Monday, August 31, 2009

Apple Holding "Rock and Roll" Event 09-09-09

Apple has sent out emails asking them to join them at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco starting at 10 AM. As per Apple's usual custom the event is themed. This time it is themed as Rock and Roll.


The event is expected to release iPod's of all models and especially a new iPod touch to compete with Microsoft's ZuneHD.

What features will the new device have? Check out this page for our take on it and also look at this one for a supposedly leaked video of the new touch.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Best, Most-Trusted Sources for Cydia

A source, defined by dictionary.com is
One, such as a person or document, that supplies information...
The same definition applies to the jailbroken term source. A source is a website that hosts packages like games, themes, and other files for Cydia to download. When you type in this website into a computer, you will get a not-so-great looking page but when you type the site into Cydia and install the source, (Cydia then Manage then Sources then Edit then Add) this page gives the information Cydia needs to download more packages from that source.

The following sources can be manually installed in Cydia by going to Manage>Sources>Edit>Add and typing them in. The more sources you have, the longer Cydia will take to load but you will have a wider choice of downloading themes, games, and other packages.

Sources that are in green are those that should already be installed in Cydia, they are known as Community Sources. These are the sources that have most of the packages.

A-steriods: http://a-steroids.com/cydia
apt9.yellowsn0w.com: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
BigBoss & Planet-iPhones: http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/
cake.mapleidea.com: http://cake.mapleidea.com/cydia/
david.ashman.com: http://david.ashman.com/apt/
EasyWakeup.net: http://easywakeup.net/repo/
Hack&Dev: http://iphone.hackndev.org/apt/
HackThatiFone: http://hackthatifone.com/htif/apt/
HVKLS: http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/debian/
i.danstaface.net: http://i.danstaface.net/deb/
iAcces: http://www.iacces.com/apt/
iClarified: http://cydia.iclarified.com/
iFoneTec: http://app.ifonetec.com/cydia/
iMobileCinema: http://d.imobilecinema.com/
iSpazio: http://ispaziorepository.com/
MacCiti: http://macciti.com/cydia/
ModMyi.com: http://apt.modmyi.com/
namedfork.net: http://apt.namedfork.net/iphone/
Niklas Schroder: http://apt.paperclipsandscrambledeggs.com/
PwnCenter: http://apt.pwncenter.com/
Ranbee: http://ranbee.com/repo
RichCreations: http://www.richcreations.com/iphone/apt/
RupertGee: http://redwolfberry.com/rupertgee/cydia/
SaladSoft: http://nickplee.com/cydiasource/
Sleepers.net: http://repo.sleepers.net/cydia/
Ste Packaging: http://repo.smxy.org/cydia/apt/
Steffwiz: Now part of PwnCenter Source
Telesphoreo Tangelo: http://apt.saurik.com/
Touch-Mania: http://cydia.touch-mania.com/
UrbanFanatics.com: http://urbanfanatics.com/cydia/
ZodTTD: http://www.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/

Tenuis Theme

If you're looking for a theme with lots of icons, Tenuis by Shiizun is right for you. Tenuis has over 2,000 icons created for it. The theme is available in the ModMyi source although this version only has about 40 icons. The iSpazio repo has a calendar mod and a dock flow matching with the Tenuis theme.

How to Install this Theme
  1. Make sure you are jailbroken. (How do I do that?) And that you are on or at an above firmware of 3.0. (How do I check?)
  2. Make sure you have downloaded Winterboard from Cydia.
  3. Download the full theme (over 2700 icons, but requires SSH for installation):
    Or get the smaller (about 40 icons) theme via the ModMyi source by searching Tenuis in Cydia.
  4. If you download on your computer, decompress the folder and SSH the folder into private/var/stash/themes.xxxxxx/ and apply it from Winterboard. If you downloaded from Cydia, apply from Winterboard.
More ScreenShots

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Facebook 3.0 Out!

Facebook has finally released it's long-awaited (and long-overdue) update to the Facebook app.

Going into the app store now won't show the 3.0 update so you will have to follow theses directions to get Facebook 3.0 now:

-Uninstall Facebook from your iPod/iPhone.
-Reboot your iPod/iPhone.
-Install Facebook, it will then be at the 3.0 version.

