Archive for February, 2010

IPod Touch Gameboy

Description:

Play your favorite gameboy games on Your IPod! Here are some great gameboy emulators for your iPod Touch.

Steps:

1) Go to Cydia/Rock and download Gpsphone or snes4iphone.

2) When you open the app search for the game and download it.

3) Play it on the emulator like on a gameboy!

Sources

If you add the source http://iromrepo.com/Cydia/gba/ for gpsphone or http://iromrepo.com/Cydia/snes/ for snes4ipone, you can download games straight from the source on Cydia/Rock (+it downloads the emulator itself).

Important Rules:

1) You can get the emulators above for free (not recommended).

2) Have Fun!!!

Popularity: 20% [?]

Rock and Icy on 3.1.3 Firmware

Description:

For all of us who Jailbroke on 3.1.3 firmware we obviously have only Cydia. So here’s an easy, fast and simple guide to download Rock and Icy.

Steps:

Rock

Search for “RockApp” in Cydia and press on it. Install-Confirm it and you have Rock as a better alternative to Cydia.

Icy 

1) Add the source http://apt.ripdev.com/ in Manage-Sources (Picture).

2) Search for Icy and download the system only (a box logo).

3) You have Icy

Important Rules:

1) Download the System not themes of the system and other junky stuff.

2) Enjoy these alternatives to Cydia!

Popularity: 29% [?]

Phone Calls from IPod Touch!

Description:

A guide on how to make Phone calls from your iPod touch using Skype (Wi-Fi required).

Important Rules:

*You’ll need a microphone or headphones with a built in mic to be able to make phone calls.

* “Skype to phone” only works once per user! Which means you’ll need to make a user each time you want to call (Without paying), that’s why it’s easier to do “Skype to Skype”

Steps:

Skype to Phone:

1) Download Skype from iTunes (Free).

2) Make a Skype account (You can make up everything even the mail)(pic).

3) At the bottom of the Skype page there are 5 options, press the “call” button.

4) Enter your country code, area code and then the number you want to call.

Skype to Skype:

1) Download Skype from iTunes (Free).

2) Make a Skype account.

3) Add a friend in contacts and press the call button on his profile.

Popularity: 19% [?]

Must have Rock/Cydia apps

Apps:

1) Winterboard: The theme application (link).

2) Sbsettings: Extra settings which are accessible anywhere with a swipe threw your banner.

3) Backrounder: Multitask! \this is like minimize! To make it more efficient download-Proswitcher/Multiflow/ Kirikae. 

4) Categories: Build files and put your apps in there!

5) Installous (+appsync): Download apps straight to your device.

6) Mxtube/Atube/Yourtube: Download videos straight from Youtube.

7) Dtunes: This app is necessary for ant Music/Movie/Torrent download.

lockdown/iprotect: Lock specific apps!

9) Overboard/ orbit: Switch easily threw your device’s pages.

10) Inspell: Corrects your spelling

11) Action menu: Gives more option while pressing when you’re writing.

12) Memtool: See your Device’s processes and be able to “clean” them.  

13) MyWi: The perfect Wi-Fi application! (+Tethered Wi-Fi).

14) Open SSH (+toggleSSH): Access your Idevice files from the computer.

15) IFile: See all the content of your files on your iPod.

16) Searcher: A search which searches more in-depth.

17) Mobile terminal: A tool to build systems on your IDevice.

18) Popup Blocker: Block ads!!!

19) LogoMe: Change your “Boot” logo to your own picture.

20) Intelliscreen: See Mail, Calendar, News and more on your Lockscreen.

Impotant Rules:

1) All the apps above can be downloaded for free! (Rock/Cydia Apps for free)

2) ENJOY!!!

Popularity: 34% [?]

Apptrackr

Description:

Hcakulous finished transferring appulo.us and Installous into a new website (apptrackr.org). Which means the troll bridge is off, and you can download cracked apps easily.

What’s new?

Apptrackr.org

1)   The website became much bigger with more categories (like “Random Top Apps” “Top Rank Gains” etc).

2)   Many more apps to download

3)   The search engine is better: A) It’s much faster. B) You can do more specific searches.

