Cydia creator and iOS jailbreaking master Jay “Saurik” Freeman, announced this morning at the 360|MacDev conference a Cydia Store just for Mac. While the OS X desktop OS is a completely tweakable OS (unlike iOS), Apple’s many restrictions (such as in-app purchases) are actually quite developer unfriendly and restricting. Naturally, the king of Cydia wants to extend the open source iOS app store’s success to the desktop. “Mac Cydia” as...

Fancy the new Android Marketplace that was revealed last night but don’t want to wait the “few weeks” that was quoted? Thankfully we have communities of people like XDA to help us. The new Android Marketplace has been ripped from a test ROM and made available in .apk form. Besides the new look and slick new carousel animations, the .apk size limit has been raised up to 50MB. What that means is developers now have more room to stretch their legs. The...

It appears that popular online streaming music service, Pandora, is getting cold feet in regards to making the move to Windows Phone 7. The tweet before you was pushed out several days back, and highlights the Pandroa team’s apparent lack of Windows Phone 7 plans. What’s particularly odd about this is that they were specifically announced as a WP7 launch partner. Of course, there was that whole little issue with Microsoft slapping an Angry Birds icon on their...

The general consensus amongst smartphone enthusiasts is that Android skins and most homescreens are more trouble than they’re worth. Delays in updates and the reduced performance they often bring negate any advantages. But Kite UI could make believers out of even us. Much like Windows Phone 7, Kite UI is different. It’s much more free-flowing in nature to the point where individual apps blend into each other rather than appearing as walled gardens of code,...

Windows Phone 7 Twitter users need to keep their eye on a new upcoming Twitter app called “Beezz“. Besides a refreshing design, Beezz’s biggest claim to fame toast notification support. For those of you unfamiliar with WP7, “toast notifications” are more or less the same exact thing as Apple’s Push Notifications on iOS. Except in this case, they’re aren’t annoyingly intrusive and pestering you incessantly until you give them...