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Josh’s Favorite Jailbreak Apps

January 11, 2010

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on more than just a brief news announcement. As the end of the year was quite hectic for me, I wasn’t able to dish out the typical quality app review I’d normally do. Well, now that we’re under way in 2010, I figure I’d take an opportunity [...]

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OverBoard and ProSwitcher for iPhone updated: more activation methods [Impressions]

January 8, 2010

The jailbreak apps Pro Switcher (free Palm Pre styled task switcher) and OverBoard ($1.99 iPhone Exposé) both received minor updates recently, but because of the lack of any version history, you’d be hard pressed to find out what exactly has changed. That’s alright, though, because I’ve written this post to share some of the team’s [...]

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Dev Team Releases New Pwnage Tool Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2

October 13, 2009

Following the release of the blackra1n jailbreak app from GeoHot this weekend, the Dev Team has now released an updated version of their Pwnage Tool jailbreak package.  The new Version, 3.1.4, now supports iPhone OS 3.1.2 on the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS and iPod Touch 1G/2G.
This version of Pwnage Tool is Mac only – although once [...]

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Tlert – Pop-up SMS Notifications For Jailbroken iPhones

September 10, 2009

I’ve found another jailbreak gem! As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’m relatively new to the iPhone jailbreaking world, and am constantly hearing about or finding new jailbreak apps that are just amazing.
This time, it’s a little app called Tlert. Tlert ties in with the existing Messages app to provide a less intrusive texting [...]

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Another Jailbreak App: Lock Calendar – View Upcoming Calendar Events From Your Lock Screen

September 8, 2009

As part of my ongoing foray into the iPhone jailbreaking underworld, I’m stumbling across all sorts of amazing apps, some very useful, some just plain fun. A commenter on my personal blog tonight referred me to one such jailbreak app called Lock Calendar.
As the name suggests, Lock Calendar adds an overlay to your lock screen [...]

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Jailbreak App: qTweeter – My New Favorite iPhone Twitter App

September 8, 2009

This past holiday weekend (for those of us in the US), I decided to give jailbreaking another chance on my iPhone 3G.
What prompted it? Well, when my stock iPhone lost all connectivity to AT&T’s network, and no amount of rebooting or reinserting the SIM card would help, AT&T finally suggested I perform a full restore [...]

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Where Are All The Jailbreak Apps?

August 30, 2009

Here’s something I’ve been noticing more and more on Cydia lately: there’s a real scarcity of ‘real apps’ whenever I browse through the ‘Changes’ section that shows new arrivals in the Cydia store.  The two screencaps above show some of yesterday’s new items -almost entirely themes, ringtones, and apps related to those.  In [...]

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Review – Inspell: System Wide Spelling Corrections for (jailbroken) iPhones

August 25, 2009

I have always felt that the iPhone deals with spelling mistakes the wrong way. I make spelling mistakes all the time, not just because my typing is sometimes wrong, but because I use slang words often. The iPhone does not know how to differentiate between these two types of mistakes, so it simply tries to [...]

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Want To Stop All Data Tracking in Your iPhone Apps? There’s a (jailbreak) App for That

August 23, 2009

The recent controversy over iPhone apps that ‘phone home’ with data about users – which had Pinch Media and its analytics tracking code right at its center – has led to some solid efforts from Pinch and others, and to some good solutions for users who want more obvious and easy opt-out of having [...]

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iPhone 3GS Jailbreak – After 3 Weeks: Stable, Fast & Not Feeling It with Themes

August 18, 2009

Well … it’s been a little over 3 weeks of running my iPhone 3GS jailbroken now (just over 23 days actually) – and I have to say I’m very happy with it.
Stability has settled down and is now almost as rock solid as when the 3GS was running ‘stock’.  In fact, the phone has [...]

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