The overall ADC 2 winners are:

1. SweetDreams, a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well.
2. What the Doodle!?, a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more.
3. WaveSecure, a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. Track your phone’s location and who is using it , lock down your phone remotely, back up all your data, wipe out your data remotely, and finally, restore your data.

Winners in the education and reference category are:

1. Plink Art, an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art.
2. The Word Puzzle, a fun way to learn basic English words for preschool children.
3. Celeste, an educational augmented reality app that displays the Sun, Moon, planets and their paths through the sky onto your camera view.

The entertainment category winners are:

1. A World of Photo,a casual, globally multiplayer game inspired by Spin the Bottle.
2. SongDNA, a widget that allows you to quickly look up detailed information about a song.
3. Solo, an easy-to-play and feature-rich pocket guitar for your phone.

Winners for the arcade/action game subcategory include:

1. Speed Forge, in which heavy duty hover vehicles normally used for mining are now seen in illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys.
2. Graviturn, a game that makes you tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles.
3. Moto X Mayhem, an app that includes seven levels of motorbike action in a side scrolling bike game.

Winners for the casual gaming category are:

1. What the Doodle!?
2. Totemo, a unique puzzle game with over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks.
3. Mazeness, a rather simple game involving moving balls to their goals with help of barriers, teleports and holders.

These are Google’s lifestyle category winners:

1. SweetDreams
2. SpecTrek, an augmented reality ghost hunting game that doubles as a fitness app.
3. FoxyRing, an app that analyzes the ambient noise and adjusts the ringer volume on your phone.

Media category winners are:

1. Buzz Deck, an app that gets all the web content you care about most, along with Twitter & Facebook updates.
2. SPB TV, a highly usable IP-TV application optimized to run on mobile devices.
3. FxCamera, which lets you take pictures with various effects.

Here are the winning productivity tools:

1. WaveSecure
2. Hoccer, an application for gesture-based ad-hoc data exchange.
3. Tasker, an app that lets users link any Task (action set) to the Contexts (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it should run.

In social networking, the winners are:

1. Ce:real, an app that displays geographically based, real-world trends, including photo stories paired with Twitter keywords.
2. SocialMuse, which lets users find people with similar musical taste or just explore the world through music.
3. SpotMessage, a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be notified when the recipient arrives at the spot.

For the travel category, Google name these top apps:

1. Trip Journal, a trip tracking and sharing solution sending real-time updates from the places you are visiting.
2. iNap: Arrival Alert, an application that allows traveling users to sleep (or work, or just zone out) then relies on GPS to alert them with an alarm when the destination is nearby.
3. Car Locator, which navigates you back to your car should you ever have trouble finding it.

Finally, here are three miscellaneous winners:

1. Rhythm Guitar, which plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar.
2. Andrometer, and app that measures the approximate distance from you to an object that you can see using GPS, accelerometer and geomagnetic sensors.
3. Calton Hill GPSCaddy, an app that allows golfers to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS or in the comfort of home using satellite imagery.

You know you’re on top when phone manufacturers are constantly struggling to produce an “iPhone killer”. The iPhone 3GS boasts a massive App Store (with nearly 100,000 apps now), the largest developer base, and is simply put, the best phone on the market.

Status: Launched June 19th, 2009 on ATT

Screen: 3.5-inch 480 x 320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi widescreen Multi-Touch display

Dimensions: 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm; 135 grams

Camera: 3 megapixels w/ AutoFocus, No flash

Battery: 1150 mAh Li-Ion

Standby Time: 300 hours

Talk Time: Up to 12 hours on 2G; Up to 5 hours on 3G

Processor: Samsung S5PC100; 600 MHz

Internal/External Memory: 16GB or 32GB

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled

Operating System: iPhone OS

Price: $199 for 16 GB; $299 for 32GB

Motorola Droid

If any phone is going to challenge the iPhone’s supremacy, it will be the Verizon Droid. The Droid is on a superior network than the iPhone, and will be running Android 2.0 which has a much improved user interface over previous versions of Android.

