Jailbreak it. I know, it’s not very legal now is it? Or at least it’s a gray zone. However, it enables you to fully enjoy your phone the way it should be. No limitations, and all the benefits of jailbreak tweaks and applications. Be aware though, you will break your warranty by doing this, and it seems Apple have started finding new ways to block jailbreakers from enjoying their phones (ref: The 3.1.3 update).

Also, it seems they have started blocking users to the app store that are running jailbroken software (ref: Apple Bans iPhone hackers). Note: This might be users that are running pirated app store apps, not jailbroken apps, which is what I will present here.

Step 2:

Ok, so you’ve jailbroken your phone, now what? I’ll tell you what. Here’s a small list of tweaks and applications that is in no way available through the regular Apple ways.

- Android lock: (Free) Yeah, someone has made an effort and made an lock screen more similar to the one Android uses. This will make it harder for your buddies to tamper with your phone and surf on your pay-pr-kilobyte connection for for large non-iPhone supported sites.

- SBsettings: (Free) Tired of having to go into settings to enable and disable the wifi, Bluetooth or airplane mode all the time? With sbsettings you simply swipe across the topbar, and you have instant access to all settings you would ever need.

- qTweeter: (About 1$) If your an avid Twitter user, then you want your tweets out as fast as possible. This app is another swipe-to-access app, where you slide your finger down from the top bar. This produces a window for instant tweets (and Facebook updates).

- Backgrounder/Kirikae: (Free) This is a combo suggestion, as both apps really work well together. Backgrounder enables you to do exactly that, place running applications in the background. This way you can run your last.fm/spotify in the background, while surfing the web or reading your mail. Kirikae enables you to quickly do switches between your running apps by a simple tap on the specified button (in my case i double click the home button).

Backgrounder doesn’t really have something to take a screenshot of, but works by simply holding the home button. You then get a message saying the app has been backgrounded, and you can change to and from with Kirikae.

Step 3:

Have fun! With these additions to your iPhone, you might feel it’s worth keeping for a little while longer. And if not, enjoy your next gadget!

Note that these are just applications that are of use to me personally, and you might think they’re not applications you would have any use of But then again, that’s not what this list is for.

1. Twitfire

Twitfire is a very simplistic Twitter client. It’s made just for posting tweets, and that’s it! I figured, instead of having 3 or for twitter clients that does an ok job, reading and posting. I’d have one client that does one thing, and does it well.

With this app you can post pictures that get automatically shortened with in.ex twitpic, update your twitter location data, and add a link to your current location in google maps, and you can also post the usual @replies,  URL links, hash tags and so on.

2. Facebook

Can’t go wrong with a good Facebook client. This client does exactly what it’s supposed to. You can read latest updates, update your status, brows profiles and upload pictures. All within the app.

3. Runkeeper Pro/Free

Well, now for some non-social related apps. This app is by far one of the best runtracking apps available at the moment. It’s simplistic, low battery consumption, supports playing music while used and uploads statistics to the net for your own personal statistics.

So far I’ve used it about 3 times, as I’ve really wanted to get in better shape. And every time I’ve received a perfect placement on the google maps for where I walked, how fast I walked, how many calories I’ve burned and so on.

On this page http://bit.ly/13yogv you can find a trek and see how it looks after a walk from down town and home.

4. SHOUTcast

This little app enables you to stream any radion from the shoutcast directory, directly to your phone. Either through WI-Fi, or 3G (probably also on Edge, but it’s not recommended). The quality is superb, and the selection of music is very good.

5. Bussorakelet

Now here’s an app that probably isn’t for that many of you, but it’s very useful for us living in Trondheim. It’s an app that enables you to query the time tables for the local bus transit called the bus oracle. This simply asks the busoracle on http://www.team-trafikk.no and gives you the results directly in the app. It lacks several features in my opinion, like for example the possibility of having pre-defined questions, but it’s good for when you’re in town and wonder when the bus will be leaving.

I’d say it also beats having that big wad of paper with you with all the different buss routes.

I will probably make more of these posts as I come across apps that I find useful. There will no doubt be changes to this list, once the push notification system for the iPhone OS 3.0 is up and running with all the new updated apps that are coming out.

(P.S: All the logos are links that go directly to the iTunes application.)