iMood is a simple application that allows you to create scrolling banners or just display an emoticon message on your iPhone or iPod Touch’s screen. iMood opens to the main page in which you have two options; Moods or Chat. The Moods option allows you to select a mood from a list of options (Happy, Sad, Love, Awake, Laughing…etc). Once you have selected a mood, you can then type in a message. When you select Show, it will display the emoticon for the mood you chose and your message on your device’s screen. To get back to the edit page, just tap Back.

The Chat option allows is where you create a scrolling banner. Here you can choose how fast you would like the message to scroll using the Duration bar (left is slower, right is faster). You can also choose whether you would like a white or black background…this will automatically change the font to the contrasting color. You can then type in the message that you would like to scroll. Once your message has been typed, select Done. This will scroll the message across your device’s screen. To get back to the edit screen…just tap Change.

This is a very simple application that doesn’t have a ton of features but, does what it says it is going to do (sometimes simple is nice!). The only thing that I have noticed is that when you create a scrolling banner, and the message is scrolling, your status bar still remains at the top…it would be nice if the status bar disappeared (which is does in the Moods option).

I will be honest, when I read the title of this application I said to myself…Here we go, another “toy” application that probably has a bad design and a horrible user interface. However, I was pleasantly surprised from the moment I opened the application! Banner Deluxe is an application that allows you to create scrolling banners for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The first thing I noticed about the application was that it was well designed and had quite a few nice features. As I began testing the application, I also found the user interface to be very smooth and easy to use. The application opens to the Settings Menu in which there is a lower menu bar with the options; Text, Theme, Backdrop, Font, Text Texture and Option. In the Text option, you are able to enter the message that you would like to scroll or choose from the list of previously entered messages. To enter a message, just tap on the text bar. You can also add symbols to your message by selecting the smiley icon in the upper right corner, once you have tapped in the text bar. Once you have entered your message, you can get back to the Settings Menu by selecting Return.

The Theme option allows you to choose a theme that you would like for your message. Each theme contains a Backdrop, Text Texture and Font style. There are three pages of themes to choose from. The Backdrop, Font and Text Texture options on the lower menu bar allow you to change individual aspects of a theme or to create a completely unique theme.

The Option setting on the lower menu bar allows you to change the speed in which your message scrolls. 1 through 10 will scroll the message from right to left (1 being the slowest and 10 being the fastest). -10 through -1 will scroll the message from left to right (1- being the slowest and -10 bring the fastest). You are also able to disable auto-sleep and multiple displays. If you disable auto-sleep, it will keep your iPhone from auto-locking while scrolling a message. The Multiple Display option allows you to scroll a message across more than one iPhone or iPod Touch. You are able to scroll a message across 2 to 10 devices.

Once you have chosen all your options, you can select the Play button in the upper left corner to scroll your message. While the message is scrolling you can swipe to the right to increase the scrolling speed, swipe to the left to decrease the scrolling speed, pinch-in/out to decrease/increase the text size and double-tap to get back to the Settings menu. The message will continually scroll until you double-tap on the screen. Once a message has been played, it is automatically added to the List menu in the Text option so that it can quickly be chosen later.

I did notice that the app was a little glitchy when I first installed and tested it however, after I restarted my iPhone, it was fine. The only thing I would like to see added to this application is that it would save your last message’s theme when you reopen the application. Other than that, it is nicely designed app and has a lot of features. Not only that, it was fun to use! Definitely one of the best apps of it’s kind.

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Well, I cant wait any longer. I was trying to hold out until Installer 4.0 was available on the 2.0 firmware before I started doing reviews of application but, I can’t wait any longer! Many of you who have previously jailbroken iPhones are familiar with Make it Mine by Erica Sadun. It is an application that allows you to easily change your carrier logo to any text that you enter into the application. Well, MIM available on the 2.0 firmware allows you to change the Banner as well. When you open MakeItMine, you will get the main screen. Here you can enter text into the text box. Then select either the Carrier or Banner buttons depending on which you would like to change. They change immediately which is nice because then you can see what they look like without closing the application. If you would like them to go back to default, just delete everything in the text box and then select Carrier or Banner and it will change them back to default. This application works perfectly for me. It is available through the ModMyiFone source but, you don’t really need to know that because there is no way to add sources to Cydia so whatever is in Cydia is in Cydia!