Evernote, the popular note-taking, productivity apps, received a huge update today. It includes rich text styles, numerous interface improvements, and much more.

It’s not specifically in the release notes, but @ichadman points out that one of those UI improvements is three-finger swiping between screens. Very cool!

Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop. See why millions of people worldwide use Evernote:

• Create text, photo and audio notes
• Auto-synchronize your notes to your Mac, PC, and Web
• Magically makes text within snapshots searchable
• Mark notes as “Favorite” for quick access
• All notes include geo-location information for mapping and search
• Premium Feature: File Synchronization – add, sync, access, and share files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, and more) among the different versions of Evernote you use

Update includes:

• Add rich text styles, lists and links to notes (iOS 4.2 and above)
• Edit existing notes containing simple styles (iOS 4.2 and above)
• Redesigned New Note and Edit Note screens on iPhone
• Access Shared Notebooks
• Tap an image in a note to launch a slideshow
• Premium users can lock Evernote with a passcode
• Search within individual notes
• Redesigned iPad look and feel
• iPad: Pinch and zoom into the note list
• iPad: Support for multi-selection of notes for easy sharing and deletion
• Numerous interface improvements and bug fixes

Evernote is available on the iPhone and iPad for Free.

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Birdies, by StackTracks, is a golf scoring app for the iPhone. In addition to traditional golf, Birdies will keep scoring for disc golf and miniature golf as well.

Birdies. It’s the best golf scoring app available. Quit fumbling with those tiny pencils and paper cards, because you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can keep track of everyone’s score with Birdies. Our intuitive entry method lets you spend less time in the app, and more time thinking about your next shot. Whether you’re playing a traditional round of golf, disc golf, or miniature golf, let Birdies do the scoring. We promise you won’t be disappointed.

• Score from 1-4 players: Only playing with 2 people? Your scorecard will only show 2 people.
• Intuitive, fast entry: Birdies uses a quick-pick wheel, so there’s no need to struggle with small plus and minus buttons.
• AutoFill: Automatically default the par and score for even faster entry.
• Easy customization: Add player names, course names, notes, and more!
• Quickly swipe between the front and back nine.
• Show total scores as a traditional sum, or an over/under.
• Duplicate old rounds: Play the same course a lot? No problem.
• E-mail scores to yourself and others.

Birdies is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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Sn0wBreeze for Windows users has now officially been updated to support iOS 5 beta 6 users. We reported the old version of Sn0wBreeze already working for some users, yet others had complications. But the tool has now been updated to officially support beta 6.

Yes the jailbreak is still tethered (with the exception of old bootrom iPhone 3GS users). This version of Sn0wBreeze not only lets you jailbreak iOS 5 beta 6, it will also allow you to skip the UDID check. This basically means you can install the beta without having a developer’s license. (We don’t condone this but to each their own.) Sn0wBreeze will also preserve your baseband like before and allow “hacktivation”. The following devices are supported –

• Original iPad
• iPhone 3GS (if you had the older bootrom it will also be untethered)
• iPhone 4 (GSM)
• iPhone 4 (CDMA)
• iPod Touch 3G
• iPod Touch 4

Keep in mind that not only is iOS 5 still in beta but that these jailbreaks are also beta. So if you’re not afraid of some bugs and are already aware of the risks involved, simply hit the link below to download the updated version of Sn0wBreeze.

[Sn0wBreeze 2.8b6 download link]

While HP may not have killed webOS when it cancelled webOS hardware, it certainly stuck the knife in it and twister really, really hard — and every webOS user, Palm loyalist, and PreCentral.net reader felt it. Some might choose to stick with it, to see if HP’s incompetence can somehow be turned around by a forward thinking, hardware genius licensor, but others might have finally had enough. If you’re one of those, the dedicated, the abused, we think Apple’s iOS and iPhone and iPad hardware might be the perfect thing to salve your wounds and restore your sense of gadget wonder.

We’ve got 960×640 retina displays, easy-peasy FaceTime video calling, high quality 5 megapixel, back-illuminated camera that shoots 720p 30fps video, the massive update that’s iOS 5 just down the road. And hey, if you’re worried about moving over your personal data like contacts, finding apps, getting used to the differences, and wondering where to get help — Relax. You’re in the the right place. Here’s everything you need to know (more properly, everything the TiPb iPhone Forums have taught us) about switching to iPhone and iPad.

webOS to iPhone – home coming

When half of Apple’s original iPhone team left for Palm to make the webOS, maybe you went with them? Or maybe you’re a loyalist who stuck with Palm from Treo to Pre or Centro to Pixi or Veer and never even considered an iPhone until now? No worries. You’ll feel right at home. Mostly.

The biggest similarity between iOS and webOS is that they both share a sense of design — of taste and elegance, of great user interface and experience. webOS certainly handles many things better, including the brilliant Card and Stack metaphors, but overall iOS is clean, consistent, and arguably has the best fit and finish in the business.

