The iPhone User Guide

iNav is a new winterboard theme that will soon be released in the ModMyi repository. Excuse the background music in this YouTube clip, but this Cydia mod for Jailbroken iPhones is truly amazing. Get your iPhone ready for this tomorrow, the theme TOTALLY changes the whole iPhone Springboard, and we’re really excited about this.

The Theme goes live on Cydia TOMORROW. We’ll post a full review as soon as we get the theme.

iPhoneBuzz reports: iPhone Developer contracts are not as easy as one would hope if looking to renew. As the year closes since the doors opened for developers to make their own iPhone Applications, some may not be able to renew.

On the one-year anniversary of third-party iPhone App development, developers need to renew their contracts to avoid having their software pulled from the App Store. This is one thing, problem is that they are facing difficulty having the contract and cooperation from Apple finalized in time. The reasons behind this have not become obvious. However the March deadline is Apple’s first definitive test of its ability to maintain long-term development relationships with those writing apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. The contracts are needed as part of the iPhone Developer Program in order to have iPhone applications listed in the App Store. Apparently, in March 2008 developers were told that an online option would be available 90 days before the contract(s) expired. The end of March however is 20 days away. There are currently 25,000 Apps out there, 10,000 were registered since January. This is a major kink the in the system for the iPhone developer and could see major panic in the industry.

Playing on the success of Apple’s PhotoBooth app on the Mac, Old Booth takes a photo of you and not only does it make it ‘look’ old, it has a series of fantastic masked ‘old’ people that you can place your face in, to see what you would have looked like in the 60’s or 70’s.

This app is really good fun, and the coding behind the app is truely phenomenal. The light version is free, and will entertain you and your friends for ages.

VERDICT: 85%

Coca Cola have got in on the iPhone act with this ’spin the bottle’ style app. I guess this will be fun for teenagers at parties where they’ve drunk too much, however I don’t think many people have ever played spin the bottle whilst drinking Coca Cola????

VERDICT: 40%

Amazon has released a free application that delivers Kindle book-reading to the iPhone, extending the company’s sales of e-books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader.By using this app, you can read Kindle books using a simple interface. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books, and wirelessly transfer them to your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Features include:

• Buy a Kindle book from your Mac, PC, or iPhone using a Web browser
• Read first chapters of any book for free before you buy
• Download the Kindle books you already own for free — they are automatically backed up on Amazon.com
• Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle device.

The US ONLY app is available on the iTunes App Store

Groups is a handy little app, that allows you to organise your Contacts in to Groups. If you use a Mac you will no doubt already have used groups in your Contacts app on your desktop machine. Groups are a great way of managing your large contact list, but on the iPhone it’s always been a little cumbersome to do so. Now though, with Groups, you can easily drag and drop your friends in to groups, and best of all, this syncs with Mobile Me as well, so any changes to Groups made on your iPhone also reflect on your Mac too.

VERDICT: 90%

… and the best thing, is that it’s going to be free!