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Install applications on your iPhone without hacking

Good news everybody! Have you wanted to try out all those great-sounding third-party iPhone applications? Did the hacking part of it put you off? NullRiver has released a simple iPhone GUI installer for Mac OS X.

Download the latest version of AppTapp installer to your Mac and then dock your iPhone, quit iTunes, and launch the program. The software downloads a copy of the latest Apple Firmware; you choose whether you're using Firmware 1.0.0, 1.0.1 or 1.0.2. It takes a few minutes to download the files from Apple using a good connection and then the software copies some files to your iPhone. When finished, your iPhone restarts and the Installer app appears on your iPhone home screen. The Installer application gives you access to nearly every third party application that has thus far been released by iPhone developers. I tested the entire install procedure on my G4 Mac and it worked flawlessly.

Oh, and if you're looking to try out those software packages I posted about earlier today, open Installer App, and install "Community Sources".

AppTapp is a Universal Binary, in Beta, and free.

Update: Readers ask: "Will this mess up my firmware updates?" Answer: Possibly--I'll try to get a firmer answer out of the developers. Use at your own risk, of course.



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kk

Hey guys just heard that apple is monitoring us its like we r all some terrorist shit!! This stuff is gross bro. Heard that when ever we use th net th cell automatically sends personal data like imei number, email acc id, credit card no n stuff, dude its sounds as if they are like the government looking over for terrorist attack r somethin!! Its weird man... What r they going to do with all that information?? Wake mikey!!! They can can do anythin, if n only if when this news is true ,that is... Don't believe me check this out at- gsmarena.com

November 20 2007 at 4:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kk

hey I just got this new version of iPhone with th installer appl I installed 3appl on my phone n after that th installer appl dissapeared now I'm stuck with these 3 appl only,can any one help me, I'm havin an unlocked one

November 20 2007 at 3:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aplin

This is shit! Phone got locked in 5 seconds!!!!!!!!

November 19 2007 at 4:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wendell

Guys, I bought an unlocked iphone here in the philippines.

I have some questions,

1. My iphone version/firmware is 1.0.2(1C28) what does that mean? Can I install the latest firmware? using the itunes application?

2. If i want to upgrade my firmware how do i do that? what will happen?

3. Is it safe to install these apps to my iphone?

Thank you! Rock 'on!

November 01 2007 at 8:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nils peterson

OK, I got it to install, see my previous note. Previously I was on my campus network, which requires VPN. The download seemed to more or less hang. Now I'm on my home network, 11g, and I set the lock interval to "never" (was 1 minute). The download was so fast it startled me because I was not expecting Safari to go away and home to reappear. Then there was a pause (20 sec?) before the unlock message appeared.

Now, i'm on my way to get the vRecorder....

October 31 2007 at 9:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nils peterson

Locked up my phone, ver 1.1.1 I'm in the process of reinstalling and synching now

October 31 2007 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NYFUNNY07

NEW FIRMWARE 1.1.1. (IT'S THE UPDATE W/ THE WIFI ITUNES STORE).

I TRIED THE FIRMWARE CLOSEST TO IT WHICH IS 1.0.2 AND IT LOCKED UP MY PHONE..DID NOT WORK.

PLEASE ADVISE UPDATE

October 06 2007 at 9:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Elliott

this doesn't work with the newest version 1.1.1. that SUCKS. the new version 1.1.1 includes iTunes for your iPhone which i would say beats a few extra apps. and FYI everyone who has been living in caves... they HAVE ringtones now. i'm just waiting on Games which i'm sure are soon to be released.

October 04 2007 at 8:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
blugreen

Installed fine.......now the kikker....How do you uninstall the apps that you install. I used the 'uninstall' button but I just get 'ERROR Error during uninstall script excecution!'

Anyone found a fix for this?

October 01 2007 at 5:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

Has anyone tried out the 'anySIm.app'?

Unlocks iPhone for any SIM. Just wondering if it works....

Link to wiki: http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

September 17 2007 at 6:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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