One of the best hacks for the iPhone, SBSettings, now works with firmware 4.0. This hack let’s you swipe the status bar and a drop down menu pops out with all kinds of quick settings like brightness adjustment and toggles for wifi, bluetooth and 3G. There are different themes, all kinds of info like running processes, IP address, & memory. Best of all, it’s free. This is a must have app!

See our past reviews of SBSettings for more detailed descriptions.

Note: there is a small bug for 4.0.

ATTENTION 4.0 USERS: Currently an activator bug prevents the SBSettings window from appearing in some apps. For the time being, load settings, activator, and set SBSettings also to short hold home so you can hold home button to also bring up sbsettings in apps.

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Welcome to convenience! Move your important toggles directly into Springboard where they are always available instantly even while other apps are running.

Note: This does not come with an icon. You can swipe the statusbar to bring down the main window. You can configure in activator settings other methods of opening the SBSettings window. Customize it to your liking!

Known 4.0 Issues
- Activator issue with swiping statusbar. Configure an alternate method to launch app in apps in settings app.
- Phone toggle not working well. Looking into it.
- The rest is working well.

Changelog

3.1.0

- Fix: 3.1.0-1 solves theoretical crash of more app that no one reported, but could in some cases.
- Fix: Fixed the iOS4 3g crashing in hidden icons, dock, and folders.
- Fix: Re-added iOS4 rotation sensing (found another way to do it!). Window rotates again.
- Fix: Redid the more-app GUI to use a standardized apple style interface.
- New: Added global activator launch settings for SBSettings window to more app. You can also get to these in settings app.

Byline, a sweet RSS reader, received an update to version 3.2. The update adds a few new features to accommodate the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 including; high-res graphics and multitasking. Check out the What’s New section below for full list of the new features.

What’s New

- Features optimized high-resolution graphics for iPhone 4’s Retina display.
- Uses multitasking in iOS 4 to finish the current syncing or caching process in the background.
- Uses multitasking in iOS 4 to fully restore state when switching back from another app.
- Tweaks swipe sensitivity so that navigating between items by accident is less likely.
- Fixes bugs which could cause crashes during syncing and caching.
- Fixes buggy handling of links to iTunes or the App Store.
- Improves interface responsiveness during syncing.
- Fixes iOS 4 compatibility issues.

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“There is also, I hinted to this a couple times, an unreleased exploit in every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in the bootrom to get code execution. And you know if I ever do another jailbreak, that’s the exploit I have. If you’ve seen I posted like a picture of 4.0 jailbroken. I posted my iPad jailbroken. All before Spirit was released. And I used like a completely different set of exploits which maybe when iPhone 4 comes out will be out.”

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That’s good news for for everyone! Can’t wait for 4.0 jailbroken on my iPad and iPhone 4!

What is it?

This is a beta release of redsn0w targeted at developers of jailbroken apps. It uses the same pwnage2 DFU-mode exploit that we’ve been using since the 2.x days. Nothing new is revealed to Apple, and it’s not applicable to the iPad. Don’t go near it if you use yellowsn0w, ultrasn0w, or blacksn0w.

Please not that this beta is not meant for the average end-user. There are many things “broken” with jailbroken apps in the 4.0beta1 environment right now (that’s the real reason we showed “Veency” in the 4.0 jailbreak demo video last week, instead of say MobileTerminal.app, which is broken!). This beta redsn0w allows the developers behind those jailbroken apps (like MobileTerminal.app!) to fix their software before the general public gets iphoneOS 4.0.

Because it’s meant for JB app developers, this beta redsn0w does not perform hactivation. You’ll need a properly-registered developer UDID with Apple to get past the activation screen. For similar reasons, there is no Windows version of this beta redsn0w (since apps are developed on MacOSX). Please don’t pirate Apple software.

Anyone other than developers of jailbroken apps porting their software to 4.0beta1 should still be using our previously-released redsn0ws for 3.0 through 3.1.3

What devices, platforms, and FW versions are supported?

This BETA release supports:

- iPhone 3G only (for now)
- Mac OSX only (for now)
- the 4.0beta1 FW only (for now)

YOU SHOULD STAY CLEAR OF THIS BETA SOFTWARE IF YOU RELY ON A CARRIER UNLOCK. That’s because the beta redsn0w works only if your device has already been upgraded to the stock 4.0beta1 IPSW from Apple, which contains a baseband update. If you installed that IPSW, you’ve already lost the carrier unlock until the next planned release of ultrasn0w and blacksn0w.

For more information on how to use the jailbreak and for the download link… hit up the Dev-Team’s wikee page. Remember, this jailbreak is targeted at developers and not your “normal” jailbreaker!

