Do you fall asleep listening to your iPod or iPhone? While waste your battery no more! With Auto ShutDown you can setup a timer to go off that will automatically shut down, reboot etc. your device. Its easy to activate this timer also, you just hold down the power button until the power slider appears, [...]

The settings for this application are in the default preferences application, so no extra app icon taking up your screen. There are many settings to choose from. When the timer expires you can turn your device off, reboot it, or stop playing the music and lock your device (good for is you are on a tethered jailbreak).

This is very simple to use, you just set the timer and forget about it. Its a springboard class timer, so it takes only minimal processing power. After you set the timer and you are using your device, 10 seconds before the timer expires an alert will appear with a 10 second countdown before it expires. You can stop the timer by pressing the STOP button on the alert, you can also bring up the power down view and slide the slider below that to turn the timer off.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for this application, because it would be really easy to add settings for something else to happen when the timer expires. Thanks.

- ipodtouchmaster05

An update is now available for Wi-Fi Sync that brings support for Windows users, and also for the iPad. If you don’t know about Wi-Fi Sync, it basically enables wireless syncing with iTunes at the touch of a button (just by opening the app).  !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:'https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’);lang: en_US

If you are in America, please read this and go sign this form. It seems AT&T, Comcast, and the likes have paid off a lot of officials in congress.  This will impact everyone. With this bill, it may be in our future that google.com no longer works and is instead redirected to att.com’s own search engine. That sort of thing must be stopped.

Congress just sold you out to Comcast and AT&T. Seventy-four House Democrats and 37 Senate Republicans just signed their names to industry letters telling the FCC to halt efforts to protect Internet users and prevent phone and cable companies from blocking Internet traffic.

Almost every one of these elected officials has accepted massive contributions from the phone and cable lobby. In exchange, they are handing control of the Internet to companies that can’t be trusted to protect the public interest.

Speak out against this unethical behavior. Sign this letter to demand that Congress and the FCC stand with the people they represent and support an open and affordable Internet for everyone.

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25 May 2010 It’s all about the NEW LOOK Quick Reply, including contact picture and timestamp – really COOL and great animations, check it out!!! Added Activator support, done nicely of course. Added back the delivery prefix feature (removed in Release 4.7) – mostly for UK O2 users. So biteSMS now supports the iPhoneDelivery application [...]

A new update is available for Music Controls with two exciting features: -Swipe Gestures now work when the display is off. -Volume buttons can be swapped based on the device’s orientation. This feature is very useful for using the iPad while it’s upside down. These functions are disabled by default, so look into Music Controls’ [...]

from the makers of iRealSMS PwnTunes – iPhone Drag&Drop Music Import without iTunes – Home It’s a new way to sync your Music & More without the use of iTunes! As we all know there are many many different MP3 players out there but the Apple iPod Touch & iPhone have dominated the market as [...]

ScreenDimmer has been updated and does now support the iPad :). if you don’t know about ScreenDimmer: ScreenDimmer can help you to save battery life by automatically dimming your device’s screen after a pre-defined time; or if you wish by turning the backlight off. Most users suffer unnecessary battery drain while having their iPhone not [...]

Wi-Fi Sync 1.0 was released yesterday. The app enables wireless syncing with iTunes at the touch of a button. Never go looking for that USB cable again. Sync from the car, bed or shed whenever it suits you. Don’t just take my word for it; here’s what the press had to say… “It works perfectly…it just [...]

Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, has been updated to 1.42 and now supports the iPad. Changelog 1.42: – full iPad support: all known issues with the iPad have been fixed. – bugfixes Firewall iP is the only security app of it’s kind and offers many advance features like getting WhoIs-informations [...]

ScreenRecorder is a very useful little utility that lets you take video captures of your screen. This app is almost a necessity whenever you need to make a video on your iPhone without the use of a computer. Some examples of what you might need this application for are making a tutorial, a demo, or [...]

QuickLauncher is a revolutionary launcher for your device, it automatically learns what are your most used apps, and shows you a SpringBoard-like view of them, accessible from anywhere via a selected shortcut. Do you have multiple SpringBoard pages, sorted in some way, and you become annoyed that each time you want to launch an app [...]

Safari Download Manager (SDM), an extension to Mobile Safari, was updated today, bringing bug fixes and major new features to more than 16,000 satisfied customers! The update (1.4) brings a newly designed file browser allowing you to choose your download directory and create new folders inside the downloads directory, as well as tap-and-hold on links [...]

