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View List Of All Installed Apps From App Store, Cydia, System On iPhone [Cydia App]

If you want to keep a track of what all apps are installed on your iPhone or iPad, their version, size, and other information, then here is a free Cydia app AppInfo. Though not exactly perfect in working (does not support iOS multitasking), AppInfo does give you essential information for all the apps that are currently installed on your iDevice.

Search for ‘AppInfo’ in Cydia and install the app.

Launch ‘AppInfo’ from the icon on your Homescreen.

You can find a list of all installed apps under 3 different tabs – AppStore, Cydia, and System. Select an app to find out it’s details and calculate it’s size.

Tapping on ‘Open in Cydia’ did not work as expected. Hopefully the next release will bring in the bug fixes.

In case of App Store apps, you get to know a lot of information including it’s price, purchase date, the iTunes ID you used to buy the app, the section it belongs to in the App Store, and so on. Tap on ‘Open in AppStore’ to view the app in App Store on your iPhone.

If you nave iFile installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch, then you can open the selected apps’ folder in it by tapping ‘Open in iFile’. AppInfo is available for free download from the BigBoss repository of Cydia.

Glyph Designer Submitted

So tonight is the night. After weeks of coding, bug fixing, testing, more bug fixing, polishing and then a little bug fixing just for the hell of it, Glyph Designer is being submitted to the Mac App store. Tom and I are really pleased with v1.0 and hope you guys enjoy it as well. We’re […]

TUAW’s Daily App: Movie Triangles

Movie Triangles is a fun Java game where you connect movie stars and their films in a Sierpinski triangle-style grid. Developer Jim Blackler originally had the idea to create a trivia game made up of information straight from Wikipedia, and Movie Triangles is what that idea eventually became. It’s also available for iOS now as a free universal app, so if you’re a movie buff (or just know one), you can test your knowledge of movie casts right now on the iPhone and the iPad.

Unfortunately, since the app started off outside of the iOS platform, it’s not super flashy. You’re basically just dragging triangles with text on them around, and a little bit of extra color or flash (a timer? another mode?) might have gone a long way. But the game is surprisingly addictive, as you can tell by playing it online, especially if you happen to know quite a bit about recent movies and movie stars. For film buffs, rearranging the triangles to try and remember who’s in which movie is a lot of fun.

The app is free, so there’s really no reason to complain. Give it a look if you’re into playing a little movie trivia on your iOS device.

TUAW’s Daily App: Movie Triangles originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon discontinues ‘New Every Two’ policy in the wake of the iPhone

Without much fanfare, Verizon Wireless has discontinued “New Every Two,” a long-running promotion where anyone completing a two-year contract was eligible for a new or discounted phone if they signed on for another two-year contract. As of January 16, a few weeks before pre-orders would be accepted for Verizon iPhones, Verizon has changed its policy.

Previously, anyone completing a contract would be eligible for either a new low-end phone or a credit ranging between US$30 and $100 toward the purchase of a new phone. Verizon has also changed its early termination policy, which once allowed customers with a two-year contract to bail after around 13 months. This has now been raised to 20 months. It’s true that Apple mobile products rarely, if ever, enjoyed this perk on AT&T, but the timing of this policy change is a bit of a slap in the face for the 26 percent of current iPhone users expected to switch to Verizon once the iPhone becomes available. According to a ChangeWave survey, 41 percent of those potential switchers plan to switch to Verizon within the first three months of the iPhone 4’s release on that network, and another 31 percent plan on switching within the first year.

If you are an existing Verizon Wireless customer at present, you will be grandfathered in to the “New Every Two” program, but it seems that the timing is calculated to make sure that any switchers from AT&T will not have the opportunity for any sort of discounted phone. This and the fact that the Verizon iPhone will not be able to use the internet while talking on the phone may dismay people who are intent on switching — me included — but I’m sure that Verizon Wireless considers this a minor inconvenience for customers looking forward to using an iPhone on a network that (theoretically) will offer better performance than AT&T.

We’ll keep an eye out for other “gotchas” that Verizon may announce.

Verizon discontinues ‘New Every Two’ policy in the wake of the iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Talkcast tonight, 7 PT/10 ET: Verizon iPhone Edition!

Sunday can only mean one thing: Talkcast!

Tonight we will have the episode we have been waiting to have since about an hour after the iPhone was announced exclusively on AT&T: Verizon iPhone! We’ll talk about what to call it, what this means for the white iPhone and more. Since I am hosting this evening, there will be plenty to chat about in the Aftershow as well.

Your calls and questions help us make the show the best it can be, otherwise I’m just talking to myself! To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the “TalkShoe Web” button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 PM EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cell phone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Gizmo or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here. Talk with you then!

Talkcast tonight, 7 PT/10 ET: Verizon iPhone Edition! originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The paperless office: How to get there (and a discount e-book offer)

Last Wednesday on TUAW TV Live, I discussed my success over the past year at moving towards the ultimate goal of a paperless office. I thought it would be a good idea for me to pass along some of the methods I’ve been using to accomplish this elusive goal, and also offer a deal to our readers for an e-book all about the subject.

