SnoozeOrStop: Stop Your iPhone’s Alarm Clock Directly From the Lock Screen

If there’s one thing I dislike about the iPhone’s alarm clock, it’s the inability to completely disable the alarm from the lock screen.

Sure, you can snooze it, but a few minutes later, there it goes blaring again.

With SnoozeOrStop, you can completely stop the alarm clock right from the convenience of your lock screen. Take a peek inside for the full video walkthrough.
Seeing as the iPhone acts as my primary means of morning torture, SnoozeOrStop is an awesome jailbreak tweak that evens the playing field.

I highly recommend this lightweight jailbreak tweak for all iPhone alarm clock users. If you’re jailbroken, you can head over to Cydia’s BigBoss repo and download it for free.

Are you planning on giving it a go?

Deutsche Telekom Already Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Apple hasn’t even announced the iPhone 5 yet, let along a release date and details of availability, but that hasn’t stopped Deutsche Telekom from starting its pre-orders.

The German telecoms giant, and owner of T-Mobile, has taken the unusual step of offering pre-orders for a device that doesn’t actually exist in public yet because they foresee ‘supply bottlenecks.’ If previous iPhone releases are any indication, they may well be right on that score…
Deutcsche Telekom spokesman Alexander von Schmettow told Bloomberg that the carrier will hand out coupons to people who expressly request an iPhone 5, or indeed iPhone 4S, depending on which rumors you believe. These coupons are only available to existing Deutsche Telekom customers, and will be redeemed on a ‘first come, first served’ basis once the fabled handset is available.

We’re not huge fans of offering a product that doesn’t even have a name yet, let alone hasn’t been publicly announced, but we can see where Deutsche Telekom is coming from, and anything that stops the anual clamour for pre-orders has to be a good thing.

Would you pre-order a phone you knew nothing about, or are you the kind of person that prefers your smartphones to be of the real variety?

Apple Stores Begin iOS 5 and iCloud Training

Today, In Apple Stores everywhere, Apple began iOS 5 and iCloud training for employees. The training is done through the Daily Download application, which was part of the Apple Store 2.0 upgrade.

What’s the significance of this? Apple only launches new OSes with a new iPhone, therefore hinting that the iPhone 5 launch is right around the corner.
Training for new software usually happens about 2 weeks before a product announcement. This could also point to press invitations for a September event for next week.

What are your thoughts? Excited for iOS 5?

Best Buy Clue Points to October 21 iPhone 5 Release

We might just found our first reliable iPhone 5 release date rumor, and October 21 is looking like the magic day to mark on your calendars. The Verge has received a tip from a Best Buy employee that suggests the retailer is set for an ‘Apple fixture’ installation on the 21st.

What makes this seem so plausible is the continued rumor that October is indeed the timeframe in which we should expect an iPhone 5 to go on sale, with an announcement coming some time in the next few weeks. Does Best Buy know something we dont? It’s entirely possible…
The tipster says that while the instructions from Best Buy are intentionally vague, such occurrences don’t happen often, and a similar request for a member of the management team to be on hand was also part of the iPhone 4 launch documentation.

It’s clear that Best Buy is expecting something from Apple on that date, and it has to be something that both parties deem worthy of a new point-of-sale.

The date also falls nicely around a planned meeting of managers of Best Buy’s mobile devision, according to the source, suggesting plans may be afoot.

“On a related note, our tipster tells us that Best Buy Mobile managers have a meeting scheduled for October 10th to “discuss upcoming BIG release dates” (emphasis his). Assuming we get an Apple press event for the new iPhone a few weeks in advance, the managers would be well aware of the release date in time to discuss it at that meeting, so that’d support a release on or around the 21st, too.”

We’ve been more than a little skeptical about such rumors, and possible release dates are always tricky to pin down, but this does have a good feel to it. Did we just find out when Apple will bring its next iPhone to market?

We’ll let you know when we find out more!