My iPhone

I considered upgrading my iPhone to IOS 5, but decided not to because its not officially released and I'm not completely satisfied with the beta.  So here I am with my iPhone on IOS 4.3.2 because I'm to lazy to upgrade to 4.3.3.  Although I will get to that here in the next few weeks.

If you can't tell this is my jailbroken iPhone.  I was really hoping for a widget feature to come out with IOS 5 similar to what I currently have with Lockinfo.  I guess we will see what progress Apple makes on their newest IOS when it is finally released this fall.  I'm really looking forward to the new notification system as well as iMessage in IOS 5.  I like the UI of the iPhone, but jailbreaking it lets me customize my iPhone how I want to.  I'll go over a few tweaks I have made to my iPhone.  First off as you can see in the two pictures above I have a clock and weather widget that carries on from my lockscreen to my homescreen.  This is one of my favorite features because this way I can just glance at my lockscreen and see what the the weather forecast is for the next week.

I'm not a big fan of the iPhones native messages app, so as a solution I use biteSMS.  With the native messages app you have to open the app to be able to text your contacts, where as with biteSMS you can text from within any app you have open as well as directly from the lockscreen.  One really cool feature I like is the biteSMS quickreply feature.  Basically this lets you have a key to activate the feature then tap the screen to send a text (see below).  For my iPhone I press either of the volume keys then tap the onscreen block to bring up the quickreply window.  This works in landscape mode as well.

I'm a pretty organized person when it comes to computers and my phones, so I like to have folders to organize all of my stuff.  The same applies on my iPhone.  I don't like having my apps covering my whole screen in a disorganized way so I use folders, as well as infinidock.  Typically the IOS only allows you to have four apps/folders on your dock while the rest are on the springboard pages.  I have ten on a scrollable dock (see below).

With infinidock I am able to always have my widget show on my homescreen and instead of multiple pages of apps I only have ten apps/folders to find what I'm looking for.  The five apps I use the most are on the first page of my dock while the other five apps/folders I need are on the second page.  I also use inifinifolders which allows me to put as many apps in a folder as I want.  My Utilities folder has 42 apps in it.  

I'm definitely not a fan of the IOS multitasking system.  I think it is very poorly done and needs a bit of tweaking.  Cue Backgrounder plus Multifl0w.  Backgrounder basically takes over the multitasking system and allows you to set which apps you want to use multitasking and which ones you don't.  This helps free up some RAM therefore making your iPhone a little faster.  Multifl0w is my replacement for the IOS background popup bar at the bottom of the screen.  Multifl0w is more similar to the expose feature in Mac OS (see below).

                                    

Multifl0w shows you thumbnails of the applications you have open.  You can tap the red X to close the app or press the home button to return to wherever you were last.

The last tweak that I will talk about is something called SBSettings.  This is a pretty cool little feature because it gives you access to some settings pretty quickly without having to actually go into the settings menu.  Nothing really amazing about this just a little more utility.  There is definitely a learning curve to jailbreaking your iPhone and probably isn't for those who aren't very tech savvy.  There are plenty of sites out there that explain the process and are easy enough to follow.  That is all I have to say on the subject for now.