iPhone jailbroken apps worth paying for

It’s been a while since I blogged, the past few weeks have been extremely hectic with the storm, work, etc. that I had been neglecting my blog. Anyways, there are a bunch of stuff I could discuss from the past few weeks, but lets focus on one right now. I’m starting from the most recent “happening” – which is how I had just updated my iPhone OS to v3.1.2 ¹since the tools for jailbreaking my 3GS was made available only recently.

Now why is this worthy for a blog entry? Maybe it isn’t. Perhaps if you knew the context, it would make more sense. ²And help you decide if it’s worth taking note of Sufficed to say that this only applies to iPhone users (and those who are planning to get iPhones, I guess) Read More

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⇡1	since the tools for jailbreaking my 3GS was made available only recently.
⇡2	And help you decide if it’s worth taking note of

August 31, 2008

Fast, clean and reliable iPhone backups

As iPhone users know, iTunes’ backup facility is sketchy at best; It can corrupt backups, it can be ridiculously slow, and on a personal note; I don’t like the idea of “trace files” creeping into a newly restored device.

So I’ve decided to outline a “workflow” I personally use whenever I’m up for a restore session. Everything here assumes a jailbroken device of course.

How it was before

On a 2.x device, the way you could get your AppStore apps’ settings restored was by using iTunes’ backup images – buggy as it is. There’s also the issue of bugs during normal usage; there have been cases of legitimate apps randomly crashing – and the only “cure” was to erase the app and reinstall it. This would’ve been fine, only they forgot to mention that when you erase/uninstall an app, that’s exactly what you’ve done – along with all its data.

August 3, 2008

Reserving judgment

Initially, my first reaction to this post was: No, no! Fucking NO!

But then I remember the time Cydia first came out, and I thought it would be unfair to judge Installer 4 negatively when it’s just doing exactly what Cydia had done back then. As such, I decided to reserve judgment and see where all this takes us.

I do, however, want to state my disappointment in the “scene.” Why can’t these guys just get along and fucking collaborate? Unless Installer 4 can guarantee that it will have a better distribution backend than APT then I really see no point why they even have to give an alternative to Cydia. Eye-candy/ease of use, while certainly appreciated, isn’t critical; a proper backend implementation is always more important for stuff like this.

This isn’t the desktop arena; these types of scenarios are bad for the scene because it dilutes the collective integrity of the community… even if it’s masquerading as “giving the users more choices.”

I believe I already gave my opinion on the matter in a fairly recent post, but let me expound.