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A few months ago, Camera+ was pulled from the app store because it violated certain provisions of the SDK. As announced by tap tap tap yesterday, Camera+ 2.0 is now live in the app store including a huge list of new features and interface improvements, such as a redesigned lightbox, faster start-up times, a timer shooting mode, lots of new modes and effects. From a first look at the app, it looks like one massive update.

What's New in Version 2.0
1. removed “SLR” screen for a simpler user interface
2. reworked much of the user interface so that it’s more unified and much more intuitive
3. improved the usability of zoomed photos in the Lightbox
4. improved usability of Touch Focus/Touch Exposure
5. significantly sped-up startup time
6. increased menu size and included it on both camera screen and Lightbox
7. added shooting preferences panel
8. improved operation of stabilizer
9. added timer shooting mode
10. added burst shooting mode
11. added white balance lock
12. Touch Exposure now works on iPhone 4 and 4th generation iPod touch front facing camera
13. improved most effects
14. improved most borders
15. improved most scene modes
16. added Cyanotype effect
17. added Tailfins effect
18. added Depth of Field effect
19. added in-app purchasing of effects, with the first being the “I ♥ Analog” effects pack
20. added Diana effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
21. added Silver Gelatin effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
22. added Helios effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
23. added Contessa effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
24. added Nostalgia effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
25. added Expired effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
26. added XPRO C-41 effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
27. added Pinhole effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
28. added Chromogenic effect (in I ♥ Analog pack)
29. grouped borders into Simple and Styled sets
30. added Light Mat and Dark Mat borders
31. added Round White and Round Black borders
32. added Offset border
33. renamed Grit border to Light Grit and added Dark Grid border
34. added Viewfinder border
35. added Old-Timey border
36. added Film border
37. added Sprockets border
38. added Darken scene mode
39. added Cloudy scene mode
40. added Shade scene mode
41. added Fluorescent scene mode
42. added 3×2 crop
43. added rotation of photos
44. added flipping of photos
45. added sliders to effects for adjusting effect amount
46. added exporting geolocation and metadata when saving to the Camera Roll
47. added a function to save and leave photos in Lightbox
48. added a function to commit all edits in photos
49. added a function to copy photos with edits committed
50. added a function to copy photos without edits
51. added a function to undo all edits in photos
52. added a function to remove geolocation in photos
53. added photo info panel which shows photo metadata, editing recipe, and map with photo geolocation

Major bugs fixed
- fixed a bug in which the keyboard wouldn’t appear when posting to Twitter
- fixed a potential crash when posting multiple photos to Facebook
- fixed a bug where no previews were shown for photos taken with Camera+ and later imported into iPhoto or Aperture
- pasting photos now preserves the photo’s metadata

And many, many, many minor enhancements and bug fixes.

You can purchase the app for $1.99 from here.

WeBe++ is a new jailbreak app available in Cydia store that emulates a Bluetooth HID mouse & keyboard. It provides all the functions of a real Bluetooth mouse and keyboard in your pocket! You can use it with your PS3 / Mac / PC!


To use WeBee, you'll need to jailbreak your device, follow our guide posted here to jailbreak your iOS 4.2.1 device using Redsn0w or use Limera1n iOS 4.1 jailbreak. Once jailbroken, tap on Cydia and search for WeBee++ under Cydia store and install it.
Once you install the app, you can follow the instructions to use it as shown on the official site of the app:

Start up WeBe++ and press the “Start WeBe++” button. Now WeBe++ activates the open-source Bluetooth Stack (btstack.org) and you can activate the device discovery on your Mac/PC/PS3 to pair with your iOS device.

After the successful pairing, the complete screen of your iOS device serves as a trackpad. On the trackpad, you will see two icons: the keyboard icon and an icon to disconnect. Press the keyboard icon to show and hide the on-screen keyboard. The trackpad supports single and double taps, while two finger swipes are sent as vertical and horizontal panning gestures. A double finger tap serves as right mouse click. See the Help section in the main view for more details.

After MuscleNerd has declared about the new amazing Redsn0w jailbreak features, he has been asked about the downgrade for 6.15.00 baseband on iPhone 3GS and 3G after using ultrasn0w, he points that the work on the downgrade issue won't start only after the release of iPhone 4 baseband 2.10.04 unlock which expected to see the light in less than a month.

Fammbizz asking MuscleNerd: when is ur bb downgrade comin out for 6.15.00
MuscleNerd replying: TBH (to be honest), that won't be looked into until after i4 unlock

Many of users who unlock their devices using ultrasn0w 1.2 noted problems with their GPS, so we expect that downgrade will fix this bug, moreover, there is speculation about the possibility to downgrade the baseband to unlockable one which will be compatible with the old version of ultrasn0w. Stay tuned

As expected, the unofficial WikiLeaks app which was released couple of days ago for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has just been pulled out the App Store without any justification from Apple.


Igor Barinov, the developer behind WikiLeaks app has sent the above screenshot stating the app removal from the app store, anyway still the content of WikiLeaks is available through the internet for free.

According to MuscleNerd conversation which took place on his Twitter account, he declared about new features on the upcoming Redsn0w version which will not only allow to be an untethered jailbreak for all devices running iOS 4.2.1, but it will upgrade the devices which rely on tethered jailbreak to untethered one without restore, you will only need to use the new version of Redsn0w.

Thanks to comex, redsn0w can now handle much bigger files than ramdisk 25MB limit. Useful for "backup plan" 4.2 untether

This also means that you will never lose any data, applications or any tweaks installed from Cydia, thanks for Dev-team for the hard work. About the timing, most of the indicators tend towards the Xmas (Dec 25) at the worste case according to this post. Of cours we will let you know with all updates related to the new Redsn0w. Stay tuned. [via iSpazio]