0w” or Dev Team’s “ultrasn0w” package on Cydia.

You can visit the iDongle website HERE.

A new program called CanIHazRecover has been created to help users who are stuck on the boot logo of their devices and therefore cannot get to the SpringBoard without the need of restoring.

The program only works with the following devices: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch and iPod Touch 2G non-MC model only. It also is only available for Mac users at the moment.

The usage of this program is simply. Download and unzip the .rar file from below. Then use the simple instructions included in the readme.

Click to download: HERE

Monty has done it again! He has released a new theme called Adeline and it’s free for only 1 day so grab it quickly!

The theme is iPhone only but he is working on an iPod Touch version. You MUST have Iconoclasm installed on your iPhone to use this theme.

Download: (links will be removed after 1 day. After this, you will be able to purcahse Adeline from Cydia.

• (DOWNLOAD REMOVED) You can now buy it from Cydia.
• Adeline Iconoclasm (277) (you can’t just click on this, you need to right click and click save as to save it onto your computer)

This has to be my favorite theme I’ve made and I hope all you love it as much as I do. Like as I said in earlier post, this theme will only work with the Adeline Iconoclasm Layout made for it. I tried every way possible to make it work with every SpringBoard tweak available on Cydia using iBlanks before resorting to Iconoclasm ( I knew alot of users may not users already have it)

You’ll need Stack v3 or Categories (Apps or Tools and Games) to make the “Biz” and “Party” folders. SpringJumps are optional and you can use them if you want.

Adeline boost:
Over 230 beautiful icons (more to come)
Custom User Interface (Beta v.2)
“Brick Heart Breaker” Lockscreen
Text bubbles
Music player skin
New Original Weather and Date Widget
Phone dialer
Custom signal bars
Blah Blah
And so much more…

Chpwn, one of the most succesful iPhone jailbreak devs out there, has released yet another interesting SpringBoard tweak. This one is called InfiniBoard and allows vertical scrolling on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

You still have pages on your iPhone and to access them, you still scroll from the side to side but what this tweak does is allows you to store up to 100 apps on each page and with which you need to scroll vertically to get to. This means you can 1100 (not including your dock) apps on your SpringBoard.

Infiniboard is also customizable, you can set everything from the scroll bar color to where you when the lists bounce at the ends.

InfiniBoard is avaiable from Cydia for only $1.99.

Description:

Vertically scroll your home screen pages!
Infiniboard lets you add as many icons as you want to each page, and access them through a flick up and down.
Many settings provide full customization -- and resprings don’t mess up your icons.
Support for OverBoard coming soon with a new OverBoard update.
Created by the developer of Infinidock, Infiniboard is the ultimate way to manage your icons!

Screenshots:

Saurik, the creator of Cydia, has released a new APT update which greatly improves Cydia’s speed.

We all know that Cydia is pretty damn slow so this update is warmly welcomes by myself. Saurik announced it via his Twitter saying :

I also uploaded a new version of APT I’ve been working on: it has an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing

The update should come up automatically in your Cydia so update it and enjoy the new speediness of Cydia!

Not only that but this app gives you a screensaver that displays before your iPhone or iPod Touch’s screen dims. iAccounts can be bought from the Cydia Store for $1.99.

Description:

iAccounts brings users to the iPhone and iTouch. This will allow you to lock certain apps, as well as lock other things such as: icon moving, searching, and even wifi locking! These options can all be set for custom users which you can configure to your own needs. You can then log in and out as many times as you want with any user you want! There is also a screen saver that runs when the iPhone or iTouch is dimmed, right before it sleeps

See More Info below for screenshots.

Screenshots:

iPhone:

Paying attention to just a few commonsense pointers will pay off with a longer battery lifespan and battery life for your iPhone. The most important thing is to keep your iPhone out of the sun or a hot car (including the glove box). Heat will degrade your battery’s performance the most.

Some Terms You Need to Understand

“Battery life” means the time your iPhone will run before it must be recharged. “Battery lifespan” means the total amount of time your battery will last before it must be replaced.

iPhone Temperate Zone. Your iPhone works best from 32° to 95° F. You should store it in environments of -4° to 113° F. That’s 0° to 35° C and -20° to 45° C for the metrically inclined. Keeping your iPhone as near room temperature as possible (72° F or 22° C) is ideal.

