The 20 Best iPod Utilities
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By far 1 of the best app out Enjoy songs from home while at work or from any WiFi or 3g location. Explore friends' music while they are online.
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yeah I found out about 2 days ago myself this app is hot.
We've shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBand and iTunes on a Mac, or software like ToneShop for Windows but the CyberNet tech site's made it easy for those with just a copy of iTunes for Windows to hack together their own tones. The basic trick is to single out a short section of a song in iTunes, export it to a non-protected AAC/M4A format, then do a quick file extension switch and re-upload it to iTunes. CyberNet details the process in greater detail, of course, and it's a nice fix for those who don't want to edit waveform files just to rock out to 20 seconds of "London Calling."
Create Free iPhone Ringtones Using iTunes in Windows [CyberNet]
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Good looking out on the ringtone converstion my man..
Havent had the time to look for it myself but the developer of ziphone.. gave a link on apple's page where you are able to dl the firmware for free...go here ......http://www.ziphone.org/ and look for the title 'security by obscurity never worked'.. the link is there but u have to do some searching to find it
edit: i think i found the link but i havent tried it myself..try it if you want at your own risk
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bundles/061-2694.20060912.ipDcD/iPod_11.1.2.1.ipsw
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Im still on 1.1.4.. dont trust pwnage shit ... i will wait for ziphone to do it or then i wlll keep my 1.1.4 if ziphone is not able to do it because i got more than enough apps on my 1.1.4
Im still on 1.1.4.. dont trust pwnage shit ... i will wait for ziphone to do it or then i wlll keep my 1.1.4 if ziphone is not able to do it because i got more than enough apps on my 1.1.4
NAW FAM THAT WINPWN SHIT WAS EASY AS FUCK ONLY PROB I SEE CATS HAVING IS THE TIMING CATS CANT COUNT.TOOK ME TWO TRYS ONCE THATS DONE ITS ON.
The iTunes' App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users hundreds of applications to install on their devices, but power users who want functionality above and beyond what Apple's SDK allows still want to jailbreak their device. Now that jailbreak developers have had a full month to work on applications for jailbroken iPhone 2.0 users, there's a bigger selection than ever of jailbreak 2.0 software that lets you do things App Store offerings don't. Let's look at a few of the good ones.
Note: Most of the iPhone 2.0 jailbreak offerings are geared toward the developer and power user. If you're not sure whether or not you want to take the plunge and jailbreak, hopefully this post will give you an idea of whether or not it's worth it for you.
This weekend I re-jailbroke my iPhone running the 2.0.1 software using PwnageTool. Here's how to jailbreak iPhone 2.0 with PwnageTool for Mac; Windows users, you can use WinPwn to jailbreak iPhone 2.0. PwnageTool added both Cydia and Installer.app to my device (pictured right). Cydia and Installer.app are the two gateways to software repositories for jailbroken devices. Next to each app below, I'll list the source (Cydia or Installer.app) and the app itself so you know where to find it.
MxTube Downloads YouTube Clips to Your Device (Cydia)
When you've got a favorite YouTube clip you want to show all your friends—but don't want to wait for it to download over the air—MxTube comes to the rescue. MxTube can download and save YouTube clips to your jailbroken device for watching when you're offline, out of Wi-Fi range, or just using the slow Edge network. Great especially for iPod touch users without a data connection. (Original post.) Click to view MxTube's search interface, with options to stream the clip as usual, or download to your device.
BiteSMS Offers Cheaper Text Messaging (Cydia)
BiteSMS is a text messaging service that offers an alternative to AT&T or your iPhone's SMS carrier. Buy text messaging credits at BiteSMS.com (currently 10 cents per message, less if you buy more) and install the BiteSMS app via Cydia on your jailbroken device. Then, to send messages using BiteSMS instead of your plan, choose it near the Send button, as shown. (Click the image to see a full-sized version of what sending a text message with BiteSMS looks like.) The BiteSMS app keeps track of how many messages you send via your default carrier, and how many BiteSMS credits you have left, so you can decide which is the most economical way to send a message.
Here are detailed instructions for installing BiteSMS via Cydia; you'll have to purchase credits at BiteSMS.com to start using it as an alternative to your SMS carrier.