The update adds considerable improvements to the functionality to the mobile version of Facebook. Here is the complete list of updates that Facebook 3.0 brings:

  • See your upcoming Events and RSVP.
  • See your friends’ birthdays.
  • See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer.
  • Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes.
  • Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS.
  • Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings.
  • Upload photos to any album.
  • Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)..
  • Change your Profile Picture.
  • Zoom into photos.
  • Like posts and photos.
  • See the same News Feed as the Facebook website.
  • Visit links in a built-in web browser.
  • See all of your friends’ friends and Pages.
  • See mutual friends.
  • Become a fan of Pages.
  • Chat friends sorted alphabetically.
  • Easily search for people and Pages.
  • Make friend requests.
  • Quickly call or text your friends.
  • Create shortcuts to your favorite friends and Pages.

New Modern Combat: Sandstorm Videos and Pictures

As hype over Gameloft's new fps (likely online) shooter grows, a new video and new screen shots over Modern Combat: Sandstorm has come out.





The game is expected to come out on the App Store before the first of September but it may be delayed.

[Source: Slide to Play]

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Chage Home Screen Easily

Are you tired of slowly dragging icons from one page to another? Well now Jeff Stieler has created a Mac-based application that easily allows you to move around icons on your iPhone or iPod touch. The App runs off of your Mac OSX 10.5 and jailbroken iPhone and supports multi-app dragging.

If you are a Windows user, or you haven't jailbroken, you can wait for iTunes 9 which is rumored to have this feature officially created by Apple. iTunes 9 has been released and it does have this feature for both Windows and Mac users. You can download iTunes here.

You can check out the site for Movement here.



Sunday, August 23, 2009

Top 50 Paid Apps-Week of Aug 22

  1. Camera Genius – CodeGoo
  2. Civilization Revolution – 2K Games
  3. Cartoon Wars – BLUE
  4. Moto X Mayhem – Occamy Games
  5. Ragdoll Blaster – A Physics Puzzler – Backflip Studios
  6. SCRABBLE – Electronic Arts
  7. DOOM Resurrection – id Software
  8. Camera Zoom v1.1 – KendiTech
  9. Texts From Last Night – Texts From Last Night
  10. Paper Toss: World Tour – Backflip Studios
  11. The Oregon Trail – Gameloft
  12.  emoji iEmoji icons – get smiley, emoticon keyboard – SpiceLoop
  13. Bejeweled® 2 – PopCap Games, Inc.
  14. Pocket God – Bolt Creative
  15. iFitness – Medical Productions
  16. Doodle Jump – BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive! – Lima Sky
  17. PGA Championship – PGA.com
  18. ColorSplash – Pocket Pixels Inc.
  19. Minigore – Chillingo Ltd
  20. Flight Control – Firemint
  21. The Moron Test – DistinctDev
  22. Offender Locator – ThinAir Wireless
  23. Grocery iQ – Coupons.com
  24. 20Q™ Mind Reader – Digital Chocolate, Inc.
  25. Rope'n'Fly – HiB
  26. 10 Pin Shuffle™ (Bowling) – Digital Smoke LLC
  27. Deer Hunter 3D – Glu
  28. The Weather Channel® Max – The Weather Channel Interactive
  29. TETRIS® – Electronic Arts
  30. Camera Flash – Imaging Luminary, LLC
  31. NFL 2010 – Gameloft
  32. Parachute Panic – FDG Entertainment
  33. Ricky – nabil chatbi
  34. Solitaire – MobilityWare
  35. 1,001 Ringtones (50% Off) – JLC Mobile
  36. StickWars – John E. Hartzog
  37. Flight of the Hamsters – Cartoon Network
  38. Weber’s On the Grill™ – Weber-Stephen Products Co.
  39. F.A.S.T. — Fleet Air Superiority Training! – SGN
  40. The Wars – Clickgamer.com
  41. Flick Fishing – Freeverse, Inc.
  42. iBeer (5 drinks, more gags) – Hottrix
  43. 1,001 Ringtones Pro (50% Off) – JLC Mobile
  44. Postman – Freeverse, Inc.
  45. StoneLoops! of Jurassica – PlayCreek
  46. The Price Is Right™ – Ludia
  47. Duke Nukem 3D – MachineWorks Northwest
  48. Turbo Subs – I-play
  49. Deal or No Deal: Million Dollar Mission – I-play
  50. Convert ~ the unit calculator – tap tap tap

Saturday, August 22, 2009

iDevice Dictionary

Confused about some of the words used on this site and others in the iPod touch community? Use this as your mini-dictionary.

