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Access Your Root Folders from Your Mac with NetaTalk
If your iPhone is jailbroken, you've probably used OpenSSH, DiskAid, or some other means to access your root folder on your iPhone. If you're not familiar, you would want to do this to transfer files to and from your iPhone, in a way Apple does not allow. This is used to add games ROMs for...
Android OS Now Available on the iPhone 3G
We saw the video of the Android OS running on the first generation iPhone and the iPhone 3G. As of today you can now download Android OS and make it run on your iPhone 3G should you choose to do so. All of this hard work comes at the hands of iPhone Dev Team member,...
iCall VoIP App Makes Free Calls to Landlines in USA/Canada
If you're an iPhone user and you have a jailbroken iPhone, you're probably familiar with 3G Unrestrictor and VoIPOver3G to allow Skype to make calls over 3G. With a cheap $3/month subscription plan, Skype can make unlimited calls to phones in Canada and the USA. This is awesome, but what about a FREE VoIP alternative...
How To Downgrade iPhone 4.0 Firmware to iPhone 3.1.3 Firmware
If you are currently on iPhone firmware 4.0 and want to downgrade back to iPhone firmware 3.1.3 to get different apps, to jailbreak, or what ever the reason may be, follow this guide for PC and Mac. FOR MAC Notes - Read Me Before Continuing Before we begin, please take some time to review the...
Spirit Jailbreak Released!
It's finally here! Untethered jailbreak for all Apple touch devices! Now your iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rd gen can be jailbroken, without worrying about a reboot, while you're away from your computer.That's right. Untethered. All devices. MC serial number. New bootrom. Everything. Spirit will jailbreak all iDevices at iPhone OS 3.1.3, and 3.2 (iPad)....
How To: Change the Names of Your SMS Tones
Hey, everyone. Rorypiper, again. Got a great tutorial this week, that will show you how to change the names of your SMS tones. Typically, when you download new SMS tones from Cydia, and apply them in Winterboard, you still have the same stock names of the tones, when you go into Settings -> Sounds ->...
Make Your iPhone Look Like an iPad
Since the announcement of Apple's iPad, there have been a few new themes pop up in Cydia, emulating the look of the iPad's UI. This isn't much of a stretch, as the iPad UI is very similar to that of the iPhone and iPod Touch. With some subtle changes to the wallpaper, lockscreen, and dock,...
Jailbreaking and Installing a Custom Boot Logo, with redsn0w 0.9
As you may have heard, a new beta version of the iPhone Dev Team's easy jailbreak tool, redsn0w 0.9, has been released. It jailbreaks all Apple touch devices, on firmware 3.0 and 3.1.2, except iPod Touch 3rd gen, but this will be fixed when it is out of beta. It is available for Mac and Windows....
Notifier: Puts Notifications to iPhone Status Bar
Every time I take a screenshot to review an iPhone App or to broadcast my iPhone's homescreen on the blog, I always get questions about the little icons I have in my iPhone's status bar. You might have seen them too, and been wondering where they are from. The tweak is called Notifier and it's...
How To Create Blank Home Screen Icons On iPhone/iPod Touch Without Jailbreaking
When I got my iPhone 3G back in July 2008, the first thing I did was jailbreak it. I did this because of all of the awesome stuff you could do which I had learned from jailbreaking/unlocking my iPhone 2G. When the iPhone 3GS came out, I chose not to jailbreak simply because most of...
Stream Video to Your iPhone with Air Video
Do you find that you never have enough room on your iPhone for all the movies, TV shows, and podcasts you want to carry around? Then Air Video, may be the app you've been looking for. Air Video is a simple app that allows you to stream video from your computer to your iPhone, over...
iPhone Book Review: Not Your Average iPhone Book, Give Your iPhone a (Jail)Break
With Bell and Telus now selling the iPhone (along with Rogers & Fido), Apple will continue to sell billions of these phones in Canada during Christmas and the holidays. Along with the influx of these new iPhone owners, online forums will get flooded with the same old questions since the first gen iPhone. Review: Not...