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Now, that you know you have been finding some really cool iPhone Apps, both free and paid you may notice that your iPhone Dashboard is probably 5-6 pages long or even more if you get app-happy.

With the free jailbreak app Categories (available via Cydia), now you can organize your iPhone Apps in folders. With Categories, now my iPhone dashboard is just 2 pages. And that’s way better than the 7 pages I had before and it was pain to arrange them in any particular order or to quickly find the app I wanted to use.

If you have already jailbroken your iPhone, all you’d need to do is find Categories in Cydia and install it.

If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone yet, no worries. We have a How to Jailbreak iPhone 2.1 Firmware with QuickPwn guide that could help you do it easily. I did mine in under 20 minutes and it was very straightforward.

Once you have it installed via Cydia, Categories lets you create folders and assign any icon of your choice from a wide variety of icon collection as shown below.

You can see the folders I have created in the below picture. To add more categories, just press the Add button in the top right corner.

To add Apps into a Category you have created, just touch the category name and you will get an empty screen with an Add button in the top right corner. Now touch the add button and you will see a list of all the apps installed in your iPhone. All you need to do is tap the apps that you want added in the folder.

Once you have organized your apps to your liking in different folders, you may wish to rearrange some apps to a different folders. Just go in to the category and tap on the edit button on the top left corner. Now just delete the apps you don’t want in this folder.

Here is how it looks after I have organized my apps into the following categories: News, Notes, Fun, Webclip (videos), Music, Games, Showtime (movies), Food, Finance, etc.

I think jailbreaking my iPhone is worth just for the convenience of using Categories to organize my Apps. What do you think?

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