Viewing Usage Statistics

Awareness of how you use your iPhone and knowing how long your battery typically lasts can help you improve its battery life. You can view your iPhone usage statistics by tapping the Settings icon on the Home screen and choosing General > Usage. Under the “Time since last full charge” heading you’ll see two items:

• Usage: Amount of time iPhone has been awake and in use since the last full charge. The phone is awake when you’re on a call, using email, listening to music, browsing the web, or sending and receiving text messages, or during certain background tasks such as auto-checking email.
• Standby: Amount of time iPhone has been powered on since its last full charge, including the time the phone has been asleep.

Update to the Latest Software

Always make sure your iPhone has the latest software from Apple, as engineers may find new ways to optimize battery performance. Using iTunes 8.2 or later, you can update your iPhone with the latest software. Connect your iPhone to your computer, then select iPhone in the Source List. In the Summary panel, click “Check for Updates” to see if there’s a new version of the iPhone software available. Click Update to install the latest version.

Optimize Your Settings

Depending on how they are configured, a few features may decrease your iPhone battery life. For example, the frequency with which you retrieve email and the number of email accounts you auto-check can both affect battery life. The tips below apply to an iPhone running iPhone 3.0 or later software and may help extend your battery life.

• Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed.
• Turn off push notifications: Some applications from the App Store use the Apple Push Notification Service to alert you of new data. Those applications that extensively rely on push notifications (such as instant messaging applications) may impact battery life. To disable push notifications, go to Settings > Notifications and set Notifications to Off. Note that this does not prevent new data from being received when the application is opened. Also, the Notifications setting will not be visible if you do not have any applications installed that support push notifications.
• Fetch new data less frequently: Applications such as Mail can be set to fetch data wirelessly at specific intervals. The more frequently email or other data is fetched, the quicker your battery may drain. To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting and applies to all applications that do not support push services.
• Turn off push mail: If you have a push mail account such as Yahoo!, MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange, turn off push when you don’t need it. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off. Messages sent to your push email accounts will now be received on your phone based on the global Fetch setting rather than as they arrive. If the global Fetch setting is set to Manually, you will not be able to locate your iPhone using the MobileMe Find My iPhone feature.
• Auto-check fewer email accounts: You can save power by checking fewer email accounts. This can be accomplished by turning off an email account or by deleting it. To turn off an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and set Account to Off. To remove an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and tap Delete Account.
• Minimize use of third-party applications: Excessive use of applications such as games that prevent the screen from dimming or shutting off or applications that use location services can reduce battery life.
• Turn off Wi-Fi: If you rarely use Wi-Fi, you can turn it off to save power. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and set Wi-Fi to Off. Note that if you frequently use your iPhone to browse the web, battery life may be improved by using Wi-Fi instead of cellular data networks.
• Turn off Bluetooth: If you rarely use a Bluetooth headset or car kit, you can turn off Bluetooth to save power. Go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and set Bluetooth to Off.
• Use Airplane Mode in low- or no-coverage areas: Because your iPhone always tries to maintain a connection with the cellular network, it may use more power in low- or no-coverage areas. Turning on Airplane Mode can increase battery life in these situations; however, you will be unable to make or receive calls. To turn on Airplane Mode, go to Settings and set Airplane Mode to On.
• Adjust brightness: Dimming the screen is another way to extend battery life. Go to Settings > Brightness and drag the slider to the left to lower the default screen brightness. In addition, turning on Auto-Brightness allows the screen to adjust its brightness based on current lighting conditions. Go to Settings > Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.
• Turn off EQ: Applying an equalizer setting to song playback on your iPhone can decrease battery life. To turn EQ off, go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Off. Note that if you’ve added EQ to songs directly in iTunes, you’ll need to set EQ on iPhone to Flat in order to have the same effect as Off because iPhone keeps your iTunes settings intact. Go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Flat.
• Turn off 3G: Using 3G cellular networks loads data faster, but may also decrease battery life, especially in areas with limited 3G coverage. To disable 3G, from the Home screen choose Settings > General > Network and set Enable 3G to Off. You will still be able to make and receive calls and access cellular data networks via EDGE or GPRS where available.

Lock Your iPhone

It may seem obvious, but you should lock your iPhone when you aren’t using it. You will be able to receive calls and text messages while it is locked, but nothing happens if you touch the screen. To lock iPhone, press the Sleep/Wake button. You can also set the Auto-Lock interval so your iPhone will turn off more quickly after a period of inactivity. To set Auto-Lock, go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock and set the interval to a short time, such as 1 minute.

