Hacks

Let’s get something straight right off the bat: if you’re from Norway and you say Windows Moe-Bile that’s okay. Second language and all. If you are a native speaker and you say Windows Moe-Bile (instead of Mobil, like the oil company) you are simply annoying.

I feel better. Now let’s get to the news. Some cool, young Norwegian guy (Erik Krinstianser) has devised a method to use Windows Mobile on your iPhone. This is awesome in the sense of “Oh, wow, that is incredibly clever” but lame in the sense of “it is interesting that you can pound a nail up your nose but I’m not going to do it” way.

As great as all that is (and the end product will be open source) the interview with the developer is even better. The beginning is pretty standard stuff but the end gets into long winters and girlfriends. Worth watching.

Link: urtheworld

As we wait longer and longer for Push Notification that was promised for September, people are starting to grow more impatient. For those of you who have jailbroken iPhone, you no longer have to wait. There is a hack that enables background processes just for you.

Apple doesn’t allow background processes because that drains battery life, but a lot of applications would work so much better with thaat option. Fortunately, the hacking community has created a temporary solution that could be a great reason to jailbreak my iPhone… Nah, I’ll keep waiting.

The hack, appropriately named ”Backgrounder," is available for jailbroken iPhone through Cydia. Running the software, you can go to the app you want to keep open and hold down the home button until a prompt pops up. Then, if you let go and exit the app, it will continue to run in the background while you do other things.

As Apple has mentioned, this is probably deadly on the battery, not to mention, may run a little slower, but at least you have background processes! Best of all, the hack supposedly works both on jailbreak apps and apps downloaded from… more...

It didn’t take long, the iPhone 2.1 has been hacked by the usual suspects (iPhone-Dev Team). Which is good, the iPhone -Dev team is an open group of hackers who are more than happy to share the fruits of their labors for free, free, free! It is an easy process and worth it if you want a little more control over your iPhone. Or that awesome NES Emulator.

If you’re a black market arms smuggler entering all your transactions on your iPhone we have bad news for you. The iPhone is spying on you. It’s true. Jonathan Zdziarski demonstrated how, with the use of a custom firmware bundle, it is possible to crack the iPhone and recover screenhots that the iPhone takes of the users most recent action.

As you might imagine these screenshots can be quite compromising. The iPhone might cache passwords, map locations, the amount you’re getting for a crate of AK 47s etc.. But the screenshots are crucial to get that cool fade away effect when the home button is depressed. With the use of forensics these are recoverable. So be careful with the last thing you do before you hit the home button.
Source: cnet

Jailbreaking your iPhone was the first thing a lot of users did before the 2.0 revision and App store rolled out. It was a little bit of hassle, but the payoff was huge: Your iPhone could run a variety of cool apps. Once the App store was revealed the impetuous to jailbreak the iPhone dwindled. Why even bother with the warranty voiding hassle of jailbreaking your iPhone when there are a bajillion (give or take) applications you can buy (or download for free) in the App store?

Personal reasons vary. There’s the “just because they made it hard for me” reason. Which is great, it is the same reason people climb mountains. There’s the “it’s my hardware I should be able to do whatever I want one it is mine” reason. Also great, once you buy something it is yours (or it should be). There’s the ”I’m writing a book so I have to” reason which is really just a lame excuse, no one believes you. Finally there is the “I want my phone to do more” reason. Also great, who can freakin blame you… more...

Wired has a how to up explaining various ways to secure your iPhone. The post covers everything from enabling auto lock (who would’ve have thought of that) to remapping the home button (what the?) If you’re serious about securing your iPhone and keeping your data away from prying eyes this is a good place to start.

Don’t feel too secure because if you tune into an O’Reilly webcast on September 11th you’ll be instructed on how to bypass the passcode lock by hacker Jonathan Zdziarski. Don’t worry, your security efforts won’t be for naught, the technique uses a custom firmware bundle and likely won’t be as easy to implement as the double tap crack.
via Wired

Installer.app has been updated with some, from what I hear, annoyances.

Installer.app received a search feature, and the slight hesitation after installing new programs that sends you back to your unlock screen, has been fixed.

It now quickly relaunches your Home Screen to seamlessly load the newly downloaded programs, which essentially makes Installer.app and its functions even more integrated into the iPhone.

Other noteworthy items in the update include the ability to refresh one source at a time and a search feature in the Uninstall category.

Now in v3.11, Installer.app is becoming a powerhouse of a program and perhaps the most integrated native app that jailbreaking has to offer.

Installer.app is automatically installed when you jailbreak your iPhone with iLiberty+ or ZiPhone.

If you aren’t quite sure what ZiPhone is, allow mw to explain. ZiPhone is one of the (if not the only) most popular tools for automatically jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones.

Yesterday, the software has updated to version 3.0 and includes some much anticipated features by some. They include, No more need of fix nvram, solution for GREYED wifi, no need for YouTube Fixes, embedded apps installer, and customized plugins.

The new release is available in both Mac and Windows versions and you can get it here. Enjoy!

The iPhone Dev Team published a a screenshot of what is reported to be a jailbroken iPhone 2.0 installation. According to some sources, the Dev team has already jailbroken the beta 2.0 iPhone firmware that Apple has only released to a limited number of testers.

The jailbroken iPhone freely allows installation of iPhone applications, bypassing Apple’s $99/year developer program which includes a developers certificate.

So even though the iPhone innards is now open, there are those still jailbreaking the iPhone. Amazing, isn’t it? Why is this still going on?

The jailbreaking process will allow users to install those applications which fall outside of Apple’s guidelines.

As we all know, Apple will be releasing the iPhone 2.0 software in June alongside the new Apps Store via iTunes. Be prepared by an astonishing amount of applications, including Apple’s “not allowed” (jailbroken).

You may have already downloaded 1.1.4 to update for your iPhone and while ZiBri’s Jailbreak will work, he’s cautioned users to refrain from doing so until any bugs can be worked out and the Firmware can be further analyzed.

One problem that has surfaced is that previously installed Applications will not be shown on the Springboard. Reinstalling these Apps will fix the problem.

You should see an official fix in a few days.