Month: July 2008

List of apps available on Cydia

Here is a list of applications that are currently available on Cydia. Please feel free to add any other app in the comments.

Administration

IOKit Tools – ioalloccount, ioclasscount, ioreg iPatcher – removes the brick mode from iPhone Kernal Extension Tools – tools that work with kernal extensions Isof – shows what files programs have open Sudo – temporarily assume root priviledges top – at-a-glance process watching tool

Archiving

cpio – predecessor to tar that is used by RPM DMG2IMG – converts compressed dmgs to HFS+ fastjar – faster native alternative to Java’s Jar libarchive – backend library for working with tar files rzip – the best compression algorithm unrar – de-compress files in rar format 7-zip (POSIX) – claims to be a good compressor

Data Storage

cvs – the original popular revision control Git – fast content-addressable filesystem Subversion – modern version control system

Development

APR – platform abstraction library from Apache APR-util – data structures and utilites for Apache APR Assuan – GnuPG’s inter-process communication Bison – GNU parser generator derived from Yacc Bootstrap Commands – Mach interface and stub generator Class Dump – reverse engineer Objective-C headers Csu – library loading and support stubs Darwin CC Tools – linker and assembler for the iPhone developer-cmds – ctags, error, hexdump, rpcgen, unifdef Flex – GNU lexer derived from Lex glib – basic object management used by Gnome GNU C Compiler – a native c compiler _on_ the phone GNU Multiple Precision – (Big) Arithmetic Library GNU Portable Threads – portable threading library used by X Google Data API’s – GData client library (Objective-C)

indent – automatically prettifies a C program iPhone 2.0 Toolchain – Full *compatibilty toolchain with one click! Use this to compile your 1.1.x apps for 2.0 with some limitations. BigBoss’ headers for 1.1.1 from working Cygwin toolchain. Also depends on all other necessary packages. Copies to /var/include and symlinks /usr/local/include to /var/include if possible. Also links gcc to arm-apple-darwin-gcc.

libffi – dynamic generation of function calls libgpod – ipod data access library libsigc++ – callback framework for C++ LibVNCServer – backend library for VNC servers Link Indenty Editor – pseudo-codesign Mach-O files Make – dependency-based build environments Patch – merge a difference onto a file XML Parser Toolkit – Stream-oriented XML parser written in C

Games

Macman – an outstanding Pacman knock-off with a nice twist!

NES – NES Emulator for iPhone quake4iphone – Includes shareware Quake files. Retail files highly recommended. Visit zodttd.com for more info.

ScummVM – is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.

Java

Classpath – open source implementation of Jave iPhone/Jave – example applications (with source) in Java JamVM – Small, intricate, fast Java interpreter Java SQLite – JNI bindings and JDBC driver for SQLite Jikes – native faster alternative to Java’s javac JocStrap – Java/Objective-C connection library Rhino – Java implementation of Java Script UICaboodle – iPhone-specific JocStrap extensions

Localization

BrFix – Brazilian Regional Fixes RuFix – Russian Regional Fixes Slovak Language Replacement

Multimedia

FAAC – open source library for MPEG-4 AAC FAAD – open sournce library for MPEG-4 AAC Festival-Lite – embedded text-to-speech library LAME – open source (lgpl) mp3 encoder Ogg – open multimedia container format png – library for manipulating PNG files SwapTunes – Allows you to Sync with multiple iTunes libraries. TIFF – Tagged Image File Format library Vorbis – Open audio compression format x264 – open source implementation of x264

Thanks to Cliffeman for compiling this list over at Everything iCafe.

App Store is live. This is how to access it

The new iTunes 7.7 is now up and running. This new version of iTunes will work directly with the iPhone firmware 2.0 when available.

I just downloaded and installed the new version of iTunes and it took me a while to figure out how to access the App Store as it is not fully shown yet.

To access the App Store, simply search for "AOL" and it will show you 3 apps available. Click on any of them to have the full description. Now click on the "App Store" tab at the top of the page and it will take you to the App Store home page.

Why I will buy my iPhone at an ATT store

Unless you were away from this universe for a while, you probably know that the new iPhone 3G is coming out this Friday. There already are some insane fanatics camping in front of some Apple Stores a little bit everywhere (Japan, New Zeland, US, etc...).

My solution for getting an iPhone on Friday without having to wait in line for hours? Simple. I have already located a tiny AT&T store not too far from me. This store is buried somewhere in a little shopping center that no one ever goes to. There is no doubt that there won't be any line at this store.

Yes, buying your iPhone at AT&T is not as glamorous as going to a trendy Apple store. But fuck that! I don't care about having cool geeks around me. I just want the phone in as little time as possible.

If you decide to do the same, visit the AT&T store locator.