iPhoneRoot.com       

Archive for March, 2009


Skype crashes on jailbraked iPhones





jailbreak_skype

If you have jailbreaked iPhone your Skype app may crash. Here is what we know so far:

  • If Skype crashes when trying to input text: Disable both Clippy (Use SBSettings toggle) and any custom Winterboard sounds relating to the keyboard tick (tock.aiff).
  • If Skype crashes within 1 minute of having the app open: Update app called mobile substrate in Cydia. Uninstalling mobile substrate also fixes the problem, but you will lose features such as winterboard and sbsettings.

UPDATE: Many users report that Skype works fine with the latest version of Clippy (0.98-2) without the need to turn the latter off.




|
   

Leave a comment, read comments [3]

Official Skype is avaliable in AppStore [AppStore, Free]



skype_logo

It is free, here is an AppStore link. Take a look at the photos here.




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009. 14:13

G-Map returns to AppStore



gmap1

G-Map application was removed from AppStore recently. Now it's back. With the new price increase from $19.99 to $24.99.

G-Map features a new type of routing, but the voice commands vere removed due to SDK rules violation.




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Monday, March 30th, 2009. 16:31

Clippy updated to 0.98



Clippy is an iPhone addition for copy/paste functionality. It was updated to version 0.98. There are significant improvements that make the application much more stable, and moreover it is important to note that starting from now, Clippit becomes a completely free.

Avaliable via Cydia and Icy for jailbreaked iPhones.

Changelog for 0.98: March 29, 2009:


Read the rest of this entry »




|
   

Leave a comment

One more future iPhone concept



Published by 9to5mac:

iphone4g-500x333




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Monday, March 30th, 2009. 16:14

Icy vs Cydia [Video]



Here is an interesting video that shows and compares the speed of Icy compared to Cydia:

To start the application, download and install a game: Icy - 25 seconds, Cydia - 1 minute and 35 seconds, almost four times!




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Monday, March 30th, 2009. 16:11

Skype for iPhone: photos



Rumors about original Skype for iPhone grow. It is now expected in a week. Here are some photos from cnet:




|
   

Leave a comment, read comments [1]

Written by admin

Monday, March 30th, 2009. 15:51

CNET Top5 Free iPhone Games






|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Monday, March 30th, 2009. 15:17

Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent application



Recently we talked about Apple's second patent about biometric security. The funny thing is that the images used in this patent show a jailbroken firmware 1.x iPhone, with installed Installer.app, SMBPrefs  and the iWood Realize theme from the iSpazio repository. There are also "Terminal", "Game", "VRecord", "Blocks" and others.

img1

You can check yourself here. Here is a screenshot:

screenshot




|
   

Leave a comment

Icy - Cydia replacer?



This is a new product from RipDev Team (the creators of Instealler). Icy works with APT packages, just like Cydia. Packages installed in Cydia will be seen in Ice ands vice versa. You can install Icy via Cydia (repository http://apt.ripdev.com) or via Installer (category System).




|
   

Leave a comment, read comments [1]

Written by admin

Sunday, March 29th, 2009. 15:55

Apple patents a biometric recognition system for iPhone and MacBook



Apple filed a new patent that shows a new system of biometric recognition for the safety of iPhone and MacBook. Currently the only way to protect our devices is to use a security code, which is not safe enough. In the future Apple plans to integrate a sensor below the screen to scan our fingerprints when we execute the "slide to unlock" .

Other security methods may be that the voice recognition or facial recognition. This might include the future implementation of a front camera. Apple goes so far as to suggest the possibility of recognizing the user's distinctive voice or even collecting DNA samples to recognize a user's genetic sequence. Biometrics could also be context-sensitive and detect the shape of a user's ear before allowing a call to go through, for example.

Overall it still seems somewhat science fiction, but could be implemented in the next model of the iPhone this summer.

iphonebiometric-1

iphonebiometric-2

QlikView helps to improve supply, production and distribution. You can learn about QlikView solution manufacturing companies at 1bit.com.




|
   

Leave a comment

Firmware 3.0 Safari benchmarks



pub

While still in beta, the Firmware 3.0 includes a new version of Safari that integrates the latest WebKit. It uses SquirrelFish Extreme ("Nitro") as an engine for JavaScript. The benchmarkes shows that the new firmware is 3 to 10 times faster, depending on the type of action.




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Friday, March 27th, 2009. 16:51

Mjoy Removed From AppStore



Mjoy application allowed you to send free SMS messages from your iPhone and iTouch. Apple removed it from App Store, certainly because of complaints from mobile operators.

The application allowed to send SMS via WiFi and 3G, and therefore could be used wherever you were (which is quite inconvenient for the operators). Now it remains accessible to the webapp accessed through Safari www.mjoy.com, but certainly is not the same thing.

img_00315 img_00304


Read the rest of this entry »




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Friday, March 27th, 2009. 2:11

The number of SMS is -1



Yes, sometimes it happens :)

negative1sms

via gizmodo




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Friday, March 27th, 2009. 2:03

iPhone OS 3.0: The icons of the new firmware on your 2.x



icons3

iPhone OS 3.0 is a small theme for Winterboard available in Cydia that will change icons for Messages, iPod and Phone apps with the new ones from firmware 3.0.




|
   

Leave a comment

Written by admin

Friday, March 27th, 2009. 1:08