Wednesday, February 16, 2011

iPhone Dev News of The Week

  • This one was a long wait but the wait is finally over. All of you waiting on 4.1 or those of you rejailbreaking anytime your devices was rebooted or the battery died, now you don’t have to mess with that any more (except if you have a iPod touch 2G). The new jailbreak is a
    • I have received an iPhone app myapp.app from a developer. I also was given the following bin file (see below) that supposedly changes the signer of...
      • Hello guys I am getting this warning on iphone sdk. this is the code: - (IBAction)act1:(id)sender{ int int1 = [text1.text intValue]; ...
        • When I was beginning to teach myself objective c a few months ago (I'm still pretty new) I noticed in some examples of header files that had a few...
          • Move over Weather HD, here comes QuickWeather ($0.99). There isn’t too much to say about this app aside from the fact that it looks incredible and features one of the cleanest weather presentations I’ve seen in an app thus far. I’ll probably continue to use LockInfo 3.0 (jailbreak only) for my weather forecasts, but if you’ve [...]
            • SmartLab's Recon 6.0 Programmable Rover is an interesting little toy-gadget we found while perusing the floor at the International Toy Fair. Designed as a teaching tool for basic programming skills, this little bot comes with an owner's manual that'll teach your little tyke basic programming concepts in an easy-to-use package. All coding is done right on the front panel itself using easy-to-understand arrows and symbols, and you can make it do things like deliver sodas, guard a bedroom, or…
              • Smurf's Village is a top selling game in the App Store. But, Apple has a problem with that, and it might have a huge effect on how in-app purchases are handled in the future.
                Apple Has “Strong Words” With Smurfs’ Village Game Developer Over In-App Purchases is a story by AppAdvice.com

