Featured iPhone Theme: iAwesome

by Sebastien on May 10, 2010

I found out about a very nice theme called iAwesome thanks to AIS so I wanted to share it with you.

iAwesome is a WinterBoard theme that contains 304 redesigned icons (though all icons are modded… more to come on that), wallpaper, status bar, lock screen wallpaper, lock screen battery, badges, pop-ups and quite a few UI mods.

The nice thing about this theme is that it contains an icon overlay which means that all icons are modded… not just icons that have been designed for the theme. If you go into the App Store, you will see that even the icons in the AppStore are modded with the overlay.

What do you think of this theme?

 

Turn Your iPhone Into A Fan

by Sebastien on May 10, 2010

Want to turn your iPhone into a fan? There’s an app accessory for that! Actually, German company HMB Tech has enough original accessories to make Inspector Gadget jealous.

For 20 Euros, my favorite is the iPocketFan for iPhone (see video bellow).

But HMB Tech as something for everyone:

Like Gizmodo says, “there’s enough add-ons and apps here to open a doctor’s surgery”.

It’s incredible what you can do with an iPhone. I think this is just the beginning. We’re probably going to see more and more of these accessories in the future.

If you could create your own iPhone accessory, what would it be?

 

QuickLauncher: A Smart App Launcher for iPhone

by Sebastien on May 9, 2010

Have you ever wished your iPhone was smart enough to figure out what apps you want to launch at any given time? If so, read on because QuickLauncher might be the right app for you.

QuickLauncher is a revolutionary launcher for your iPhone or iPod Touch that automatically learns what your most used apps are and shows you a SpringBoard-like view of them.

No more flicking through your springboard pages to find your most used applications, QuickLauncher knows them and sorts them out accordingly to allow you to quickly access them from anywhere.

For quick and easy access, you can configure the way you launch QuickLauncher with Activator.

QuickLauncher is available for download from Cydia. At $1.99, it’s one of these simple apps that make a great productivity tool. If you try it, please tell us what you think by leaving a comment.

 

iPhone & iPad News You Missed This Week

by Sebastien on May 9, 2010

This is a summary of all the articles that were published on the blog this past week. Spirit was the big star of the week of course. If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone yet, you may want to consider it as Spirit makes it easier than ever.

 

WiCarrier Displays Wifi Network in Status Bar

by Sebastien on May 8, 2010

Earlier today I told you about FullForce, a new app by Ryan Petrich. Ryan is very prolific these days as he has yet another app available in Cydia.

Ryan’s new application is WiCarrier, a very simple app that displays the name of the wifi network you’re connected to in your status bar. Additionally, it can display your IP address as well.

After installing WiCarrier from Cydia, you will notice that if you’re on wifi, your carrier name has been replaced by the name of the wifi network. If you tap on the network name, it will display your IP address.

While it’s not a breakthrough app that will change your life, it’s still a nice little tweak.

 

FullForce Forces Your iPhone Apps to Display in Full Screen Mode on iPad

by Sebastien on May 8, 2010

A few days ago I shared with you a hack to make your iPhone apps run in full screen mode on your iPad. This hack requires a few steps that might scare away those of you who don’t feel like playing with the core files of applications.

Lucky for us, one of my favorite jailbreak developer, Ryan Petrich, created FullForce, an application that “force selects applications to show in full screen iPad mode, even if the developer hasn’t certified them as compatible”.

The result? Even if an application like Facebook can’t be properly displayed in full screen mode on your iPad, FullForce will work its magic and make the app fit the whole screen without pixelizing it.

You can download FullForce from Cydia for free. Once installed, go to the settings.app and in the FullForce options, select the applications you want to force.

Note that FullForce doesn’t work with all applications. Just like the hack, text based apps such as Facebook and Tweetie work best in full screen mode.

FullForce is developed specifically for iPad so it can safely be added to the list of iPad compatible jailbrak apps.

 

Android Running On iPhone 3G

by Sebastien on May 7, 2010

A couple weeks ago, iPhone hacker and Dev Team member PlanetBeing made the headlines when he successfully ran Android on an iPhone 2G.

With the help of other developers, PlanetBeing is back at it, this time showing us Android running on an iPhone 3G. In an article published on PC World, he explains the hack has come a long way since its initial release.

Now you can use the Android OS to browse the web and run any application that does not require audio support, as well as send and receive SMS text messages over the cell phone radio. [...]

We’ve also made several other improvements to the original port in this version. Along with many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes, the Wi-Fi driver has been fleshed out with all the Android-specific extensions, making it more stable and reliable. We’ve also added an Android icon to the boot menu to make it more easily accessible.

If you feel up to the task, instructions on how to do this yourself will be published soon.

While this is still very buggy, PlanetBeing hopes to be able to release a stable and “usable” version of Android for your iPhone 2G or 3G soon. Will keep you posted!

[via Linux on iPhone]

 

How to Recover Pictures Deleted by Spirit

by Sebastien on May 7, 2010

Although Spirit is probably the easiest and fastest jailbreak ever, it does come with its share of problems. After jailbreaking their iDevice with Spirit, many people reported the loss of their pictures. This issue was fixed by Comex when he released an update to Spirit, but what happens to those of you who lost their pictures before the update?