Status: Rumored to be announced October 28th; Verizon Wireless.

Screen: 3.7-inch/480×854 Full Touchscreen with Full QWERTY Slider

Dimensions: 60 x 115.8 x 13.7 mm; 169 grams

Camera: 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus

Battery: Li-ion 1400mAh

Standby Time: 450 Hours

Talk Time:7 Hours

Processor: Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor; 600MHz

Internal/External Memory: 512MB Flash, 256MB RAM/MicroSD (16GB capacity)

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled

Operating System: Android 2.0

Price: Unknown

Palm Pre

The Palm Pre signaled the resurrection of Palm. It is well-designed, and has a very promising OS, which if tweaked and improved slightly, can challenge any OS on the market.

Status: Available June 6th on Sprint. Available October 13 in Germany and October 16 in UK and Ireland

Screen: 3.1-inch touch screen with 24-bit color 320×480 resolution HVGA display and full QWERTY keyboard

Dimensions: 100.5 x 59.5 x 16.95 mm; 135 grams

Camera: 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and AutoFocus

Battery: 1150 mAh

Standby Time: 250 Hours

Talk Time: 5 Hours

Processor: Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor; 600MHz

Internal/External Memory: 8 GB

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled

Operating System: Palm webOS

Price: $149.99

HTC Hero/T-Mobile G2 Touch/Sprint HTC Hero

The inclusion of HTC Sense makes the Hero the best Android phone currently on the market. It is fast, stylish, and easy to use.

Status: HTC Hero Launched July 24th for Orange UK. T-Mobile G2 Touch Launched July 29th.

Screen: 3.2-inch/ 320×480 HVGA resolution; Full Touchscreen/TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen

Dimensions: 112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ; 135 grams

Camera: 5 Megapixels with AutoFocus

Battery: 1350 mAh Lithium-ion battery

Standby Time: Up to 750 hours for WCDMA, Up to 440 hours for GSM

Talk Time:Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA, Up to 470 minutes for GSM

Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz

Internal/External Memory:288MB/MicroSD 2.0

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, Bluetooth and GPS enabled

Operating System: Android

Price: $179.99

BlackBerry Bold

The BlackBerry Bold is RIM’s crowning achievement thus far and the impending Bold 9700 should see widespread adoption.

Status: Available on AT&T; Bold 9700 available November 2nd, 2009

Screen: 2.6 inch Half VGA resolution Dispay Screen; 480 x 320 pixels; 65,000 colors

Dimensions: 114 x 66 x 15; 136 grams

Camera: 2.0 MP w/ AutoFocus

Battery: Li – Ion, 1500 mAh

Standby Time: 324 hours

Talk Time: 4.5 hours

Processor: 624 MHz

Internal/External Memory: 1 GB

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS capable with extended ephemeris

Operating System: BlackBerry OS

Price: $199.99

HTC Magic/T-Mobile MyTouch 3G

The MyTouch 3G is an easy to use, stylish Android phone. The absence of a standard 3.5mm headset jack is a bit of a disappointment, but otherwise this phone is quite powerful and useful. Furthermore, Mike quit the iPhone for the MyTouch, and that has to mean something.

Status: HTC Magic Launched May 1, 2009 and July 10th, 2009 in Japan; MyTouch 3G launched July 8, 2009. Available through T-Mobile, Vodafone, and Docomo

Screen:3.2″ /320 x 480 HVGA Touchscreen/TFT, TFD, LCD 262k

Dimensions: 113 x 55 x 13 mm; 118.5 grams

Camera: 3.2 Megapixels with AutoFocus (MyTouch has a 5MP camera)

Battery: 1340 mAh Lithium-ion battery

Standby Time: 420 hours

Talk Time: 7.5 Hours

Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7201a™, 528 MHz

Internal/External Memory:192/288 MB (Underclocked)/ MicroSD up to 32GB

Extras: HTC ExtUSB Headset Jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled

Operating System: Android

Price: $99.99 (T-Mobile MyTouch $149.99)

BlackBerry Storm 2

The BlackBerry Storm 2, while an improvement over its predecessor, still lacks the “wow” factor necessary to push it higher up on this list.