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                • AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson must be eating some sour grapes since his company lost its exclusive hold on the US iPhone market. During a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Stephenson said that platform-specific app stores like the ones run by Apple and Google are "bad for consumers," as they require a customer to purchase an app multiple times if they want to run it on different platforms. In the words of Stephenson, "That's not how our customers expect to…
                  • No One expects that this will happen. Apple silently updated that iBooks app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch few days back in order to enhance its features. However, the latest iBooks app update seems embedded win anti-jailbreak code. There were reports that some jailbroken iOS device users who jailbreak their device using the Greenpois0n or Redsn0w jailbreak tool are having a hard time to open some EBooks using the revamped version of iBooks app. Meaning, if you jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or your iPod…
                    • Love iPhones? Like math? More in our Doing the Math series, examining the numbers behind the hardware . Recent rumors suggest the iPhone 5 might have a four-inch screen , slightly larger than the 3.5-inch screen in the iPhone 4. I was skeptical of this rumor at first, because I thought boosting the screen size would require Apple to increase the overall size of the handset, too. I fiddled with some numbers and determined that while it's theoretically possible for Apple to put a 4-inch screen in the…
                      • Apple’s prohibitive new policies in regards to in-app purchases and in-app subscriptions have been spilling all the digital ink so far, but Cupertino also took the opportunity yesterday to clarify their position on “cheating” App Store developers: zero tolerance. In Apple’s newly revised App Review guidelines, Apple has warned all devs who try to unfairly [...]
                        • iH8sn0w has released Sn0wbreeze 2.2 for Windows, which allows users who want to jailbreak and also unlock their iPhone to update their iPhone with a pre-jailbroken iOS 4.2.1 firmware while preserving the baseband from getting upgraded so that it can be unlocked using Ultrasn0w. Sn0wbreeze is considered as the unofficial PwnageTool for Windows. iPhone Dev [...]
                          • I wasn’t really surprised by the popularity of my post Apple Publishes Six Free Electronic Books for Developers since I’ve been telling everyone that developer topics would be popular and you delivered. That post was re-tweeted 253 times and shared on Facebook 92 times which isn’t to shabby for a short news blurb about books [...]
                            • That is quick. Few hours ago, iPhone hacker comex has already knew the problems of iBooks and jailbroken devices. And now, the problem is fixed. You can get the fix by jailbreaking the devices with the latest PwnageTool 4.2 at here. Or, you can wait to get them from the Cydia. There is no need [...]
                              • Apple's guidelines for developers who place their wares in the App Store have been updated, with a few key bullets. Changes to accommodate the new subscription models are there in section 11, along with a stern warning up front to developers who might game the review system or steal other devs' work: "[Y]our apps will be removed from the store and you will be expelled from the developer program." Additions and changes also include more specific examples of problematic me-too apps in…
                                • If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone using greenpois0n, Redsn0w then you might have noticed that you’re not able to open some eBooks using the iBooks app. Comex, member of iPhone Dev team and developer of jailbreaking tools like JailbreakMe and Spirit has figured out what might be causing the problem. Comex explains: It seems that before [...]
                                  • Apple's latest efforts to counteract jailbreaking are more likely to hurt the company, its reputation, and its revenue than to prevent iPhone owners from going out-of-bounds with their device software. I'm talking about recent reports that iBooks stops working on jailbroken devices.
                                  • Whoa – this is really shocking news if it proves intentional on Apple’s part. From an Apple Insider report today: Apple has taken a new approach in its battle with users who hack iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad, blocking “jailbreakers” from accessing content in its iBooks e-reader application. Using the hack dubbed “greenpois0n” [...]
                                    • Seems like Apple isn't letting the Library of Congress's declaration that jailbreaking is legal stop it from throwing further obstacles in the way of people trying to open up their iOS hardware. The latest such gimmick is iBooks . Version 1.2.1 of the app, launched last week , refuses to open books on jailbroken phones, as detailed by Social Apples . Comex of the iPhone Dev Team explained how the security measure works on Twitter. It seems that, before loading any DRM-controlled book (i.e.,…
                                      • As we reported couple of days ago, the Chronic Dev team has just released the Greenpois0n RC6 and it is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows computers. The RC6 version of Greenpoison will perform an untethered jailbreak (meaning you can reboot you iOS device whenever you want and it will not lose its jailbreak) on AppleTV 2G as well as other iOS devices such as the iPhone (all models), iPad, and iPod Touch (all models) running on iOS 4.2.1. Any, way, if you are an AppleTV 2G users and…
                                        • No doubt that most of iPhone users jailbreak their device in order to fully customize it, because as we all know Apple’s iPhone suffer from sever lack of customizations features and Apple did not allow its users to customize it. Now, a new jailbreak app courtesy by Cydia App Store called ShowCase offer something that Apple should have included with the basic iOS. This new Cydia tweak makes iOS keyboard show the current case. As we all know, Apple’s keyboard always shows capitals or uppercase letters.…
                                          • A new jailbreak app for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad (iPad support is coming in version 2.1) hit the alternative App Store for jailbroken iOS device is now available for download. The developer of the security-focused app called Lockdown Pro has just updated his wares to version 2.0 to offer a much stringent and easy to configure password protect security for your iOS apps. The Lockdown Pro version 2.0 was developed to allow you to lock and unlock their applications directly from your applications.…
                                            • Recently, the Chronic Dev Team has just updated its Greenpois0n Software Jailbreak tool to bring support to AppleTV 2G. The Grrenpois0n RC6, just like the RC5, has a capability to untether jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on AppleTV 2G and it also bring significant bug fixes to fix various errors and glitches. Now, FireCore, the developer team behind the Seas0nPass tool has an update for us. The dev team posted a blog update telling that they will release a new software update of Seas0nPass by nest week. The new…
                                              • We have some good news for the entire iPhone jailbreak community, especially for all AppleTV 2G users who are eagerly waiting to get untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. The Greenpois0n, the software jailbreak k tool for jailbreaking your iOS devices on version 4.2.1, has just received a major update, and now you can get full untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak for your second generation AppleTV. For those who aren’t aware, Greenpois0n is the first jailbreak tool that jailbreaks the Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhone 4…
                                                • Surprise, surprise, another week has gone by, and Apple has seeded yet another build (Build 10J855) of Mac OS X 10.6.7 to developers. This is the fourth such build seed in as many weeks. This build also carries no known issues. Apple is still asking developers to look in the same areas as they previous [...]
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