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Jailbreak: The Lock Screen is a Barren Land

Apple blessed the iPhone 3G with a gorgeous large screen. There is plenty of screen real estate, so why waste it with just a wallpaper, album cover artwork, or the date and time?

Having being a Windows Mobile user for six years, the Today Screen in Windows Mobile was the one feature I sorely missed in the iPhone OS. With the Today Screen, I could, at a quick glance, see upcoming appointments and know I have new mail, new messages, or missed calls.

It is possible to replicate that experience on a jailbroken iPhone. Today, in the first of two articles, I’ll talk about two third-party apps that’ll turn the barren land that is the Lock screen into a golden field of usefulness.

IntelliScreen

The undisputed king of the hill app for enhancing the Lock screen, IntelliScreen (Intelliborn, $9.99) boasts a long list of features. To simply say it enhances the Lock screen is an understatement. It is really a productivity suite. To understand what IntelliScreen does, you can think of it as comprising of two distinct parts.

The first part puts information such as appointments, mail, messages, weather forecast and RSS feeds on the Lock screen.

This part of IntelliScreen is highly configurable. You choose what goes onto the Lock screen of your iPhone, and you can arrange the order in which each information type is displayed.
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iLauncher Gives You iPhone Controls for USB Missile Launcher

You know those USB missile launchers? Now there’s an iPhone app that lets you control them from anywhere in your network, proving to siblings and cube-mates once and for all who’s the nerdiest toughest.

The retailer is calling this “The one and only robotic remote control missile launcher for the iPhone or iTouch!” and I, for one, believe this is true. As, uh, unique as it is, though, it’s pretty cool. It’s got arrows for pivoting it around and angling it up or down, and a big radioactive sign in the middle, I believe indicating the “fire” button. No telling what kind of latency you’ll get from this baby, but I hope it’s minimal, because nobody likes a laggy first-strike system.

Obviously, it doesn’t all come in one package. First you buy the missile launcher here for $30 (though it’s 15% off for now if you enter “ilauncher” as a coupon code during checkout). Then you go to the iTunes App Store to get the iLauncher module for an extra $3, which also comes with a link to the Windows-only program needed for the interface. Our hope is that setup goes well, because if everyone sees you dicking around with your USB cannon and your iPhone for two days, you will definitely lose the element of surprise.

[Thanks: http://gizmodo.com]