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When iOS 5 was released, the folks at Apple HQ brought with it the ability to add social network support within the stock iOS address book application. Smartr Contacts from Xobni manages to push the bar a whole lot further.

The team behind popular Outlook plugin, Smartr Inbox, have released what is essentially an address book on steroids for your iOS device. This nifty free application promises to create rich profiles for all your contacts, including communication history and updates from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Smartr works by creating in-depth profiles by aggregating all of your data from the leading social networking sites and your email accounts, storing the information in the ‘Xobni Cloud’. Once a contact’s information has been matched you are presented with a slick profile view of every contact you have ever interacted with from the various portals mentioned above…

Smartr is largely focused on its ability to search. The application lets you look up contacts by name, email, company, title and more. Smartr is fast: searching almost 2,000 contacts, currently in my Smartr address book, is an almost instant process. The information is always up to date as Xobni’s servers are constantly analyzing and matching your contacts to provide the best results.

Currently there is no support for me.com accounts or iCloud email but this is hopefully going to be rectified in future updates.

These are just a few of the key features on offer from Smartr Contacts:
Integrated. Built for iPhone and leverages iPhone contact list.
Automatic. Finds all the people you know from your email, calendar or social networks.
Personal. Puts a face to every name and email address.
Insightful. Detects and assigns phone numbers automatically.
Socially aware. Integrates Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Relevant. Ranks contacts by importance, so the most important people are at the top.
Fast. Search by first, last, company name or phone number to find anyone.
Contextual. View email and calendar subjects for each person.
Customizable. Easily edit any contact or hide them out of view.
Convenient. One click access to SMS, call or email.

You can download the app, which works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch free from the App Store.

Can you see yourself ditching the stock iOS address book for something like this?

Now it looks like you’ll be able to use WinZip’s software while on the go, as WinZip Computing has just released an [extremely limited] iOS version of its popular app…

Features of WinZip for iOS include:

Open Zip files and Zip attachments from email
Browse and view Zip files, including multi-file attachments
Open encrypted Zip files
Copy of the contents of Zip files to the clipboard
View Zip file attachments from webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc)
Zipped file types that can be previewed: .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif
It’s worth noting that you can’t actually access (edit, download photos, etc.) files from within WinZip, and you can’t, in turn, add files to a .zip archive.

But if you’re just in need of a .zip file viewer on your iOS device, you can’t go wrong with one of the most trusted names in the business. You can download the app, which works with both the iPhone and iPad, from the App Store for free.

What do you think about WinZip for iOS?

From finding gas to discovering a great place to eat, Siri can help you get from A to B like never before.

Siri knows all kinds of things — even your nickname.

Spire is a great way to get Siri on non-4S devices, but it’s still a little bit tricky to install and get it up and running. Introducing Sara: a new tweak that apparently works on all iOS devices and promises to replicate Siri’s functionality to the letter. I wish we’re true.

While it does install a sort-of Siri on your non-4S devices, it most certainly will not do Siri’s job. It barely does any job at all. Sara is one dumb broad.

Let’s take a look at the promotional graphics/screenshot above. They say it works on the original iPhone… you should move on with your life, just because of that statement.

If you want to try Sara, add this repo in Cydia: http://isoftjsc.com. Then install Sara for your non-4S devices.

Just after Corona has been updated to version 1.0-7 to fix the DRM issues in iBooks, Saurik just tweeted that the untether has been updated yet again, this time to resolve problems with the iPhone 4S running iOS 5.

If you’re having problems with iBooks on your jailbroken device, you can install Corona directly from Cydia. If you’ve already installed Corona, you can simply update it via Cydia and you should be good to go.