But taste only matters if you can get your stuff done.

Moving over contacts, calendars, and email

Hopefully if you’re using something called webOS your personal info is all store up in the cloud. If so, you should have no trouble getting it onto your iPhone. Just like the pioneering Pre, iOS 4 can handle multiple ActiveSync accounts, including Exchange proper as well as Google Sync’s implementation for Gmail. Just tap the Settings icon on the Home Screen, tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, choose Exchange, and enter your credentials.

If ActiveSync isn’t to your fancy, you can tap Other and set up pretty much any POP3 or IMAP account you have in your collection, and MobileMe, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, and anything else you can think of.

You can also load up any webmail account you like in the Safari web browser, including gmail.com, if that’s how you want to roll.

And you can access all of it in iOS 4′s unified inbox and threaded email client.

What about Synergy and Cards?

There’s nothing as stupendous as Synergy built into iOS — yet. Though the previously mentioned Exchange, Google, and MobileMe contacts, calendars, and email can live together in quasi-synergistic fashion, they’re still all masters of their own separate domains. If you install the Facebook app [iTunes link] you can get some contact sync going on there as well (as can LinkedIn and other social apps). Other apps, like Orbit [iTunes link] can pull together your Facebook, Twitter, SMS, email, etc. contacts and let you assign different “volumes” to them so you can manage the level of interruption.

iOS has a highly abstracted version of multitasking that, for mainstream users, would be indistinguishable from the real thing were it not for the great battery life and overall snappiness. Rather than Cards, you double click the Home button and the fast app switcher UI appears so you can quickly get to other apps (which can now save state so you go back to where you left them). But hey, if you find yourself missing Cards, just launch the Safari browser and hit the icon for Page view. It’s visually almost identical, though it lacks the ability to flick a page away to remove it.

And yes, since iOS 4, navigation, VoIP, and streaming music Pandora or Slacker-style can all multitask away blissfully in the background.

Finding other apps (and games)

HP webOS is the most developer friendly platform in the business bar none. They make Google seem closed and stodgy by comparison. But what Apple lacks in free-as-in-speech open App Store gates, they make up for in sheer tonnage of free-as-in-beer App Store goodness. And often at dollar store prices. Sure, there’s a lot of CrApps in with those apps, but with hundreds of thousands and growing there’s also a huge amount of incredibly good, incredibly native, apps and games.

As Steve Jobs himself will tell you, Apple also supports HTML5 as a second, completely open platform. And they support it better than any other platform — you can even add them as icons to the iOS Home Screen so they’re full on first class citizens, complete with no browser chrome and offline cashing. If you can’t find something in the App Store, chances are you can find it as a web app for the iPhone.

When it comes to apps of all kinds, TiPb looks at several a week and we’ve got a whole iPhone Apps and Games Forum ready to help you out as well.

Root meet Jailbreak

There’s no manufacturer supported rooting on iPhone, and no ultra-cool Konami code to enter developer mode, and no encouraged patching of any kind. (Apple says “stop it” and would give the EFF noogies if they could.)

If you want to get into the root jail of your iPhone, you need to break it — hence, Jailbreak. If you want to side load apps outside the App Store, you need to use the Jailbreak app store, Cydia. Now, if you don’t understand what any of this means, just skip along to the next section, we’ll be there waiting. If you’re a diehard themer and patcher, you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled to our Jailbreak section, and more importantly — our Jailbreak Help Forum, and Jailbreak Apps, Games, and Themes Forum.

No. More. Keyboard.

You won’t be able to shave or cut cheese with the iPhone keyboard — because it’s virtual. If you believe the urban legend, former Palm CEO, Jon Rubenstein, back when he was still a VP at Apple, vigorously disagreed with Steve Jobs about the iPhone not having a physical keyboard. Hence, the Pre and Veer both have physical keyboards.

And that’s okay. Just not on the iPhone. Apple likes their keys virtual so they go away when you don’t need them (without creaking, oreo’ing, popping batteries, or coming to the rescue when virtual keyboards just won’t do). On the plus side, if you’re multilingual or international, the iPhone keyboard can easily be switched to any alphabet, script, stroke, or pictographic symbol you want to use. It can also become optimized for numbers, games, or pretty much anything you (technically, a developer) can think of.

Best of all, if you really miss your physical keyboard,you can tether up a Bluetooth one and knock email — and yourself — out.

Welcome back, iTunes

Remember back when Palm was trying and ultimately failing to hack the Pre into iTunes? Us neither. Anyway, with iPhone, you’re a first (and only) class citizen with full keys to Apple’s media kingdom. Enjoy.

Oh, hi iCloud

You may have dismissed iOS before because of the iTunes tether. Come October, Apple’s cutting the cord to iTunes.

