iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

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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ZodTTD has done it again, this time releasing MAME4iPhone, the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator for jailbroken iPhones via the Cydia installer application. This emulator will allow you play thousands of your favourite arcade classics, anything from Pong to Mortal Kombat. I can’t wait to start enjoying Golden Axe on the road! To install MAME you can find it in the Games section of Cydia.

• Based on MAME v0.37 Beta 5
• Supports thousands of MAME ROMs
• Sounds is supported but off by default. Go to “Now Playing” and slide the sound slider to turn sound on
• To press OK. Use RIGHT then LEFT then RIGHT then LEFT to press OK.
• Save states not supported
• Upon installing a folder /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/MAME/ is already made for you. Place your MAME-titled zipped ROMs in the /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/MAME/roms/ folder

Which Arcade Classic are you going to play on the iPhone? Leave a comment letting us know.

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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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Saurik the creator of Cydia which appears to be the new defacto standard for installing 3rd party homebrew apps on your jailbroken iPhone, has released ‘Cycorder’ a free iPhone video recorder App, opting to use on-screen text ads rather than charging users. It’s a great alternative to the buggy ‘iPhone Video Recorder’ App which requires you pay after you’ve recorded 30 videos limited to 30 seconds each. The previously reviewed Qik will capture audio & video for free but requires you to be connected to a WiFi connection to steam the video to their service.

Cycorder can be installed via Cydia in the ‘Multimedia’ section.

Cycorder offers 6 - 15 frames per second depending on lighting and movement using MJPEG compression at 384×288 (4×3) screen resolution. This gives Cycorder an edge when it comes to video quality by sacrificing the small file size offered by the competition. You can watch videos on the iPhone itself or to really see the quality of the video you can download them to your computer. MOV extension video files can be found in the ‘/private/var/mobile/Media/Videos/’ folder on your iPhone. Unfortunately audio is still in the works and is expected in a future release.

Click the ‘more…’ link to see an example video, the latest in the Alias420’s boring apartment video series.

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In Cydia’s latest update there are major improvments to functionality and usability. After installing this update you will prompted to select your “user profile”. You have three choices; User (graphical apps), Hacker (command line apps), or Developer (all apps). The point of these profiles is hide all the development or command line tools that many average app users don’t care for. This will make navigating to what you want quicker by cutting out all the fat you don’t need, of course you can always change your profile later on by accessing Settings under the new ‘Manage’ feature.

This new ‘Manage’ feature is the bulk of the update with two current options for ‘Sources’ or ‘Packages’ and an ominous coming soon third option that you can’t select labeled ‘Storage’.

If you select the ‘Packages’ option you will be taken to a new screen that will allow you actually turn on/off (hide/unhide) any Cydia categories. This gives you another way to reduce bloat and keep a streamlined interface customized to your needs.

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