Not long ago the iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 was seeded to developers and promptly QuickPwn was updated to jailbreak the newest beta. Like the last Beta 2 Jailbreak you’ll permantly lose the ability to use yellowsn0w forever, not all jailbreak apps work (like WinterBoard), and it does not install Cydia, it installs Icy. This QuickPwn release can jailbreak the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and First-gen iPod Touch. If you want to go ahead and try out the new software you can get it here.
Yesterday the Dev Team released an official beta of Redsn0w to jailbreak the iPod Touch 2G.
Today at exactly 2 minutes past Beta O’Clock we are releasing a beta version of redsn0w. The release hopes to simplify the jailbreaking of your iPod touch 2G.
redsn0w is currently in beta as it relies on the user running it from the command line, but this new redsn0w functionality is being added into our GUI applications.
If you are not fully confident with using the command line, then hold off for those simpler tools that will be released sometime soon.
I don’t currently have an iPod Touch 2G around to test this out, but if you’re daring it can be downloaded here.
The Russian hacker Vortex has recently announced an unofficial QuickPwn to jailbreak the iPhone 3.0 Beta 2. The process of jailbreaking is just the same as other QuickPwns. Unfortunately, this only installs Icy, not Cydia. Once you’ve finished the jailbreak and have gotten OpenSSH on it through Icy, you could manually install Cydia on it though.
This will jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.0 Beta 2, iPhone 3G 3.0 Beta 2 (Need UUID on a Developer account, and does NOT unlock), and iPod Touch 1G 3.0 Beta 2. You can download QuickPwn here. If you are successful in jailbreaking drop us a comment. I’d give it a whirl, but I don’t want to lose the ability to use yellowsn0w in the future.
RipDev thought there weren’t enough ways to install 3rd party applications so we now have Icy. At least from the sound of it, they came up with a good product.
So the issue(in my eyes) is that we don’t need 3, or even 2 different ways to install these 3rd party applications. I mean it’s not like it takes some special technologies to install them. The only differences(when you really look at it) between the 2 are how they install. If setup correctly you can install every application on Cydia as you can on Installer(and Vice Versa).
I always thought that RipDev should setup Installer so that you could add Cydia sources and install the applications. Yes it might take a pretty big re-write, but there could be a way to detect which source is for Installer and which one is for Cydia, and treat it accordingly.
Instead we’re going to be forced to deal with yet another application on our home screen(if we choose to install it). Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the iPhone Dev team lets you install it right when you jailbreak it. . .but even if they do it’s just going to be another thing to complicate things for the new Jailbreakers.
As you can tell I’m pretty mixed on this issue. I just miss the days when it was simple with 1 way to install things. The introduction of Cydia, while it was needed when Installer wasn’t being managed correctly, it really only split the community up. Now there are Cydia supporters and Installer supporters. Even though most of the current(and active) people in the community are behind Cydia, I still get questions every day about Installer(and the 1.x firmwares).
So what do you think of the Icy project? RipDev seems to have slimmed down the entire application(Cydia is 32MB and Icy is 1MB), but is that enough of a reason to use it instead of Cydia?
Today is the day Apple unveiled the new iPhone OS 3.0 and Apple gave us a lot of new features. Especially some of the most wanted like Copy/Paste, and Push Notification. Click here for more. . .
I would like to announce a contest for AppBoxx.com where you can win Free Money(in the form of an iTunes Gift Card). This is not going to be the easiest contest to win, so the value of the gift card can range from something like $10 dollars or as much as $50.
To win you must find the ‘Easter Egg’ that I have placed inside 1 of the 20,000(and growing) pages that you can find on the website. This Easter Egg is very easy to see, so when you find the right application you’ll know immediately. Like I said, 20,000 pages. . .this isn’t going to be easy but you can tell your friends about it and have them help you(I can divide the prize if you get help).
The first person to send me an email, and can tell me which page I put the Easter Egg on, wins the gift card.
Note – This is only valid for people who have a United States iTunes Account(Apple won’t let me send gift cards to other countries).
If you’ve loaded up Cydia this weekend you’ll have noticed a new update, the Cydia Store. This is the latest update in Cydia to allow charging for jailbreak apps if the developer desires. I think it is going to be great for the jailbreak community and entice more developers to build applications for it. A post over at ModMyI outlines the purchase process.
Just to test it out I decided to pick up the first paid Cydia App: Cyntact. The first thing you will notice after installing the new Cydia is Cyntact up there in changes. You’ll also notice that the title and description is in the color blue instead of black like normal applications
. This blue color indicated that it is a Cydia Store Application. That is the only difference you will see in the new Cydia as nothing else menu-wise has changed.
On to the buying. This process took me ages here the first time around. First I had to sign in with my google account, go through some steps to link the account, etc. Next was signing in with my amazon.com account and going through all the various steps (including remembering my password ) to buy the app. Finally I had purchased the app and was able to install it.
All said in done the entire process took me about 10 mins including one password lookup in the keychain on my computer. I noticed while authorizing Cydia on my google account there was a button to remember Cydia for later use with my google account so I hopefully wont have to go through all those hoops again. I also noticed a similar option when finally paying with amazon.com to keep my information on file. Something to note is the fact that amazon.com is the only current payment option so users without a US address can not purchase from the Cydia Store right now. When questioned about this Saurik said, “I am going to work on PayPal support for next week. (I did Amazon first as PayPal has a worse experience and is more expensive).”
I can not say for sure whether or not the process is as streamlined as it should be or not. The first purchase takes a long time. Is all my information saved for future purchases? I guess I’ll have to wait until I buy a second app from the Cydia Store. Assuming it doesn’t require me to login a couple times etc then the Cydia Store looks like it could be a big win in convenience for the end user when purchasing jailbreak apps.
It’s funny that I would post a Blackberry commercial on an iPhone website, but after you see it you’ll understand why. It’s funny that as soon as Apple said they were making a smartphone everyone laughed(even myself). But since the launch of the iPhone no other company has made such an impact.
Update – Fixed a bug with apps on sale and updated apps as well as enhanced the rss feeds with screenshots of the applications. also added an ‘all apps’ page to list every single application in the app store
AppBoxx.com will track new applications, updated applications, and applications that are on sale(reduced in price). You will see the front page lists all App Store activity, and tells you if it’s new, updated, or on sale. And if you’re looking for something specific like just new apps, just apps have been updated, and just apps you can get for cheap. App Boxx can literally save you hundreds of dollars a day in applications on sale.
