iPhone App Review: Cycorder

August 26th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone, iPhone Apps

If you’re looking for an application that can turn your iPhone into a video cam, you won’t find any from the Apple App Store yet. But if you have a jailbroken iPhone 2.0, rejoice! Available from Cydia are actually not one but two iPhone video recorders. One is free and the other costs $19.95 with a trial version. So which one is better? Depends on what you want to achieve.

Personally, I prefer the free Cycorder that was developed by Jay Freeman (Saurik), the creator of Cydia; not really because it’s free, but because of the better video quality it produces. The only drawback is, it doesn’t have audio capability. Not bad if you want to produce silent movies. On the other hand, the iPhone Video Recorder has more options, supports audio and compresses video files better but the quality, even at the “Best” option, pales in comparison to Cycorder. More »

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PwnageTool 2.0.3 and Windows QuickPwn 1.50 Released

August 26th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone

PwnageTool 2.0.3

The iPhone Dev Team has released an update to its PwnageTool that provides support for the iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0.2 5C1. You can click “Check for Updates” on your PwnageTool application or download directly here.

Note from the iPhone Dev Team:

The application SHOULD ONLY be downloaded as a .tbz file from our servers and should NOT be decompressed using the application called “the unarchiver” (this breaks permissions within PwnageTool) just use the standard OS X built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress. The SHA1 sum of PwnageTool_2.0.3.tbz is 91e670e0c623cd43f5e8cfbfaae6c23d98d8f31b More »

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iPhone Apps To Help You Relax and Fall Asleep

August 24th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone, iPhone Apps

I sometimes have a hard time falling asleep at night even when everything is quiet… maybe too quiet. When counting sheep simply does not work, I find it helpful to listen to an audio book on my iPhone like Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or Stephen Hawking’s “A Briefer History of Time”. Usually, I’m asleep in about an hour into the story. The problem however is, I usually wake up in the middle of the night with the audio book still playing and I have to turn it off, and that brings me back to where I started—awake. More »

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Pwn and Jailbreak Your iPhone 2.0.x with QuickPwn for Windows

August 21st, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone

The iPhone Dev Team has released a new tool that will allow an iPhone running firmware 2.0, 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 to be “Pwned” (the ability to install future custom non-Apple firmwares) and jailbroken. This time however, instead of releasing for the Mac first, the new tool, named QuickPwn for Windows has been released obviously for Windows only. Although I have a Windows PC and Windows Vista on my Mac via Parallels Desktop, I decided to wait for the official version of the tool for the Mac. After all, this Windows version is still in Beta and there is no compelling reason for an immediate upgrade to iPhone 2.0.2. More »

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Something Eggciting with Ziphone?

August 18th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone

With the iPhone Dev Team’s success with jailbreaking iPhone 2.0 and 2.0.1, have we seen the last of Zibri’s Ziphone? Many thought so… but today we just got a cryptic message from Zibri.

Like the egg of Columbus
sometimes the best solution
is the simplier.
Stay tuned.

Isn’t this eggciting?!

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WordPress 2.6.1 Released

August 17th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in WordPress

WordPress 2.6.1 is a maintenance release for those already using ver. 2.6. This means bugs have been fixed although there are still some lurking around particularly in the post editor, like certain custom characters are not recognized. Those with older versions, are recommended to make an upgrade due to some neat and useful features added in 2.6. More »

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iPhone App Review: DataCase

August 14th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone, iPhone Apps

While Caravan (see my review) lets the user use the iPhone or iPod Touch to transfer files to and from a computer, the $6.99 DataCase application lets the user use the computer to transfer files between computer and iPhone.

DataCase supports the Apple File Transfer Protocol (AFP) on the Mac and the web protocol, HTTP, for file browsing and downloading on your computer’s web browser. And, like Caravan, it also supports FTP and Bonjour network connections; but unlike with Caravan, you don’t need to configure FTP on your computer when using DataCase; in fact you don’t need to share your files on you computer at all. Your iPhone becomes both the FTP and HTTP server on which your computer connects to. More »

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iPhone App Review: Caravan - Your Home Folder On the Go

August 12th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone, iPhone Apps
Caravan App

Caravan App

The $2.99 Caravan application from the AppStore is one of those useful apps that lets you easily transfer files from your computer to your mobile device. Unlike other file transfer apps such as FileMagnet, Files and FTP on The Go, Caravan lets you view or listen to the files in your remote computer directly on your iPhone without saving them first (of course you can also save the files to your iPhone if you wish). While Caravan is a great way to access files on your computer, the lack of a good documentation on how to use it makes it seem more difficult to use than it really is. More »

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Tutorial: How to Use PwnageTool 2.0.2 and Update iPhone to Firmware 2.0.1

August 9th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone

This is a turorial on how to use PwnageTool 2.0.2 and update your iPhone to 2.0.1. For Mac only!

Step 1. Download PwnageTool 2.0.2 here.

Step 2. Backup your iPhone to iTunes

Step 3. Open iTunes, and from the iPhone -> Summary tab, download (do not update) the latest iPhone firmware 2.0.1 (iPhone1,1_2.0.1_5B108_Restore.ipsw).

Step 4. Open PwnageTool 2.0.2.

Step 5. Select iPhone and click on next arrow. More »

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Globe Releases 3G iPhone Pricing : Hold On to Your Old One!

August 7th, 2008 | Comments | Posted in iPhone

Globe Telecoms officially announced yesterday the much awaited launch date of the Apple iPhone 3G, the first official iPhone offering in the country. August 22 may be a red-letter date for Globe, guaranteed to make their executives and die-hard iPhone fanatics wide awake as BigBoss’ Insomia application, but to the majority of Filipino iPhone fans, it might as well be a big disappointment and that could lead to a self-induced switch to sleep mode.

You see, Apple advertises the new iPhone 3G as “Twice as fast. Half the price”. But for Globe’s initial pricing scheme, the only thing twice as fast will be how your wallet or credit card empties. The cost for an 8 GB iPhone 3G Prepaid Kit is currently pegged at P41,889 ($950), a far cry from Apple’s advertisement of “starting at $199″. Wow, a mighty huge difference that makes a Dela Hoya versus Pacquiao fantasy fight look like a fair match. More »

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