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Review: qTweeter App from Cydia

A new app from Efiko Software called “qTweeter” has just been released into the public Cydia repositories. This is a refreshing, new app, and seems to be built out of several never-before-seen APIs. The app is a background process and functions similar to SBSettings, another jailbreak-only miscellaneous system utility from Cydia. What qTweeter does, is it [...]

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Jailbreaking Officially Forbidden to iPhone Developers

Apple has just updated its iPhone Developer Agreements to include the following clauses: (e) You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise, create any Application or other program that would disable, hack or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented [...]

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Review: Skype for the iPhone

As everyone in the iPhone world is probably aware by now, Skype Inc has just released Skype (FREE: download here) for the iPhone. This mobile client allows the usual: calling and chatting to other Skype and Skype Out contacts over wifi. Note, that EDGE/3G are still not supported, due to the consumption of excess data [...]

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“InstallerApp” App Store Fuses Installer and Cydia

I posted only a little while ago that the “Rock My iPhone” store had just launched and was set to take on Apple’s very own App Store as a fresh new independent competitor. Now, a new service called “InstallerApp” from RIPDev, the team that developed the original “Installer.app” on v1.x iPhones, even before the App Store [...]

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“Five Column SpringBoard” in Cydia Launches

A new iPhone system tweak has appeared in Cydia: “Five Column SpringBoard”. This does what the “Five Icon Dock” does and allows you to display all your icons in each home screen in 5 columns, instead of the default 4. After applying the tweak, each home screen is squashed together, but I personally think the [...]

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Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store

Looks like the jailbroken iPhone app scene is about to get seriously interesting — not only is Cydia is going from package repository to full-fledged app store, a new jailbreaking service called Rock Your Phone is set to launch, and there’s a planned adults-only app store. Details are light on the others, but the Cydia [...]

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