I spotted an article that explains how to recover those missing pictures after jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad with Spirit. The process is pretty simple and it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes.

For this to work, you will have had to backup your iPhone or iPad before jailbreaking. If you did not backup your device before jailbreaking with Spirit, then this will not work for you.

How to recover deleted photos from your iPhone or iPad after jailbreaking with Spirit

Step 1: If you haven’t already, install OpenSSH from Cydia.

Step2: Download iPhone Backup Extractor (for Windows 32 bit or 64 bit – for Mac OS X).

Step 3: Launch iPhone Backup Extractor. It will automatically find backups available on your machine. Select the right one.

Step 4: Navigate to Media/Media/DCIM and select this folder. Click next to save it on your computer.

Step 5: Using CyberDuck for Mac of WinSCP for Windows, SSH into your device.

  • To find your IP address, on your device, go to Settings > Wifi > Tap on the blue arrow of the network you’re on.
  • Username is root. Password is alpine

Step 6: Navigate to User/Media and replace the existing DCIM folder by the one you downloaded to your computer in step 4.

Step 7: Reboot your device.

Done! All your lost pictures after using Spirit should be recovered.

 

How to Mount An External Hard Drive on the iPad

by Sebastien on May 7, 2010

Yes, you read it right, you can mount an external hard drive on your iPad. This hack isn’t the easiest one to perform but it’s not very complicated either. If you know your way around Terminal, SSH and the likes, you should be fine.

Maxwell Shay wrote a very good tutorial on how to mount an external hard drive to a jailbroken iPad. I haven’t tried it myself but I wanted to share the info with you as I think it’s a pretty nice accomplishment. You can read the full tutorial here.

If you try to add an external hard drive to your lovely iPad, let us know how it went by leaving a comment.

 

4 iPhone Games I’m Enjoying These Days

by Sebastien on May 6, 2010

I’m not a big gamer at all. Until a month ago, the only games I had on my iPhone were Flight Control and Wildcard Pro Surfing. However, I’ve been traveling a lot lately and spending hours in planes made me develop a gaming habit.

Today, I’d like to share the few games I’ve been playing for the last few weeks. These games are not new, and you may very well have heard of them or even own them. If not, you may want to give them a try.

Street Fighter IV

I remember playing Street Fighter II when I was a kid. My cousin and I spend countless hours on arcade machines. I also remember doing not-so-nice things in order to finance our gaming, but that’s another story…

I was a little skeptical about this game before downloading it because I thought the controls wouldn’t work well on such a small screen. I was wrong. The controls are very good, and the game is fast. Favorite fighter: Ken!

At $9.99, Street Fighter IV is a no brainer for anyone who likes fighting games, or anyone who feels nostalgic about the good old days of Street Fighter II.

Doodle Jump

I had heard about Doodle Jump for a while but I had no idea what it was about. One day while I was bored in Vietnam, I decided to check out the game description in the App Store. It looked fun so I downloaded it.

Doodle Jump is by no means a technical game. It’s actually quite simple, both in term of concept and design. Your goal is to jump from platform to platform without falling. The higher you go, the more points you score. Don’t get fooled by this candid description. Doodle Jump is highly addictive.

At the time I’m writing this, my highest score is 70,967. And I spent more than 6 hours on it, jumping over 20,000 times (I got this information from the stats page of the game).

Priced at $0.99, Doodle Jump is a must-have for people who like killing time with simple, fun and addictive games.

Plants vs Zombies

I was told about this game by one of my Twitter friends who had warned me that Plants vs Zombies was another addictive game, and boy was he right.

The concept of the game is completely retarded: you must prevent zombies from entering your house (and eat your brains) by planting various types of plants, each of them having their own specific weapons. Yes I know, it sounds stupid, but you have to try it to see how fun it actually is.

The first time I played this game, I was sick in my hotel room in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Due to some strange and unusual allergy, I wasn’t able to go out. I started playing Plants vs Zombies. After a while, I realized that I had been playing the game for 4 hours straight. For a non-gamer, I felt kinda bad.

I told my fiancée about this game but she wasn’t really convinced it had potential to entertain her. The fact that I explained her that she had to grow sunflowers in order to get more sun to by more plants wasn’t obviously the best way to turn her on this game. Then she finally decided to give it a try. Like me, she got hooked in no time.

Plants vs Zombies is priced at $2.99 and is a whole lot of fun. Get it now!

Need For Speed Undercover

Racing games are always fun! I was originally looking for a rally game but many of my Twitter buddies recommended I give NFSU a try, so I downloaded it and got in the spirit pretty quickly.

The game is fast and fairly easy to get your head around. At $4.99, it certainly ain’t cheap but it is a very fun game to play. Warning: have your iPhone charger close by because NFSU will kill your batteries in no time.

What are you playing these days? Please take a minute to leave a comment and let us know what your favorite games of the moment are.

 
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