Now you’ll still be able to tether up for re-charging, or syncing giant movie files, but you don’t have to. Everything, from activation to backup, storing files to push them out, will happen transparently with [http://www.tipb.com/tag/icloud/].

If that’s not enough, you can find apps that let you access your Google Docs, DropBox, Box.net, and other online storage. You can even convert and stream content on the fly with apps like Air Video [iTunes].

Combine that with the built in AirPlay and an Apple TV and you won’t believe what you can do…

Notification Center

webOS rules the roost with their elegant, non-interuptive, notification system. Compared to that utopia, iOS 4 notifications are some bizarre UI hell we’ll likely be immolating in until the next major OS update.

But iOS 5 is on it’s way, and its bringing with it Notification Center which should ease your transition a lot. (Hey, Apple stole the guy who invented webOS notifications to work on it!) If you’re switching today, you’ll have a few weeks of pain, but then things will get better.

More webOS to iPhone help and information

If you haven’t already, check out our complete iOS 4 feature walkthrough. There’s an incredible amount of stuff in iOS 4 and you can save yourself some serious time cribbing off of us.

If you need help, or have a story to share, check out TiPb’s iPhone forum — we’ve got a special switching from webOS to iPhone 4 thread going just for you!

And if we forgot anything or just plain got something wrong, let us know and we’ll add it or fix it.

TravAlarm is an iPhone app that allows you to set a location-alarm. Now you can kick back, close your eyes, and take a quick power nap during your morning commute and relax knowing that you won’t miss you stop because TravAlarm will alert you when you’ve reached your stop.

Even if you don’t want to take a nap, TravAlarm is fantastic for closing your eyes, relaxing, and listening to music during your commute. Unfortunately for me, my commute involves me behind the wheel, but once I’m able to to take advantage of Denver’s light rail, you bet I’ll be using TravAlarm!

TravAlarm is a easy to use location based alarm, allowing you to get that extra sleep during your daily commute. Just set your destination and where you want to be woken. Using the distance instead of time it doesn’t matter if your train/bus is late or early because you will be notified before arrival.

• Choose location from a map, simply drag’n'drop a pin to where you are going.
• Recent locations are remembered for quick selection.
• Auto lookup of location names or choose you own name.
• Works both in the Foreground and Background.
• No internet access is required when TravAlarm has been set.
• Uses the absolute minimum of power in background mode.
• Supports both imperial and metric units.

TravAlarm is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Bike CycloComputer HUD: A plethora of high precision instruments, especially designed for getting the most of your bike: Compass, Elapsed Time, Distance, Analog Clock, Digital Clock, Pace, Speed, Average Speed, Inclination, Lattitude, Longitude, Altimeter, Course, and GPS Signal power in a simple and beauty app that will be the perfect companion for you in your daily training. [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Chart Match: An easy to use, super-fast way to chart a tennis match. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Cheezia: Got fast paws and love cheese? Then head over to cheese factory Cheezia, jump into the shoes of a Packing Manager and help mice in delivering delicious cheeses all around the world! The goal is to pack falling cheeses into packages that match with crates on the conveyor. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Chess Time: Play chess with your friends on the go and anywhere. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• igobubble app: Take a thought, message, photo, video, song, joke, secret, and put it in a bubble. Anybody can change your bubbles, edit them, move them, clone them, spread them and you can track everything that's happening to them – see how far they travel, how quickly they spread around your school, neighborhood, workplace, city … even around the globe. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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British Airways is currently rolling out iPads to some of its cabin crew members to see how it can improve customer service. The iPads will be distributed initially to 100 cabin crew with the aim to carry on the roll out to all senior cabin crew in the following months.

The iPads will be used to gain instant access to on board customer preferences such as where they are seated, who they are travelling with and if they have any special dietary requirements. On top of that, the iPads will have access to flight times, safety manuals and customer service updates.

Bill Francis, British Airways' head of inflight customer experience, said: "The iPad is already allowing us to offer a more personalised onboard service, but the possibilities for future development are endless. We're receiving great feedback from cabin crew and customers already.  It allows the crew to offer the thoughtful service they want to deliver and customers are treated as valued guests."

The iPads will be connected to a 3G network while the plane is on the tarmac; allowing them to have complete real time passenger lists. Currently this is done with a long scroll of paper which lists up to 337 passengers!

[British Airways]

 

According to a 9to5Mac tipster, iOS 5 in Japan will include notifications from Japan’s earthquake early warning system. It ties into iOS 5′s Notification Center, and can be enabled and disabled just like any Notification Center section in Settings. Because it stays connected to Japan’s nationwide online monitoring network, it will most likely lower battery life slightly, but given the importance of the system, that’s likely a tradeoff anyone enabling it will be more than willing to make.

No word yet on whether any other earthquake-prone, or natural disaster-prone areas with early warning systems of their own will be able to likewise tie into Notification Center, though App Store apps can fill that gap where and as needed.

[9to5Mac]