iREB: Correct Errors “16xx” & “21″ During A Restore

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

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iH8sn0w has released a new update for iREB a new program for Windows and Mac that can solve the mistakes “16xx” and “21″ from iTunes that are displayed after a reset or a firmware downgrade.

The application is only compatible with EDGE iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G and can be downloaded from here.

When you will be presented such an error will not have to do is start and follow the instructions on the screen. I recommend you download it and keep it somewhere in your computer .. It can come in useful!

Via ispazio.net

Aussie Drivers: Buy A Cradle, Or No iPhone GPS For You

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Live in Australia? Have an iPhone? Do you use the iPhone’s built-in Maps app, Navigon, or TomTom [iTunes links] to navigate? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, then I have some bad news for you: under the Australian Road Rule 8th Amendment, all use of the iPhone in your car is soon to be banned unless you buy a cradle for it, including using it as a GPS navigator.

An article from the Sydney Morning Herald initially makes it sound as though you won’t be able to use such apps at all, especially after reading this quote from a spokesperson for VicRoads, the traffic authority for the Australian state of Victoria: “A phone will only be allowed to be used for its primary purpose. If it’s a phone, it’s a phone.” But once you read farther down the article states, “Drivers will only be able to use mobile phones if they are placed Read more…

Three New iPhone Ads Make debut On Prime-Time Tv

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Were you watching the two-hour season premiere of House last night on Fox? Maybe you were watching one of the other prime-time shows, but if you had your eyes on the screen during some of the commercial breaks, you probably saw at least one of the three new iPhone ads that hit the airwaves last night.

Each of the new ads highlights a total of six apps, up from the three that were formerly the focus of the older ads. The first ad I saw last night, “Dine,” looks at Zagat to Go, QuickOffice, TripCase, New York Subway 09, Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List, and Gap Style Mixer. [Note: all app links will open the iTunes App Store]

The next ad I viewed was “Nature,” featuring iXpenseIt, Daily Finance, Guitar Toolkit, Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook, iBird Explorer Plus, and the ever-popular Pizza Hut app. I didn’t get a chance to see the third advertisement, “Pass,” until I visited the Apple website this morning. It’s a 30-second quick look at Fandango, G-Park, VocabWiz College Vocabulary, 365 Crosswords, Classics, and ABC Animals.

I’m happy to see that Apple is maintaining focus on the number and variety of apps in the App Store, instead of resorting to the narcissistic, touchy-feely, celebrity-filled tripe that T-Mobile has been using for their Android-based MyTouch 3G ads.

Via tuaw.com

Create Your Own Ecid ShSh Server

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Thanks to xsemaphorexx for this great program. Below is how to create your own Ecid ShSh server so you can restore your 3GS firmware to whatever you want, even if you don’t have your cydia ShSh Ecid on file, or even worse, sauriks cydia server goes down and we can’t restore our firmwares.

Below is how to do it go here to see the original page:

TinyTSS — All your iphone restores are belong to you

TinyTSS is a small java app that acts as your very own signature service.

When iTunes verifies your restore for your 3gs phone, it ‘phones home’ to see if you are allowed to restore to the version you are requesting. With TinyTSS + the shsh blob file(s) you obtained with Umbrella, you will be able to restore to the version of those shsh files forever!

People may wonder why I did this when Saurik is already doing the same thing. I’ll explain my philosophy. I admire Saurik for what he has done and I thank him for pointing me in this direction. I simply think that I would rather have my shsh blobs on my personal machine Read more…

Installous 3 Coming Soon

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

For those of you who don’t know installous is a 3rd party cydia app. Installous lets you download cracked iphone apps from appulo.us to your iPhone directly and install them. It pretty much imitates the appstore app but you get the apps for free. Now for those of you who have been using it, are you in for a surprise. Puyo the maintainer of installous is working on an updated gui, re-writing the whole installous code, and even maybe adding update notifications, pretty freakin sweet huh!!! This updated version will be called Installous 3, look below for a preview video and an eta on when it will be released:

Puyo posted this on his blog stating the eta on when installous 3 will be released.

Read more…

Cydia: Call and SMS Counter 3

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Call Counter 3 and Counter 3 SMS are small applications available through Cydia which we can control the number of calls and their duration (Call Counter 3) or text messages received and sent messages (SMS Counter 3) through a simple pie chart.

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Creating filters based on the contacts, establish a start date and end and much more. Applications can be used to make “progress report” collect statistics on people who call more, less, or to control the number of messages not to exceed a certain threshold, in case of specific promotions.

The cost of each application is $ 2.99 only available for firmware 3.0, the BigBoss repository.

Via ispazio.net

Apple Moves Up to #20 on ‘Best Global Brands’ List

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Macsimum News notes that Apple has moved up to #20 on market research firm Interbrand’s annual ‘Best Global Brands’ list. Interbrand pegged Apple’s “brand” at a value of $US15.4 billion, up 12% from 2008 and enough to boost Apple to #20 from #24 in the rankings.

The recession won’t take a bite out of this Apple. Declining Mac sales and fears for the company’s future without brand visionary Steve Jobs, were outweighed by record high iPod sales, doubling sales for the iPod Touch, and all-time high market share for Mac OS software. Price might be a barrier for cost-conscious consumers, but Apple responded quickly with high margin, low-priced products like the US $99 iPhone and a new, voice-activated iPod Shuffle. The Apple brand is the most supported within its industry, and among the most iconic of relatively young brands in the world.

The 2009 list was headed by Coca-Cola, IBM, and Microsoft, although Apple had the second-greatest increase in brand value (by percentage) after Google’s 25% increase among the top 25 companies on the list.

Via macrumors.com

Chronic Dev: Green Poison Update

September 20, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

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The chroniv dev team posted some progress update on the ipod touch 3G jailbreak. Below is what they had to say:

For those that are following our twitter, you probably already know this, but for all the others I thought I would post an “official” progress update here. Again, some of this is old news to some people.

First of all, we have tested the greenpois0n exploit on the iPod touch 3G, and it works still :)

Just to have a little bit of fun and to show something to prove that it is actually executing our code and not just crashing, I wrote a teeny payload that Read more…

UnlimTones

September 20, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

UnlimTones is an app that downloads ringtones directly on your iphone. I believe this app is use audiko.net to get the ringtones, which by far is the best free ringtone service for the iPhone. Check out the video and instructions below to start downloading your custom ringtones now:

Download UnlimTones HERE

  • Rename the downloaded deb to tones.deb
  • Copy the .deb to var/mobile on your iPhone
  • Open up mobile terminal and do the following
  • Type in su (press return)
  • Type in alpine (press return)
  • Type in dpkg -i tones.deb (press return)
  • Reboot or Respring and enjoy

Thanks to eni9889 at xsellize for the app. He will be updating this soon so you can also add his repo

  • http://i4iphones.info/cydia/

to install it through cydia and always be up to date.

Apple fires back at Google over Voice app rejection claim

September 19, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

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Hours after Google’s letter to the FCC was published in its entirety, Apple has directly responded to the claim that it has formally rejected the Google Voice application from the iPhone App Store.

In a note to Silicon Valley Insider, an Apple representative Friday reiterated what the company said in its own letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in August: That it has not rejected the application, but it has not accepted it either.

“We do not agree with all of the statements made by Google in their FCC letter,” the Apple rep reportedly said. “Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application Read more…