Developer Joshua Hill, aka p0sixninja, recently tweeted “Things have progressed to the point where we don’t expect anymore roadblocks. ETA for greenpois0n is 10/10/10 at 10:10:10AM”.

While it’s important to remember that this is only an estimated release date and our friend chpwn puts it into decent perspective “Please note that an ETA is, by definition, an estimate. There may still be delays, although we will try for there not to be any.” Chpwn has been working with Saurik on improving Cydia, but by the sounds of it, it will not be ready to be released alongside the greenpois0n release, but it will be something else to look forward to after jailbreaking.

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MyStrings was released a few months ago back in early June. There have been many features added since then including icon fonts, colors, and sizes. Toggles for battery percentage, and ability to edit the carrier. Also there have been some support updates, to allow it to work on every device!

2.0 has been being worked on for awhile, and is getting very close to release. There are just a couple more features going into this tweak, and some support issues being fixed and everyone will be able to get a hold of the new and improved MyStrings 2.0!

Some features that have been added into this release is FULL language support, a few more apps have been added to the “Applications” section, it has been completely remade so that it has device specific codes, so that devices like iPads, and iPod Touchs dont have the “iPhone Only” sections. There were also other specification codes added in so that if you dont have one of the apps in the “Applications” section it wont show up, which makes it run faster because it doesnt have to load up the extra, unneeded applications.

There is no set date for release, but follow the developers @MarksiPodTouch and @Nazaroth to keep updated with this tweak!

1. MyWi 4.0

Jailbroken iDevice Required

2. InfiniFolders

Jailbroken iDevice Required

3. WiFi Sync

Jailbroken iDevice Required

4. Air Sharing & Air Display (ok, so this one isn’t from Cydia, but it’s still awesome)

Available in the App Store (link)

5. Tlert

Jailbroken iDevice Required

for an in depth description and each moderator’s individual list hit up the source link: [mmi.com]

SnapTap, available in Cydia, is a Camera tweak that enables your iPhone volume buttons or even an wired headset’s buttons to take photos and videos with your iPhone. Witth Snap tap you can now hold your device like you would a normal camera without the need to adjust your fingers. Recently updated to version 1.1.1, with full support for iPhone 4 and iOS 4.

Features:

• Take photos easily by using the iPhone’s volume controls and the wired headset button.
• Capture videos with the built-in camera app (3GS+) or with Cycorder on older phones.
• Mute the shutter sound while taking pictures.
• Finally take self-portrait pictures without figuring out where to press.
• Tested with the built-in camera application, works with some others as well.
• Use your headphones (wired headset) for taking pictures and videos as well.
• Normal iPhone usage when not taking pictures/videos

SnapTap is available in Cydia via BigBoss repository for $1.49

InfiniBoard

iPhone Developer Chpwn, behind popular iPhone and iPad applicationsInfinidock, Infinifolders, ProSwitcher and Paste, today updatedInfiniboard to v1.4.2-1. This tweak gives you vertical scrolling of your SpringBoard pages, and gives you the ability to add almost infinite amount of apps on your iPhone. Now iOS 4 Compatible.

Safari Download Manager

Safari Download Manager is an extension that adds a powerful, highly-configurable download manager to the iPhone’s web browser. Like never before, you can take control over downloaded file types, and harness the true power of the network connection on your device.

• Choose to download more than one file at a time!
• Choose to break out of the limited downloading you used to do!
• Choose to make your iPhone the mobile computing platform it deserves to be!
• Choose Safari Download Manager for all your downloading needs!

New In Safari Download Manager

• iPad support! iOS4.x support! iPhone4 support!
• Less UI stupidity! (blame Safari)
• Support for Download vs Download To! Downloads save to the default download directory unless Download To is selected.
• Change the default download directory to ~/Media/Downloads (instead of ~/Library/Downloads)
• Save downloads anywhere in /var/mobile!
• Resume more downloads than before!
• Configurable download retrying! Configurable download queue length!
• Don’t overwrite files indiscriminately! Only overwrite them discriminately! (Never!)
• Fix some memory leaks.
• Fix the bug that caused large downloads (>2GB) to show up as negative.
• Add tap&hold downloading for images (like “Save Image”, except saves it to a user-chosen location and not the photo library.)

