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written by nhiepphong \\ tags: Apple, default, from-the-iphone, ipod, news, per-app-basis, phone-developer, safari, sms, support-testing, video, well-as-itunes, youtube

Popular URL shortening and analytics service Bit.ly has raised $8.9 million in Series B financing. This round of funding was led by AOL Ventures and RRE Ventures. Existing investors include Betaworks, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Founders Fund, and SV Angel. Every day about 200 million Bit.ly short links are clicked on through Twitter and other services. Even though Bit.ly is no longer the default URL shortening service for Twitter, the traffic continues to grow for the service.

Bit.ly currently has 17 employees and their first source of revenues came from Bit.ly Pro accounts. They signed up about 3,000 companies and 1,000 power Twitter users. Bit.ly is working with The New York Times on a project called News.me, which is expected to launch soon. [TechCrunch]

written by popol842 \\ tags: 200-million, betaworks, bit.ly, default, o'reilly alphatech, project-called, reilly-alpha, revenues-came, rre ventures, services, sv angel, traffic, twitter, ventures

PlayAwake is a new jailbreak app available in Cydia that will let you use your iPod music as an alarm clock sound on your iPhone. By default, you are only limited to a few alarm clock sounds on your iPhone. PlayAwake wiill lift this limitation and let you choose any song from your iPod library to wake up to.

Just pick a track from your iPhone’s music library from inside the default alarm clock app and you will wake up listening to your favorite song…  Read More

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: alarm-clock, Cydia, default, Iphone, iphone news, ipod, jailbreak apps, limitation, music, phone-play, phone-store

Like many people, I was happy with the release of iOS4. It introduced rotation lock, an awesome feature that locks the rotation of your screen in portrait. Unfortunately, this new rotation lock feature is a little less awesome because it only supports portrait mode.

The good news is there’s a brand new application in the Cydia Store that changes the default behavior to include landscape support, Landscape Rotation Lock. Read More

written by j4352 \\ tags: awesome-because, default, Download, ios 4, Iphone, iphone talk, jailbreak apps, landscape-mode, only-supports, phone-download, phone-screen, phone-store, rotation, rotation-lock, screen