BossPrefs Removes Icons You Don't Want (Cydia)
While you can remove bookmarks and other app icons from your device by just tapping and holding, then hitting the X icon on them, some icons are absolutely fixed on your iPhone or iPod touch—whether or not you use them. Install BossPrefs via Cydia to get extra options for configuring your device, including "Poof!" a section where you can disable icons—even fixed ones like iTunes or Stocks. Click on the image to see a full-size view of Poof, inside BossPrefs.
WebSearch Customizable, One-Tap Search Launcher (Cydia)
This is the app that got me to jailbreak my iPhone pre-2.0: a quick tap way to search common engines beyond Google, like Wikipedia, IMDB, and even Lifehacker. Adam named this an app worth jailbreaking for pre-iPhone 2.0, and it still ranks right there even now. (Not sure why this app isn't available via the App Store; let us know in the comments if you've found an equivalent there.)
Click on the image to see a WebSearch quickly query Wikipedia search in action full-size.
gTxtEdit is an Actual Text Editor (Installer.app)
If you want to store your notes in actual plain text files—instead of the BS built-in Notes application—you want gTxtEdit. Granted, gTxtEdit doesn't offer a file browser for easy loading and saving of files, and to get your .txt files off the phone you need to SCP in (with OpenSSH, see more below), so it's not the most user-friendly of apps. But plain text lovers not afraid of the command line will dig it. (Also, the developer promises that an actual file browser is forthcoming.) Click on the image to see a text file in gTxtEdit.
Customize App Skins Your Device (Cydia)
Users who really want to trick out their device want to put a good-looking skin on it. Using the Customize app, you can browse, preview, and download custom skins, and apply the whole skin to your device or just parts of it. Here are a few skins you can find there. Click each image below to see it full-size.
From left to right the skins shown above are: AlienwareTheme, Leopard, SketchedOut, and Stickers. (Be warned: I had some trouble applying some skins I tried out, like Alienware. To activate a skin, on the skin page, after you choose "Apply Theme to Device," head back to the Customize main menu and choose "Exit & Restart Springboard.")
quake4iphone (Cydia)
This one's pretty self-explanatory. It's Quake! On the iPhone!
OpenSSH Gives You Full Root Access to Your Device
We've been over this a million times already, but an article like this can't go without saying: Getting SFTP (or SCP) access to your device means you can move files back and forth from it. This lets you copy voicemail or music files from the device to your computer, transfer NES emulator ROMs to play on your device, access the text files you're editing with gTxtEdit, and get your computer online using your iPhone's data connection. You can even do nutty stuff like transfer your Notes and SMS messages back to your computer for saving and archiving with OpenSSH installed.
Of course, the previously mentioned Mobile Terminal and the NES emulator are also top picks for jailbroken iPhone 2.0 apps. The very promising SynchStep—an app that purports to switch the song playing on your iPod to your pace using the device's motion detection—didn't do as well as we hoped in tests. (But the concept is super-cool, and we hope the developer will work out the screen lock kink soon.)
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The previously jailbreak-only Simplify Media has just hit the iTunes App Store, allowing you to stream your entire iTunes music library (plus up to 30 of your friends') to your iPhone. The official app has all the features of the old version, including album art, lyrics and artist bios, plus works over EDGE, 3G and Wi-FI. It's free for the first 100k downloaders, so we can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want to use this seeing as it gives your phone an essentially unlimited amount of storage space. Video demo after the jump.
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Windows only: Desktop app iRinger converts any video or music file into an iPhone ringtone, including YouTube videos. You already saw how to make a ringtone using only iTunes, but iRinger brings audio effects (like fade in and out, flanger, and delay) and video support to its single, simple interface. You can download any YouTube clip, for example, and import it into iRinger to create a tone. iRinger does nag you with a pop-up sponsor window that you can't close unless you donate to the project; otherwise it's a handy all-in-one iPhone ringtone utility. iRinger is a free download for Windows only. Non-iPhone owners, here's how to turn any MP3 into a ringtone.
iRinger [via Life Rocks 2.0]
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iPhone only: iPhone application iNap uses your location-aware iPhone to set off an alarm to alert you when you're nearing your destination. Say, for example, you're riding the train to work but want to catch some shuteye on the way. Just fire up iNap, set your stop as the destination, and let iNap worry about the rest. You can tweak the alert radius to make sure you're up in plenty of time, from 0.1 to 100 miles. iNap works with any iPhone, but the results will be most accurate with an iPhone 3G. Also, you'd definitely want to make sure you've got a signal near your destination; the app obviously won't work if it can't determine where you are. iNap costs $1 from the iTunes App Store.
