You might remember a few months ago when we talked about IPA God, a new application that would allow to install cracked apps on a non-jailbroken iPhone. After getting a lot of publicity around the web, the developer decided to put iPA God for sale.
After that, we kinda lost track of IPA God to be honest with you. Until today when I received an email from iDB reader Ben who informed me that the source code of IPA God was available for download… Read More
Last week we talked about IPA God, a new application that could be installed on non-jailbroken iPhones and allow you to download and install cracked apps for free. I was a little skeptical about it at first but after doing more research I realized it was actually a legit (though illegal) app.
Apparently the guys behind IPA God have decided to sell the source code as well as their Twitter account to the highest bidder as they can’t afford to maintain it… and maybe they fear the wrath of Apple’s lawyers… Read More
iOS 4.1 is just a few days old but someone already found a major exploit in it. Apparently, some hackers found a way to install cracked applications on a non-jailbroken iPhone via an app called IPA God, which should be released in the near future.
The following video shows IPA God in action. While do not encourage app piracy here at iDB, I thought it was important enough to share that with you… Read More
I’m not sure what my position about cracked iPhone apps is. I don’t endorse any type of piracy. Developers spend time working on applications and they do deserve to get paid for it. On the other side, you have kids that may or may not have much money and who don’t want to spend $0.99 on an application.
I think that a kid who downloads a pirated app would most likely NOT have paid for this app if the cracked version wasn’t available for free somewhere. This means that either way, the developer would not have earned money from this kid anyway. At least, the developer gets the name of his app out.
What I just described is what we may call “common piracy”. That’s the type or piracy we’ve known since the democratization of MP3 music files. Now there is another kind of piracy that I think is scandalous and should be highly punished by law… I’m talking about website that resell cracked iPhone apps.
I was browsing several iPhone blogs over the weekend when I came across a website called Mega. The website prides itself in being able to deliver 34,060 iPhone apps worth a total of $108,746 for free. Mega is an application that you can download through Cydia. Once installed, you will get a new icon on your springboard that looks like the App Store icon, with “Free” written all across. Read More
It took a while to Apple’s lawyers to find out and do something about TheMonkeysBall.com but they finally did it. They finally got this site shut down for uber massive copyright infringement.
For those of you who don’t know, TheMonkeysBall.com was the reference in matter of cracked iPhone apps. The website offered a gigantic library of cracked ipa files, making it the preferred destination for anyone who didn’t want to spend a dime on iPhone apps.
Wyze, the owner, explains:
Well, Apple, it took you long enough to find us. We’re sure Mr. Haklab will take credit for this and all we have to say to that is that it took you long enough. We had a good run and honestly we are surprised we lasted this long. We don’t want to move servers again to another country to avoid DMCA as we’ve lost interest since the site first launched.
The site is now up for sale. I doubt you can do anything with such a URL but who knows…
[digg-me]I finally got to try the official release of Fring for the iPhone. Well, actually I only tried the Skype feature which allows you to make free Skype-to-Skype calls or free Skype-to-Phone calls over WiFi only from the iPhone.
To get started, you need to have a Skype account. Registration on Skype is free. You will have to purchase talk time if you want to use the Skype-to-Phone feature though. Before I subscribed to Vonage, I used to use Skype a lot to call my family back in Europe, and I still have some credit left on my account. Sweet, I don’t even have to spend some more for the time being…
So you create your Skype account and put $10 in there to buy yourself some talk time. I couldn’t find out how long you can talk for with $10 in the US but I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere around 100 hours. If anyone has more information about that, please let us know in the comments.
Now download Fring from the App Store, launch it and register, then add the Skype service. Once you’re done doing this, you’re technically able to make calls and chat with your friends, directly from your iPhone. While the Skype-to-Skype feature works very well, I had a few problems making calls to landline phones. The problem was that even though the “Fring test call” was working fine and that it showed I was connected, every time I tried to make a call to a phone in the US (or overseas), the call would get “terminated” right away.
So I went over to the Fring forum and snooped around in search of an answer to my problem. I finally read about someone who reported that even though you are connected to Fring, you may not be connected to Skype yet. Interesting. I launched Fring again, waited a minute, dialed my home phone number, and BINGO! It rang. The key is indeed to wait a minute before making a call.
Still in Fring’s forum, I read about a patch that would allow you to make a Fring call over Edge or 3G on the iPhone, via Skype. I downloaded the Fring.ipa file, opened iTunes, dragged it in iTunes, synced my phone, and……. BINGO! I am now able to use Fring to make phone calls over 3G or Edge, via Skype. How cool is that?
UPDATE: It seems that some links to Fring’s forum have been removed by Fring’s admin. Please do not ask me to give you the link to the patched Fring.ipa crack as I will not due to past problems with Apple’s lawyers. Please do not post links to cracked applications in the comments as they will be removed right away. Thank you.
Yo yo yo! These are the latest iPhone and iPod Touch cracked ipa applications and games.
Enjoy while it lasts…
Some good iPhone ipa games and apps have been cracked today, especially Aphalt 4! As usual, I added these games to the list of cracked ipa files.
Hack responsibly!
You’ve heard about those .ipa files and if you’re into jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ve probably also been looking for these illegal ipa files. But do you know what they stand for?
.ipa stands for iPhone/iPod Touch Application. This extension developped by Apple is used for applications on iPhone and iPod Touch devices, downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
On one of my previous posts I explain how to add .ipa files to your iPhone and how to install .ipa files on the iPhone as well.
I also provide a list of cracked .ipa files for your peruse.
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately asking me how to install ipa files on your iPhone. I assume all these people can’t read well as the method to install these ipa games (yes, we use ipa files mostly for games and cracked applications) is easily accessible on my blog. It is in the right navigation bar and there is also a link from the list of cracked games.
By the way, what are ipa files?
Files with the extension .IPA are application files used by iPod Touch and iPhones..IPA application files can include: games, finance, health, etc. and are usually downloaded from the official iTunes App store..IPA files are essentially zipped/compressed archive files utilising an Apple specific file extension, by changing the extension to .ZIP and unzipping in a program such as WinZip some idea of the files contents can be gained.
How to install .ipa files on iPhone or iPod Touch?
You can either look at this tutorial or watch one of the videos below.
