Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

SNES emulator released to public

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Last month we wrote about a private beta of snes4iphone, and now it has reached version 1.0.0 and has gone public. It supports save states, landscape and portrait modes, and many more features. Core optimizations and sound are promised for the next release. Get more info and download links at ...

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 ...

1.1.2 and 1.1.3 OTB software unlock!

Friday, February 8th, 2008

George Hotz has single handedly done the "impossible." He has released a software unlock for the 4.6 bootloader, aka 1.1.2 otb and 1.1.3 otb. What's most impressive is that this was achieved within 24 hours after he started working on it. You can read about the entire adventure on his ...

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 ...

New 16 GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch models, double capacity

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

With immediate availability, today Apple has announced the launch of new iPhone and iPod Touch models. The only change is to capacity. The iPhone is now available in a 16GB configuration for $499, and the iPod Touch is now available with 32GB for the same $499. The 8GB iPhone and ...

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 ...

AppSnapp / JailbreakMe.com updated

Friday, February 1st, 2008

If you are one who does a lot of tooling around and constantly finding yourself restoring to 1.1.1 and starting fresh, there are some new updates to JailbreakMe.com which will be of interest: -Installs the latest version of Installer (3.0) -Community Sources are now preinstalled -Automatically OktoPreps (prepares for 1.1.2) -More improvements listed here This ...

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.