Status: Available on Verizon Wireless October 28th, 2009

Screen: 3.25 inch 360 x 480 pixel touchscreen; 65k colors

Dimensions: 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm; 160 grams

Camera: 3.2 Megapixels w/ LED flash and AutoFocus

Battery: 1400 mAh Li-Ion

Standby Time: 270 hours

Talk Time: 5.5 hours

Processor: 528 MHz Qualcomm processor

Internal/External Memory: 2 GB/16 GB microSD

Extras: 3.5 mm headset, GPS, bluetooth, and wi-fi enabled

Operating System: BlackBerry OS

Price: $179.99

BlackBerry Tour

Our biggest qualm with the BlackBerry Tour is its lack of Wi-Fi. Other than that however, the Tour is a great phone if you’re a chronic email user or if you text message a lot.

Status: Available on July 12, 2009 through Verizon and Sprint.

Screen: 2.4 inch 480×360 pixel display screen; 65,000 colors

Dimensions: 112 x 62 x 14.2 mm; 130 grams

Camera: 3.2 Megapixels with AutoFocus

Battery: 1400 mAHr removable/rechargeable cryptographic lithium cell

Standby Time: 336 Hours

Talk Time: 5 Hours

Processor: 528 MHz Qualcomm processor

Internal/External Memory: 256 MB RAM

Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Bluetooth and GPS enabled. No Wi-Fi nor accelerometer

Operating System: BlackBerry OS

Price: $149.99

Nokia E71x

The Nokia E71x is a sleek and stylish phone, but like the Magic, lacks a 3.5mm headset jack. Nonetheless, this phone is just right for those on a budget, given its $99.99 price tag.

Status: Available on AT&T

Screen: 2.4″ LCD (Color TFT/TFD) display screen; 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA); 16.7 million (24-bit)

Dimensions:114 x 57 x 10 mm; 126g

Camera: 3.2MP w/ Autofocus and Flash

Battery: BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery

Standby Time: 480 hours

Talk Time: 4.5 hours

Processor: ARM 11, 369 MHz

Internal/External Memory: 110MB/ MicroSD

Extras: 2.5mm Headset jack, bluetooth, wi-fi, and GPS enabled

Operating System: Symbian OS

Price: $99.00

It’s a been a busy news day at Facebook. Earlier today Facebook launched a new Twitter-like tagging feature, plus they announced it has open sourced the real-time web development framework that runs its new acquisition Friendfeed.

We’re hearing the term “Twitter-like” a lot in regard to Facebook’s announcements these days - just as earlier in the year Facebook was apt to copy Friendfeed. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery indeed, but remember that Facebook’s user base is still much larger than Twitter’s.

It’s a tried and true strategy for big Internet companies (ref Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL): copy the best new features from smaller startups and gradually introduce them over time to a mainstream audience. Even though Twitter is nearly mainstream, its only just broken into the comScore top 50 sites in the U.S. - whereas Facebook is now in the top 5.

1. Lead applications developer
What they do: Manage software development teams in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications. **
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and three to five years experience in specific technologies.
Salary range: $80,250 - $108,000
Salary change: 7.6 percent

2. Applications architect
What they do: Design components of applications, including interface, middleware and infrastructure; comply with employer’s design standards.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems; a master’s degree is desirable. Employers request a minimum of eight years related work experience and specific software skills.
Salary range: $87,250 - $120,000
Salary change: 7.5 percent

3. Messaging administrator
What they do: Control e-mail and groupware systems, including associated servers, operating systems, and backup and recovery programs; fix system problems and attend to service requests.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems or a related field, plus two to three years or more of experience working with the messaging systems used by the employer.
Salary range: $87,250 - $120,000
Salary change: 7.5 percent

