The simple way to make an alternative backup of your iPhone. Many people know that the iTunes backup is not good. Sometimes, you lost your contacts, SMS, etc. Thinking about this, I developed a tool called BackToUp. What it do, is create an alternative backup of your iPhone that is independent of iTunes. The program [...]

YXFlash player is out for iPhone and released in our repository. This marks the first actually usable xvid / divx player for the iPhone. Finally you can watch that collection of avi files you have laying around without having to convert them into Apple’s annoying format first. While the converted videos do play a bit smoother due to hardware acceleration, but xvid videos are watchable, at least the ones I tested.The player also plays flash content if you have downloaded flash flv videos to your device. (It is not a web based flash player).

In order to add the videos, just SCP them onto your device or use something like iPhone Browser. Yes, the app is free.

3G Fuzzyband Downgrader is now available in cydia. This should be used instead of 3G Baseband Downgrader for downgrading the baseband on phones containing the 5.8 bootloader.

Benefits over original downgrader:

• Does version checking, will only downgrade if phone is eligible
• Downgrades all versions of baseband from 2.30.03 to 4.26.08 (3.0 beta5)
• Reports current bootloader version on screen

The original downgrader was a possibly dangerous app, as it relied on a failed downgrade to decide whether downgrading was possible. Anytime you run BBUpdaterExtreme you are potentially doing damage to the modem, so the version checking in this app minimizes the chances of accidently corrupting the baseband.

Questions, comments, and suggestions should be sent to w1kedZ or DHowett at fuzzyband@peacefulinsanity.com

Screenshots below:

In the news:
appleiphoneapps.com: Downgrade Baseband for Yellowsn0w

In this version we added new detection method – EasyMethod. It’s ability to detect the most opportune time for awaking WITHOUT ATTACHING your device! In the past you had to attach the iPhone to your wrist. Now you don’t have to. This method uses more sensitive accelerometer settings to detect your night movements via mattress [...]

Long time no speak everyone. We have made alot of updates and wanted to inform everyone of just a few. Firstly, our main feature Spoofing is still free so long as the calls are kept under 2 minutes. You still have to listen to a short 10 second ad before your call is placed but [...]

I have added a comments section to my pages in Cydia. It’s on the new styled depiction pages. You can view the comments in most recent to oldest order and add your own. I have infrastructure to add ratings as well but left it out for now as Saurik says he’s adding this himself. See screenshots of Cydia:

I have updated the SBSettings SDK guide to document the new invokeHoldAction function that allows toggles to trap a held action by the user for special menus. For example, one use would be in a wi-fi toggle to allow the user to select the APN.

qTweeter has been updated to version 0.97 to coexist with SBSettings. If you are running both qTweeter and SBSettings, to launch SBSettings, slide your finger horizontally across the status bar. To launch qTweeter, slide your finger vertically from the status bar. Please see this guide http://www.efksoft.com/products/qtweeterforiphone/help/sbsettingsresolved.jpg About qTweeter. qTweeter is the fastest and most efficient [...]

iTypeFastR is the keyboard app to type faster and with less typos. After a little over a week after the launch, we got more than 20.000 users, a lot of praise, and a lot of feedback on things we can further improve. Thanks for all the feedback, this is really helping us! Version 1.1 includes [...]

Hey Guys, here is pH. During this days, me (pH), EvilPenguin and BigBoss created a tool called 3G Baseband Downgrade. This tool will help you to downgrade your iPhone 3G Baseband, from 02.30.03 to 02.28.00 (then, the Yellowsn0w is suported). The 3G Baseband Downgrade is so simple to be used because there’s a GUI! BigBoss [...]

At Occipital, we’ve been working on improving ClearCam since we launched it in February. For those of you that haven’t heard of ClearCam, it lets you take sharper, 4 megapixel photos with less noise on the iPhone. In the latest version, we’ve added the following features and improvements: GPS data is now enabled for all [...]

Today a repository released an app called “PushMod”. The description of this app says “PushMod gives you the option to choose 1 minute push time and allows you to turn any mailbox into a push mailbox.”

I wanted to clarify a bit what this app is and is not. It will be a heavy battery drain. To understand why, read on.

First this does not turn any mailbox into a push mailbox (like it says). Push mail is a technology where the server and the device register then disconnect. After this, when new mail arrives, the server “pushes” the notification to the device sending it a notification. The notification is initiated by the server. The device can be asleep or in a low power state in between notifications. You get real-time notifications with no CPU cost or battery drain.

Unlike push, regular mail is fetched by the device from the server. The device has to connect to the server, ask if there is any new mail, and pull the content down if so. The process is called polling. Polling is not “free”. On a hand held, battery powered device, it can be very battery intensive. One of the reasons Apple provides the options to set your mail poll from 15, 30, 60 minutes is to avoid the heavy battery drain. In many cases, 15 minutes is considered to be too much of a battery drain!

In comes “PushMod”. If you need to get your email instantly, this will help. It will set the poll interval to 1 minute rather than 15 minutes. But don’t be mislead by what it’s doing. It is not installing push mail. Instead, it is having your iPhone fetch mail every 1 minute. This uses CPU, network, and drains a lot of battery.

If you need your mail to be retrieved virtually realtime, this is still a good mod. But it was misnamed and you need to understand what you are getting into prior to installing it. It may be worth the battery tradeoff for you to get mail every minute. But consider yourself warned.

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iTypeFastR is a revolutionary iPhone keyboard app that makes you type faster with less typos. iPhone’s keyboard is slightly too small to type fast. iTypeFastR fixes that.

Read on to see screenshots and details.

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Hey Guys, here is pH (Pedro Henrique Franceschi). Today, I developed a tool to Downgrade your iPhone Baseband from 02.30.03 to 02.28.00 based on GeoHot’s method. The tool is called pHaseBanDowngrader and works great. You may need to downgrade your baseband to use Yellow Sn0w to unlock. As you may know, YellowSn0w only works on 2.28 baseband. Previously, those of you that upgraded to 2.2.1 could not use YellowSn0w. Now you can.

  Zodcis, a Francis and ZodTTD production, have released Vibrus 3G available now on the Cydia Store for a great price… just $2.00! Vibrus 3G gives you tactile feedback on the iPhone 2G as well as the iPhone 3G. Features include vibration on events such as using the DialPad as well as the TextPad, vibration duration [...]