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Victim Of the Jailbreak Wars: Cydia 1, Installer 0
iSmashPhone — ... Historically, Installer was the first easy way to load jailbroken apps onto your iPhone, pre-dating even the App Store.  However, the popularity of cross-town rival Cydia has increased in the past few months, to the point where Ripdev opted to throw in the towel. ...

Jailbreak app enables MMS on original iPhone
Macworld — ... . But that, as it turns out, is hooey. Despite Apple’s protestations to the contrary, it appears that the original iPhone is perfectly capable of sending and receiving Multimedia Messages (MMS). Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s necessarily an above-board way to, in the words of Jean-Luc Picard, make it so. However, if you happen to have jailbroken your phone and have access to the Cydia installer, you can find an application called, intuitively enough, ActivateMMS2G. Now, your results may vary, and even if you do manage to get MMS enabled, its use may be limited by your ...

The App Store Turns 1: A dozen distinctive apps
Macworld — ... ). Cydia Hey, we didn’t say that you would find every one of these apps within the App Store itself. Because one of the iPhone’s most important applications is one you won’t find in any Apple-sanctioned emporium— Cydia , the installer application for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches. It’s through Cydia that you can install tools for accessing the complete contents of your iPhone or iPod touch as well as add applications that provide capabilities not provided (or allowed) by Apple. With Cydia installed, any jailbroken iPhone can shoot video, tether, stream video, download ...

BossPaper, A New Way to Change and Personalize Your Wallpaper.
Planet iPhones —       I know many of you have jailbroken your iPhones, and have most likely done something in the way of customizing the iPhone GUI. One of the features that Apple left out of the iPhone is the ability to change the homescreen wallpaper, and that’s just plain unreasonable to many iPhone users. However, the Dev-Team and Saurik have allowed this feature and many others with the creation of the Jailbreak and Winterboard. My personal favorite when it comes to Winterboarding is changing the wallpaper of the ...

Ripdev InstallerApp upgraded, installs Google Voice apps on jailbroken devices
iPhone Atlas — ... to Apple's own iPhone's iTunes App Store. One of these, called InstallerApp, (previously covered on iPhone Atlas), was recently upgraded to version 1.1. InstallerApp has seen a few improvements since we last looked at it. It now works on the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, has removed unsupported Installer repositories, and gives more attention to jailbreak solutions using PwnageTool and redsn0w. Additionally, it supports packages from either Cydia or Icy iPhone apps that allow you to install more apps on your iPhone or iPod ...

qTweeter: The Fastest Way to Tweet and Update Facebook Status!
iSmashPhone — ... First, you must have jailbroken your phone.  This application can only be found on Cydia's respository. If you haven't jailbroken your phone yet, check out this handy how-to post: ...

Secure your jailbroken iPhone with a password change
Macworld — ... Not to worry. For one thing, neither exploit appears to be widespread. For another, both rely on the same assumption: that you haven’t changed the password for the ‘root’ superuser on your iPhone. Root is basically the iPhone's administrator account, and it has access to everything on the phone, which is why Apple doesn’t enable root access by default. Still, changing the password is pretty easy, and it will greatly enhance your security overall. Presuming you have access to the Cydia repository, you can download the free ...

Another Reason to Jailbreak: CyDialer from Saurik (Creator of Cydia)
iSmashPhone — ... CyDialer is a new app for jailbroken phones available from Cydia (search: CyDialer) that allows you to make phone calls to the people who you call the most from the lockscreen.  ...

Phil Schiller on the iPhone App Store
Technologizer — ... Of course, Apple has every right to decide which apps are available on its own App Store. But Apple’s role is really that of a monopolistic distributor , not a retailer. If the company permitted true competition–Cydia is too arcane and sketchy to count–the controversy would end in a nanosecond. ...

New App for Jailbroken iPhones Integrates Multitasking
Mac|Life — If you've been waiting for a multitasking application, then this is the app for you! It's available on the Rock store and is also showing up on the Cydia store as well. Multifl0w runs in the background of your OS and can run as many apps in the background as your phone has memory, so 3G users can install this, but 3GS users may have a better experience, as it has twice the memory capacity of the 3G. More information can be found at Just Another iPhone Blog   ...