Edit: May 6th #3.

I released this publicly at 3.0.9-11 and toggles 3.0.6-9. Sorry to you iPad 3g owners, I cannot fix those issues until I get my iPad 3g which is over 10 days away. In the meantime, I reenabled phone toggle (without any other modifications) so hopefully you can use that to disable data radio.

I fixed the lag when enabling rotation and added a no animation button to not animate the main window (by request).

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Edit: May 5th #2.

People keep reporting that the phone toggle is not available in the iPad. Yes, the iPad doesn’t have a phone. It seemed silly to me that anyone would notice this or care until someone on IRC pointed out that this was the only way to disable the cellular radio and actually turn it off.  That made sense. So ok, I have modified the data toggle to (hopefully) use airplane mode with wifi only when toggled off (on an ipad and behaves the old way on an iphone). So you can use the data toggle for this. It will put an airplane symbol in the statusbar but you will (should) still have wifi. Unfortunately, my 3g iPad is 10 days out from arriving so it’s probably the best I can do without having the device.

Thanks to the same individual on irc (goes by IRQ), I was able to fix the 3g toggle not showing up on 3g ipads.

Also, all bug reports should be based on SBSettings 3.0.9-8 and SBSettings toggles 3.0.6-6 (or newer).

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Edit: May 5th.

Thanks to all your reports and emails. I have fixed the following thanks to you guys in sbsettings v3.0.9-5 and the toggle pack 3.0.6-3:

- Fast notes crash. It should now show keyboard and work again.
- All widgets / toggles I own center on the window including the dock, processes, wifi (on hold), fast notes, and brightness. (Sorry, I cant do anything about widgets I dont own)
- Processes widget should load and have icons
- Added option to more app to disable landscape. If you dont like the extra lag on open animation with the new rotate feature, then go disable landscape and it will be back to how it was although it won’t rotate.
- Window centers – you can disable this in the more app under extras
- I signed the more app with ldid, so it should stop crashing for those of you that had issues.
- For ipad users, added ip address on statusbar option. Enable in more app under extras.

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So SBSettings v3.0.9-1 is in the beta repo for testing.  I have a lot of pressure to release this for ipad users so it will be a short beta and this version is likely to just move into the main repo soon. If anyone wants to test it, remembering it’s beta, add http://thebigboss.org/betarepo to your cydia sources and update the toggle pack and sbsettings. Here are the changes:

1) SBSettings window rotates to landscape. This feature was done for ipad. But it also works on iPhones. Requires the statusbar to be rotated so an app rotated or sbrotator installed.  On iPhones, the window is too long to fit so the bottom part scrolls off the screen. I do not ever plan to fix this. Also, window does not rotate live. It comes down in whatever orientation your statusbar is in at the time you call it.

2) Fixed ipad bug that causes ipod mode on your ipad after a reboot. (This was what saurik had in big red writing). Note other extensions may cause this besides mine.

3) Adjusted some of the toggles for ipad such as 3g and phone to show up as incompatible with ipad. 3g should show up on a 3g ipad, but dont have one to test.

4) Fixed dock and processes widget crash on ipad or iphone 4.0 while trying to get an icon.

5) Modified the respring function to rebuild the cache using uicache. This is the only way to get icons to show up on 3.2 and 4.0.

Categories update is there also and only adds the uicache feature for 3.2/4.0.

Edit for those having problems in windows with dl.exe. User DwghtClrk found that if you run spirit in windows 98 / ME mode it works fine. So try this. Also, if you get “You do not have the newest itunes 9.1″ type error and you do have itunes 9.1, it’s likely that you ran blackra1n rc2 and it renamed some of your dll files. Copy itunesmobiledevice.dll to itunesmobiledevice2.dll (so you have the file twice, with both names after). You can find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support on win64 or C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support on win32.

Note: Rumors also say spirit may delete your pictures. Make sure you backup your pictures in iTunes or sync them off the device before jailbreaking so you can sync them back on after in case this happens to you.

Spirit is now released. This jailbreaks your iPhone / iPod touch 3.1.2 / 3.1.3 and iPad on 3.2. Here is are the download links for Windows or OSX:

This site is an official host. Comex will update the files here directly for updates.

Note: I may make a guide to follow, but this is a very easy jailbreak. Here are the steps:
1) Must be run on clean restored firmware (not currently jailbroken firmware).
2) Hook up the device to the computer
3) Run spirit, click the button.

