Friday13 will replace the date/week on the calendar application, you can choose to set a format on the upper or lower part of the icon, Choose to put the full year, full month, or sort by Day and more. You can chose to set a custom date and you can customise the colour of the upper/lower part of the calender icon.

Friday13 is available via Cydia for free under the BigBoss repo.

LockInfo is a popular tweak for the iPhone as it allows users to view calendar events, emails, missed calls and SMS straight from the Lockscreen. But with 2.0 there are now plenty more features.

LockInfo is writen by David Ashman and has come along way since its initial release that depended on Winterboard to be used and SSH to change features. Now-a-days the tweak runs itself and settings can be changed straight from the settings app on your iPhone.

So I bet your all thinking what does 2.0 bring us, well here is the answer to your questions.

Changes in 2.0 are as follows:

Email previews including deleting emails from the preview
Mark emails and SMS as read directly from the lock screen.
Push notification support including status bar notifications.
Homescreen can now share the screen with icons.
Small, medium and large font selection.

So lets go into each one of these feature individually:

Email previews including deleting emails from the preview

This New Feature allows you to touch the email that you have received and screen will ‘flip’ round and show you the entire email and allow you to scroll up and down through the email.

Mark emails and SMS as read directly from the lock screen.

This feature allows user to mark emails and SMS as read therefore canceling the notification dot above the icon on the homescreen. This is done by pressing the little ‘x’ to the right of either the SMS or email.

Push notification support including status bar notifications.

One of the most exciting new features bought to you by 2.0 is that LockInfo now shows any notification from any App that supports notifications. This is an excellent addition to this tweak.

Homescreen can now share the screen with icons.

When LockInfo was updated in December to 1.1 it enabled users to see the details from LockInfo on the homescreen by creating a new page. Well now in 2.0 this new page will also show the docked icons.

Small, medium and large font selection.

In all previous versions of LockInfo the size of the writing on the LockScreen could not be adjusted. Mr Ashman has now allowed it to be changed from Small, Medium and Large.

David Ashman has also added a few other small tweaks to 2.0 one of them being that emails now have privacy settings that allows you to turn off both the Subject of the email whether to show a preview of the email.

Over the versions on LockInfo there has been a few issues with it being able to handle emails correctly, well David has spent alot of time on this and finally got it working excellently.

But this is not all LockInfo is capable of, there are loads of settings for the tweak that lets you customize it just the way you like.

Each section has its own header so you can tell what is going on. Each of these sections can be collapsed so that your favorite photo on your lockscreen is not invaded by all that extra useful info. You can make it so that the section when not collapsed are see through or not. You can even choose if you what the sections to show all the time (even if you don’t have anything to go in there) and whether or not you want the sections to be collapsed by default.

This tweak allows users to choose whether you want to display emails from all the accounts on your iPhone or just your most important email address. This is also the same for your calender.

So is that the lot that LockInfo has to offer, well NO, it also allows you to Block Popups, so no more of those nasty little blue boxes on the lockscreen stopping you from seeing all that useful new infomation.

David Ashman has spent a lot of time and attention to detail on this release, but while also making these additions he has managed to fix a few bugs also. These include:

• Fixed disappearing Lockscreen and Homescreen
• Compatibility fixes for Music Controls
• Compatibility fixes or SmartScreen
• Many other minor fixes.

As I said before I have been using this tweak for about a week now and it is an excellent addition for my iPhone. It is not the final release yet as David has a few other things to adjust, but we’ll let you know when you can get it and where from.

The Tweak costs $4.99 which is well worth it and David also offers a 14 day trial period. He has also made a few plugins for LockInfo which include Twitter, Weather and Todo.

So here are my final thought on this:

I love the fact that I can see all my unread emails and SMS without having to unlock my phone. I love that I can see what @ tweets I got through Boxcar and what Yak messages I have got from the guys here at MyGreatiPhone.com without having to open these apps.

If I could sum this tweak up in three works they would be I LOVE IT.

]]> http://www.mygreatiphone.com/reviews/lockinfo-2-0-review/feed/ 6 http://www.mygreatiphone.com/breaking-news/google-adds-push-email/ http://www.mygreatiphone.com/breaking-news/google-adds-push-email/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:53:12 +0000 d900man http://nazaroth.co.uk/?p=873 Today Google has announced that they have implemented Push Email into there Google Sync Service. Google Sync will provide push support for email, calenders and contacts.

When we launched Google Sync for Contacts and Google Calendar earlier this year, an over-the-air, always-on connection to sync mail was noticeably absent. We heard your requests loud and clear, and starting today you can use Google Sync to get your Gmail messages pushed directly to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Windows Mobile device.

You can set up push Gmail by itself or choose to sync your Contacts and/or Calendar as well. If you’re using an iPhone, make sure you’re running iPhone OS version 3.0 or above (on your device, click Settings > General > About and scroll down until you see Version). If your software is out of date, follow Apple’s upgrade instructions. Then, visit m.google.com/sync from your computer for set up instructions. If you’re already using Google Sync, you can just enable push mail.

Foster warned about the potential stress on battery life.

“While this type of speed is pretty awesome, push connections tend to use more power than fetching at intervals, so don’t be surprised if your battery life isn’t quite what it used to be,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of work to optimize power usage, but if you prefer to save battery life, you can always turn off push in your phone’s settings and fetch mail every 30 or 60 minutes instead.”