A new app from the developer of AddExchange – iStrings. iStrings gives you the ability to change the system strings of your iDevice. It has support for either WinterBoard or just using the app itself to change them – no dependency on WinterBoard. This is great for people that do not want/need to install extra [...]

SwirlyMMS 2.3 & SwirlyNet, the first and most complete MMS app for the iPhone. It is packed with new features like text-to-speech, 3gp video encoding, SMS and free-of-charge messaging over SwirlyNet.

Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got an update to 1.40 A lot of stuff has been improved. Changelog 1.40: port blocking: now you can extend rules to only block for a specific port. Simply by adding “:portnumber” to the hostname or by using the selector in the popup (example: facebook.com:80). [...]

We can only say that we are sorry it has taken so long. This release fixes most if not all the bugs found in previous versions. Make sure to check out our hilarious video collection of prank calls in the app. As before, the app is free to download, and the service is free to [...]

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Thunderst0rm is “supposed” to be an untethered jailbreak for 3.1.3. It was released today and is available for download. Thunderst0rm is fake. Do not download or run it. We aren’t sure what all it does, but it does not jailbreak your device. Furthermore, it may install some spyware or something. It should be avoided. Rumors say it deletes several files from iTunes meaning you would possibly have to reinstall iTunes after running it.

Another one called TurboSn0w2 is also fake.

There are currently 2 known working exploits on 3.1.3/3.2 (ipad). One will be released from Comex called “Spirit” and the other by Geohot which will probably be one of his “Ra1n” apps. The two folks above are working together and will make sure that both are not released for the same device firmware. That means the next two major apple releases should be able to be jailbroken without looking for additional exploits.

If you don’t see news about it here, at the iphone-dev team blog, or at Geohot’s “on the iphone” blog, assume that it is not real and do not run it until you see confirmation at one of the above sites.

I usually don’t report on general news, but I found this interesting enough. But Planetbeing (iphone dev team) has managed to get a decent looking version of Android on a 2g iPhone dualbooting iPhone OS and android. Check out the details and a video of it working here.

BiteSMS v4.7 update is out today. Here are the changes: Quick List feature. From the biteSMS status bar icon, easily display and action your unread SMS messages. A license is no longer required to use biteSMS, if you don’t have a license or credits you will be shown ads instead. The intent is that those [...]

Edit (Apr 15): Thank you to your feedback, I have fixed 3 categories bugs you guys reported in email: 1) Blue arrow gone and cant edit folders (fixed), 2) Crash when selecting icon (fixed)  3) Crash when icon theme with no icons in it is present (fixed).   I have also removed all the debug output from libhide and updated that as well. Currently, Categories will still respring when adding a new folder, renaming a folder, or removing a folder. But hiding icons and adding icons into the folder can be done with no respring.

Libhide is the underlying library used to hide icons for many applications including SbSettings, Poof, Categories, and even Winterboard. (There are others). Many of you have this installed and may not know what it is.

I have updated libhide adding the following long awaited features:

1) Hiding apps no longer impacts their performance in other apps. For example, hiding mail will no longer remove the settings pane mail settings. Hiding youtube will no longer cause embedded youtube videos to stop showing up in safari. This was one of the main reported issues with Categories app when people would move mail or youtube into a folder. Special thanks to developer Dustin Howett for helping me with this.

2) Hiding apps and unhiding apps no longer require a respring. To this end, I have created a new sbsettings, poof, and categories that properly use libhide with these changes.

I have been testing this for a few days myself, but since libhide has so many installs, I would like to get some stronger testing in before releasing it. Therefore, I have added the new libhide v2.0.6, categories, poof, and sbsettings updates to my beta repository. The only changes in categories, poof, and sbsettings are to support the new libhide no respring mode when hiding icons. For categories, this includes adding and removing folder icons. For sbsettings this includes adding and removing icons to the dock.

Note to firmware 2.x users: Thanks to Apple’s lame practices when installing the 4.0 SDK and the 3.2 ipad SDK, I can no longer build for 2.x operating systems. Therefore, if you have 2.x, while these things should continue to work for you, none of the new features will be active for you. This hereby ends my updates for 2.x users. Time to move to 3.x if you haven’t already.

There are no other changes in these apps other than the libhide support, so please dont try to tell me that this update caused your sms to stop sending the last character, that your iphone won’t reboot now, that your wifi no longer works, etc. These things are not things that would be caused by this update. These things did not get changed.

To test these versions, please add my test repo to cydia: http://thebigboss.org/betarepo – please only add this if you are willing to test beta software. (This should never appear in anyone’s “all sources” package.) If you have any issues, I expect that you are able to send me a syslog with a bug report to my email address. Please do not leave bugs on comments of this post. I will not read them. My email address is readily available in Cydia. Please use that. Syslogs can be obtained via logmailer. Finally, this repository should not be added to your Cydia if you are comfortable testing beta and possibly unstable software.  To those of you that do test, thank you in advance.

Also, if you do test and things are working OK, I would appreciate an email saying that as well. I will release the update after I get sufficient amount of testing and no major issues.

As you all know, iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 is released to developers.  I will not cover all the new features of iPhone OS 4. Those posts are all over the internet.

But I will give you the standard warnings:

1) This is beta. If you are not a developer using it to develop apps, do not install it.
2) Like all previous major betas, this will probably expire every few weeks requiring you to restore or update.
3) This beta does put a new baseband on your device. If you ever want to unlock, dont touch it.
4) This beta will be slow and buggy. Release is still 4 months off!
5) You may have problems downgrading if you want to do so if you don’t have an SHSH stored etc.

In the meantime, remember you got all the new features already in your jailbreak:

1) 4.0 Multitasking = Install Circuitous / Backgrounder from Cydia.
2) Folders = Install categories / categoriessb out of Cydia
3) Music controls on home screen to control pandora or other = install music controls from cydia. Install backgrounder to background pandora.
4) Background wallpaper changing = Install winterboard or bosspaper and change your wallpaper is many more configurable ways.
5) Spellchecking = Inspell in cydia.

New in v1.2.0: Full AVRCP controls (bluetooth headset controls, including the skip controls Apple doesn’t support yet) are now available to those running 3.1.x! Music Controls is an all-in-one music controller for your phone, giving you the ability to control many popular music applications from a myriad of controls, including Bluetooth Headset, Wired Headset, Lockscreen [...]

ILogManager Elite allows you to delete call records from your call history of IPhone. Either you can delete one or all call records from a contact or a number. This app has a wonderful feature and that is “SEARCH“. Using this feature you can search the entire call history by name or by number for [...]

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ShakeToUnlock allows you to unlock your iDevice by shaking gestures, even if your device is sleeping. Or just undim it, which is great for LockInfo or Cydget users. Many users have requested such an solution and unlike others ShakeToUnlock works even when the screen is off; unlock whenever you want. It’s utlizing technology some great technology. A [...]

SBRotator is out! “SpringBoard Rotator” does what iPhone should be doing from the beginning LoansOnlineUSA.net! It rotates the whole SpringBoard according to your device’s orientation! You flip it to left or right, you get LandScape SpringBoard! The so-wanted addon is now available and compatible with most of the springboard-tweak applications, such as Infiniboard, Infinidock, Iconoclasm, [...]