A group of students from the University of Toronto have completed an awesome iphone hack that could potentially replace most if not all remotes you have around the house. It’s called UiRemote (Short for Universal Infrared Remote), for iPhone only at this moment.

With the help of this small accessory, you will be able to use your iPhone to control your TV, DVD, Cable box, Projectors, Digital Photo Frames, AC, Fans, & Backyard evil robots, whereever you go. Not only does it send out the remote control signals, you can easily teach it to learn any button on any standard Remote, or even a sequence of button clicks as a macro.

This project is in the final prototype stage — The team has been busy making UI improvements and is aiming to release the infrared module and application in a month or two.

Stay tuned!

- source: uiremote.wordpress.com

If you’re one of those people who like having a full size keyboard on devices with tiny hard to use virtual keyboards? Or if you like the feeling of a full size physical keyboard and hate the feeling of a virtual keyboard. One word for you, bluesn0w. Bluesn0w’s developer team, iBluetooth Team, were successful demonstrating a “pwned” bluetooth chipset, allowing anyone to write/implement a fully functional Bluetooth Stack that runs on your iPhone.

From ibluetoothproject.tk:

We have been working around the clock to update and patch the terminal release and prepare for a GUI release. GUI release will be donor only, at least at first

How to Install:

1. Download Bluesn0w v1.1.1 from our iPhone Downloads section
2. Using winSCP or CyberDuck – ssh into your iPhone and copy bluesn0w-1.1.1 to /var/root/
3. Rename it to just bluesn0w
4. Turn off WiFi, stock Bluetooth and everything from the settings app
5. Move away from all microwaves
6. On your iPhone, go to MobileTerminal and type su followed by enter, and type your root password (default is alpine)
7. Type cd /var/root
8. Type chmod 777 bluesn0w
9. Type ./bluesn0w
10. Enjoy!

Download Bluesn0w v1.1.1

- source: ibluetoothproject.tk

Ever wanted to watch a flash video through Safari but you couldn’t because flash doesn’t exist on the iPhone or iTouch? That’s when iMobileCinema comes to play, you can watch flash video through safari with iMobileCinema. — iMobileCinema is a powerful plugin for Safari that enables you to watch flash video through the web via the iPhone or iPod Touch Safari

From iMobileCinema website:

iMobileCinema is a powerful Safari plugin for playing internet videos on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can watch millions of videos on any podcast site or blogs with it. Install it and visit Google Video, Youtube, or any other sites via Safari. Bunches of videos are waiting for you.

Demo:

iMobileCinema is available for firmware 1.1.1 – 1.1.4 via the Installer
Source: http://d.imobilecinema.com

Also available for firmware 2.0 – 2.1 via Cydia
Source: http://d.imobilecinema.com

Keep in mind 2.X support is still under Beta.

- source: imobilecinema.org

A few weeks ago, RiP Dev released a little neat application named, Hood. Today, they released an update for Hood. With all new features, new icons, bug fixes and yes, of course, still free!

From RiP Dev’s blog:

• EDGE Toggle. Unlike other solutions (actually, all that I’ve seen around), this one disables and enables EDGE without touching the APN settings. For this reason, when you disable EDGE, the “E” icon will still be lit in the status bar (indicating that the network is up) but the respective service will be effectively down. This is much more reliable than before, and is actually the way Apple meant to implement it – the code hidden inside Preferences.app does the same.
• Settings. Now you can access settings of Hood inside of Settings > RiP Dev > Hood preference pane. Very easy and convenient.
• Process List. This feature is turned off by default, but you can enable it in the Settings. Hood will show a list of processes running on your iPhone, with the ability to quickly kill any of them by sliding your finger across the process name (much like you delete stuff in any table form on the iPhone). Be careful and don’t kill stuff that you don’t know, especially owned by root – or you may end up rebooting your iPhone!

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If you’re one of those people who gets phone calls and/or SMS messages 24/7 from telemarketers, you’ll love to know there’s a way of whitelisting and blacklisting individual phone numbers, its called MCleaner!

MCleaner is a firewall apps for iPhone, which can block the incoming call and SMS, it’s easy to use and good for you when you are busy, constantly in important meetings or discussions. The downloads and set-up is very simple, and you will get rid of all the unwanted calls and SMS.