Accelerometer
A 3-axis device that is implemented into your iPhone or iPod touch to tell which way it is facing.

Baseband
The baseband, only in iPhones, gives the firmware access to its modem chip.

Bricking
'Bricking' you iPod means to mess up you iPod so badly that it has no function, essentially a $300 brick. Some users think this may have happened to their device but this is virtually impossible, bricking only happened in the very first firmwares (1.1.1).

DFU Mode
DFU is Device Firmware Upgrade mode for your iPod. To get your device into DFU follow the directions below:
  1. Turn on your iPod. If you can't get it to do anything, just get it as close to "on" as possible.
  2. Hold the power and home buttons down for 10 seconds.
  3. Let go of the power button and keep holding the home button.
  4. Your computer will detect your iPod and make a sound. When you hear the sound, you can let go of the home button and restore through iTunes.

Emu/Emulator
An Emulator is a program that simulates the conditions of another device. If you jailbreak, you can get Gameboy, NES, and Playstation 1 (PSX) emulators for your device.

Firmware
Firmware is the operating system of your iPod. To your firmware version, on your iPod go to Settings, General, About, and then Version.

Home Button
The circular button found on the front face of your device.

Jailbreak
Jailbreak is making you iPod Touch available to apps and other upgrades that aren't from Apple. This includes themes, games, music, downloads, and much more.

Power Button
The thin button found at the very top of your device.

Repo/Source
A repo, short for repository, is a website that contains packages that can be downloaded from Cydia. A source is the same thing.

Springboard
Essentially the 'Desktop' of your iPod. This is where your icons are located.

SSH
This allows you to connect to your device from your computer and view all files inside of it. You can use WinScp or Cyberduck to do this.

Unlock
If you unlock your iPhone, you can use it with other carriers besides the ones that Apple would like you to use. This requires a jailbreak.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Spyware on AppStore?

Apps from PinchMedia and Medialytics have recently been found to be tracking iPhone users data similar to what spyware on a computer would do. Applications from these developers can tell the type of your iDevice, if you are jailbroken or not, and your current location when you open the app.

To some users this can seem like a major privacy breach.But no need to worry! Because Saurik, PinchMedia, and Medialytics along with others of the jailbroken community have been able to work out a solution as to how private information can be stopped from others. The solution, PrivaCy. This package from Cydia, released on Sauriks source can be downloaded for free and gives the option in the Settings.app to turn off the tracking service. You can read Saurik's full description on PrivaCy and its creation below.


It has recently come to the attention of angry Cydia users that they are being watched by many of the applications they have installed from the App Store.

Sites like I-phone-home have been discussing this in detail, leading to a post on the Dev-Team Blog about one provider in particular: Pinch Media.

Pinch Media, however, is not the only tracking provider: on the iPhone alone there are three other companies:
Flurry, Medialets, and Mobclix.

Developers integrate these systems for much the same reason people use Google Analytics: to better understand how their customers use their products.

Unfortunately, due to the restrictions Apple places on their App Store, these providers are unable to directly interface with the users they affect.

Instead, they rely on developers of every single application to document what information is being logged, and allow users to "opt-out" if they desire.

Thanks to applicatons like redsn0w and Cydia, however, these restrictions are no longer important: a system-wide global "opt-out" setting is now possible.

Pinch Media realized this fact, and took the lead in contacting me regarding getting this feature out there to all the users of jailbroken devices: they care.

With BigBoss, we then contacted all of the other providers, getting not only their blessing, but also their technical expertise in disabling their systems.

The result is PrivaCy: a new Settings panel that allows you to selectively opt-out of sending anonymous usage statistics to each of these providers.

