Installous, Hackulous’ application for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad which lets you browse for and install cracked apps straight on your device, is getting a major facelift. In previous announcements we discussed our plans, including native app installation, API polls, announcements, concurrent/multiple downloads and installation tasks, native interface for browsing, and graphical improvements. Read more…

We love our iPads. We wouldn’t dream of giving them up. And yet, there are ways and situations where the iPhone simply works better. Without taking potshots at our beloved iPad, here is TUAW’s respectful list of mega-win scenarios where the iPhone takes first place in usability.

Making phone calls. Yes, you can use line2 to convert your iPad into a quasi-phone that accepts incoming calls, or fire up the Skype app, but for real-world use, nothing beats a device that you can stick into your pocket and then forget about. It rings, you answer, you talk, you hang up. It’s a lot easier to use an iPhone than an iPad to make phone calls. Read more…

You’ve probably seen contactless payment terminals before. They’re used in many stores, restaurants, and other locations, with either a smart credit card containing a secure memory card or some sort of fob being used to make the payment. You just wave it at the terminal, and you’ve paid your bill.

Visa and DeviceFidelity are working on a way to let iPhone users make payments by waving their iPhones in front of contactless payment terminals. They’ll be offering an iPhone case with an embedded secure memory card that hosts Visa’s payment application, Visa payWave. Read more…

Comedian Ellen Degeneres claimed she upset Apple officials with a parody of the company’s iPhone commercials, prompting the talk show host to apologize for jokingly portraying the touchscreen device as difficult to use.

The host of the syndicated program “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” said on her program that representatives from Apple contacted her regarding a parody commercial she had aired on her program. Read more…

An iPod widget and orientation lock have been discovered in the latest iphone OS 4.0 Beta, according to 9to5Mac.

If you flick to the left of your first window of open apps, you are greeted with a few new buttons. A stationary iPod button to quickly launch the app, iPod music controls, and Orientation lock. The orientation lock is just like on the iPad, but instead is controlled via this new menu. Tap once to lock in portrait, and again to unlock. The iPod music controls are similar to the ones that used to appear when you double clicked the home button.

It’s possible that Apple could expand on this functionality with future betas providing widgets that could perform other tasks.

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Some of you might be wondering why the new jailbreak “Spirit” did not install the Rock App., Or why Appsidy did not work after the Cydia update. Well let me share with you what I know.

The first thing you should know is that Appsidy, Rock Your Phone (Rock App), IntelliBorn are all the same people. Yup thats right. Last year when Appsidy first hit the scene, I made a blog post about it and the man himself Saurik, actually commented on the blog post saying: Read more…

After spending eight hundred dollars on this very cool device, the microwave expert decided to do what he does best. Cook his iPad 3G with his trusty microwave. I wonder if it tastes good, maybe smells like pizza when its cooking??

SoSly – Just a quick not to everyone this is an actual app you have to open, but if you have activator installed simply set a double press home to launch this app using activator and now you have a nice experience.

Rich Hong made a pretty sweet Dashboard implementation for the iPad.  Except Apple rejected him from the AppStore. You know, for “contradicting the iPad’s user experience.” Well, that’s a new excuse, right? So what to do now? Ah, right – the iPad is jailbroken. Rich sent us Dashboard this afternoon, and it’s live on the ModMyi.com Cydia repo now – iPad only for free. Read more…

AT&T has announced its data plan pricing for international iPad use and it’s not cheap.

Here are the four options:
- 20MB for $24.99/month
- 50MB for $59.99/month
- 100MB for $119.99/month
- 200MB for $199.99/month

AppleInsider notes that the largest plan will only give you about 35 minutes of YouTube watching. Only 10 minutes if you are watching in 720p.

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Now that your iPad is jailbroken your wanting to install all of the cool tweaks you have on your iPhones/iPods. What you may come to realize is that most apps and tweaks from cydia are not going to work like they are suppose to on your ipad. A fellow iPad user has made a google spreadsheet so that we can all post our findings on what works and doesn’t work for our ipads. Go take a look to find out what works and what doesn’t, you may also contribute to the list if you have tried apps or tweaks and they aren’t listed.

Go To iPad Compatability List