4. Data modeler
What they do: Analyze organizational data requirements and create models of data flow.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT or mathematics, and several years of data management experience.
Salary range: $74,250 - $102,000
Salary change: 7 percent

5. Network manager
What they do: Direct day-to-day operations and maintenance of the firm’s networking technology; collaborate with network engineers, architects and other team members on the implementation, testing, deployment and integration of network systems.
What you need: Ten years (or more) experience in a networking environment combined with several years of experience managing technical personnel. Professional certifications are also valuable.
Salary range: $74,500 - $98,500
Salary change: 7 percent

6. Senior IT auditor
What they do: Establish procedures for audit review of computer systems; develop and apply testing and evaluation plans for IT systems and ensure compliance with industry standards of efficiency, accuracy and security.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business or a related field, and an average of five years experience in IT auditing.
Salary range: $86,750 - $114,750
Salary change: 6.9 percent

7. Senior Web developer
What they do: Plan and implement Web-based applications; coordinate with product development, marketing, product management and other teams in bringing new applications online.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering or a related field, plus a minimum of five years of experience working with a mix of Web technologies.
Salary range: $76,250 - $108,250
Salary change: 6.6 percent

8. Business intelligence analyst
What they do: Design and develop company data analysis and report solutions; review and analyze data from internal and external resources; communicate analysis results and make recommendations to senior management.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or engineering, and several years of experience.
Salary range: $78,250 - $108,250
Salary change: 6.6 percent

9. Help desk (Tier 2)
What they do: Resolve difficult issues that derive from Tier 1 support and require five to 15 minutes to settle; decide when to create work tickets for issues that can’t be solved by phone or e-mail and require a visit to the user’s workspace.
What you need: Besides patience and a positive attitude, requirements depend on your position level. Tier 2 positions call for two to four years work experience, and a bachelor’s degree or a two-year degree and additional work experience in a help desk setting.
Salary range: $35,750 - $46,250
Salary change: 6.5 percent

10. Staff consultant
What they do: Assist with project planning and requirement specifications; create prototypes and alternatives with colleagues.
What you need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business or a consulting-related field. Industry-specific proficiency, plus business experience and two or more years of consulting experience are also typical requirements.
Salary range: $59,250 - $82,250
Salary change: 6.4 percent

Also note that at the present time, your phone will have to already be activated in order for this unlock to work. However, it sounds like a “hacktivation” is in the works -meaning that, in the future, you won’t need to officially activate your phone with AT&T (or your country’s default carrier) first.

1. Disable 3G: Go into “Settings,” “General,” “Network,” and then tap the slider that reads “Enable 3G” to set it to the OFF position. Exit back to the main screen when finished.
2. Add the Geohot Repository to Cydia: Again, since you’ve already jailbroken your phone, you should have the Cydia app on your iPhone’s screen. Launch the app and select “Manage” from the set of buttons at the bottom of the screen. Tap “Sources,” “Edit,” then “Add.” Type in apt.geohot.com and hit “Add Source” when done. Tap the “done” button and exit out of the “Manage” section.
3. Install Purplesn0w: Do a search for “Purplesn0w” using Cydia’s search utility. (Actually, since Cydia updates results as you type, you really only need to enter the first few letters.) You’re looking for the package com.geohot.purplesn0w. Once you’ve found that, tap it to see the details. Next, tap the “Install” button and then the “Confirm” button just as if you were installing any other Cydia app. Wait while it installs and watch for the success message output in Cydia. Tap “Return to Cydia” when it’s finished installing and then exit from the Cydia app entirely.
4. Reboot Your iPhone: Press the power button (at the top of the device) until you see the message “slide to power off” appear. Use the slider to power off your device then turn it back on. Once rebooted, your iPhone 3GS will be unlocked.

Note: You can follow the same steps as above to install the ultrasn0w unlock as well, if that’s your preference. The only difference is that the repository to add to Cydia is http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com and, obviously, you’ll be looking for the ultrasn0w app to install.