My earliest steps towards a paperless office actually came a few years ago, when I went to electronic statements for my banks and credit cards. However, up until the beginning of 2010, the filing system for my business consisted of big binders or folders into which I would slip the printed copies of those statements along with a ton of other paperwork. Now, as the statements come in my email as PDFs or are downloaded from the bank or credit card company website, I save them directly into special folders in my Dropbox.

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The paperless office: How to get there (and a discount e-book offer) originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Open Source iOS Game Engine Sparrow Updates To 1.1

Just in case anyone is not familiar with it, the Sparrow Framework is an open source iPad and iPhone game engine that I have mentioned in the past, and used to create the beginner’s action game programming tutorial. I feel that Sparrow is the easiest open source game engine out there to get a handle on for beginners which has already been used in several games in the app store.

The recent update adds some extremely useful features, most significantly the following:

1. Proper API documentation which you can browse online, and also import directly into Xcode and browse through directly in Xcode’s help window.

2. A new class acting as a canvas which you can draw other display objects on, but still renders at the same speed. This class seems ideal for drawing apps/games.

You can read the Sparrow Framework official post for full details and information on the many other changes here:
Sparrow 1.1 hatched!

You can find Sparrow’s download page here.

It’s great to see the way the creators of Sparrow have been able to improve the framework without adding any bloat keeping the framework lightweight and fast.

iOS 4.3 Heading For More Powerful GPUs

iOS 4.3 is one of the hottest topic today and people are just going deep and deep day by day trying to discover the secrets in it. One of the new discoveries includes a new driver for Imagination Technologies’ POWERVR SGX543 GPU. Apple’s iOS devices have leveraged the POWERVR SGX535 graphics processor. MacRumors summarizes the benefits of the SGX543 over the SGX535:

“The SGX543 is said to deliver performance of 35 million polygons per second and a filtrate of 1 billion pixels per second when running at 200 MHz, compared to 28 million polygons per second and a filtrate of 500 million pixels for the SGX535 running at the same clock speed. In addition, the SGX543 offers support for the Apple-backed OpenCL specification that allows applications to harness untapped potential of both CPUs and GPUs for processing purposes. Finally, the SGX543 support multi-core configurations allowing for even greater performance.”

iOS 4.3 is giving rise to a lot of things and this new chip will most probably work with the upcoming chip by Apple for iPhone 5 and iPad 2. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint us in the end

iPad2 to launch on April 2 or 9?

With so much of tablet news going round the web sphere, more so after the Consumer Electronic Show got over, what seems a bit strange is the contribution to this news stream from a company as formidable as Apple Inc. For a company that can be credited to have sown the seeds of the tablet revolution in the first place with the immensely successful iPad, it indeed is ironical for Apple to be in the headlines off late with more of rumors than some concrete details.

And the target of the latest round of rumors is of course the next generation iPad, which this time is rumored to be hitting markets in the US on the 2nd or the 9th of April, which turn out to be in either the first or the second weekend of April. The current iPad too was launched on the 3rd of April and it too was a Saturday and all the tentative dates rings true with the usual Apple practice of refreshing their product line-up within a year.
Also, as it has been with the first generation iPad, it is the domestic consumers who will get to have a taste of the iPad 2 before the tablet sets sail for offshore destinations sometime around July. The other piece of information that has come to the fore points out that it is Apple via its online or brick and mortar stores that would be the exclusive access points of the the new iPad (6 months) before others like Walmart or Best Buy comes on to the scene.
Meanwhile, we also have a clearer picture of the present iPad successor that is yet to get a proper name though much of it has already ceased to be a secret any more. Like what seems to be an almost surety is that the new iPad will have built-in cameras both at the front and the rear along with an USB port, both of which were so famously missing in the current iPad. In fact, its really amazing the iPad in spite of these missing on its feature list have yet managed to sell in millions, this notwithstanding the best efforts of many a celebrity manufacturer to come up with a suitable alternative to the iPad. Surely they must be ruing the missed chance as the next iPad will have all that the first version did not have and consumers have always wanted.
Also, the next iPad is speculated to come sans the home button, the only button that had been the hallmark of iOS powered devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. Instead, what the new iPad will have is some form of a new multitouch gesture that would bring back the home screen as well as act to launch the app switcher. In fact, the new 4.3 beta version of the iOS that has only recently been released already rendered the home button all the more use less. This has led many to speculate the new iPad to sport a clean front end with no button upfront, versions of which are already believed to be undergoing tests in Apple facilities in California.
Further, there are also reports of Foxconn, the company that manufactures most iOS based devices for Apple is ramping up its production facilities so as to start producing the device en masse, which is slated to begin next month itself.

Apple iPad 2 Possible US Release Date Revealed

No doubt all the iOS faithful out there are waiting with bated breath for the release of the next generation Apple iPad, the Apple iPad 2 as it has become to be known as, and apparently word is out on when you can expect to pick up the new iOS device.

