Archive for the ‘Apps’ Category

Offline Wikipedia reader for iPhone/Touch released

Friday, February 8th, 2008

You can now carry the entire Wikipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch, sans wifi/internet. The catch? It will hog 2GB of storage on your device. Not to mention it won't always be up to date (current English dump is dated October 07). But then again, those old school encyclopedia ...

Xbox Live Friends List native app released

Friday, February 8th, 2008

This app was released under my radar less than two weeks ago, and has just been updated to version 1.6. This simple app lets you track your friends activity on Xbox Live. Because of limitations with the Live SDK, the app can't actually fetch your friend list, so you'll need ...

New native Tetris app released, gesture controls

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Tired of the tiny buttons in MobileTetrominos, and looking for some better touch screen action? A new tetris app (creatively named Tetris!) has been released, complete with gesture controls. The controls scheme still sounds far from perfect, but it's a step in the right direction. More info and how to get ...

anySIM 1.3 (prematurely?) released, dev-team heeds caution

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Other sites are reporting about anySIM 1.3 being released on Zibri's blog. Zibri writes: This is Version 1.3 Of anySIM. This version unlocks baseband 4.03_13_g It's only for bootblock 3.9 don't use on 4.6 To use it, upgrade the baseband then put the iPhone in airplane mode and run it ! It works also in JB ...

iFob released: a “wireless Icebreaking Beacon”

Monday, February 4th, 2008

An interesting new app for iPhone/Touch and PC has been released. Using WiFi, the app finds other users also running iFob and helps you meet and interact. You can set a tagline anyone in your local area (same hotspot) can see. Messages can be exchanged, and new frindships can be ...

SummerBoard updated, now 1.1.3 compatible!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

SummerBoard has been updated to version 3.1-1, which adds 1.1.3 compatibility. If you are not familar with SummerBoard, it lets you completely "skin" and customize SpringBoard. It comes with a number themes, and more are available via Installer. Thanks to PiercedMember from the forums for the tip.

Installer “main script execution failed” fix

Monday, January 28th, 2008

If you didn't update Installer BEFORE updating to 1.1.3, or did but still get this error and need to fix permissions, try entering these commands via ssh: cd / cd Applications/ wget http://repository.apptapp.com/packages/System/Installer.zip rm -rf Installer.app unzip Installer.zip chmod +s Installer.app/Installer chown -R root:wheel Installer.app rm Installer.zip This replaces your copy of Installer with the latest version, and sets ...

Alternate Dock for 1.1.3

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I was messing around, trying to get the old iPod touch dock in 1.1.3, and this is what happened: If you like this look, it's a one click install via Installer. Just add http://www.modiphone.net/repo to your sources list, and it will be listed under modiphone.net. Uninstalling will revert back to the ...

iPod touch 1.1.3 App Enabler [UPDATED]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Have a jailbroken 1.1.3? The iPhone apps are locked away in the firmware. Install the App Enabler to unlock them: 1. Add http://www.modiphone.net/repo to your Installer.app sources list. Refresh sources. 2. Install 1.1.3 Touch Apps under Modiphone.net Please note that there is ZERO copyrighted code in this package. All we are doing is ...

SNES emulator for iPhone / iPod touch

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

With NES, GBA, and PSX emulators, it was only a matter of time before SNES joined the ranks. ZodTTD.com has released a beta for snes4iphone to select beta testers (aka people that donated on their site). Making any donation give you instant Beta Tester status, which is really quite a ...