I know that many of our readers will be traveling during the holiday season, so I wanted to share a walk-through that will help keep your MacBook of choice connected on the go. This is an article intended for those using iPhones on carriers that do not officially support tethering. TUAW would like to remind you that this is unsupported and is enabled at the user’s own risk. This does require jailbreaking your iPhone, so the unadventurous in the audience may want to pass this up. If you’re not already jailbroken, you can download the necessary software, like blackra1n from George Hotz or Pwnage from the iPhone Dev Team.
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As the iPhone becomes more and more popular to the world there is no doubt that jailbreaking the iphone has also gotten very popular. As a matter of fact jailbreaking the iphone has gotten so popular it has been featured on many reputable websites such as cnet.com, tuaw.com, and the list goes on. My point is that jailbreaking the iphone is allowing us the users to be able to do more than we could have imagined whether it be making our iphone a wireless router, to allowing us to make voip calls using skype and 3g unrestrictor.

Now that you know where jailbreaking the iphone is going we can speak of cydia and the business aspect of jailbreaking. For you the user jailbreaking is to get all of the goods but for developers it is like a gold mine with a lot of revenue potential. A year ago you had to purchase an application from cydia by downloading an app and paying the developer however he wanted you to pay whether it was through paypal or some other payment type. Read more…

• Install BTstack from cydia (Install first as youll get errors if you don’t)
• Rename the downloaded deb above to n64.deb
• Copy the file to var/mobile on your iphone and install using ifile by tapping on it or do the following
• Open up mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i n64.deb (press return)
• Respring or reboot and enjoy

Thanks to Xqtftqx over at xsellize for the upload.

Download:

Integrate Categories into SpringBoard! Categories, created by BigBoss, allows SpringBoard’s icons to be grouped into folders, making it easy to organize and find your applications. However, these folders are created as separate applications, meaning that they require time to load and do not blend well with SpringBoard. Thanks to iPhonix91 over at Xsellize for the upload.

• After downloading the deb rename it to sb.deb and copy it to var/mobile on your iphone
• Install it using ifile or you can do the following
• Open up mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i sb.deb
• Respring or Reboot and enjoy

Note: You must have categories installed for you to be able to use this.

A surprise after a few days since the release of the video demonstration ZodTTD has released his, N64iPhone emulator for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 3GS, using the Open GL libraries | ES 2.0.

Main Features:

• Support for the Wii Remote via Bluetooth;
• Emulation dynarec fast CPU;
• Emulation of sound;
• Download the ROM of games from the same;
• Using Open GL libraries | ES 2.0;
• Supports ROM:. N64 and. Z64 and archives. Zip and. Gz

Via ispazio.net

Reuters reports on iPhone developer Tapulous, the team behind the popular Tap Tap Revenge applications, noting that the small company is reportedly bringing in nearly $1 million per month in revenue. The success of Tapulous, which boasts only 20 employees, illustrates the ability of small development firms dedicated to the iPhone to carve out profitable niches for themselves in the App Store.

Tapulous — with a mere 20 employees — said its “Tap Tap Revenge” game series has now been installed more than 20 million times, with more than 600 million total games played.
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Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update’ with Seth Meyers joined the fray of people who were sick of AT&T’s poor network reception:

“It was reported this week that Google would soon launch its own cellphone as a challenge to the iPhone. Also a challenge to the iPhone? Making phone calls.”

While Saturday Night Live hasn’t been funny for years (IMHO), and the joke was rather feeble, this is further cause for embarrassment from Apple and AT&T and just additional fodder for Verizon’s case as to why they should have the iPhone.

Via engadget.com

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First it was the whole jailbroken iphone in a commercial click here if you missed it and now this. It seems jailbreaking the iPhone is becoming more common to the public. Me2600 a fellow iphone user was at bestbuy going on about his day and to his surprise he saw an iphone on display, yes yes I know we all see iphones on display but to his surprise this one was jailbroken with Rockapp and Mywi installed. All I can think is way to go best buy employee who had to have taken the time to jailbreak, browse for and install the apps on the iphone then put it on display for the world to see. May I also recommend installing some other cool apps that might catch peoples attention such as nes or intelliscreeen.

Note: Pay close attention to the 29 sec mark of the video, it seems whoever installed MyWi somehow patched or did some easy workaround to make the normal 14 day trial of the app last 3451 days.

An AT&T executive this week made comments to assure customers that the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the U.S. will not implement tiered data plans.

The comments from Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of mobility and consumer markets, came just a week after the AT&T official said the company would likely provide incentives to encourage bandwidth-hogging customers to “reduce or modify their usage.” What kind of incentives were never made clear, though de la Vega said it is inevitable that high-bandwidth users will be charged for what they consume.
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Verizon, the largest wireless provider in the U.S., is reportedly investing in its network to make it capable of handling extra traffic from Apple’s iPhone, a company official said.

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless’ chief technology officer, said his company is prepared if Apple decides to end its exclusive agreement with AT&T in 2010.

“We have put things in place already,” Melone reportedly said. “We are prepared to support that traffic.”
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