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Entries from January 2008

[FIRMWARE] Multiple Jailbreak Exploits Found for 1.1.3 Firmware!

Date January 23, 2008


modiphone just minutes ago, announced that there are now multiple ways to jailbreak Apple’s just recently released 1.1.3 firmware!
Here is the rest of the developing story:
Multiple exploits have been found! That means the dev teams can keep one hidden away in their arsenal, and release a 1.1.3 jailbreak sooner rather than later. Information is [...]

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[GAMING] The Trouble with Touch: Gaming Without Buttons

Date January 23, 2008


The iPod Touch and iPhone are great devices, and it’s hard to argue that the best thing to happen to these devices has been the Jailbreak. Some great — and let’s face it, some not-so-great — games and applications have emerged from the independent development scene, and a number of them have become almost [...]

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[FIRMWARE] iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Changes That Have Occured Behind The Scenes

Date January 22, 2008


Check out what the owner of Cre.ations.net had to say about how the iPhone’s directories and sub-directories have changed around. The writer figures that the 1.1.3 firmeware was made to be capable of installing applications that have been made using the Software Development Kit. Here is exactly what they’ve had to say:
So I’ve had the [...]

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[GAMING] SNES4iPhone Emulator Still Only Available To Beta Testers (Who Pay), But SNES Roms Repo Is Up!

Date January 22, 2008


So, the SNES4iPhone Emulator by zodttd is still not available through a repo without having to pay, unfortunately.
But for those of you who are lucky enough to be testing out the beta version of SNES4iPhone, here is a repo link to a bunch of roms.

SNES Roms Repository Link:
Installer > Sources > Edit > [...]

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[APPS] A Brand New Customize Add-On By ‘dybacz’ Allows You To Edit Music Player Icons Easily + More To Come!

Date January 22, 2008


dybacz of the ipodtouchfans forums has been messing about with the Customize.app for a bit now, and has figured out how to edit the “Music Player” icons. He successfully added a new option under the Customize menu that allows you to simply click on the set of icons you prefer to use, and voila, [...]

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[FIRMWARE] The Answers to ALL Your Questions in Regards to Firmware 1.1.3 (Jailbreaking, SDK, iTunes 7.6, ect.)

Date January 22, 2008


Hey all! Earlier this morning I was surfing the ipodtouchfans forums, and was getting fed up seeing the same questions being asked over, and over, and over again.
So, knowing that this would just go on if nothing was done, I made a thread, which I named “[THE ANSWERS] to *ALL* your questions in regards to [...]

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[GAMES] Top 12 Games That Should Be Ported To The iPod Touch!

Date January 22, 2008


Now, there are a select few games (TTR, Labyrinth, iSolitaire, iPhysics…) available on the iPod Touch that can pass up the time, however, there is still much room for improvement. Here is a list of 12 games that should definitely be ported to the iPod Touch (and none of that ‘web app’ shit). Hopefully the [...]

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[GAMING] Yeti3D 002 Released

Date January 21, 2008


Well that was quick. A new update to Marco Giorgini’s Yeti3D is now available. Version 002 tweaks the dynamic lighting a bit, which makes the level look a bit darker. There is still only one enemy in the game, and he still can’t hurt you, but the little blue, bald sprite (that’s [...]

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[FIRMWARE] A Post From The Blog of Jonathan Zdziarski (One of The Programmers For The 1.1.3 Jailbreak)

Date January 21, 2008


Jonathan Zdziarski is one of the many programmers working on getting the 1.1.3. firmware jailbreak released to the public. In his latest post, he states the reason they are delaying the release of the how to guide on jailbreaking the latest firmware from Apple. Have a look below for his latest post:
January 20, 2008: iPhone [...]

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[GAMING] Yeti 3D Gets Resurrected For iPod

Date January 21, 2008


modmyifone member Marco Giorgini (kmarco71) has successfully resurrected Derek J. Evans’ old and long-defunct GPL’ed 3D engine known as Yeti 3D and ported it to the iPhone and iPod Touch. As it stands right now it is mainly a proof-of-concept. There isn’t much game to speak of; you can move around, jump and [...]

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[GAMING] Further TTR ‘Guitar Hero’ Song Tap Updates.. Delay Explanation

Date January 21, 2008


Hey all, I’d just like to take a minute to express my sincere appologies for not updating you all on the status of this project. I’ve been fairly busy with family issues and what not.
The project is in fact complete, and has been for a couple days now, however, I’ve been having issues SSH’ing into [...]

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It’s All About Me

Date January 21, 2008


This entry is, anyway. Allow me to introduce myself. I am called many things, most of which I won’t print here to avoid offending those of more delicate constitutions, but you can call me Psychopusher. My usual alias is Mindfield, but as this was already taken on wordpress, I had to resort to my band [...]

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[APPS] Pocket Guitar lets you strum like a real guitar!

Date January 20, 2008


“PocketGuitar is a virtual guitar for iPhone and iPod touch. You can even have guitar sessions with the songs in your iPod!”
Installation:
Launch Installer and choose “Sources”, then add http://podmap.net/apps to your repositories.
PocketGuitar will appear under the “Toys” category.
Also, here is a list of things they plan on working on for the next release:
* Make [...]

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[FIRMWARE] 1.1.3 Jailbroken!

Date January 19, 2008


Well, it hasn’t even been a week since Apple made the 1.1.3 firmware available to iPod Touch/iPhone users, and already, the iphone dev team and elite team have figured out a way to jailbreak 1.1.3!
There is a video available on YouTube that shows the jailbroken 1.1.3 in action, with Installer.app on the summerboard, along-side the [...]

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