It seems that releases from iOS developers Tapbots are like London buses in the sense that you hear nothing for quite some time, then all of a sudden three come along at once. Well, in this instance it is only two but I’m sure you get the picture. Tapbots’ popular Twitter application, Tweetbot for iPhone and iPod touch has been given the version 2.0 makeover with the latest version hitting the App Store today featuring a number of upgrades and enhancements.

The ‘Path’ iOS application will no doubt go down as one of the most popular applications of 2011 thanks to its mix of having an innovative and beautiful user interface as well as operating as an extremely functional journal-type app. Although the Path app had been around since November 2010, the 2.0 release in final quarter of last year introduced a revamped UI which gained the application quite a lot of media attention and a large amount of new users.

I don’t know about you, but I tend to favor mobile applications which do exactly what they say on the tin without attempting to deviate too much from the core functionality. One of the more recent applications which falls into this category has to be YouTube Producer for iOS devices by Musicshake Inc.

Of all the areas of our smartphones we’d call the most precious, text messages would be somewhere near the summit. On top of that, it’s one of those segments we like to keep the most private – obscured from the eyes of those prying brown-nosers.

Nobody who hasn’t been hiding in a cave for the last two years can argue against the quality of the cameras in Apple’s last two iPhones. First the iPhone 4 brought impressive photo quality to the iPhone lineup with a 5-megapixel camera, and then the iPhone 4S took things a step further with an 8-megapixel shooter.

First it was iBooks, then came Newsstand, and now Apple has even thrown iTunes U – its attempt at cornering the textbook market – into the mix.

Even though iOS is pretty easy on the eye for the most part, our tinkering nature entices us to make certain visual changes in order to make things a little more to our liking.

I make no secret of the fact that I am a massive jailbreak enthusiast. I have owned every iPhone since 2007, and both iPads and have eagerly jailbroken each and everyone of them as soon as the relevant tools are released or updated for the new devices and firmwares. I do it not just for the sake of it, but because I genuinely believe a number of tweaks and modifications which exist in Cydia enhance iOS and make it the best mobile operating system available.

With our cherished mobile gadgets now packing in very decent cameras, many have opted to ditch the unnecessary pocket-fill of the traditional standalone camera.

The icing on the cake of any jailbroken device has to be a custom animated boot logo. Problem is, depending on which particular firmware/jailbreak solution you’re running, it may not actually work properly.

Google Maps and iOS devices have gone hand in hand ever since the original iPhone’s release back in 2007, and Apple recently signed a new deal extension with the search giant, giving iOS further access to Google’s Maps data.

Despite Apple maintaining a closed-source stance with its iOS mobile software, jailbreaks from the various dev-teams have allowed an abundance of useful, unregulated apps to be installed onto our beloved iDevices.

For those of you who have been hanging around the jailbreaking scene for quite some time, you will no doubt be familiar with a number of the more prominent developers in the community who regularly release high quality work which is designed and implemented to a very high standard. If you are anything like me, you will probably have your favorite developer(s) who you will always support and purchase or download their releases but whatever you do, don’t ask me to tell you who mine is.

Back in December of last year, much was made of a very useful app from dev outfit App Cubby known as Launch Center, which utilizes the iOS 5 Notification Center in order to launch series of apps and tasks.

If you’re an iPhone photographer then you’ll no doubt be a fan of Apple’s Photo Stream, a new iOS 5 feature which takes all your photos and syncs them across all your iOS devices with no input required.

If you are a relatively new owner of an iPad 2, then it may come as a shock when you first turned the device on and noticed that it was missing some key stock applications which are installed natively on the iPhone and iPod touch. I am pretty certain that some users will be entirely perplexed by this, and will have spent a large amount of time searching and seeking clues which point them in the direction of their missing Stocks, Weather, Calculator, Voice Memo, Compass and Clock application. However bizarre it may seem and difficult it may be to take in, I am here to tell you guys that Apple just doesn’t deem it necessary to include these applications on the iPad.

Social networking is unquestionably one of the greatest and most useful tools in our Digital Age, allowing us to connect with friends, relatives, colleagues, and stay virtually close to those residing afar. Whether in Australia or Alabama, we are never more than an inbox or direct message away from those that matter the most.

Microsoft have flicked the switch and released their latest iPad application today, which comes hot on the heels of the first Xbox LIVE application which was released in December 2011. The latest release by the Redmond-based company is not related to the previous app, but instead presents the exclusive content found on the MSN UK website in a format designed for the iPad.

We’re big fans of Google’s Chrome web browser here at Redmond Pie, and the majority of us use it as our daily driver on a variety of desktop operating systems, be that Mac OS X, Windows or even on the odd occasion, Ubuntu.

The release of Absinthe by the Chronic Dev Team, which contains the hard work of the jailbreak ‘Dream Team’, has introduced a multitude of new users to the world of Cydia. A number of these newly jailbroken devices are seasoned Cydia users, however, a decent portion are likely to be first timers who have recently purchased an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 for the first time. If you have used Absinthe on your iPad 2 and wonder what the world of jailbreaking can offer you, we have compiled a list of useful, essential and fun tweaks which are iPad 2 and iOS 5 compatible.