As we mentioned here, Aurora Feint was removed from the App Store, apparently due to the fact that it’s Community Feature sent all of a player’s contacts to the author’s server — unencrypted and without warning. Today, a new version has been posted that addresses the security concerns and improves the stability of the game, fixes several bugs, and adds a few new features and levels to boot!
UPDATE: If you haven’t installed the updated version, you may wish to hold off. Numerous users are reporting bugs with it.
Just a few days after Pwnage Tool launched as a Mac-only first jailbreak application for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 software, there is now a Windows solution as well.
Winpwn 2.0 is the answer for Windows users looking to jailbreak iPhone 2.0 / 3G models. Among its features are:
Aurora Feint, the thoroughly excellent (and free, would you believe?) game has been removed from the App Store due to privacy concerns over its Community feature, which allowed you to see which of your friends were playing the game at the same time. The concern surrounds the fact that Aurora Feint apparently uploads your entire Contacts list — unencrypted — to the developer’s server.
Posted By Lincoln on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 under General | 2 Comments
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One of the nifty features of the 2.0 software is taking screenshots by pressing the Home and Lock buttons at the same time. There are lots of ways to make use of the feature: screenshots for an app review, capturing your home screen to show to your friends, or grabbing a page in Safari to look at later.
However, there’s one quite useful feature of it discovered by James1292 on the Apple Discussions board. It’s a way to crop photos on your iPhone, a feature that has been frequently asked for. It’s simple to do; just zoom in on the portion of the image you want to crop, and take a screenshot. There will then be a new image of the area you selected. Of course, this won’t result in the highest quality image, (quality will decrease as you zoom further) but it’s a start.
One of the many noticeable weak areas so far in the iPhone 2.0 software is a certain amount of lag / slowness in various places. For me, the Contacts application, and in particular the Search portion of it, is one area where this is definitely felt.
So I was very glad to come across a quick but super useful tip from everythingiCafe forum member i Robot - in this thread - which points out that the new (and free) Google Search app does a great job at searching contacts.
And it sure does. It feels considerably faster to me than the built-in app, and lets you tap to go directly to a selected contact just as you can in the built-in applet. A little embarassing for Apple that Google’s app can out-do theirs, but good for us to know about
When you Google “iPhone apps”, this website comes up as the top hit. When you view, the page, you see an offer that reminds you of MacHeist; a bundle of the “top 10 iPhone apps”, that all go for a price of $24.95, which the website calls “a steal”
However, there are quite a few interesting things about it, if you look deeper. First of all, you are required to jailbreak your iPhone to use these application, and the website does not state this on the home page or state that you cannot install the apps with the consent of Apple. Also, in order to jailbreak the iPhone, the website sells ZiPhone, a freeware jailbreaking app. Also, there are two interesting apps in the bundle; a screenshot app and a VNC app. Taking screenshots is supported in the 2.0 firmware, and there is a free VNC app in the AppStore. Hmmm.
The website also contains a lot of improper grammar, and the link to the “Live Chat” does not work. There have been customers of the website that have lost their money and not received the bundle. I advise you not to buy these applications and to avoid the website.
Mocha VNC is one of the most talked about and popular (currently Number 29 on the Top Free Apps list) free apps available in the iPhone App Store - offering a client for remotely connecting to your computer via the iPhone.
Now, in addition to the original ‘Lite’ - and free - version, there is also a Full, paid-for version. The Full version goes for $5.99.
Our good friend Dan over at What’s On iPhone has got a post up detailing what you get with the Full version, and some thoughts on whether it’s worthwhile.
For now, the Full version’s extras are pretty minimal it seems to me, but maybe these will be extended over time.
Check out Dan’s post HERE for the full comparison …
Posted By PatrickJ on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 under General | No Comments
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But under the hood, MobileSafari 2.0’s performance is hugely improved over 1.1.4. Everything related to web surfing feels faster, and in side-by-side comparisons using my wife’s iPhone running 1.1.4, web pages consistently load faster on 2.0, both via Wi-Fi and EDGE. This has nothing to do with the new iPhone 3G hardware — this is about dramatic performance improvements on original iPhones upgraded to the 2.0 OS …
The results are obvious. WebKit JavaScript performance has improved steadily and significantly in just one year, with a huge jump between 1.1.4 and the new 2.0.0.
John Gruber at the excellent Daring Fireball site has done some benchmark testing of the MobileSafari browser on the iPhone, comparing the performance under the latest 2.0 software to previous firmware - and seeing major speed improvements under 2.0.
John’s article also points out that this speed gain is not only felt in the Safari browser on the iPhone, but also in many other apps that make use of their own built-in WebKit browsers - like NetNewsWire, Twitterific, and many others.
My own feeling so far is in line with these tests - browsing and page loading does seem a fair bit faster under the new firmware. What do you all think? How are you finding the browsing experience / performance on 2.0?
Well folks … It’s here! And so far it’s very cool!
Unfortunately there’s not a lot I can say because I’ve had it installed for all of five minutes… But mobile blogging just got taken to a whole new level. I’m surenyou can expect to see a full write-up by someone here at JAiB soon enough - but for now - just know it works well enough that this whole post was done from my iPhone… Not a laptop in sight!
Posted By PatrickJ on Monday, July 21, 2008 under General | 2 Comments
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Nate True - creator of Tap Tap Revenge and old-school iPhone hacking guru - has posted a set of detailed instructions for tethering with the iPhone 3G - so that you can make use of its 3G speeds as a modem for a laptop or similar.
The process requires a jailbroken iPhone 3G, involves a relatively lengthy set of steps on both the iPhone and a desktop browser, and is not for the faint of heart for sure. It is also absolutely against the terms of your AT&T contract and doing it could leave you exposed to data overage charges!
If you’re cool with all of the above warnings and keen to give tethering a crack, check out Nate’s step-by-step guide HERE …
The market for jailbreak apps is ONLY in countries where there is no App Store. Hackers and non-mainstream apps will move over to Android… — Craig Hockenberry, IconFactory (makers of Twitterific)
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