We have updated ToneFXs to version 1.5. It is a free update for currently registered users. Not much has changed on the surface. It is under the hood where a lot of work has been done.  We had to make some major changes behind the scenes to serve as the foundation for version 2.0. These [...]

BigBoss Edit: Excellent post Ranova. Added as rule #16 to why jailbreak.

Here’s another reason to jailbreak your iPhone 3G. Today, xWaves released the highly anticipated update to their GPS app for the iPhone: xGPS. xGPS features full turn-by-turn guidance through the clever use of Google Maps. It also features full voice directions (TTS – text-to-speech) that try to pronounce the upcoming turn in full detail (direction, street name, etc), a feature a lot of standalone GPS’s do not have. It does a pretty good job at pronouncing street names. A female voice (found in most GPS units) would sound a lot better than a robotic voice, but it is still decent.

biteSMS v3.1 is out now. Here are the changes / additions: Added support for language translations in Quick Reply. Quick Reply is much improved, including scrolling for long messages. Added ability to long press the “Send” button in Quick Reply to switch between Carrier and biteSMS. We now disable the Quick Reply “Send” button during [...]

Gaming Robot and I rewrote the SBSettings autolock toggle from scratch. It should now work. The toggle will also save your current autolock settings value from the settings app and restore it when you toggle it. When the toggle is on, autolock will occur. When the toggle is off, autolock will not occur. Thank you to Erica Sadun for help on getting SpringBoard settings to take effect immediately without a respring.

In this version we added ability to set microphone record on alarm sound. Also we added option shake to snooze. Many users like push button snooze on usual alarm clock and we give to you this possibility. For activation this function you need set requered time for snooze in options of alarm clock. And when [...]

I finally brought Torrentula to Firmware Version 2.x, with the help of Mark Peterson. It’s a GUI for the command line Tool “Enhanced cTorrent” with a lot of other Features! Developers: Albert Schulz and Mark Peterson Special Thanks to: Marcel N. and Sven S. for the Graphics Features: Download you .torrent Files right to your [...]

As you read this, keep in mind that I am not a lawyer and do not give legal advice.

There has been a lot of news surrounding the legality of iPhone jailbreaking. It started when the EFF announced that it plans to add iPhone jailbreaking as a DMCA exception. (http://www.eff.org/action/free-your-phone). After this, Apple made an announcement that they consider jailbreaking to be a copyright infringement (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal). So what’s really going on?

The DMCA has a set of exemptions that are reviewed every three years. This year is the year where these exemptions are reviewed and also when new exemptions are added. The EFF is pushing to have jailbreaking added to the exemption list. By adding this, it basically says “jailbreaking your iPhone is legal”. Remember, not having it in there does not say that jailbreaking is illegal. It simply doesn’t say. For example, there is no US Law that says “clothes shopping is legal”. But there is no reason to think it is not legal either. The EFF is pushing to add an exemption so that jailbreaking is actually called out as legal.

The original exemption requests can be found here:
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/comments/lohmann-fred.pdf
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/comments/lohmann-fred-summary.pdf

A month after the exemption requests were made, the responses were due. These can be found here:

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/responses/

There are responses from a number of people for 5A from a number of end users and small businesses the obvious players: EFF and Apple. A few people who are definitely interested in this problem for other reasons (VOIP): Virgin Mobile and Skype. Mozilla also chimed in with a rather short document.

Skylar wrote an interesting article on this here: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147164

And the NYTimes has an interesting article on it here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0…our-iphone/?em

I have updated Categories today addressing some stability issues in the configuration app. It’s still not perfect but it should at least run better. Hopefully sometime I will get enough time to really go through this thing.

The main issue was a pretty substantial memory leak in the configuration app. What would happen was springboard would detect a low memory state and shut the app down. The then on close, the app would respring. The respring would not have enough memory to complete and springboard would freeze up the device. I have done a lot of work on this, but there is still some smaller memory leak left. The launchers are fine so the hassle is just setting up the folders the first time. I have also removed the respring when low memory state is detected so hopefully it will prevent the freezes.

v2.23
• Fixed issue where users behind a proxy had the app close and safari open in some cases.
• Worked on memory usage. Fixed a large memory leak. (There is still a memory leak in the configuration part of the app, but it’s not as big. I hope I get time to fix it in the near future).
• The iPhone 2.1 and newer froze up when trying to respring with less than 7MB RAM. When memory got low, springboard would kill the app causing it to respring and freeze up. The respring flag should now be cleared in most cases when memory gets this low.
• The app will now detect if it gets closed due to low memory and allow you to continue your editing where you left off.
• Memory free and respring state are now in the status bar while the app is running

Added Quick Reply! Now you can quickly reply to incoming SMS messages while your busy in other applications and without waiting for biteSMS to start-up. Added Privacy, allowing control over whether the Name, Text and Preview window is shown for incoming SMS messages. Much faster matching of contacts, especially for those users with very large [...]

It pleases me to announce that iSpoof 2.0 now lets you make unlimited FREE calls! You don’t even need to sign up for an account or fill out any forms. What’s the catch? When making free calls, iSpoof will play a short nine-second advertisement before your call is connected. iSpoof currently supports free calls to the US/Canada, certain parts of Europe and many other international destinations. We also have access numbers in 40+ countries so a person from France could call someone in Hawaii for free using iSpoof (if so inclined.)

The iPhone battery is one of its weak points. Luckily, several after market add-on batteries exist. I have bought many of these batteries and am writing a review and comparison of each. Below is an extensive comparison of 5 addon batteries for your iPhone and recommendations on each. One thing that all batteries have in [...]

I believe the iSpazio source should be up if you update the source package to v0-3.1 or newer. He had some domain issues and his domain, ispazio.net seems to be “lost”. The package update just updates the source to use one of his other existing domains.  !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

We are glad to inform you that we released v2.01 of EasyWakeup. Now it’s multilingual! Russian, German, Spanish, Dutch are available now.

We improved main program algorithm. v2.01 finds the opportune moment to awaken you more accurately.

Also now you can see your night sleep graphs. And you can find optimal sensitivity for your body.

The main bigboss.org server has been having some troubles the last couple days. It is not a traffic issue as the server has plenty of horse power to handle whats coming in. The issue has been tough to nail down but I have made changes every day and enabled different logging. I check the server multiple times a day and fix it right away if I notice a problem. So if you are having issues, just try again in an hour or so until the problem is solved. I have enabled some additional log files so I may need a couple more days of reproduction with logfiles to solve it once and for all.

Edit: if you are able to read this post, the server is up!

BigBoss Edit: If this was crashing for you, it was probably fixed on 1.0.2. Congratulations to Occipital on this nice app. I think this is one of the most innovative apps on the iPhone. It finally takes the crappy camera and does something pretty ok with it. I plan to update my reasons to jailbreak with this.

At Occipital, we’ve been working really hard on a better camera application for the iPhone, called ClearCam, and we finally launched it on BigBoss/Cydia!

ClearCam takes 6 photos in 2.5 seconds, fuses them together using an algorithm called super resolution, and creates a sharper, 4 megapixel photo with less noise. There is also a QuickShot mode that takes 4 photos in under 2 seconds and saves the sharpest to the camera roll.