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Qik launches on Installer.app

by Cory Bohon (Aug 5th, 2008)

A while back, Qik announced that they would be creating a video broadcast client for the iPhone. When they first announced it, Qik was only available in a limited beta to jailbroken phones. However, Qik has announced that all jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhones will be able to get the client through ...

Raging Thunder races onto the iPhone (unofficially for now)

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2008)

The iPhone continues to impress in terms of gaming possibility. Raging Thunder isn't actually done yet on the iPhone (obviously -- judging by this video there are more glitches on this thing than a Matrix full of black cats), but once it gets rolling, the award-winning game, put together by ...

Add ModMyiFone as an Installer.app source

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2007)

A while ago, the nice people at ModMyiFone put together their own installer source. This source usually has up-to-date hacks in installable forms shortly after they become public. I've been besieged by kind commenters reminding me to put up a general post to let everyone know about this. If you'd ...

iPhone 101: You've got iPhone or iPod touch jailbreak! What next?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 29th, 2007)

You've run the TIFF exploit jailbreak and your iPhone or iPod touch now has Installer.app on your main page. So now what? Here are some tips and ideas for you. Add Community Sources. Most third party applications are found under Community Sources in Installer.app. Until you add this feature, you ...

Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Oct 29th, 2007)

A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much ...

Rumors: Nullriver to update iPhone Installer.app to 3.0

by Erica Sadun (Oct 19th, 2007)

Shaun Erickson at psmxy.org has posted that Nullriver looks set to release the next major update of Installer.app. Installer.app is a program that runs on your iPhone or iPod touch and allows you to download software directly to your unit. He writes that version 3.0 should be released soon, perhaps ...

iPhone power tips from Mac | Life

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2007)

Mac | Life has a huge roundup of "25 iPhone Power Tips"-- just in case you've been living under a rock since late June, here's everything you missed about the iPhone, from how to unstick a stuck slider, to using aluminum foil to insulate an audio cable from the iPhone's signal, to where to go for ...

Install applications on your iPhone without hacking

by Erica Sadun (Aug 28th, 2007)

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, ...

Developers offer free iPhone application packaging

by Erica Sadun (Aug 28th, 2007)

Today developers Nicholas "Drudge" Penree and Shaun "Ste" Erickson have announced unlimited free Installer.app packaging for iPhone application developers. If Installer.app sounds familiar, you might recall that a few weeks back we posted about the Installer.app utility. Installer.app is an ...

Installer.app beta for iPhone: Install, update iPhone apps over Wi-Fi

by David Chartier (Aug 12th, 2007)

All sorts of interesting iPhone apps have sprouted up these past few weeks, but unless you're checking out our own Erica Sadun's excellent work with iPhone apps, they can sometimes be hard to find or install. While Apple wants us to keep twiddling our thumbs in anticipation for true apps to come to ...