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The one killer feature the Palm Pre has a hand up on the iPhone on is the ability to run background applications. The awesome feature about having a jailbroken iPhone is the ability to run background applications on an iPhone! The newest version of qTweeter just dropped in the Cydia store, and let me tell you it is absolutely incredible.

Once you’ve configured the application to connect to your Twitter and/or Facebook accounts, the application runs as a process in the background. When you want to send out a tweet, just slide your finger from the top of the screen downward. It smoothly renders a box for you to blast out that quick tweet that is so important you can’t take the time to hunt down your favorite “App Store Approved” client. qTweeter also integrates with the iPod, the camera, and Safari. Want to tell the world what you’re listening to? While in the iPod app, swipe your finger down, and it will create a tweet with the artist and name of the song. Find a killer web page you need to share with the world? While in Safari, do the fancy finger swipe, and it will allow you to tweet out the site and shorten the URL for you automatically.

Check the video below for a quick demo I did. Impressive!

It has been well-documented how the powers that be at AT&T neutered the SlingPlayer for iPhone application when it restricted its use to Wi-Fi networks only and stripped you of the ability to watch your SlingBox over the 3G mobile network. Finally a solution to the problem has been developed. It is called 3G Unrestrictor. This handy application allows you to set ANY application on your iPhone to work over the 3G network. The only problem is that this application is of course not available in the App Store and is available as a $2 download from the Cydia Store which means you will have to jailbreak your iPhone to unleash its full potential.

Here’s a demo of the SlingPlayer for iPhone working on the AT&T 3G network.

Impressive is the word I have to use to sum up iStat for iPhone (iTunes link). I recently downloaded this application from the App Store and had to ask myself, “Dummy, why haven’t you gotten this yet?” This site runs Wordpress MU using XAMPP on my Mac Pro. Rarely does the massive computing power on the 8-core Mac Pro ever get taxed, but it would be really nice to  get an insight on system resources while away from the server. Now I can do exactly that.

I think I have tried the vast majority of Twitter applications for the iPhone. Some remained my favorite for a while, yet others were immediately rejected. The first application I purchased for my iPhone 3G on launch day a year ago was Twitterific Premium. It reigned supreme for quite a while, but it seems like over the past couple of months there have been some really great programs showing up in the App Store. Hit the poll below and let me know which is your favorite. In a week, I will reveal mine and why.

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