August 24th, 2010
For the past few weeks I’ve been spending my weekends mostly working on homescreen.me – a simple web app for showing off your iOS device homescreens. Last week, it went live. This is a joint effort by myself and the folks at iXyr media who also runs Smoking Apples and Beautiful Pixels.
At this point of time, homescreen.me is a place for you to show off your homescreens, but there are many viable features that you will see there in the near future. Think of it as a great resource for iOS wallpapers, to discover new apps on the app store, find out what apps your friends are using on their devices, a history or archive of your homescreens and lot more.
We already have a dev blog where we have a brief on the present and future of the app. Currently, homescreen.me is invite-only but we are sending out invites as much as we can, so please request an invite at the homepage. Your suggestions and feedback would be much appreciated.
Have a look at my homescreen for a preview: http://homescreen.me/tinu
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March 7th, 2010
I have been least interested in enabling tethering on my unlocked and jailbroken iPhone 2G, mainly because I felt tethering the EDGE connection to my mac would not be a good idea. But today I took the plunge and decided to give it a try. I googled for long and I could not find much help on how to enable tethering on the 2G, but rather a couple of ways to get it working on a 3G or 3GS. So this is a very simple and straightforward method to get it working on the 2G. You need a jailbroken iPhone running OS 3.1.2 with Cydia installed.
- Fire up Cydia and add a new source – http://cydia.iphonemod.com.br/
- Once Cydia has finished reloading, search for – iPhone 2G: Tethering, MMS, bluetooth profile
- Install the package and reboot.
Thats pretty much to do about it. You should have the option of ‘Internet Tethering’ under Settings > General > Network. Turn it on and connect it to your PC / Mac with the USB cable and configure it. The mac would instantly recognize it as a new Networking device called ‘iPhone USB’.
I did not really want MMS but this fix instantly did that too. I sent an MMS to my friend (for the first time ever) and it just worked !
If you use a 3G or 3GS, you might rather follow this.
Thanks GadgetDNA.
FYI my iPhone was jailbroken using blackra1n.
Tags: iphone, jailbreak, tethering
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December 7th, 2009
Ever since I got my iPhone, it was always jailbroken. But never did I make use of the liberty until recently I had a real look at Cydia. I regret myself so badly that I’ve been missing on them for so long. This article from Smoking Apples ignited the idea. So here are some tweaks / hacks / apps I made use of.
- Five icon dock
- Five column Springboard
- SBSettings
- Backgrounder
- CyDialer (paid app – $1.99)
- iLlumine winterboard theme
- Kirikae
- Lockdown
- Safari Download Toggle
- SBSilent toggle
- Autolock SB Setting
- Apple Congruency SBSettings Theme
If you are not yet jailbroken, I suggest you do. Its worth it !
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July 7th, 2009
Just came across this cool iPhone app called “Prowl” which pushes growl notifications on your mac to your iPhone. An awsome way of using push notifications introduced in iPhone OS 3.0. I knew this app was going to be useful that I finally made up my mind to jailbreak my device. Yes, I have an unlocked iPhone and somehow you need to hack it to activate push notifications.
A lot of mac apps I have come across uses growl and it has been an inevitable part of my mac setup. So, any growl notification you get on your mac gets routed to your iPhone. This means that you can set Tweetie on mac to growl when you have a mention or direct message, which is then routed to Prowl’s servers and onto your iPhone. Furthermore, you can configure to growl when you get new emails (GrowlMail), or when someone sends you a message on Adium – really useful so that you can know if someone messaged you on IM when you’re away from your mac.
Prowl lets you customize it by giving options like send to iPhone only if you are away from your mac for a certain amount of your time. Which is sensible, you really dont want to get push notified when you are in front of your mac. Prowl works with a Growl plugin and its iPhone app. You also need to register on their website to activate it.
Even tried this on EDGE and seems to work fine. But sometimes, there is a lag in pushing notifications which is not impressive. Also, after enabling push notifications, I found that the battery life has gradually decreased. But, I think this app is really worth it.
Tags: growl, jailbreak, prowl, push-notifications
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