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iPhone Modding

Now That Is How You Make an iPhone a MYphone

June 28, 2009

Excellent.  20 reasons to jailbreak right there baby.
Source: Gizmodo via JAMM
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R.I.P to Ripdev’s Installer App

June 21, 2009

Ripdev have announced this week that they will soon be effectively shutting down their Installer app and its app repositories.  This will happen on July 1st – so if there is something you urgently want off there, best to go get it now, or very soon.
Installer was the very first medium for browsing, finding, [...]

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Appledeco = Another Good Spot for Free iPhone Wallpapers

May 4, 2009

One of the things I like best about Twitter lately is that I’m continually discovering cool new apps / sites / services through new followers who represent them.  One of today’s examples is the Appledeco site – which provides a large pool of free iPhone wallpapers.
The wallpapers at Appledeco do not seem to be [...]

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Downgraded from 3.0 to 2.2.1 – Some Quick Thoughts

March 26, 2009

So … I flip-flopped again today.  Decided to do the downgrade from iPhone OS 3.0 back to 2.2.1.  I am glad I took a look at 3.0, and have no big regrets about doing so.  There was nothing terribly wrong with 3.0 that drove me away.
But … as expected from a brand new beta [...]

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Dev Team Says iPhone OS 3.0 Is Jailbreakable

March 18, 2009

Words that will be music to many iPhoners’ ears …
And for those wondering, yes the 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices.

That’s an excerpt from a short post at the iPhone Dev Team’s site, which primarily warns against updating or restoring to 3.0 if you are unlocked via yellowsn0w (the Dev Team’s iPhone 3G [...]

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New Clippy App Offers Copy/Paste for Jailbroken iPhones

January 20, 2009

Oh well, here’s one of those days when I feel a little envious of those who are running jailbroken iPhones - since they’ve got a new application called Clippy, that sounds like quite a decent copy & paste solution.
The new app is available now in Cydia, via the iSpazio source - and it’s getting a [...]

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Dev Team Live Video of iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak - On Quik Now

January 17, 2009

As promised, the iPhone Dev Team are giving a live video demo of their ‘Redsn0w’ jailbreak for the iPod Touch 2G - right now.
The demo includes running a NES emulator app. The jailbreak is not ready for Joe Public yet - it’s described as “a tethered jailbreak, not useful to many people” in tis current [...]

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Zibri Handing Off the Ziphone Site

January 14, 2009

Zibri - creator of the hugely popular Ziphone jailbreak application for the iPhone - is handing off his Ziphone dedicated site next month, as he no longer has time to manage it. From February onwards, Zibri will not “have anything more to do with this site”.
Although he mentions that David (who he is handing over [...]

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New Hack Allows 5 Columns on iPhone Springboard

January 8, 2009

Apple iPhone School have got a sneak preview up of an interesting new hack - called Five-Column Springboard - that, funnily enough, allows you to get five columns of icons on your iPhone Home screens.
Their post includes a demo video with icons being moved around in the five-column grid - check it out HERE - [...]

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iPhone Dev Team Interview at Mobile Crunch

December 31, 2008

Before the release of the iPhone I used to use Symbian devices (mainly Nokia) and I would always belooking for the next device, the next upgrade, the next vendor. These devices held my attention for a couple of months and I’d be spending my money on a new handset to get the next gadget high. [...]

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Apple Staff Love Their Pwnage / Jailbreak Tools???

December 28, 2008

Lovely little tidbit from an iPhone Dev Team video presentation titled ‘How The iPhone Was Hacked’.
Just in case it’s not clear in the screencap above, the last point mentions that there are some 180 IP addresses from within the Apple corporate range that very actively update their Pwnage Tools.
Just keeping tabs on the opposition in [...]

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