November 11, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Orange has declared their iPhone launch as a smashing success after selling over 30,000 iPhones on their first day.

According to T3, Orange started selling the iPhone at 7am this morning and by 4pm they had sold more than 30,000.

Orange is confident they’ve broken the “previously published first day sales records for a handset in the UK,” going on to gloat that their Orange Wednesdays app has “gone to the top slot in the Entertainment Category, and hit second place in the free apps chart on the Apple App Store.”

Via iclarified.com

November 11, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple added a large amount of HD movies to iTunes this morning with little fanfare, according to MacWorld. There now are hundreds of new and classic movies available for rent or purchase in HD.

Headlining iTunes Store’s newly-stocked HD shelves are Wall-E, a pre-order for Star Trek (which was only available in SD until now), Hero, The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Knowing, Bolt, and many more. Plenty of classics have arrived in HD as well, including both Kill Bill movies, Short Circuit, Zoolander, No Country for Old Men, and what is probably my favorite B-budget sci-fi film: Cube.

MacWorld notes that most HD movies are available for purchase for $20 with few exceptions. At only 720p some of these movies especially the older ones should be pricing accordingly.
via iclarified.com

November 11, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Okay, so remember how we told you that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) modified new iPhone 3GS’s to prevent current and future jailbreak exploits? Right, well, turns out that wasn’t as true as we once thought. Our bad. New iPhone 3GS’s have been modified, that much is true, but they can still be jailbroken (which is where we were wrong). The iPhone Dev Team is now saying that Apple may have killed the “24kpwn” exploit that allowed the current jailbreak to work, but it’s more of a bump in the road than an all-out roadblock against future jailbreak attempts. Read more…

November 10, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

It’s been a while since we had gotten any updates on zodttd’s iphone gaming controller the iControlPad but as you can see above it’s look and style has been refreshed and the developers have even added a great new feature, an internal battery so it doesn’t suck the life out of your iphone. If you don’t know what the iControlPad is for here’s the lowdown. The iControlPad will be used for many third party games that are hard to control using the iphone’s touch screen such as quake and even all of zodttd’s third party game emulators nes, snes, gpsphone, psx4iphone. Now the only problem is that we will still have to play the games on such a small screen. Go sign up to buy one over at http://www.orangegadgets.com/ as they may be the U.S Supplier for this gadget.

November 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iRealsms 3.0 update has finally been released. Unfortunately it is still a beta so you should expect some bugs and other things that might go wrong but so far I have been testing this and it runs smooth.If you bought irealsms 2.0 your license has been upgraded to 3.0 so you don’t have to purchase this update. To download and install this beta just add http://www.irealsms.com/beta_repo to your cydia sources, search irealsms and install.

November 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

November 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Here is a new video preview of ih8sn0w’s snowbreeze program for windows. Sn0wbreeze will let you create custom firmwares on windows like the dev team’s pwnage tool on mac.

November 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

For the last few days, some jailbroken iPhone users have found their home screen background a little different than they remembered. A hacker, going by the name “ikee,” created a worm that changes the home screen background on jailbroken iPhones whose owners failed to change the default password after installing SSH. Simply jailbreaking your iPhone will not make you vulnerable to this sort of hack. The iPhone OS, in general, is also immune to this hack. Still confused? Let’s back up a bit.
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November 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

WyndWarrior has released version 1.0 of iDashboard, an iPhone utility which mimics the widget functionality of Mac OS X.

A multi page dashboard for your iPhone! Features a world clock, a calendar, a weather widget, a working calculator, lockscreen dashboard, and double-tap Dashboard. Also will have available widget packs for download in Cydia. Customization features include: wall-papers with auto-dim and the ability to change wallpapers through the photo app.

Via iclarified.com

Download iDashboard:

• After downloading rename the deb to idash.deb
• Copy the file to var/mobile on your iphone
• Now you can use ifile to install it if you have that installed by just using ifile and tapping on the deb or do the following
• Open up mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i idash.deb (press return)
• Respring or reboot and enjoy

November 07, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a “rollercoaster ride,” and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch.

In an interview with gaming website Kotaku, John Carmack revealed that top executives at Apple do not look fondly on the growing popularity of games on the iPod Touch and iPhone.
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