This extension was a team effort, and was able to be executed as quickly as it was thanks to the help and interest of the companies involved.
[Via Cydia]

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Gangstar Released!

Forget 2D and 2.5D games like Car Jack Streets and Payback, one of the most famed and seemingly epic GTA clones has been released by Gameloft. Gangstar: West Coast Hustle by Gameloft was previously thought to be called Gang$tar but was changed. You can explore over 50 missions with gangs around a fully 3-D Los Angeles. You can drive, fight, shoot, or steal though out the entire game trying to "Get rich or die trying"!


If you're having trouble having the game to start or to stop crashing, check out this video.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

iPhone 3GS Shot with 9mm and Burned!

Hyperplasia07 of YouTube has a very strong opinion about Apple and it's supposedly 'evil' so he shot and burned his iPhone 3GS. Check out his description of the video below.



I have bought all three generations of iPhones on launch day, but I cannot take it any longer.

In the end, it was rejection of Google Voice from the App Store that drove me to this point, but that was just the tip of the spear. Whether it is their refusal to let other gadgets such as the Palm Pre interface with iTunes, or their Draconian App Store procedures...I simply cannot support them with a clear conscience, which is why I chose to end the life of my iPhone in this manner instead of selling it--after all, who would want to pass on a cancer to another person?

Apple may have fooled the world with their witty commercials and bright t-shirts, but they will no longer fool me. Their approach has helped them gain a sizable chunk of the PC market, but as their popularity grows, people will begin to see them for what they really are--a corporation far more "evil" than Microsoft would ever dream to be.

Apple is turning consumerism into communism. Any entity that enforces such anti-competitive practices and dictates what their paying population can and cannot have without any explanation, consistency, or reason is communistic. It's wrong and I will no longer support it.

[Via YouTube]

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

[Update]Amazing Games Coming to an iPhone Near You

If you didn't know it already, there are some real high-hitting game companies that are developing for iPhone. These include Konami, Electronic Arts (EA), and Warner Bros. Here is an ever growing list of anticipated games coming out soon.

All games that have already been released in the app store will be crossed out.


  • Kill Test (LiveFire)- From the creators of Rolando, this multiplayer FPS resembles older versions of Halo. Release date: Summer '09.


  • Ffia '10- The next soccer app most likely to compete with RealSoccer '09 and X2Football.
  • NFS: Shift- The next app in the line of Need for Speed games.
  • Gang$tar- This app looks to be the true Grand Theft Auto of iPhone.


  • Tekken- A popular fighting game ported to iPhone.
  • BioShock- A 3D first person shooter. Not too much is known except it is coming.
  • Re-Volt- Another first person shooter. Developed by Canadian IUGO.


  • Payback- a Grand Theft Auto like game with a birds eye view.


  • SimCity- just like SimCity for other platforms. Build your city and make it prosper.



  • Need for Speed Undercover- The very highly anticipated version of NFS for iPod touch and iPhone. Even after months of delay, this game has still not come out. Only time will tell when this will really come out.

  • 7 Cities- An amazingly in-depth tower defense game.


  • Lego Batman: Gotham City- This turned out to be a huge flop. It was nothing like the game on other platforms.
  • Metal Gear Solid Another very anticipated game. It was scheduled to come out during the end of February 2009, no word on when it is now coming out.




  • Platypus- A 'cute' side scrolling shooter.


  • Modern Combat: Sandstorm- An FPS created by Gameloft which looks very similar to a game like Call of Duty or similar.

Monday, August 10, 2009

iPod touch 3rd Generation Concepts

As September 9th (the expected date of the 3rd Generation iPod touch to be revealed) looms closer and closer, concepts of Apple's new touchscreen device are emerging. From the very real and likely to the very bizarre, check out these iPod touch 3rd Generation concepts. Also if you haven't already, click the yellow button below.


Thursday, August 6, 2009

NFL 2010 Released!

Another of Gameloft's very anticipated games has been released to the App Store today. NFL 2010 released days after the fist screen shots were put out to the public.




Similar to Madden NFL 2010 by EA this game features Gameloft's standard of graphics and quality. The game comes with a Quick Play mode as well as Exhibition, Season, and Playoffs. This is one game to seriously check out for football fanatics.