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Earlier this week, Twitter just released the latest version of their iPhone and iPad app or the version 3.3. One of its new features in this latest version that is meant for iPhone only is the Twitter’s Quick Bar, which is placed at the top of the Twitter timeline and displays the latest trends, including promoted trends. Some users are annoyed by this Quick Bar and coined it as DickBar as reference to Twitter’s CEO Dick Costola.

Let us make a rundown of the list of Twitter’s version 3.3’s new feature, Quick Bar or the DickBar controversy. If you are one of the users annoyed by this feature, there is also a way if you want to remove it.

The Quick Bar shows the user the trends and other important things without leaving your timeline. You can swipe the Quick Bar to the left or to the right to go through the trends. Here are the trends showed by the Quick Bar:

- Trends based on your location

- Cleaner, redesigned Tweet compose screen.

- Automatically shortens URLs. Just paste them in and they will only count as 20 characters, no matter how long they are!

- Autocomplete @usernames and hashtags

- Easier photo uploading

- Find friends using your phone’s contacts

- Improved DM conversation view, now works similar to SMS/Chat

- Cleaned up preferences

- Bug fixes

As mentioned earlier, some users are annoyed with this feature of the version 3.3. Unsurprisingly, it has its own hasktag, which is #dickbar. The management of Twitter decided not to disable Quick Bar, which seems an obvious design choice while rolling out such as major change, we think it’s a business decision by Twitter. Sean Garret said in a tweet that; “Twitter submitted an update to Apple yesterday for our iPhone app. It fixes some bugs & makes it so the quickbar doesn’t overlay on Tweets.”

If your iPhone is jailbroken and you are annoyed by the Quick Bar, chpwn has released a tweak called Twizzler on Cydia, which removes the Quick Bar from version 3.3.

iDevices users are probably waiting for this. The iPhone Dev Team recently released the newest beta version of Redsn0w 0.9.7 or also known as the Redsn0w 0.9.7b5. The iPhone Dev Team was able to fix all of the sandbox related issues in this new beta version and the good news is, it does not disable the Bluetooth like in other previous beta versions. However, it is only meant for beta testers.

If you will remember, the iPhone Dev Team released the Redsn0w 0.9.7b1 just a couple of weeks back that will serve as a backup plan for the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G. The iPhone Dev Team works hard in fixing all of the issues of the untethered jailbreak and to get it ready for the users. The team also released the Redsn0w 0.9.7b2 to fix native app crashes, Redsn0w 0.9.7b3 to fix bugs related to non-GUI programs such as Facetime, Winterboard themes, and embedded videos in iTunes and Redsn0w 0.9.7b4, which eliminated the need to install and run a separate program for usbmux.

More information can be found in the blog post of the iPhone Dev Team about the Redsn0w 0.9.7 Beta 5. They said, “The fifth beta is now available (testers ONLY please!). Bluetooth is now working (and any sandbox-related issues should be resolved too). Please do not pirate the 4.2b3 IPSW! Only those enrolled in the iPhone Developer program have legitimate access to that IPSW using these links (the links won’t work unless you’re a legit developer currently logged in).”

The Redsn0w 0.9.7 beta is currently for Mac users and Windows users will have to wait a little longer as the Redsn0w meant for Windows is not yet ready for beta testing.