This latest version of MCleaner adds:

• support firmware 2.2.
• “Accept and Hungup” which will hungup the call right after accept it,so there wont be “voicemail” for the blocked call.
• fix minor bugs.

How to install MCleaner:

• Jailbroken iPhone
• Launch Cydia, and Choose the Utilities Category
• Choose MCleaner and Install

Installer source for iPhoneOS 1.0: www.mcleaner.com/iphone/install
Installer source for iPhoneOS 2.0: http://repo.neolinus.org/ispazio

MCleaner costs $11.99 USD

- source: mcleaner.com

Rip Dev have coded a pretty neat, free, iPhone tool in 8 hours. What does this neat tool do? Well, this tool allows you to toggle Airport/Bluetooth from on to off or vice versa, kill active applications, and monitor the memory usage in real time all at the swipe of a finger across the status bar!

Presenting a new free tool for your iPhone – coded entirely today in past 8 hours. :) The thing is called Hood, and it will add a quickly accessible panel to your iPhone that allows you to toggle AirPort, Bluetooth, kill active application and monitor the memory usage in real time.

To activate, just swipe the finger across the status bar (that’s where the carrier name, time, and various status icons are displayed)

Hood is available now in Installer.app, category Utilities.

- source: ripdev.org

Anyone who keeps their jailbroken firmware up to date knows the pain of having to continously reinstall all the unauthorized third party apps on your iPhone. BigBoss has now made AptBackup available via the Cydia applications installer. This app sneaks a list of your installed Cydia application into iTunes backup files so anytime you use iTunes to backup your iPhone’s data you will also be backing up a list of programs you’ve installed.

The next time you update your iPhone’s firmware (jailbroken firmware assumed), then restore your phone’s backup data it will upload the list of previously installed applications. This allows for an easy one button reinstall of all your old applications in Cydia.

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With blazing fast 3G speeds and some areas being lucky enough to enjoy unlimited bandwidth with their cell phone package, a long awaited app has been iPhone 3G tethering. It has arrived! We’re not talking about NetShare which made a very brief appearance on the App store last month before it got pulled. iPhoneModem.com have released their iPhoneModem App to the masses via Cydia. This means you will require a jailbroken iPhone or iPhone 3G to use this App.

Don’t get too excited though this App isn’t completely free, it’s shareware that you can freely use with an annoying nag screen. If you wish to pay to get rid of this nag screen you need to register and receive a code based on your iPhone’s IMEI, no price has been published while writing this post.

Saurik is at it again, this time with an update to his free iPhone video recording software labeled “Cycorder“. The audio recording feature that we’ve all been awaiting is here and FREE. Saurik had been debating whether or not he would bundle audio in with some sort of paid version of Cycorder. Luckily Cycorder is still free and can be installed on any jailbroken iPhone or iPhone 3G via the Cydia app installer (Note: Saurik is also the creator of Cydia).

Recent Updates/Changes:

• Audio Channel Recording
• Colorized Navigation Buttons
• TV Out Supported Playback
• No AutoLock When Recording
• Minor (REC) Badge Fixes

Update:
Saurik has updated again since this post with the following changes;

• Fixed “After 10 Minuters” Crash
• No StatusBar After Suspend
• Update MiB After Deletions
• Removed /tmp/video.mov Link

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Rip Dev has released beta 6 of the iPhone Installer 4.0 app. You will find this latest version available under the ‘Updates’ category from within which ever version of the beta you are currently using. If you don’t have it installed you can use the latest versions of PwnageTool for Mac or WinPwn for Windows. Either of these tools should install both Cydia and Installer by default.

What’s New in Installer 4.0 Beta 6:

• Search. It searches among packages from the repositories you have added, and, if you let it sit for 5 seconds, will query our server and return packages that are available from repositories you don’t have added (that we know about) with an option to automatically add and install. Repository owners, upgrade to the latest version of the repo code (below) to have your repository added to the search engine.
• Uninstall now works correctly.
• Fixed a lot of locking issues especially with custom HTML info pages.
• Updated the Categories and Tasks icons so they are less ugly.
• Fixed a bug with multiple copies of Installer appearing in Installed Packages under some circumstances.
• Installer will now correctly check and prompt for an update of itself.