View the Keynote HERE on Apple’s website.

For those of you who are developers, 4.0 also includes “over 1500 new APIs in OS 4. Devs can access the calendar, photo library, quicklook…” as well as a new framework called Accelerate which is said to be “hardware accelerated math functions.”

The firmware is scheduled to be released for the iPhone and iPod touch this summer. It will be released for the iPad this fall. A dev preview is being released today.

The Catch:
iPhone 3GS and 2nd gen iPod touch owners will be able to utilize every aspect of the new 4.0 firmware however, iPhone 3G and 2nd gen iPod touch owners will be restricted. They will not be able run things like multitasking… etc.

1. Multitasking.
We have been waiting for a stock implementation of this for quite some time now and it seems Apple has been working on it for just as long. They are obviously aware of the affect of multitasking (all of us jailbreakers are also aware of those affects!).

“It’s easy to do this in a way that drains battery life, and a way that reduces performance of the foreground app. If you don’t do it right, your phone will feel sluggish. We figured out how to implement multitasking for third party apps and avoid those things. So that’s what took so long. I’d like to demo it. We have a great UI.”

Multitasking will allow you to run applications in the background such as Pandora (which can be controlled from the lockscreen… pretty sweet), Skype (VOIP), Turn-by-Turn apps (such as TomTom), Social Networking Apps (like Loopt or FourSquare), games, allowing things to download in the background… etc.

You will be able to view a list of backgrounded apps by double-tapping the Home Button.

“I’m gonna launch mail, this has a URL — so I jump to safari — so I want to go back to mail… I double click the home button and a window raises that shows me all the apps that are running.”

There are a lot more features to the new Multitasking and we will go into those on a separate post.

2. Folders.
Folder (similar to Categories in the jailbreak community) is a feature that allows you to put your applications into topic specific folders. For example, you could create a Games folder which would contain all your games. This makes finding applications quicker and easier.

Applications can be added to a folder using the stock “move” feature… you know, when you tap and hold and they all start wiggling… and then drag and dropped into a folder.

“I want to make a folder with games in it. I have several games, so I just push my finger on an app, they start to jiggle, and I just drag one app on top of another and it instantly makes a folder. It also automatically names the folder based on the categories of these apps, or I can rename.”

After a folder has been created, it can be moved anywhere on the device… including the dock.

They also seemed to throw the ability to change your iPhone/iPod touches wallpaper into this category as well. So, you are also now about to set an image as your actual wallpaper and not just your lockscreen.

3. Enhanced Mail Application.
The enhanced mail includes a “unified inbox.” This means that all of your mail will be in one inbox however, it does allows for the ability to focus on one specific email account as well as the ability to organize email by thread.

A few other cool features are the ability for more than one Exchange account and “the ability to get an attachment and open it with an app for the app store.”

4. iBooks.
Yep, if you were feeling a little left out that the iPad had iBooks and the iPhone did not, fret no more. They have implemented iBooks into the 4.0 software. It basically looks the same as the iPad version. The ebook reader will allow you to “wirelessly sync your books between platforms” as well as include free Winnie the Pooh.

5. Enterprise.
This includes; better data protection, mobile device management, wireless app distribution, multiple Exchange accounts, Exchange Server 2010, and SSL VPN support.

6. Game Center.
This is basically a social gaming network… think Xbox Live. It will include; the ability to invite friends, achievements, leaderboards, match making… etc. It isn’t clear if this will be available with the release of the 4.0 firmware this summer. They said that it will be available for everyone, “later this year.”

“Gaming is extremely popular on the iPhone and iPod touch. We have 50,000 games. We want to make gaming even better on the iPhone — so we added a social gaming network.”

7. iAd.
These are basically interactive advertisements with-in applications.

“We have a lot of free or reasonably priced apps… we like that, but our devs have to find ways to make money. So our devs are putting ads into apps, and for lack of a better way to say it, we think most of this kind of advertising sucks.”

So, apparently they created there own advertising method. It’s pretty in-depth. The ads will be interactive including things like; games, wallpapers, maps, downloads, videos… right within the ad. It is almost as if the ads become their own application.

4.0 Release Info:

“We are releasing it for end users for iPhone and iPod touch for users this summer. For the 3GS and iPod touch 3rd gen. And, for iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2nd gen, they will run many things… but there are some things they won’t run, like multitasking. And, we’re bringing OS 4 to the iPad this Fall.”

More specific details about these seven new features to come.

Of course, all of this would carry over to the iPod touch and iPad. Something I think would be really awesome is the for the iPad to run 4 iPhone sized apps at once in a grid view. This would allow you to run any 4 apps you want like the mockup below. (Don’t laugh, just photoshopped it real quick…)