Use iPhone Regularly

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).

iPod Touch:

Paying attention to just a few commonsense pointers will pay off with a longer battery lifespan and battery life for your iPod. The most important thing is to keep your iPod out of the sun or a hot car (even the glove box). Heat will degrade your battery’s performance the most.

Some Terms You Need to Understand

“Battery life” means the time your iPod will run before it must be recharged (sometimes this is also called “playtime” or “runtime”). “Battery lifespan” means the total amount of time your battery will last before it must be replaced.

iPod Temperate Zone. Your iPod works best from 32° to 95° F. You should store it in environments of -4° to 113° F. That’s 0° to 35° C and -20° to 45° C for the metrically inclined. Keeping your iPod as near room temperature as possible (72° F or 22° C) is ideal.

Update to the Latest Software

Always make sure iPod has the latest software from Apple, as engineers may find new ways to optimize battery performance. For instance, early iPod models without a dock connector benefit from update 1.3 or later. Using iTunes 7.4 or later, you can update your iPod with the latest software. Put your iPod in its dock or plug it into your computer and iTunes will notify you if an update is available.

Use iPod Regularly

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month. If you use your iPod infrequently (gasp), you might want to add a reminder to your calendar program.

Extend Your Battery Life

If you want to extend the battery life of your iPod for any given charge cycle, you may conserve power by following these tips.

Hold and Pause

It may seem obvious, but set the Hold switch when you aren’t using your iPod. This will prevent iPod controls from inadvertently waking up iPod and using unnecessary power. Also, if you are not listening to iPod, pause it, or turn it off by pressing the play button for two seconds.

Optimize Your Settings

There are a few features that use your iPod battery more quickly. If you don’t use these features, your iPod will play tunes longer.

• Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi consumes power even if you are not using its features to connect to a network. You can turn it off to save power. Go to Settings > General > Network > Wi-Fi.
• Backlight: Setting the backlight to “always on” will significantly reduce your battery life. Only use the backlight when necessary.
• Equalizer: Adding EQs to playback uses more of your iPod processor, since they aren’t encoded in the song. Turn EQ off if you don’t use it. If, however, you’ve added EQ to tracks in iTunes, you’ll need to set EQ to “flat” in order to have the effect of “off,” because iPod keeps your iTunes settings intact.
• Minimize use of third-party applications: Excessive use of applications on iPod touch, such as games that prevent the screen from dimming or shutting off, can reduce battery life.
• Fetch new data less frequently: Applications on iPod touch such as Mail can be set to fetch data wirelessly at specific intervals. The more frequently email or other data is fetched, the quicker your battery may drain. To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting and applies to all applications that do not support push services.
• Turn off push mail: If you have a push mail account on iPod touch such as Yahoo!, MobileMe, or Microsoft Exchange, turn off push mail when you don’t need it. Go to Settings > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off. Messages sent to your push email accounts will now be received on your iPod touch based on the global Fetch setting rather than as they arrive.

Maximize Your Memory

iPod plays music out of a solid-state memory cache to provide skip-free playback and maximize battery life. iPod spins its hard drive to fill this cache, which uses power. A couple of factors affect how often this happens, and if you minimize these factors, you’ll extend battery life.

• Limit Fast-Forwarding: If you fast-forward through your playlist, iPod has to fill its cache more frequently, thus accessing the hard drive more often and using more power. This decreases overall battery life. By creating great playlists in iTunes that cater to your personal taste, you can decrease your need to fast-forward. Using the shuffle feature may also help to minimize your use of the fast-forward feature.
• Use Compressed Songs: The iPod cache works most efficiently with songs of average file sizes (less than 9MB). If your audio files are large or uncompressed (including AIFF or WAV format), you may want to compress them, or use a different compression method, such as AAC or MP3, when importing them into iTunes. Also, consider breaking very long songs or tracks into shorter tracks that have smaller file sizes. If you encode your music at 128 Kbps, your iPod will fill its cache about every 25 minutes.

A new great app has hit Cydia called iNoRotate. It allows you to disable rotation (ie the accelerometer) on your iPhone and unlike the NoRotation SBSettings toggle (which is great none the less) allows you to disable it only in certain apps.

It gives you the options of disabling it in all applications, or just SMS, Mail, Safari, Notes or Calender. Surprisingly to me they don’t offer an option to disable it on the Music application.

App Description:

iNoRotate disables your rotation ability when enabled. You can choose from: All Applications, SMS App, Mail App, Notes App, Safari App, and Contacts app

You can get the iNoRotate application off the BigBoss repository on Cydia for free.