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VLC for iPhone Pulled From App Store, Now Available On Cydia

Alex Heath ∙ January 8, 2011

Awhile back, we reported that the popular, open source media player "VLC for iPhone" was released in the App Store. It was a pretty big deal, because the VLC client duplicated a lot of functionality that was already in the native iPod app. (Apple doesn't usually like apps that duplicate the iPhone's native features.)

The biggest pro to VLC for iPhone was its ability to playback file formats that iTunes doesn't support. iTunes has a somewhat limited amount of video formats it can playback. VLC was a simple, free app that allowed more types of videos to be playable on the iPhone.

While it was nice for an app like VLC to be in the App Store, the media player was very buggy. Lots of users reported problems with playback and file format support. However, the bugs were not the reason that the app was pulled. In fact, Apple had nothing to do with the takedown...

My Love Letter to PkgBackup

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 17, 2010

PkgBackup is one of the more expensive jailbreak apps that you will find on the Cydia, but you'd be hard pressed to find a developer that's put as much continuous work into their app.

The backup solution has been on the receiving end of quite a few updates recently, so I thought it would be appropriate to visit some of PkgBackup's most convenient features.

One of those features is the wonderful DropBox integration, which is so good it inspired me to write this love letter...

My iPhone Has Cydia, Now What?

Guest Author ∙ Updated December 15, 2017

Now that we all have our iPhones running Cydia again I started to get a bit restless for something new to play around with. After looking around the repositories for apps and ringtones, I decided as a computer nerd myself, that I wanted to create my own Cydia repository.

A few seconds of Google searching lead me to an article on creating a Cydia repository. I figured it shouldn't be too hard so I took a crack at it today...