iNap [iTunes Store]
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Instapaper Free, the iPhone app cousin of previously mentioned bookmarking tool Instapaper, lets you bookmark up to 10 web pages you want to read while you're offline. That may not sound like an amazing feat, unless you've tried to keep a page open in mobile Safari and have it not try to refresh and fail when you're not connected. The app uses a JavaScript bookmarklet—which, at this point, you have to manually tweak a bit—and the Instapaper web service to provide you with your reading. The one drawback (or possible benefit) is that pages are knocked down to a text-only, mobile-friendly view. Other than that, it's a good way to ensure you can do some web reading on a plane or wherever you lack service. Instapaper Free is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models running the 2.0 upgrade; the "Pro" version uncaps the 10-article limit.
Instapaper Free [iTunes App Store via Download Squad]
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Jailbroken iPhones/iPod touch only: iPhone-Backgrounder, a free app utility available through the (jailbreak-only) Cydia store, makes running apps in the background seriously simple. After installing the utility, you simply hold down the Home button to "minimize" an application. Call it back up again using its app icon, and then hold the home button again to kill it off for real. Backgrounding worked with at least four apps I tested, and kept the audio playing from Last.fm while checking email or web browsing. There are bound to be a few bugs and inconsistencies, but it's a great hack for keeping music, instant messaging, and other streaming programs close at hand. iPhone-Backgrounder is free and requires a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch (check our guides for Macs and Windows for help with that).
iPhone Backgrounder [Google Code via CrunchGear]
Web utility iPhoneThemeGenerator remakes your iPhone in your image. The site holds your hand through icon, background wallpaper, and dock changes, allowing you to customize every element to your liking. You can choose pictures from the default galleries or—if you're the creatively talented sort—you can upload your own images. When you're finished, the webapp compiles the theme in an iPhone friendly format. To get it on your phone, you'll need to have jailbroken your iPhone, then follow the instructions on the site. If you don't really feel like you own a gadget until you've fully customized it to your liking, this one's for you.
iPhoneThemeGenerator [via Life Rocks 2.0]
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Unless you've got an Apple TV or computer next to your TV, your purchased iTunes movies are limited to your monitor. Wired details how to burn those movies to a DVD for the bigscreen experience.
Their method involves removing the DRM copy protection and burning the resulting file to a DVD using a couple of shareware applications, namely Tunebite for DRM removal and Aimersoft DVD Creator to burn the DVD. We're not keen on the cost of the software (Tunebite does offer a free trial), but if it's something you've been dying to do, Wired's guide could do the trick. Still, the DVD burning software they highlight doesn't appear to do anything you can't get from a free alternative, so you could probably save yourself $35 using something like previously mentioned DVD Flick to burn your DVDs after removing the DRM.
If you've ever been down this road and have your own methods, let's hear how you burned your iTunes purchase to a DVD in the comments.
How to remove iTunes DRM copy-protection and burn iTunes movie to DVD? [Wired]
iPod-love's got you stuck with iTunes, but you'd prefer to cut down on the extra bloat iTunes requires on your hard drive? Here's how to install iTunes without QuickTime, Bonjour, or that pesky iTunesHelper.
Weblog gHacks points us toward a custom installer for iTunes 8 that installs iTunes only, leaving the bloat at the door. Since QuickTime is a requirement for playing media in iTunes, you'll still need to install QuickTime Alternative (one of our superior alternatives to crappy Windows software) and the QuickTime Alternative iTunes Compatability Add-on. (Note: The compatibility add-on claims to be for version 2.7 of QuickTime alternative, so you may want to stick with the 2.7 version instead of the current QuickTime Alternative 2.8.)
Before installing iTunes sans QuickTime and all the other bloat, you'll need to install each piece of software in this order: Install the lightweight QuickTime Alternative then the iTunes Compatibility Add-on, and finally, you're ready for iTunes on its own.
If your iPod is really the only component that keeps you tethered to iTunes, you've actually got plenty of options for adding music and movies to your iPod from any computer, including one of our favorite portable options, the previously mentioned Floola.
I had trouble getting this to work in my tests because my system already had a full iTunes install and I wasn't having much luck getting QuickTime proper to let go of my system, so if you give it a try, let's hear how it works for you in the comments.
iTunes without QuickTime [MSFN Forums via gHacks]
iPhone/iPod touch only: Read It Later plugs one of the gaps in its mission to offer your reading bookmarks anywhere at anytime with an official iPhone application, which features browser syncing and offline saving.
