Ever want a new look, and an overall different way to download packages after you’ve jailbroken? Cydia, the main package installer for all jailbroken devices can sometimes get old to some users. There have been many alternatives, such as ICY, Kryptes, and such which of course got big over time. Introducing a new Installer to [...]
Apple’s serious about mobile gaming — the company’s newest iPhone and iPod touch models include best of class ARM processors, a good bit o’ RAM and richly detailed OpenGL graphics. Moreover, Cupertino’s been kitting out its in-house iPhone game development team with Graeme Devine of Halo Wars fame already onboard. No matter how you measure [...]
Apple is no doubt already hard at work on iPhone OS 3.2, the second minor update to the third major release of their mobile platform. Sure, we got iPhone 3.1 just on Sept. 9, but looking back, we should expect to see the first beta versions of 3.2 sooner rather than later. By way of [...]
In the 2 1/2 years since the iPhone’s release, no other cell phone has come close to getting the same amount of hype — until now. Enter Motorola’s Droid, a Verizon offering that represents the best refinement of Google’s Android mobile operating system to date. It doesn’t take long for it to prove that it’s [...]
When we took our first look at the TomTom app for iPhone, it seemed like a perfectly competent helper for getting from points A-to-B. But, we couldn’t help but notice that a few of our favorite GPS navigation features were notably absent–particularly TTS instructions and graphic lane guidance. Well, there’s good news for users of the [...]
iPhone firmware 3.2 will without a doubt be launched this year. At least that’s what I think. Firmware 3.1 has been among us only two weeks now, but there are a lot of complaints about it. Especially the so called “coma mode”. Okay, so firmware 2.1 was released September 12th 2008. OS 2.2 beta 1 [...]
U.K. wireless carrier Orange just started selling the iPhone, and it is trumpeting first-day sales numbers for the device. The carrier signed up 30,000 people with a new iPhone contract on Tuesday, its first day selling Apple’s smartphone, according to a post on Twitter from a member of Orange’s marketing department. While 30,000 isn’t necessarily a lot, compared [...]
Intego spotted another piece of malware that attacks iPhones. Intego identifies and named the malware iPhone/Privacy.A, takes advantage of the same vulnerability in the iPhone as the ikee worm. We need to clarify that all these worms/hacks/malware can infect only those jailbroken iPhone whose SSH was turned on with the default root:alpine configuration. That doesn’t means all [...]
Our 10 winners are @tweeter_lover, @PulseonGoogle, @SplendidSuccess, @John_Corey, @coolcatplayer, @trcbbiz, @varunjain34, @yagoaviles, @km3k, and @junior_barba.Congrats to these 3 and I will be doing another giveaway if I get more invites. Rest 5 winners will be announced soon! Congratulations to the winners!!
If your iPhone was recently “Rickrolled” by a worm that targets jailbroken iPhones, the following six steps will show you how to change the root password–used to connect to your device via a Unix software secure shell–to protect yourself in the future. Before starting, you will need to have MobileTerminal installed from the Cydia store. [...]
