Yesterday I've found out that I open Evernote rarely. Very rarely.

A few years ago I totally stopped using Delicious and bookmarks at all. I used to clip everything to Evernote. Now that “antisocial bookmarking” app Pinboard made me switch to bookmarking again.

I was using RTM for a long time, then tried keeping todos in Evernote (using Egretlist on my iPod, which requires a lot of taps for adding a tasks. And its multi-list paradigm totally sucks). Now I finally bought Things, which really stays out of my way and makes me productive.

And now I'm moving my ideas, thoughts and stuff to Simplenote. Because their iOS app is much faster and there's an Emacs mode for it. Well, the iOS app also has a fullscreen mode and tapping the text makes it editable (with Evernote, I have to tap “edit”). And, of course, because I don't have to name my notes! Tapping the note makes it editable (with Evernote, I have to tap the “edit” button).

So Evernote remains for photos of things that I need to remember. When I see something like a printed announcement of something or a business card, I take my phone and snap it to Evernote. Then I can find it at any time. Well, I'll also use it for sketches — their WinMo app has tha

I still like Evernote, even though I use it so rarely. They have an awesome product, an awesome branding/logo, well, they love green after all! :)

You don't know why people jailbreak their iPhones, iPods and iPads? Here's why:

1. WeatherIcon
   
   

   When I first saw the iPhone in 2007, I thought that the weather icon shows the real weather, just like the calendar shows the real date. I was kinda frustrated when I realized that it doesn't… Now I'm happy with this hack (: It supports any weather application.

2. LiveClock
   

   The same, but for the clock icon.

3. Reminder
   
   

   A thing that Apple forgot — status bar icons for mail, calendar, messages, missed calls, etc. Really useful — now I'll never miss an email when I'm reading my Twitter timeline with 0% sound volume.

4. No Bookmarks

   A small Safari patch that disables opening bookmarks automatically when opening Safari (not Fast App Switching to it).

5. Covert
   

   Private browsing for Safari. Even IE has it — is Safari any worse? Not now.

6. Activator
   (download)
   

   

   Click here to download:

   top-ten-reasons-for-jailbreaking-your-idevice-flwnyhjEwhAvechccqkw.zip (128 KB)
   

   Bind anything to any touch gesture or shaking the device. Finally you don't need to go the long way: Home → Settings → Wi-Fi → On/off. You can bind something like a swipe from top and enjoy.

7. SBSettings
   

   Quick settings. Just do an Activator gesture (e.g. swipe the top bar) and you can toggle WiFi, BT, SSH or something. Or you can adjust the brightness (!!!). It also includes an interface for libhide, so you can hide some icons on your Springboard.

8. Winterboard

   Tweak yo look! You can change every icon or just a few colors. Or hide the icon labels. There's a lot of themes in Cydia.

9. Five Icon Dock
   

   Or six icon dock. Or five icon Springboard.

10. Flashlight

    App Store apps can't change screen brightness automatically. Cydia has a flashlight that can. It also has a tweak for App Store flashlights which does the (b)right thing.

Well, iPhone users may also like MyWi, My3G and more phone-related stuff. I use an iPod touch so I haven't put them in the top ten :-)

P.S. The newest and coolest jailbreak for new devices: limera1n