If you find success please donate something to Comex. (Note: the donations go directly to Comex. Bigboss does not accept donations).

Windows users run Spirit.exe in compatibility mode:

1) Right click on spirit.exe and select properties

2) Select the compatibility tab and select Windows 98 / ME and check “Run this program in compatibility mode for” box.

After this just click the button.

So many rumors, complaints, confused people. I want to help clarify a few things about the jailbreak community and upcoming releases.

First, I want to speak about the time it has taken for 3.1.3 to be jailbroken. Many think this indicates that Apple has won or that the jailbreak is just too hard. This is far from the truth. The fact is that 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 are really basically the same firmware. 3.1.3 was not “worth” doing a jailbreak for. Jailbreaks are done by finding a bug in Apple’s software and then exploiting it in some way that allows for the device to be compromised. At that point, the jailbreak software bundle is uploaded to the device and executed. When this completes, root access is achieved on the device.

Every time a jailbreak is released, Apple analyzes how it was accomplished and fixes the bug that was used to jailbreak the device. Quite simply, 3.1.3 was not worth giving this bug to Apple to fix it.  However, Apple has since released the iPad. This has become worth using up an exploit to jailbreak the iPad. As of today, the main iPad world wide release has not yet occurred. Spirit should be close to ready when it does.

At this point, there are *at least* two known exploits that have been used to provide jailbreaks. The first one we will see is from Comex and is called Spirit.  The next one is either from Geohot and is called LimeRa1n or Chronic dev called Greenpois0n.  Here are some infos on these jailbreaks:

Spirit - There is no current release date (no, it will not be Friday as rumors say). This will work on all device to date and will not be tethered. This will jailbreak 3.1.3 and 3.2 (iPad) devices.  This jailbreak will require that your device is activated. That means, if your device says only “slide for emergency” you cannot use this jailbreak until you insert a valid sim card and activate the device. After that, you can jailbreak. Therefore, there will be no unlocking on Spirit. For those running 3.1.2 that wish to update to 3.1.3 and use Spirit, you cannot do so if you require an unlock. It is also unclear if a 3.1.2 version will be released to simply untether those of you that are on 3.1.2 (spirit currently requires a stock unjailbroken device to work). Spirit is real and it works very well. The current version is command line and a GUI is being written for it for both Windows and OSX.

Spirit, while originally found and done by Comex alone, is being made into a product using the cooperation of many teams (iphone dev team, chronic dev team, as well as Comex).  As we should all understand, getting a jailbreak from exploit to usable tool is quite a bit of work. Especially on a new device like iPad where many tools have to be rewritten or updated (like Cydia).

LimeRa1n - This is what Geohot is calling his jailbreak. Originally it was going to be released for iPad first, but instead Geohot got busy and is holding it for 4.0 (possibly to be completed by Chronic dev team). There may be an unlock planned by Geohot after 4.0 is released but its not clear yet. This jailbreak will not require an activated device and works differently than Spirit in that sense. In addition, there is a tethered and non-tethered version of this. It is not totally clear yet, but it may be possible to stretch this into two jailbreaks, one tethered and one not.

Greenpois0n - This uses the same exploit that Geohot found and was being worked on by posixninja of the Chronic Dev Team. Greenpois0n is more of a toolset that can be used to find other jailbreaks, firmware decryption keys, and may be useful in the future. When it will be released is also unclear.

How does this affect you?

Here will be your options when Spirit is released shortly:

1) You are on iPhone 3gs and are a subscriber to a contract carrier like AT&T. You will be able to update to 3.1.3 and jailbreak your device non-tethered.

2) You are on iPhone pre-3gs – you can update to 3.1.3 and jailbreak today with redsn0w.

3) You have a device that is not an iPhone (its an ipod touch any generation or an ipad) – you can update to 3.1.3 and use Spirit to jailbreak.

4) You have an iPhone unlocked and on 3.1.2 tethered. You will have to wait. Spirit will probably not work for you. If you update to 3.1.3, your baseband will be updated and you will not be able to unlock again.

5) You are on 3.1.2 and happy. Just install “3.1.3 firmware app”, click “3.1.3″ then “reboot” and you are as good as anyone that restored to 3.1.3 and jailbroke. Everything in appstore that requires 3.1.3 will work now.

In any case, you guys will want to keep your shsh stored in Cydia. 3.1.3 shsh’s will become valuable soon.