Read It Later lives primarily as a Firefox extension we've dug on before, but offers bookmarklets for any browser, including the iPhone's mobile Safari. Still, the "later" part of its name didn't really apply if you tried to take your reading list with you. Read It Later's app asks you for your Read It Later username/password, or offers a sign-up button, and then grabs whatever you've check-marked for reading in Firefox, or pressed a bookmarklet button on.
You can set the app to grab just a page's text or the whole web content, and decide how many items it grabs at once, if you're the voracious page-tagging type. Some iPhone/iPod touch heads make a strong argument for the readability and speed of the previously mentioned InstaPaper app/bookmarklet combo, but Read It Later's app looks to close that gap, and makes sense for anyone using Firefox as their main browser.
The Read It Later iPhone app is available in both Free and a Pro edition, which adds a bundle of usability improvements and features.
Read It Later: iPhone and iPod Touch App [the Idea Shower via Webware]
iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 users can now jailbreak your iPhone again with QuickPWN, but will probably make your phone unable to be unlocked by the iPhone Dev Team's unlock util. Be careful. [QuickPWN via Into Mobile]
E is a social networking tool that makes it easy to trade business cards, personal info and automatically connect to each other on most social networking sites. And yes, there's an iPhone app.
You've got three ways to use E. The neatest right now is with a connector dongle. You hold it up to another connector, say at a tradeshow or a meeting, and you instantly exchange information. The downside is the person you're exchanging info needs to have one of these E dongles. The dongles sync and charge via USB and have 72 hours of battery life.
But, if you've got an iPhone, you can use the iPhone app and "flick" your business card over to the other person. Or if one of you doesn't have an iPhone, there's always just visiting the E website and punching in a unique code to swap info there.
We can imagine this will save on loads and loads of paper for business cards and writing down people's social networking info, which we're extremely excited about. You can go and sign up for a the trial today. [MyNameIsE]
It seems like a report comes out every week with new statistics on the Apple App Store phenomenon. And the story is almost always the same: The App Store is huge and getting bigger.
Today, comScore released the newest such report breaking down the cumulative base of applications installed via iTunes, thereby revealing the true size of the audience an individual app can reach. This actual audience size has been a major point of interest for marketers and developers for a long time. After all, the number could be used to estimate how much revenue an app might bring in with advertising or premium features. In the report, comScore also exposes the U.S. penetration rates for the App Store’s top 25 applications based on their number of installs. Here’s what it found:
The 32 percent penetration rate for Tap Tap Revenge means that the app has been downloaded by nearly one out of every three iTunes users. What else does the chart show? Twelve out of the 25 most popular mobile apps were games, including classics like Hangman and Pac-man. That’s pretty much what a typical VentureBeat reader would expect. In a survey conducted for our recent GamesBeat conference, we found that Apple’s iPhone will be the gaming industry’s favorite platform going forward. Among non-gaming applications, Stylem Media’s “Backgrounds” applications had the highest installation base, followed closely by the top social networking applications, Facebook and MySpace Mobile.
But it’s the penetration data that will probably spark the most debate within the mobile industry. Two weeks ago, mobile advertising network Admob came up with a pretty good estimate for the size of Apple’s mobile user base in the U.S.: 15 million. By multiplying this number by the penetration rate for an app, you can get a pretty reasonable idea of the number of users that app actually reaches. For Tap Tap Revenge, for example, 15 million multiplied by the 32 percent penetration rate equals 4.8 million users. A figure like this can greatly help marketers and developers come up with more reliable estimates for mobile advertising and premium service revenues.
The other nugget in the comScore report is a chart comparing the amount of time app users spend looking at specific types of content with the amount of time average internet users spend looking at it. It turns out iPhone users exhibit higher engagement with content categorized as retail, conversational media (social networking and blogs), entertainment, sports and search sites vis-a-vis online users. This is rich data for mobile marketers — particularly the figures showing high engagement with retail sites. To my best knowledge, mobile commerce has yet to gain much traction. But based on this data, it looks like iPhone users actually do buy products via their handsets, and want to do so more often. As we’ve reported, advertising targeted to iPhone users has gained momentum in recent months — and rightfully so, it seems.
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