Now with a couple of nifty tricks, you can fully sync Microsoft Outlook Tasks with iPhone Calendar. The reminders/Alerts/Alarms you set for the Tasks in Outlook - will be retained in the iPhone too.

Follow the steps here:- How to Sync Microsoft Outlook Tasks with iPhone

Tags: AppStore, Productivity

The iPhone 3G/2G ( Latest 2.0.x ) firmware’s backup through iTunes takes forever. Often an hour!. Now you can effectively disable this painful backup process both on Mac and PC.

For PC use : iPhone Backup Switch

For Mac use : Backup Disabler

If you want to do it manually on a Mac Terminal:

This command will change a hidden setting in the iTunes preferences that will force it to skip the backup process.

1. - Quit iTunes.
2. - Open Terminal.app
3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. - Open iTunes
5. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.

It will take a few seconds, assuming you don’t have a ton of music or podcasts.

Changing the ‘true’ in step 3 to ‘false’ will re-enable the backup feature.

Winterboard + Buuf2 theme = Awesomeness! Both are available on Cydia.

Tags: Buuf2, look, theme, winterboard

Now you can SSH to your iPhone using a simple USB cable, instead of depending on the WiFi. The supporting software is called iPhone Tunnel suite. Here is how to setup the software:-

1. Download the iPhone Tunnel Suite
2. Install the OpenSSH server on your Jailbroken iPhone using Cydia or Installer
3. Run iPhone Tunnel Suite
4. Click on the iPhone Tunnel button
5. You will see a Command window being launched, Keep it open.
6. Click on WinSCP or Putty buttons to do easy file transfer etc.

We’ve got the iPhone Pwned to firmware 2.0 - Thanks many to the DevTeam. We have been experimenting with various native applications available from the iTunes Appstore. Some of them are brilliant.

Further, We are reviewing native iPhone applications - both paid and free!