Archive for 2008

The analog clock says it's 9:10 but the digital clock says it's 2:47. Not good

CopierciN, copy/paste utility for iPhone, is updated. This application is avaliable in Cydia.

Minor changes:

Fixed:

• com.apple.MobileSMS.plist file is not overwritten now, it is modified instead.

Added:

• BiteSMS support
• Very basic “import from contacts” interface

Compatibility:

• Works with 2.1 firmware

SwirlyMMS is updated to v1.2.1. Minor bugfixes. Avaliable in Cydia.

The specs are taken from apple.com and htc.com.

CPU	Qualcomm® MSM7201A™, 528 MHz	Samsung ARM11
Memory	ROM: 256 MB, RAM: 192 MB	8-16 Gb
Dimentions	117.7 mm x 55.7 mm x 17.1 mm	115.5 mm x 62.1 mm x 12.3 mm
Weight	158 grams	133 grams
Display	3.2-inch 320 x 480	3.5-inch 320 x 480
Communications	HSDPA/WCDMA 1700, 2100 MHz (3G) GSM/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz Wi-Fi 802.11b/g Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR GPS	UMTS/HSDPA 850, 1900, 2100 MHz (3G) GSM/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz Wi-Fi 802.11b/g Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Assisted GPS
Control	Trackball with Enter button QWERTY keyboard	MultiTouch
Camera	3.2 megapixel	2.0 megapixel
Сonnectors	HTC ExtUSB™(mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) microSD™	3.5-mm stereo minijack
Battery	Talk time: 350 min (3G) 400 min (GSM) Standby time: up to 400 hours	Talk time: 300 min (3G) 600 min (GSM) Standby time: up to 300 hours

via habrahabr

Nice charger for an iPhone.

You probably know about latest iPhone’s security issue. The good news is that there is a solution to fix it.

Jonathan Zdziarski has deviced a way to disable this writing to disk, so that screenshots cannot be recovered. On a jailbroken iPhone, you can disable these screenshots with the following commands in MobileTerminal or through SSH connection to iPhone:

# rm -rf /var/mobile/Library/Caches/Snapshots

# ln -s /dev/null /var/mobile/Library/Caches/Snapshots

Screenshots themselves actually get written to /var/mobile/Library/Caches/Snapshots. So these commands delete this folder and symlink it to /dev/null, so the screenshots don’t get written to disk.

The side effect to this is that when resuming an application, you’ll get the default screen in the zoom-in effect. Once the application resumes, however, you’ll have your application screen back. For example, your mail application will always zoom to the front as if you had an empty inbox, but will quickly correct itself once the application resumes.

“To return to the default behavior, just delete the symlink and the directory will get recreated. Mind you, this has no effect on the many other pieces of data stored on the iPhone, and therefore your iPhone will always be at risk for leaking private data, especially to seasoned forensic examiners. Use at your own risk.”

via iphoneatlas

New racing game got green light from Apple. This game will be avaliable in AppStore soon. Very good 3D graphics, wi-fi multiplayer and much more. Costs $7.99.

One of the major announcements during last week's media event was the return of NBC shows to the iTunes Store. NBC reportedly accounted for 40% of iTunes video sales prior to their removal late last year.

Hollywood Reporter reveals that over 1 million NBC iTunes downloads have been logged since the studio's return on September 9th. Some of those downloads may have been free HD episodes which are currently available from iTunes.

A list of all free HD iTunes episodes provided by TUAW include:

• He That Believeth in Me - Battlestar Galactica, Season 4
• Fun Runs, Pts. 1 & 2 - The Office, Season 4
• Lipstick Jungle: Pilot - Lipstick Jungle, Season 1
• Four Months Later... - Heroes, Season 2
• Pilot - In Plain Sight, Season 1
• Mr. Monk Buys a House - Monk, Season 7
• Ghosts - Psych, Season 3
• Merit Badge: Pilot - Life, Season 1
• Bad to the Drone - Eureka, Season 3

NBC's fall season will kick off next week for many of its popular shows including The Office and Heroes.

via macrumors

Congratulations, Windows users. The support for new firmware 2.1 is added. So here is what you can do:

• Support for FW v2.0.1, v2.0.2, v2.1.0
• Jailbreaking and Pwning iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch
• Adding Cydia and Installer
• Replacing boot logos
• Unlocking iPhone 2G

Changes from QuickPwn RC3

• Support for firmware 2.1
• Auto-detection of firmware version, insistence on correct firmware bundle to prevent user epic fail.
• Use of iASign to activate to prevent bspatch epic fail.
• Removed buggy and never really tested 2.0 support

Sorry, no jailbreak for new iPod Touch and no unlock for iPhone 3G.

Here are download links:

• Torrent
• http://www.technoh.net/forums/Downloads/QuickPwn/QuickPwn21-1.zip
• http://i.omerc.net/QuickPwn21-1.zip
• http://download.s1.christophertran.net/devteam/quickpwn/2.1/QuickPwn21-1.zip

Firmwares v2.1: 2g firmware, 3g firmware

Related posts:

• QuickPwn and PwnageTool for 2.1 firmware
• QuickPwn, PwnageTool and WinPwn

I was amazed that very few people know how to turn auto-correction off. Here is what you need:

• Jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia
• Install BossPrefs
• Install CToggle BossPrefs Addon
• Run BossPrefs and turn auto-correction off

There is even a domain: http://please-let-us-disable-autocorrection-steve.com.. Nice.

Got a camera with NightShot mode? Try to take a picture of your iPhone 3G. There is a matrix code on the left side of the phone. The quality is not very good, I used old camcoder in camera mode. Anyway here are couple more snapshots, you can actually see all the details of the code there:

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Right after BossPrefs update, Categories updated to v2.18. Here is a changelog from 2.16 to 2.18:

v2.18

• Settings App: Fixed issue where app kept crashing on load for a few people(most these people had adblockersin their etc/hosts).

v2.17

• Settings App: Replaced Default.png.
• Settings App: Added some new icons by Andreas Ficher.
• Settings App: Added admob into settings app GUI (note, no plans to have any ads in launcher).

v2.16

• Launcher: Removed dependency on springbridge and am lanching apps the old way thanks to Saurik who figured out that it just needed to be signed with the correct entitlements.
• Settings App: Did not rev, still at 2.15.

BossPrefs utilities updated. Here is a change log from 2.13b to 2.15:

• Thanks to Pumpkin of the dev team who figured it out for me, I fixed the 3g toggle to work just like the built in 3g toggle. No more wifi going on or off, no more taking 30 seconds. It's nice and fast.
• Updated the power icon to use the one sent by user Lucas (thanks).
• Added remapping internally into fast respring so now on 2.1 when you add an app and use fast respring, the app will show up. Note that regular respring does not do this.
• Properly signed the app removing the dependency on springbridge to launch apps off the dock. If you updated categories to 2.17 or greater and bossprefs to 2.15 or greater, you can uninstall springbridge.

Here is an GigaOm interview, where CEO of Skype, Josh Silverman, speaks about Skype for iPhone He didn't tell when, but it looks like he said yes.