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The iPhone 4 has a great camera, which makes it even more frustrating that the Camera app is just so damn slow.

It’s a common complaint. You spot the perfect photograph, but by the time you’ve tapped the icon, waited for the app to load, focussed, and finally hit the button to take the picture, the moment is gone.

IntantCam aims to stop that from happening, and it seems to work…(…)
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Just last month we told you about SMSHideKeyboard, a jailbreak tweak that brought iOS 5-like SMS keyboard hiding to the jailbreak scene.

Today we have a similar tweak, but one that has a trick up its sleeve. Going by the name of MailKeyboardHide, this slight variation of SMSHideKeyboard offers the ability to hide the iPhone’s keyboard during the composition of emails.

And it also does more than that…(…)
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I’ve got a 64GB iPad 2. That’s tons of storage space for a tablet device – but for a number of reasons, I’ve been filling that space up more quickly than I had imagined I would. Earlier this weekend I was down to 15GB free on the iPad 2.

So I decided to make a start on some iPad ‘housekeeping’ to free up a bit more space. My first target was Photos on the iPad 2. Yesterday I had over 5,500 photos on the iPad 2, occupying 5.5GB of space. Although it’s lovely having lots of family photos on the iPad to enjoy via the digital picture frame on the iPad’s lock screen, 5,000 is just too many to have on the device – especially when a lot of them are screenshots and photos from past reviews.

My plan is to look through the photos properly at some point, weed out the tons of old review shots, and return some slimmed down family photo albums to the iPad 2. Here’s how I went about reducing the number of photos on the iPad 2 from 5,500 to just 62 last night:

– First I selected a small number of photos I wanted to be able to put right back on the iPad 2 – a few funny pics of my big Labrador, some wallpapers I like, and mostly screenshots for upcoming reviews. I uploaded these to a Dropbox folder, and then copied them to a new folder  in the /Pictures folder on my MacBook Pro. The reason for creating the folder there is that I absolutely hate iPhoto – so I will instead sync photos in iTunes via the /Pictures folder (which is located under your user folder on the Mac).

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As I’ve talked about a lot here recently, my favorite ‘outfit’ for the iPad 2 is the Apple Smart Cover and a skin for the back. My favorites so far have been a gelaskin and the ZAGG LEATHERskin for iPad 2.

I have to say these Carbon Fiber Skins for the iPad 2 from BelchCo (shown above) look very good to me too.

Here’s the brief intro on them from their BelchCo page:

BelchCo Carbon Fiber Skins for the iPad 2 are a perfect compliment to the New Apple iPad 2. These carbon fiber skins are beautiful, durable and ultrathin. Made out of the highest quality carbon fiber 3M DI-NOC vinyl and cut entirely in the USA, your Belch Co carbon fiber skins will not disappoint.

They come in black and white, and with or without the Apple logo cutout – and they’re priced at an attractive .99 for the back skin only. I’ve got a review sample on the way, so I’ll have more thoughts soon.

In the meantime, you can see more details and place an order at their product page here: http://belchco.com/products/carbon-fiber-ipad-2-skins.html

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According to new figure coming out of in-flight WiFi provider GoGo, Apple’s iPhone makes up fully two thirds of the mobile device usage on their service.

The iPhone’s smaller sibling, the iPod touch also accounts for a massive 20% of those using a small-screened device to access the internet while in the sky.

It’s not such good news for Google’s Android, however. According to an AllThingsD report, despite there being more different Android devices than there are people on the planet, (perhaps a slight exaggeration) devices powered by Google’s operating system make up a paltry 12% of mobile devices used…(…)
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Thanks to everyone who took part in this contest. We had lots of fun and funny comments on all the many ways there are for iPad screens to get gross and dirty.

Here are our lucky winners:

• Chuck Cunningham
• Kyle
• Carlos
• Mark C
• Brian
• Jeanne Barlow
• Leslie
• mary h
• Ramesh
• Kevin D

Winners – please watch your inboxes and spam folders, as you’ll be hearing from MobileCloth soon to get your shipping details for your six-packs.

As always, more cool contests coming soon.

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TweetFire – a Twitter client with Speed and Push Notifications – is now available for iPhone.

TweetFire was built with speed and performance in mind. Are you tired of other clients that take forever to load and try to download all of your data at once? TweetFire is perfect for you! Fast loading and smart refreshing means that you can navigate Twitter at lightning speed.

• A unique interface giving you shortcuts to all your favorite views in Twitter.
• Shortcuts for Home Timeline, Mentions, DMs, Favorites, New Search, and User Profile view
• Add more shortcuts for User Timelines, Searches, and Lists
• NATIVE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for mentions and other Tweeps you want to follow in real-time.
• Multi-account support
• A comprehensive URL scheme so other apps can interact with TweetFire
• Flickr integration for posting pictures and tweeting them
• A bunch of other photo sharing providers
• Instapaper for saving links to tweets and urls
• Kik Messenger for sharing tweets and urls with other Kik users
• Deep Favstar.fm integration for viewing Favstar pages and awarding “Tweet of the Day”
• Other sharing options for Facebook, Pinboard, Read It Later, Email, SMS, etc.
• Save Tweet and DM as Draft, with images
• Instagram integration
• One tap search
• One tap user profile view
• Quickly add users to lists
• Add other people’s public lists to your home screen

I haven’t had the chance to try out TweetFire, yet, but I’ve seen many great things said about it on Twitter – particularly that it’s blazing fast. With a name like TweetFire, it better be!

TweetFire is available on the iPhone for free. Screenshots after the break.

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In Apple’s last earnings call, it was announced that 20 million iPhones had been sold in Q3 of 2011 alone. Apple has overtaken Nokia as the world’s leading smartphone vendor, and a recent report also places Apple as the top smartphone manufacturer in the US.

With the iPhone’s seemingly unstoppable growth rate, it’s not a surprise that Apple’s 5 year old smartphone now sees a 141.8% year-over-year increase in market share.(…)
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In Apple’s last earnings call, it was announced that 20 million iPhones had been sold in Q3 of 2011 alone. Apple has overtaken Nokia as the world’s leading smartphone vendor, and a recent report also places Apple as the top smartphone manufacturer in the US.

With the iPhone’s seemingly unstoppable growth rate, it’s not a surprise that Apple’s 5 year old smartphone now sees a 141.8% year-over-year increase in market share.(…)
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It’s taken nine months, but the world finally has the same 90 second iTunes song previews that the United States gained way back in November 2010.

The change-over to the new and improved previews is currently underway, with not all songs yet sporting the full 90 seconds, though we suspect that’s more of a technical thing than Apple only providing longer previews for certain tracks.

Those tracks that have been upgraded now offer previews that are three times longer than the previous 30 seconds…(…)
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