You can simply rotate iPhone sideway and it responds automatically to display content in landscape. The landscape offers better reading experience for most application and a wider keyboard for typing. Its quite irritating when it turn sideway when i lay in bed to browse web and check my email. This is because the accelerometer measures the angle of iPhone relative to gravity, rather to the user. Due to this reason, iPhone rotates sideway when you lay in bed.

How To Turn Off Auto-Rotation Feature

Here there is a 2 ways how to disable this feature. But this tips only applicable to jailbroken iPhone.

1) iNoRotate

iNoRotate is a tweak that lets you completely or selectively turn off auto-rotation on iPhone. It’s a free application that is available on cydia. Once installed, you’ll find a new option named iNoRotate in Settings. To disable auto-rotation, you can simply switch the “Enable” option to ON to completely disable landscape mode for all apps. The tweak also offers additional option to let you disable applications selectively. For example, you want to keep the landscape mode enabled for Safari, simply toggle its associated switch to OFF. Please note for any change in the options, you’ll need to toggle the “Enable” switch to effectuate the change.

2) Rotation Inhibitor in SBSettings

Rotation Inhibitor is a plugin for SBSettings that also allows you to toggle the auto-rotation feature within any applications. For those who do not know about SBSettings. Checkout my post here about SBSettings. While using any applications, you can simply swipe the status bar to activate SBSettings. With rotation inhabilitor installed, just tap the inhibitor button to enable/disable auto-rotation.

This Snappy version 2.1 is cracked .deb file and only applicable with iPhone jailbroken. Alternatively, you can purchase it from the cydia store for $1.99. You have to install LibActivator and OpenSSL package from cydia before installing this .deb file. For further information checkout on my previous post here. Here the short instruction how to install via mobile terminal.

How To Install Snappy Via Mobile Terminal

• Download Snappy .deb file here
• After downloading the deb file above rename it to snap.deb
• Copy it to var/mobile on your iphone and install using ifile or do the following
• Open up mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)(Change your default password due to security reason)
  
• Type in dpkg -i snap.deb (press return)
• Reboot and Respring your iphone.

Alternate Ways To Install:

Ssh your iPhone. You may see instruction on how to install .deb file via SSH. And make a folder called AutoInstall in/var/root/Media/Cydia/ so you have /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall which is case sensitive and drop this debs file in the autoinstall folder, reboot and respring your iPhone.

Meebo is primarily an in-browser web application for instant messaging. That means, you can simply login your IM network simply by using a browser. Best of all, Meebo supports various types of IM services including MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, AIM, Jabber and Facebook Chat.

Same as its web application, Meebo for iPhone supports all the major IM networks and you can see all your buddies with profile pictures displayed in a single consolidated list. With a simplistic interface, the first impression of the app is awesome. It is stable, that you stay connected as you switch from 3G to WiFi network, and even supports push notifications. So, you are still notified even you have closed the application.

The chat interface is very similar to iPhone’s built-in text application. Meebo lets you type message in both landscape and portrait mode, as well as, supports the use of emoticon. Unlike other IM applications that saves your chat history locally, the history is synchronized to meebo.com. That means, you can access and search the chat history everywhere, no matter you’re using the iPhone app or Meebo’s web application.

While most of the advanced IM iPhone apps (e.g. BeejiveIM) are available as paid applications, Meebo is completely free for download. It costs you nothing and there is no advertisement within the app. So, how does it compare with my personal favorite IM app (BeejiveIM)?

Meebo is a cool application and very comparable to BeejiveIM. The synchronization feature of chat history is great and missed in other IM applications. Personally, however, I’ll stick with BeejiveIM as I already get used to the interface and there is not much ground for me to make the switch. You can download it via direct iTunes link here.