WikiLeaks, the globally recognized brainchild of Julian Assange, has its own unofficial iPhone app. This unofficial app was recently approved by Apple and released in the App Store.
The app's official description reads, "The Wikileaks app gives instant access to the world’s most documented leakage of top secret memos and other confidential government documents." You can now have all of the sensitive WikiLeaks data easily available on your iPhone...
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I'm getting a white iPhone 4 for Christmas 5 awesome iPhone games Apple quietly removed the stealthy jailbreak detection in iOS 4.2.1 140,000 emails from Steve Jobs released on WikiLeaks Debunking the insane Verizon iPhone LTE rumors Jailbreak app converts icons to Retina Display icons mSpot enables iTunes cloud syncing The story behind Cydia: why it's called Cydia New car stereo fully integrates your iPhone PkgBackup, the best way to backup your jailbreak apps MuscleNerd confirms untethered jailbreak to be released before Christmas
Earlier this month, iPhone hacker Comex mentioned on Twitter that an untethered jailbreak would be available before Christmas. It's been over a week now and we hadn't had any status update until MuscleNerd confirmed the release of an untethered jailbreak to be released before Christmas.
Minutes after tweeting the above info, MuscleNerd deleted this tweet, which is nowhere to be found now. So why did he do this?
Another day, another flashlight app. It's just the life of being an iPhone blogger. This time around the flashlight in question is called MakTorch, an app available for free on Cydia for jailbroken iPhones.
So, what distinguishes MakTorch from the rest of the playing field, besides its hilarious banner ads?
Most of the flashlights on Cydia are jailbreak tweaks, but MakTorch is a full-fledged app. This means that it features an app icon on your Home screen that is used to invoke the app...
I know I'm not the only one that has tossed their dedicated alarm clock into the trash ever since the iPhone came out. Wouldn't it be nice if you could plug your iPhone in, and your alarm clock app of preference automatically launched?
That's the premise behind Plugged In, a jailbreak tweak that launches any app of your choice as soon as you plug it in. It's obvious that Plugged In was designed with an alarm clock in mind, if not simply for the fact that I can't think of much else that I would use it for...
Zombie Attack! Second Wave XL was created by IUGO Mobile Entertainment. They developed some decent games such as a physics puzzler called Implode! XL and a simple little survival game called Cliffed XL.
Their quality and know-how for games is not too shabby, so I expected the same from Zombie Attack! Bridge Defense XL. To save myself from agony of such a long name, I will now refer to it as simply, ZA.
ZA is a free roaming Tower Defense game in which you must defend against hordes of Zombies. If anybody has ever played the Xbox360 game called Left 4 Dead (which I loved!), you could consider it as the Tower Defense iPhone Version of that game, and I say that loosely...
The global economy, and our subsequent interaction with various peoples from various backgrounds is making it more and more important to at least become familiar with another language. Technology has surely helped in this regard, with electronic translators, online babble fish, and even smartphone apps.
The way we use this technology hasn't change much over the years, as it still relies heavily upon text input of some sort. But that is beginning to change with apps like Pleco and Word Lens bringing cameras into the equation. Ladies and gentlemen, the world of translation has just taken a gigantic step toward the future...
PkgBackup is one of the more expensive jailbreak apps that you will find on the Cydia, but you'd be hard pressed to find a developer that's put as much continuous work into their app.
The backup solution has been on the receiving end of quite a few updates recently, so I thought it would be appropriate to visit some of PkgBackup's most convenient features.
One of those features is the wonderful DropBox integration, which is so good it inspired me to write this love letter...
The folks over at App of the Day have put together a nice, comprehensive infographic on the state of the App Store. Their work is based on the App Store as of December 7, 2010.
The infographic addresses overall statistics and some insightful numbers on the mechanics of how the App Store operates.
For instance, out of the 300,000+ apps in the App Store, 85% are for the iPhone only. 67% of apps are paid and 33% are free. There are more universal apps than there are iPad apps. Out of all apps, 50% are between $0.99 and $2.99...
We'd already seen the Etch A Sketch iPad case, and thanks to the beauty of licensing, we now have this awesome Etch A Sketch iPhone case. Looking at this case, I immediately go 25 years back in time, when I was just a kid who obviously didn't need much to entertain himself.
Time have changed a lot since then. I'm really glad my generation has been a witness of these changes. Oh listen to me becoming all sappy!
Yesterday, Apple announced that the Mac App Store will officially open on January 6, 2011. The Mac App Store, like the iOS App Store, will be used to distribute and sell applications for the Mac.
Apple began accepting Mac App Store apps for review in the first week of November, and they are urging developers to submit their apps by December 31, 2010 to be a part of launch day. Apple hopes for the Mac App Store to be just as successful as its iOS counterpart. And while there are certainly mixed feelings among developers, it seems that the Mac App Store will be very successful...
"A Frenchman protecting your secrets. Yes, seriously." Ben the Bodyguard is a mysterious password manager and vault for the sensitive data on your iPhone. The app is scheduled to release in January of 2011.
What stood out to me about this app was how awesome its website is. As you scroll down from the masthead at the top of the page, you begin to take a journey with Ben the Bodyguard through the deserted streets of a dark downtown...