Today’s Updates

Categories is updated to v2.03b. This addresses most the bugs reported and I have done my best to deal with speed issues on loading.

• Changed background loading from a “fake” set of icons to a folder provided by Allen over at planet-iphones.com. The other method, while cool, was causing issuus because the app looked loaded but it was not. This made it appear that the buttons needed to be pressed many times before they worked.
• Removed the “save screen” option. This is related to the change above. This also speeds up the launching app process.
• Added a caching system to help cut down folder load times when nothing has changed in folders. The first time a chance occurs, the cache is updated but subsequent loads should be faster. Load times seem to be reduced by about 33% due to it. The more icons in the folder, the longer it takes to load.
• Added many icons provided by Ranova and Scott Weichert.
• Fixed bug with funky navigation bar buttons in the main configuration app.

BiteSMS is updated to v2.2 today. Changes are:

• Improved performance when biteSMS starts up.
• Matching of SMS numbers against Contacts now includes Country Code/IDD/NDD logic, so matching is much improved.
• Fixed up issues (slow-sending and timeout) with the “Send via Carrier” feature (impacted some 3G iPhones).
• Proxy support (!!!) – now honors proxy settings (e.g. Cydia TZones Proxy Hack for T-Mobile USA).
• Improved (again) the rendering of (new only) conversation bubbles, such that text should no longer be truncated or squashed and always be inside the bubble.
• In the conversation window, the button labeled “Messages” will now also denote the number of unread SMS messages (if any), e.g. “Messages(2)”.
• When displaying date/times, the locale settings are now taken into consideration.
• Keyboard now displayed when doing a search in the ‘All Contacts” search screen (Apple have added a little magnifier widget in this window for searching).

MyHTML is updated to v1.3 today. Today’s update adds the span tag and a GUI file browser ot o pen a file. You can delete a file straight off the iPhone now without having to use SSH or mobile term or such.

iBlackList is now out for iPhone OS 2.0. This full featured app lets you filter incoming and out going calls and SMSes per contact. From the developer’s web page, “This professional application purpose is filtering incoming and outgoing calls and SMS, also keeps a history log of those calls in a personal way protecting them by password.”