You can purchase and download Safari Download Manager from Cydia store for $5.00. You iDevice MUST be jalbroken. Jailbreak guides are linked below.

Make It Mine makes changing your carrier text or banner text easy.

First thing is to go download Make It Mine from Cydia.

After you have downloaded the app, open Make It Mine and choose what you want your Banner or Carrier to say.

Just tap Banner or Carrier to place that text in the right place.

The application Backgrounder, a Mobile Substrate-based extension that brings muti-tasking on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, was updated to version SVN.R504-1.

Backgrounder SVN.R504 changelog:

• FIX: The settings file was not being loaded correctly.
• This is a long-standing bug that appears to affect all recent firmware (> 3.1.3?)
• This bug caused App Store apps to always use the Backgrounder method to background, even if set to use Native.
• Note that there may still be issues with some of Apple’s default apps on 4.0.

Backgrounder is available in Cydia via BigBoss repository for free.

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Developer Ryan Petrich has released version 1.2 alpha 2 which includes: iPad support, reduced memory/CPU use and “most of the more annoying bugs have been fixed”.

How to: Launch Cydia, Manage, Sources, Edit, add his repo: http://rpetri.ch/repo, Add Source and tap refresh sources.

Here’s our video demonstration:

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If you are interested in accessing this incredible service and reducing the need for a huge amount of songs on your computer and/or iDevice, read on.

Spotify

What Spotify is and why you need it: Spotify is the best streaming music app available on the planet, with high quality sound at nearly instant speeds. It has nearly every song you can think of and also allows you to create playlists and access them anywhere you sign in. With a premium account, you are able to store and access thousands of songs on your device for listening without internet connection. Spotify was designed to look and work like iTunes, and it is intended to attract iTunes users. Official Spotify clients run on Windows, Mac and there are iPhone/Android OS versions. There are also opensource versions built to work for various platforms, and the Xbox.

It turns out that Warner Music label has been the force behind the delay, refusing to grant rights, even after almost all other major labels have agreed. Spotify is afraid that a launch without access to Warner artists’ music, would fail. Spotify is completely free if you have an invite, with location check, ads and commercials, but the Premium ad free, location indiscriminate version requires a monthly fee of 9.99 Euro and to be set up in a supported country. You can fake the location, but the premium can not be cracked (anymore) as far as I know.

Spotify is based in Sweden, home also to the infamous torrent website The Pirate Bay, and was founded by two entrepreneurs, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. Most interesting, though, are some of the people involved in developing the program. These include Ludvig Strigeus, creator of the extremely popular Bit Torrent client uTorrent, which has become popular largely due to its small memory footprint – something Spotify definitely shares. Little wonder, then, that Spotify is being touted as the legal alternative to music piracy.
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The large library of media is actually a cloud of data, and is stored on a network of servers and also other users’ computers, functioning as a P2P. This hybrid technology really is the future of streaming media. The supported countries each had free open beta accounts available, but unfortunately closed last year, when Spotify for iPhone came out. Before this happened, I used a French proxy to grab a free account. Free accounts are now closed, unless you have an invite, but even if you want to pay the subscription fee, you will still have to trick Spotify into thinking you are in a supported country. Proxies don’t work anymore to fake your location, you must use a VPN.

If you can’t get an invite online, through a friend, and can’t register a free account, you can purchase a subscription to use this incredible service. If you do fork over the cash, thankfully Developer Joachim Bengtsson has implemented the “Despotify Library” to create the “Spot” opensource iPhone client. Available on Cydia, this Spotify client will let you access the millions of songs and your unique playlists on your iphone. The official Spotify iPhone app can also be obtained from various sources.

Spotify Search

If you are ready to try out this amazing service, you will need to start by changing your IP to a France, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Spain or Sweden address. The best way to do this for free is to use UltraVPN. On Windows, it is as simple as creating an UltraVPN account, download their OpenVPN based client, install, restart your computer (to open socket Win-32), and log in with your new details.

For Mac, you will need to install Tunnelblick or Viscosity and also download and open a “config file”, like this one, in the application that you chose, and then sign in to UltraVPN. *Viscosity is easier to use in my opinion, but requires a liscence fee after the free trial period.

