Woot Buzz is a simple application that will notify you when your keywords come up for sale at Woot.com, kids.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, wine.woot.com and shirts.woot.com.

This app is very simple… enter keywords and you will be notified via a free text message when those items become available on one of the five woot sites.

“When you item is found Woot Buzz sends you a free text message to your phone. This text message is absolutely free and you will not be charged for it.

Follow the link at the bottom of the message to visit the website that has your item for sale and buy it at a discount.”

How to use Woot Buzz:
Go to the Search option on the lower menu bar, enter a keyboard (or words), select your carrier and hit Save. You will get a pop-up saying that you will be notified when that keyword is available on woot. It will take around 30 seconds for your keyword to show up in the Keywords section of the app. You can turn the app on/off and delete keywords in the Keywords option on the lower menu bar.

This application does not have a stellar design, it’s pretty simple, but it could definitely be a useful application especially coming into the Holiday season! Now, you don’t have to check all the woot sites everyday… you can get a text when the things you actually want go for sale! w00t!

Find out more info about Woot Buzz on the app’s website.

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App Store Description:

Woot Buzz is a simple search app that will notify you when your keywords come up for sale at Woot.com and it’s partners:

woot.com
kids.woot.com
sellout.woot.com
wine.woot.com
shirts.woot.com

These notices are sent to you as a Free Text through your carrier’s email server. There is no cost and no fee.

Now you can enjoy your weeks without worrying about missing a sale! If your item appears on any of the Woot websites you will receive an free text with a link to the item.

SpotSMS, a mod allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages, was update to version 0.4. The update adds the predicted Settings options.

Once updated, you can go into your stock Settings application and you will see a SpotSMS option. Below is a list of the Setting options. You can get SpotSMS via the BigBoss source.

Setting Options:
- Ability to enable/disable SpotSMS
- Search in Contact name, Message text or both.
- Search by sent, received or both.
- Configurable start search (2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th character).
- Order by date (descending/ascending).

Coming soon: Internationalization messages, make a call, reply

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SpotSMS, a mod allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages, received an update not too long ago however, the newest update to version 0.3, really polishes the mod. Below are a few of the new features and a full change log.

Now when you search in the stock Spotlight search, all the SMS results display the contact’s title correctly. In the previous version, it was displaying some of the Contact’s correctly and other times it was still displaying the phone number.

Each of the SMS results now display a little arrow indicating if it was an incoming or outgoing SMS as well as the date the text was sent/received.

When you select one of the SMS results, you are now able to copy to text from the message. It also displays the time, date and who the message was received from/sent to.

The only issue I noticed with the update is that when you select a SMS result, the Close button is slightly covered. It still works it is just a little hidden. Overall, I like the update… the results definitely look a lot more polished now.

0.3 Change Log:
- Copy/Paste enabled
- Sent/Received image flags and date were added on result search.
- The contact name process recognition was improved
- More info about the message were added to detail popup view (sent/Received type, contact names and date-hour).

Coming Soon:
Settings, Internationalization messages, make a call, reply…

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SpotSMS, s a mod allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages, received an update to version 0.2. The update changes the search results so that they display the contact’s name instead of just the phone number from which the text was received/sent. However, I noticed that even though most of results now display the Contact’s name, some still display the phone number. There doesn’t seem to be any specific reason that some display the name and others do not… let me know in the comments if you are experiencing the same thing.

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SpotSMS is a mod, that once installed, allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages. There is no icon for this mod, it is a code mod. It is activated as soon as it is installed and would have to be uninstalled to be removed.

To use the mod, you can go into the stock Spotlight Search and enter text that you would like to search for. The search will start when you have entered at least three characters. SMS results will have the Messages icon next to them. You can tap on an SMS result to view the full text message.

I did notice a few things about this mod. First, is that the results display the phone number from which the text was received/sent instead of the Contact’s name or title. This can be a little annoying if you want to know who the text message is from but, you do not have the phone number memorized. Also, the description of the app says that it searches MMS messages as well as SMS messages. This was not the case for my iPhone. When I searched for text that I knew was included with an MMS… it did not display the message in the search results. That could have something to do with my hacked MMS or it could be a glitch in the app… I’m not sure.

