Chpwn, one of my favorite jailbreak apps developers, came up with a brilliant idea to figure out what mods and jailbreak apps iPhone users want and need. It's called Tweak Tracker and it's dead simple.
Anyone can submit tweaks or apps ideas to the website. Then anyone can vote on those same ideas. The one that make it to the top obviously get more chances of being developed.
F0recast is a new tool by iH8Sn0w (the developer of sn0wbreeze) that I think is going to be of tremendous help to many jailbreakers and unlockers out there.
It's become quite complicated to follow up with the jailbreaking and downgrading requirements lately and many people just can't figure out whether they can jailbreak, unlock, downgrade or not. That's where F0recast comes in.
f0recast is a tool for Windows® that will check your iPods and iPhones to determine whether it is tethered, or unlockable (iPhone Only).
It is just a real simple app for users who are confused about their device being tethered or able to unlock.
It even tells iPhone user's their Boot loader, so if you are an iPhone 3G user with the 5.8 Bootloader, it will notify you that you can downgrade your baseband if you wish to unlock.
So basically, F0recast will tell you:
if you can have an untethered jailbreak or not if you can unlock or not and what tool you can use to unlock if you can downgrade or notYou can download F0recast for free from here.
If you're like me, you must sometimes get annoyed at how long syncing your iPhone with iTunes can take. Turns out that the syncing process doesn't take that long at all. However, the automatic backup of your iPhone is what takes the longest.
I found out thanks to JAiB about a tool called BackOff, which easily allows you to turn on and off the automatic backup of your iPhone in iTunes.
BackOff is a free PC and Mac utility enabling you to speed up the sync of your iPhone or iPod Touch by turning off the automatic backup in iTunes. Storage of large amounts of data can seriously lenghten iTunes sync. Disable iTunes Auto-Backup feature with BackOff and speed up your syncs!
BackOff is a free tool (download here) that work for both Mac and PC and is compatible with all iPhones and iPod Touch.
Patrick was able to try it out and here is what he has to say about it:
Just to give an idea of the impact this app can have, when I tested it this afternoon, a sync with backup turned on had taken over 20 minutes before I canceled it. Sync with backup turned off took under two minutes!
Looks like a winner to me. What do you think about BackOff?
There is a new tool out called iPhone Password Breaker that can get access to any password-protected backups for all iPhones and iPod Touch.
Supposedly used for forensic investigations, I can see many ways how iPhone Password Breaker could be used by jealous husbands, or angry wives, for example...
Note that this tool will not help you bypass the password protection of an iPhone or iPod Touch. It will bypass the password protection of a backup.
The new tool recovers the original plain-text password that protects encrypted backups containing address books, call logs, SMS archives, calendars, camera snapshots, voice mail and email account settings, applications, Web browsing history and cache.
How would you use this?
If you don't like our iPhone Download Blog theme, then you might be able to create your own custom iPhone theme with iPhone Theme Simulator.
iPhone Theme Simulator is a new tool that lets anyone easily create and test WinterBoard themes for iPhone and iPod Touch right from your PC.
This neat little software easily lets you customize most parts of the UI, including the lockscreen, springboard, wifi and carrier logos, apps icons, and much more.
What's great about iPhone Theme Simulator is that it allows you to test your theme directly from your PC, without having to load it on your iPhone and respringing it. It's definitely a great tool for anyone interested in iPhone theme design.
If you have tried iPhone Theme Simulator, I'd like to hear your comments on it.
crispSofties has released iPod.iTunes 4.0, the latest version of its synchronization software for Mac OS X. iPod.iTunes synchronizes songs, videos, playlist and meta data in both directions between iPods and iTunes libraries.
The new version, a 1.6 megabyte download, adds the following features and fixes:
Full support for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches Auto sync suppression to keep iTunes from deleting songs on the iPod that the user plans to transfer back into iTunes The ability to eject an attached iPod or iPhone from within the applicationiPod.iTunes 4.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and is priced at 24.90 Euro (about $39) for a single user license. A demo version is also available.