When your iPhone is connected to your computer, iTunes displays a color-coded capacity bar at the bottom. The problem often occurs with the Other category that is colored orange. These are the rest of the files that do not belong to the other displayed categories like Video, Photos, Apps, etc. Examples are the Operating System [...]
I don’t know how often this happens to others but it happened to me. I just downloaded a video file to iTunes and was about to sync it to my iPhone when the dialog box above popped up.
If you tried the free Skype app from the App Store, you may be frustrated to find out that it crashes on your jailbroken iPhone. To fix it, you just need to update the Mobile Substrate file from Cydia. That’s it!
This tutorial will help you save all those important and juicy text messages on your iPhone to your computer for later reading.
If for some reason, you lost some important information on your iPhone, whether from 3rd party applications, your photos, contacts, notes, SMS, call history, calendar, etc., and doing a restore from iTunes is futile, don’t give up yet! As long as you have performed a backup in iTunes recently, your data is safely tucked away [...]
After upgrading your iPhone to 2.2, you found out that you can no longer run your test ipa apps that were installed using the mobileinstallation mod. So you searched the net in the hopes of finding a mobileinstallation upgrade for 2.2, right? Ok, I can give you a link to such a file (yes, it [...]
There’s Mocha VNC for the iPhone to remote control your Mac or PC from your phone. Now, there’s Veency to remote control your iPhone from your Mac or PC. But first, you need to have a jailbroken iPhone to install Veency on your phone. You can check out my iPhone jailbreaking tutorials in the iPhone [...]
One of the great things about having an iPhone (especially because of its large viewing screen) is that it allows you to do something worthwhile, if not productive, during what would be idle times, such as riding in a bus on a long trip or just sitting alone waiting for someone or something. Instead of [...]
The iPhone SDK prohibits third-party applications from running in the background. This basically made instant-messaging applications pretty much crippled as it won’t be able to collect messages while you are doing something else. You also cannot listen to radio or streaming music applications like Tuner while surfing the web or sending SMS.
Just a short update. For those waiting for a Windows version of the iPhone Dev Team’s jailbreaking tool for iPhone 2.1, wait no more. Quickly grab Windows QuickPwn 2.1 from the links below: Official IDT Download: Windows QuickPwn 2.1 –> Torrent Download (sha1) QuickPwn21-1.zip = f8124d0e8f31f64ef3272de8fbc679e1dd1f93a7 Unofficial Downloads: http://eggy.cc/stuff/files/windows/QuickPwn21-1.zip http://i.omerc.net/QuickPwn21-1.zip http://www.alekserviz.com/adamov/QuickPwn2.1Win/QuickPwn21-1.zip You need iTunes 8 [...]
Update: If you’re looking for Mobileinstallation 2.2, read this post! If you followed my tutorial “Download and Test iPhone Apps Before Buying From the App Store“, and then upgraded your iPhone to firmware 2.1, then, you need to perform the tutorial again using the patched MobileInstallation 2.1 file. Download the file here.
From iPhone firmware 2.0.1, I upgraded to 2.1 using iPhone Dev Team’s newly released PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac (Note: If this doesn’t work for you, you can try QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac). As I mentioned in my other post, I didn’t upgrade to 2.0.2 because there wasn’t anything exciting with it. But 2.1 is a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?!
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]