Besides those two things, the application works normally. I will be keeping it around.

The developer of SpotSMS says that more features are on there way including Settings. You can get SpotSMS via the BigBoss source.

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The weird thing is Microsoft just released their Zune HD which is a direct competitor to the iPhone and iPod touch. Microsoft is probably just being smart and accepting that the iPhone rocks and that they can monopolize on app search results. You can get to the search page here: bing.com

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Facebook 3.0 has been out for three days and we are already hearing about the features that the 3.1 update will include (actually, we have been hearing about 3.1 since before the 3.0 version was released!). According to an interview with Joe Hewitt, the developer of the iPhone Facebook app, he is working on a few cool new features. Below is an outline of a few of those new features.

Contact list synchronization between your Facebook friends list and your phone’s contact list. “It’s a Terms of Service thing more than a technical limitation,” Hewitt said.

Push notifications. “We are working on push,” Hewitt said last night. “I plan to have it in the next major update, the 3.1. It will be the same kind of notifications you get on the website. I probably won’t right off the bat give you chat notifications. If you’ve ever used Facebook’s SMS notifications, you can have pretty granular control and it will be the same level of notification in terms of whose notifications you see and what categories you see.”

Saved, site-wide search. On the Facebook website you can now search across public updates and other items beyond just friends and pages. You can’t do that on the mobile app yet. “I hope but I can’t promise to get that into the 3.1 update,” Hewitt said. “We’re still working on getting that into the API. I’m also hoping to let you save a search to your home screen.”

You can read the full article HERE.

Doug and I were actually just talking about the ability to sync your Facebook contacts to your iPhone so, we were excited to see that feature. Hewitt has also said that he is planning on allowing the ability to hide both people and apps in the News Feed with version 3.1.

Original Tweet “I’m planning to allow hiding of people and apps from news feed in the 3.1 update.”

Coldwell Banker Real Estate recently released an official application in the App Store. The app allows you to search properties for sale, recent sales and international properties. It also has a notification feature that will notify you when properties that meet your criteria become available. You can get a full list of features in the App Store Description below. Below are also three promo videos you can check out… I actually laughed out loud when they whispered, “Also available for the Google Android” at the end of the video!

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App Store Description:

Whether you’re in the market for a new home, dreaming about a vacation place or just curious to see million dollar properties, the Coldwell Banker app gives you the ability to explore real estate anytime anywhere.
Some of the unique features of the
Coldwell Banker app include:

-Property search: GPS based and traditional search of homes for sale

-Recent home sales: GPS based and standard search of recent homes sales using real home sales data

-International search: ability to search for properties across the U.S. and in over 25 countries across the globe

-My Coldwell Banker functionality: save searches, properties and more to your profile

-New property notification: get notified on your app icon when new properties or open houses are available that meet your criteria

-Agent contact: with one click contact a Coldwell Banker agent by phone, email or save to your address book

-Slideshows, filtered searches, and more.

© 2009 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Coldwell Banker® is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated.

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Dreamer

If you want to do more with search on your iPhone, check out Universal Search in Cydia. This app lets you search Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Flickr, ESPN and a lot more! Best of all, you can do it from the spotlight search. Just type in your search item then tap search. The keyboard will disappear and show scrolling icons for sites you can search. Some, like images, expand to give you more choices. Tapping the icon will take you to it’s webapp using that search term. You can reorder the additional search options in the app’s settings.

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You can install UNLIMITED APPS! Only 180 show up as icons—but Spotlight can find and open all of them! (And yes, we tried. Stopped at 250!)

The only problem I see to this is that if you install your 181th app, you won’t be able to move it to a page to organize your apps since you can’t see it on any of your home screens. You’d also have to uninstall the app via iTunes on your computer because you can’t see it to tap and hold on it if you wanted to uninstall.

Since my iPhone is jailbroken, I am using categories to organize my apps that aren’t on my first couple of pages. Unfortunately none of this works on Web Apps. You can’t Spotlight search for them, you can’t put them in categories, and you can’t even put then in a Stack.