According to MobileMe System Status, Mac Preferences, Windows Control Panel, iChat, and the www.me.com WebApps are down for the count. (Just how hard did they hit the eggnog over the last few days?)

Still, they’re keeping some pretense of holiday spirit, or irony:

All other MobileMe services are online and fully operational

Let us know how badly you’re affected, and when things start going smoothly for you again.

[via @TUAW]

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MobileMe Having Post-Christmas Blues — WebApp, iChat, Prefs Down, Down, Down!

Boy Genius scored a sneak peak of a Google Voice client, GV Mobile 2.0, which will be available in the near future on Cydia to anyone with a jailbroken iPhone. GV Mobile is an application which allows your iPhone to use all of the features that comes with Google Voice and was actually in the App Store for a short period before Apple decided to yank it along with rejecting Google’s very own application. After being pulled, the developer introduced GV Mobile to Cydia and offered up his hard work to anyone with a jailbroken iPhone.

We’ve used GV Mobile since it’s release and while it worked fairly well, it seemed clunky and buggy at times. Boy Genius is reporting that 2.0 is much more refined and polished than the previous version.

“We're really excited to tell you about it, too. It has been polished and refined — it had an injection of features — and we love using it, even in its non-final and beta form. For starters, dialed calls connect almost instantly, your iPhone contacts and favorites are accessible right within the app, there's voicemail transcription viewing, and even multiple Google Voice account support. Advanced features like call forwarding phones, do not disturb settings as well automatic syncing, and even Growl support are on the to-do list.”

We can only hope that Apple rethinks their decision and allow this application along with Google’s very of Google Voice application into the App Store. Until then, jailbreak away…

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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GV Mobile 2.0 for iPhone Coming Soon to Cydia

We are very aware that this application may not be for all of our readers, but for those of you who are horror movie fanatics, N.O.T.L.D. [$0.99 - iTunes Link] is an app for you. Never again will you have to leave your home without your very own copy of George Romero’s 1968 ‘zombie’ classic, Night of the Living Dead.

This app includes the original and alternate movie posters, a streaming version of the movie which is broken down in chapters (streams perfectly fine on AT&T’s 3G data network), and an wiki page detailing anything you’d like to know about this classic films history.

If you have never watched a horror classic such as this and you enjoy good horror flicks, I highly recommend checking this film out and why not view it directly on your iPhone?!

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Quick App: Night of the Living Dead (N.O.T.L.D.)

I’m an iPhone. Phil’s a Windows Phone. Typically the jokes about creaky old, stylus and resistive bound, UI impaired smartphones of generations past would start there, but for this year’s Smartphone Round Robin Phil’s strapped with the HTC HD2 and not only are we unable to poke fun — we’re afraid to. But now that he’s armed with the Windows Phone equivalent of an ICBM, how will he treat our iPhone?

Given the amazing help our TiPb Forum members provided him, I’m hoping the answer is “well”. To find out, head on over and read Phil’s complete iPhone from a Windows Mobile perspective review and then let him (and us!) know what you think.

Did he nail it or did he fail it? Remember, you can still add a reply to the forums for another chance to win a brand new iPhone 3GS! (Or a brand new BlackBerry if you help me out on the CrackBerry Forums).

Speaking of me — I’m about to jump the next star freighter bound for Android Central, holding out for a sassy princess Hero and wondering who’s looking for that Droid. Empire-style sequel or Phantom-mess prequel? Watch for my video, under the googley guidance of Casey Chan, coming Monday.

And for all the other videos, reviews, and contest threads (there are 6 smartphones up for grabs after all!) keep your browsers locked on smartphoneroundrobin.com!

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iPhone Review from WMExperts' Phil — Smartphone Round Robin

ProSwitcher [github link], the webOS “Cards”-style flickable, flick-to-close-able multitasking interface for Jailbroken iPhones running Backgrounder that we posted about last week has just gone primetime with version 1.0. You can find it in Cydia.

If you try it out, multitask us up a comment and let us know how it performs.

[via ShiekHali form the TiPb Jailbreak Forum, thanks also Wen Muenyi!]

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ProSwitcher iPhone Jailbreak Multitasking UI Goes 1.0