4)   When you click on an app you’ll see it’s ranking in the categories it belongs to.

5)   It looks much better!

Installous

1)   It’s much faster then before, and downloads are also faster.

2)   More categories to look in.

3)   Looks much better.

Impotant Rules:  

1) Installous and apptrackr are only useful if you download appsync from the hackulo.us source (guide).

Popularity: 23% [?]

How to jailbreak 3.1.3 firmware (redsn0w)

Steps:

1) Download redsn0w 0.9.4 to your computer, and extract it’s files (http://xs1.iphwn.org/redsn0w-win_0.9.4.zip).

2) Download the 3.1.2 custom firmware to your computer. For 1G iPods http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QSE4GTL2, for 2G iPods http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WKMQOXOL.

3) Double click on the redsn0w.exe file and run it. A window will open with a “Browse” button—click on it. Browse threw your computer files and find the 3.1.2 firmware you downloaded, and open it. When it successfully identifies your IPSW, a window will open asking if you have an MC model iPod touch 2g (answer no). 

4) Click next and it will prepare jailbreak data. When it finishes it will give you options what to download, you’ll mark the “Install Cydia”. From here on the redsn0w program will guide you till the end of the jailbreak (Yippee!).

5) When you totally finished jailbreaking, you’ll have Cydia on the second page of your iPod. The first time you’ll open it, it will complete downloading itself and close automatically (in subsequent times it will work like usual).     

  Important Rules:

1) This jailbreak is only good for iPod touch 1G, and the older version of iPod touch 2G (The non MC model version check in the “About” in your iPod).

2) This hack does not have Rock it only has Cydia.

3) This is for people who accidentally updated there iPod, If you can, it’s better to stay on 3.1.2 for now. (Blackra1n jailbreak).

4) This jailbreak will erase all of your iPod’s apps songs etc.

5) If the jailbreak stops in the middle just hold the home button and power button for 20 seconds (It may happen it happened to me just run the jailbreak again it and it shall work).

Popularity: 100% [?]

How to downgrade your iPod’s firmware back to 3.1.2

Description:

This guide will show you how to lower your iPod’s firmware if you upgraded it by mistake (so you can jailbreak it).

Steps:

1) Download the custom firmware you want to be on (for 3.1.2 firmware— http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FPENA9A0 ).

2) Backup your iPod on iTunes by right clicking it, and clicking backup (Wait till it finishes).

3) Get your iPod into DFU mode. When iTunes opens, hold shift then click the restore button and a browse window will open. Find your custom 3.1.2 firmware and open it. When you finish installing the firmware register your iPod as a new iPod without restoring old backups.

Your iPod is now on 3.1.2 firmware and you can jailbreak it with blackra1n!

P.S: If this doesn’t work wait for the next Jailbreak to come out

Popularity: 28% [?]

ITunes 9.0.3 (update)

Does it delete the jailbreak?

No it does not delete the jailbreak! But if you upgrade your iPod touch firmware it will delete your jailbreak.

What’s new?

• ITunes no longer ignores your “Remember password for purchases” setting.
• Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod.
• Resolves a problem recognizing when iPod is connected.
• Addresses issues that affect stability and performance.

ITunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

• An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more.

• ITunes Store has a brand new look, with improved navigation for quick and easy exploration.

• ITunes LP and iTunes Extras create unique experiences that feature exclusive interviews, videos, photos, and more — available with select album and movie purchases on the iTunes Store.

• Home Sharing helps you manage your family’s iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer new purchases, or you can choose just the items you want.

• Genius Mixes are created for you by iTunes and play songs from your library that go great together.

• IPod and iPhone syncing now allows you to organize your iPhone and iPod touch home screens directly in iTunes. Syncing is now also more flexible, allowing you to sync individual artists, genres, or TV show and Podcast episodes.

• ITunes U items are now organized into their own section in your iTunes library.

• Sync with iPod nano (5th generation), iPod classic (Fall 2009), and iPod touch (Fall 2009).

• iTunes 9 also includes many other improvements, such as HE-AAC encoding and playback, more flexibility with Smart Playlists rules, simpler organization of your media files inside an iTunes Media folder, and more.

Popularity: 11% [?]