From the monthly archives:

August 2008

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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, [...]

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Update: Installer 4.0 Beta is now included in the PwnageTool 2.0.2.
Installer 4.0 Beta has just been leaked, and if you are brave enough to try and install it on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, you can follow this tutorial.
Note: There aren’t much apps there yet.
Step 1. Download Installer 4.0 Beta
Download HERE and copy the [...]

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Nullriver recently released an application to the App Store that will turn your iPhone 2.0 into a wireless modem. Unfortunately, the $10 application, called NetShare, didn’t stay in the App Store for long. Apple or Nullriver still has to offer an explanation as to why NetShare was going in and out of the App Store [...]

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Update 2: If you upgrade to iPhone 2.1 with the PwnageTool 2.1, you need to perform this procedure again and use the patched MobileInstallation 2.1 file.
Update 1: If you upgrade to iPhone 2.0.1 with the PwnageTool 2.0.2, you need to perform this procedure again.
So you have jailbroken your iPhone 2.0 with the PwnageTool so you [...]

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