UltraVPN Logo and Link

When you get connected to UltraVPN, you will be assigned a new IP address. Go to Google, if it shows up in French, it worked! Now you can go to Spotify and create an account and download and install the free client. To view the page in English, go to the address bar and change the “fr” in the URL to “int” and hit enter. If you have a free account, you will need to stay connected to the VPN until Spotify is open and running. Once it is, you can disconnect from UltraVPN as you have already passed the location check and you can return to full bandwidth. You will need to periodically log in to Spotify through the French IP to continue to use the service. If it detects your account is out of country for more than 14 days, it will be shut down, until you connect with UltraVPN again.

If you paid for your subscription, enjoy using Spotify on your iPhone with Spot from Cydia or the official App you obtained. After you set up your account using a French IP, you will not need to use the VPN again.

If you enjoyed this tip or need help, please contact me on Twitter, @xsn0w

Spotify for iPhone

This was originally posted by Allyn (xsn0w) on iYoshiblog

From Flickr User: aallan

If you use your iPad with a bluetooth keyboard often, you’ve probably found yourself angrily tapping the heck out of the address bar in Safari because you just remembered that you left your bluetooth keyboard on in the other room. Now, your stuck with a keyboard-less iPad and you have to get up from the couch, take 8 steps you’ll never get back, and turn off the bluetooth keyboard.

However,  Erica Sadun from TUAW decided she had lost one step too many and came up with a simple solution you can get right off Cydia:

I’ve posted a little utility, which I call KeysPlease over on my website (direct application link) and on the ModMyI repository (thanks, Kyle!). I’ve added it to my iPad dock, and now when I’m in the wrong room I just tap the app icon to retrieve my soft keyboard.

So if you’ve found the lack of a soft keyboard while connected to a bluetooth keyboard annoying, go ahead and search for KeysPlease on Cydia; your iPad’s url bar will thank you.

As promised, Yoshi and I have been working on our future post, iFile 101. We envision it as a guide for those who wish to possess more knowledge and control of their iDevice. It is intended to enrich the understanding of those who have some, and open the floodgates for those who have none. It is our gift back to the community, our way of saying thanks to the all the Devs that gave the “special abilities” to our devices and especially to Carstein Heinelt, the creator of iFile. We wish it to be a trusted resource and intend it to be a work in progress. We will accept written and video contributions from those who wish to add content to iFile 101, upon approval of course, and we will take requests for updates to the guide.

To create this work, and to guide you through the steps to edit your Theme, Ringtones, use your device as a flash drive, etc., many screenshots will be needed, and it always helps to have the ability to point at what you are writing about. iWhiteboard was recently released on Cydia through BigBoss, and it will be used in the creation of iFile 101.

Here’s a few notes and hints about using iWhiteboard. There is no icon for iWhiteBoard, it launches via “Activator” which is accessed in your “Settings” app. I found the default setting of “shake device” to activate a bit aggravating, so I changed the activation method to button presses: volume down, then up. If you change the activation method, you will most likely want to chose “Anywhere” so that you can use this method on the springboard, lockscreen and in an app, otherwise you would have to assign it to a gesture for all three locations. Regardless of activation method, closing iWhiteboard is always done by a press of the home button.

Select "Anywhere" in Activator to assign a useful gesture to iWhiteBoard

To create a video, you can enable ScreenRecorder first, open the app or page and then enable iWhiteboard. To take a screenshot, simply activate iWhiteboard, then hit “Home” and “Power” at the same time.

iWhiteboard does not have many features, in fact there is only 4 color choices and one line size. Additionally, tapping twice to pull up the selection bar, and three times to clear is great, but sometimes the bar comes up when you are trying to write, or the line clears when you don’t want it too. It is just a bit too sensitive in this aspect. Also double tapping will put unwanted dots of color on your image, but it is simple and effective. In a future update, I would like to see the ability to go back one step or have an eraser.

I contacted the author and he just informed me of a future upgrade, here’s a sneak peak of features for version 1.2, coming soon!

–Imageshack 1 click upload

–1 click screenshot

–Dropbox support

–No more stray dot on double tap

–UI change

– thickness changable(possibly)

Look for iFile 101, Coming Soon! If you liked this post, or are interested in contributing to iFile 101 find me on Twitter @xsn0w.

I selected Volume Button Press: Down, Up to Activate iWhiteboard