If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone running the 2.0 firmware, you’ve currently just got the Cydia application for installing new apps, not the old, familiar Installer app that was the far more ‘mainstream’ option up through firmware 1.1.4.
Good news if you’re hankering for Installer though - an update last week on the RiP Dev blog sounds very positive:
Hi folks! Many of you are wondering what’s up with Installer 4. No, we haven’t slowed down the work on it, and are currently in the final stages of hooking the GUI to the back-end. We will be contacting the authors of the major repositories in a few days to invite them into the testing process and to prepare for the upcoming repository changes.
Installer Kicks App Store’s Arse?
So hopefully we are not far off seeing Installer released for iPhone 2.0 - and it’s looking awfully good in the preview screenshots like the one above. Check out more of them HERE.
After having spent a few weeks with the App Store now, I have to say the content of it (i.e. the number of cool apps) is very impressive. But … the performance, the actual working of the App Store is not so great. I’d say Installer kicked its butt in working solidly and just doing its job reliably.
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:
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.
Tonight I’ve used the brand new Pwnage Tool 2.0 and pwned my V1 iPhone with a custom build of the iPhone 2.0 software - hence the App Store and Cydia sitting happily next to each other in the above screenshot.
So I thought I’d share a few quick impressions of the new version of the popular Pwnage Tool, and some sceencaps of what you’ll see as you run through the latest pwning process …
Tonight the Dev Team has released the new Pwnage Tool 2.0 - which can jailbreak the iPhone 3G model and the iPhone 2.0 software.
The software does not yet provide an unlock capability, but it does offer its well-known easy interface for jailbreaking the iPhone V1, iPod Touch, or iPhone 3G.
I’ll be trying it out on my V1 iPhone running the 2.0 software very shortly.
There’s only a Mac version right now - hopefully a Windows version is in the works.
You can download the new Pwnage HERE - try the BigBoss mirror link towards the bottom of the page for faster download results …
5 days. Looks like that is all it took for the Dev Team to jailbreak the new iPhone 3G.
Their (very?) soon to be released new version of the Pwnage Tool app will now support the V1 iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPhone 3G - allowing you the classic ‘have your cake and eat it too’ sort of environment on the iPhone - as in, run the new 2.0 iPhone software and enjoy the App Store, and also run jailbreak apps that Apple won’t allow into the store, like video recording programs and apps that let you theme and customize the device.
The new Pwnage Tool has not been released yet, but it sounds like it is very close.
Check Out the Dev Team blog post HERE for more details and a video …
There’s some very positive sounding stuff around today on the progress and prospects of a 2.0 firmware jailbreak. ModMyiFone are reporting what for now are rumors on the Dev Team conquering 2.0, along with several screencaps like the one shown above - check out Installer an Cydia sitting right next to the App Store!
Also, earlier today Nate True - one of the leading and first iPhone hackers, former Dev Team member, and developer of Tap Tap Revolution - had this to say on Twitter:
iPhone 2.0 firmware is definitely already jailbroken. might be a couple days before they get it all tested, packaged, and released, though
All sounding very good if you’re in the ‘want my cake and to eat it too’ group who does not want to upgrade to 2.0 until there is a jailbreak. Although of course the next thing many will be wanting to see is their favorite jailbreak apps getting updated for the 2.0 firmware (Hey Dave!). Here’s hoping both efforts are moving along as quickly as it sounds like they are
Bored with the standard iPhone keyboard layout? Always fancied a it of that MacBook Air keyboard goodness?
If so, you may want to check out this latest mod for the iPhone keyboard - the MacBook Air Keyboard, from katak.
I tried to resist this one, but it just looked shiny and pretty and I had to give it a try. May be just my poor eyesight, but the keys on it look and feel smaller than the normal keyboard - but despite that I find myself liking it quite a bit so far.
The app warns you during its install that you should uninstall any other customized keyboards prior to installing it, or abort the install if that is not something you want to do.
I’ve uninstalled the app and reverted back to the normal keyboard without any issues - just to test - and have since gone back to the MBA style and it’s growing on me.
You can find the MacBook Air Keyboard on Installer now, via the Planet-iPhones source - which is part of Community Sources now, so you should not need to add any sources for this one …
In the last few days I’ve added a Kaleidoscope program to the iPhone (shown in the screencap above). It - well - makes kaleidoscope shapes as you move and tilt the iPhone. I’ve also installed a simple ‘talking’ clock app - that displays the time quite plainly in a digital clock style and speaks the time out when you tap the screen.
A third program I’ve looked at over recent days is called CatchPhrase, and it tracks - you guessed it - catchy phrases that you hear friends and others using.
Each of these apps does a perfectly good job at doing pretty simple things as far as I can see - nothing wrong with ‘em at all. But … I have to say I’m not mentioning them because any or all of them knocked my socks off …
iSpazio has released a big new Icon Pack for the Theme Builder app, containing some 750 icons to work with …
A few weeks back we told you about the Theme Builder application for iPhone - which lets you edit existing themes and build your own theme from scratch right on the iPhone itself. It’s a great program and is the perfect solution for when you have a theme you really like but just wish the icons were a little different, or icons you love on another theme, but you just want to swap the wallpaper.
Theme Builder lets you modify and create themes to satisfy all your personal tweaking desires. The only slightly disappointing thing about Theme Builder on its initial release was that there were only a small handful of wallpapers, docks, and icons provided to use when creating your new masterpieces.
iSpazio’s new Icon Pack for Theme Builder has now been released - with around 750 icons to play with when editing and creating themes. There are some very familiar / popular looking sets included in the pack - and a good number that I wouldn’t mind using at all.
It’s good to see a first icon pack for Theme Builder - and I hope we’ll start to see lots more add-on packs to help spur us all on in coming up with our perfect, custom themes.
You can find the iSpazio Icon Pack on Installer now …
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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