According to an article over on the Boy Genius Report by Zach Epstein, German blog MacNotes claims that “reliable sources” have informed them of two possible launch dates in April for the Apple iPad 2.

Those dates are, if true, either Saturday the 2nd of April or Saturday the 9th of April and apparently the Apple iPad 2 will be exclusive to the United States for several months before the iOS device ses any international release.

Furthermore apparently the Apple iPad 2 will only be available for purchase via Apple for the first 3 to 6 months after which Apple partners such as Best By and Walmart will be able to offer the tablet.

So if the report is true US customers will gain the Apple iPad 2 in April while the rest of the world waits between a quarter and a half a year before they can gain the next generation iPad, good for US customers but no so of international ones.

PwnageTool iOS 4.3 beta jailbreak released

Just one day after Apple released the iOS 4.3 beta to developers, there’s an (unofficial) version of PwnageTool that can jailbreak the new OS. The new PwnageTool is based on the Limera1n exploit that has been around for a while now.

As with any jailbreak, you should be careful to back up your phone before installing any custom firmware files. This version of PwnageTool will not preserve your baseband, which means that it will break any carrier unlocking you’ve already done. Basebands are notoriously hard to downgrade, and an “official” PwnageTool carrier unlock won’t be released til iOS 4.3 is out of beta, so use caution.

WARNING NOTE: (Advanced Users Only) This unofficial version of PwnageTool (with custom bundles) wont preserve your old baseband. If you rely on an unlock, stay away from this release. Proceed at your own risk only. We are not to be held responsible if you end up bricking your iPhone.

Follow the instructions below to jailbreak iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3 beta using PwnageTool:

Step 1: Download and install the latest version of iTunes.

Step 2: Now start iTunes and sync your iPhone with your PC or Mac so that it backs-up all your important data including settings, apps, music, contacts and photos.

Step 3: Download PwnageTool and iOS 4.3 beta for iPhone 4 (devs only). Move all these files to your desktop.

Step 4: Start PwnageTool in “Expert mode” and select your device:

Step 5: Browse for iOS 4.3 beta firmware for your device as shown in the screenshot below:

Step 6: Now select “Build” to start creating custom 4.3 firmware file:

Step 7: PwnageTool will now create the custom .ipsw file for your iPhone which will be jailbroken.

Step 8: Now follow the following steps to enter DFU mode:

Hold Power and Home buttons for 10 seconds
Now release the Power button but continue holding the Home button for 10 more seconds
You device should now be in DFU mode

Step 9: Start iTunes, click on your iOS device icon from the sidebar in iTunes. Now press and hold left “alt” (option) button on Mac, or Left “Shift” button if you are on Windows on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” (Not “Update” or “Check for Update”) button in the iTunes and then release this button.

This will make iTunes prompt you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3 file. Select the required custom .ipsw file and click on “Open”.

Step 10: Now sit back and enjoy as iTunes does the rest for you. This will involve a series of automated steps. Be patient at this stage and don’t do anything silly. Just wait while iTunes installs the new firmware 4.3 on your iPhone. Your iOS device screen at this point will be showing a progress bar indicating installation progress. After the installation is done, your iPhone will restart automatically and you should now have a fully jailbroken iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3 beta.

Apple iOS 4.3 Beta- the Best Video

After much research I found the best video that has IOS 4.3 for Apple iPhone and iPad.
Apple iOS 4.3 Beta 1 has brought the new feature of Multitasking Gestures.The first beta of the new firmware for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is only available to registered developers all’iOS Dev Center.

Hacking Game Center – HackCenter

Introducing HackCenter. Available soon on the Cydia store. This hack allows you to send any score that you want to Game Center, and it works with every game. In this example, the developer shows how you can use HackCenter to submit a fake score for Fruit Ninja.

iOS 4.3 MultiTouch Gestures (Video)

The introduction of the Multitasking function could lead Gestures
the elimination of the physical Home button on this iPhone and iPad.

Apple iOS 4.3 Beta 1 has brought the new feature of Multitasking Gestures.The first beta of the new firmware for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is only available to registered developers all’iOS Dev Center.
Multitasking Gestures at the moment is a feature reserved for the Apple tablet.

To switch between open applications you have four fingers on the screen to scroll iPad, to the right or left. To return to the Home, the newfeature involves the use of gesture Clamp 5 fingers: users must pluck all 5fingers on the display of the tablet. To access the taskbar, you have to scrollthe screen up with four fingers, and to close the tray app to repeat the same thing down.

Geohot Speaks Out About Sony’s Lawsuit Over PS3 Jailbreak [Video]

Geohot appeared live on AOTS (Attack of the Show) today where he talked about the lawsuit which Sony recently filed against him for jailbreaking the PS3.
He made it very clear that his jailbreak (which is by the way still available on geohot.com) doesn’t enable piracy. All it does is to allow anyone to run unsigned homebrew apps for the first time on their systems (i.e. PlayStation 3). When asked “what exactly the issue is, what are you being sued for here?”. He confidently said, for “making Sony mad”.

Check out the whole (five-minute) interview in the video embedded below. It’s worth a watch!

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