Using iWhiteboard to Create a Truly Epic Post.

Posted by Allyn on May 27, 2010 in App Reviews, Cydia Apps, iPad, iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch, Reviews | 1 comment

iWhiteboard by Andy Aude was recently released on Cydia through BigBoss, and it will be used in the creation of iFile 101.

As promised, Yoshi and I have been working on our future post, iFile 101. We envision it as a guide for those who wish to possess more knowledge and control of their iDevice. It is intended to enrich the understanding of those who have some, and open the floodgates for those who have none. It is our gift back to the community, our way of saying thanks to the all the Devs that gave the “special abilities” to our devices and especially to Carstein Heinelt, the creator of iFile. We wish it to be a trusted resource and intend it to be a work in progress. We will accept written and video contributions from those who wish to add content to iFile 101, upon approval of course, and we will take requests for updates to the guide.

To create this work, and to guide you through the steps to edit your Theme, Ringtones, use your device as a flash drive, etc., many screenshots will be needed, and it always helps to have the ability to point at what you are writing about. iWhiteboard was recently released on Cydia through BigBoss, and it will be used in the creation of iFile 101.

Here’s a few notes and hints about using iWhiteboard. There is no icon for iWhiteBoard, it launches via “Activator” which is accessed in your “Settings” app. I found the default setting of “shake device” to activate a bit aggravating, so I changed the activation method to button presses: volume down, then up. If you change the activation method, you will most likely want to chose “Anywhere” so that you can use this method on the springboard, lockscreen and in an app, otherwise you would have to assign it to a gesture for all three locations. Regardless of activation method, closing iWhiteboard is always done by a press of the home button.

Select "Anywhere" in Activator to assign a useful gesture to iWhiteBoard

To create a video, you can enable ScreenRecorder first, open the app or page and then enable iWhiteboard. To take a screenshot, simply activate iWhiteboard, then hit “Home” and “Power” at the same time.

iWhiteboard does not have many features, in fact there is only 4 color choices and one line size. Additionally, tapping twice to pull up the selection bar, and three times to clear is great, but sometimes the bar comes up when you are trying to write, or the line clears when you don’t want it too. It is just a bit too sensitive in this aspect. Also double tapping will put unwanted dots of color on your image, but it is simple and effective. In a future update, I would like to see the ability to go back one step or have an eraser.

I contacted the author and he just informed me of a future upgrade, here’s a sneak peak of features for version 1.2, coming soon!

–Imageshack 1 click upload

–1 click screenshot

–Dropbox support

–No more stray dot on double tap

–UI change

– thickness changable(possibly)

Look for iFile 101, Coming Soon! If you liked this post, or are interested in contributing to iFile 101 find me on Twitter @xsn0w.