Archives for September 2009

Promo Code Giveaway – Yumsters! 2

Promo Code Giveaway This afternoon, we will be giving away five promo codes in our twitter account… twitter.com/iphoneschool. The promo codes will be for Yumsters! 2, a fun, upbeat puzzle game (check out a review of Yumsters! 2 HERE). [Read more…]

CallCounter 3 – Track Call Information

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free Trial then $2.99  

##ICON_NAME## It seems CallCounter, an application that allows you to view call duration information based on specific inputs, has been slightly redesigned and rereleased as CallCounter 3. The app contains basically the same features; the ability to filter the calls by a specific date, the ability to choose the type of calls (incoming, outgoing or both), the ability to choose calls from a specific person or all calls, a pie chart of the calls and the total duration of the calls (based on the options chosen). There are a few new options including; the ability to exclude specific periods of time and the ability to change the start date of the month. [Read more…]

Snapture Now in the App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: $1.99  

##ICON_NAME## If you have been around the jailbreak scene for a while now, you have probably heard about Snapture, a camera application. It seems that the app has been revamped and is now available in the App Store. This used to be one of my favorite jailbroke applications… I’m glad to see that it has made it’s way to the App Store.

Note: The $1.99 price tag is just an introductory price (75% off its regular price). [Read more…]

iBlast Moki – Physics Game Now Available in the App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: $1.99  

##ICON_NAME## A few weeks ago, we told you that Godzilab had announced a new physics game, iBlast Moki. The game hit the App Store late last week. I had a chance to test it out all week-end and I was not disappointed!

I am normally not too attracted to physics games (unlike Doug who LOVES them) usually due to the fact that they frustrate me to no end! So, when I downloaded iBlast Moki, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to enjoy the game but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. [Read more…]

SpotSMS Update – Now Displays Contact’s Name in Spotlight SMS Results

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

SpotSMS SpotSMS, s a mod allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages, received an update to version 0.2. The update changes the search results so that they display the contact’s name instead of just the phone number from which the text was received/sent. However, I noticed that even though most of results now display the Contact’s name, some still display the phone number. There doesn’t seem to be any specific reason that some display the name and others do not… let me know in the comments if you are experiencing the same thing. [Read more…]

SBSettings Update – Firmware 3.1 Compatibility Fixes

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

SBSettings SBSettings, a mod that adds was updated to version 3.0.5. The update fixes a bug in which the Reboot and Power Off featured did not work on the 3.1 firmware. Check out the full change log below.

Version 3.0.5 Change Log:
– Fixed more app trying to toggle off last dylib in mobile substrate screen clicked an invisible ad.
– Fixed reboot and power off for 3.1 iPhone firmware. [Read more…]

WeatherIcon Update – Firmware 3.1 Compatible

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

WeatherIcon Over the week-end WeatherIcon, a mod that displays the current temperature and weather conditions in the Weather icon, received two updates. The first, version 2.2.5, made the application compatible with the 3.1 firmware… which I know many of you have been waiting for! The second update, version 2.2.6, fixed a bug that when you turned the weather icon part of the mod off in the Settings, the Weather icon would go blank. Below is the exact change log. [Read more…]

Action Menu Update – New Feature and Bug Fixes

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## Over the week-end Action Menu, a mod that adds additional options to the stock Cut, Copy and Paste functionality, was updated to version 1.0.1. The update adds quite a few new features to the mod as well as fixes quite a few bugs. Two new features that have been added to the Setting of the application include the ability to turn on/off the Extended Menu Support and the ability to sort the Favorites alphabetically. Below is a complete change log. [Read more…]

SpotSMS – Adds SMS Results to Spotlight Search

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

SpotSMS SpotSMS is a mod, that once installed, allows the stock Spotlight Search to search within your SMS (and MMS) messages. There is no icon for this mod, it is a code mod. It is activated as soon as it is installed and would have to be uninstalled to be removed.

To use the mod, you can go into the stock Spotlight Search and enter text that you would like to search for. The search will start when you have entered at least three characters. SMS results will have the Messages icon next to them. You can tap on an SMS result to view the full text message. [Read more…]

AIS Mentioned on MacBreak Weekly

Apple iPhone SchoolA few days ago I got a few messages that we were mentioned on MacBreak weekly about our article explaining how to get MMS on the iPhone early. It’s pretty funny because they all rip on MMS and how no one uses it. Here’s a clip from the show. You can see the whole thing here.

G5 Entertainment Launches Yumsters! 2 – Puzzle Game

Available In: App Store       Price: $1.99  

Yumsters! 2 Yumsters! 2, a puzzle game by G5 Entertainment, has recently hit the App Store. Many of you may be familiar with the PC version of the game. The iPhone game has the same concept as the PC version… drag a Yumster to the fruit of the same color to start eating.

When I first took a look at Yumster! 2, I was slightly skeptical, I was not sure that it would give me the challenge I normally look for in a puzzle game. However, after the first few levels, I realized it was holding my interest a lot longer than I had expected. The object of the game is to drag a Yumster to the fruit that is the same color as the Yumster. A specific number of fruit is displayed in the taskbar at the top left of the play screen. You have to eat the fruit displayed it the taskbar before it scrolls to the end… if you have not eaten the fruit, it will drop onto the play field. Each fruit you eat gives you coins. At the end of each level your coins are added up. [Read more…]

Dev-Team Addresses PwnageTool 3.1 Jailbreak Issues

##ICON_NAME## The Dev-Team has added a few updates to their firmware 3.1 Jailbreak post. The updates address a few issues people are having with the PwnageTool 3.1 jailbreak. Check out the updates below.

Remember, PwnageTool is the jailbreak that is Mac compatible. Also, PwnageTool 3.1 only works on the 1st gen iPod touch, 1st gen iPhone (iPhone 2G) and the iPhone 3G. We are still waiting for a jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, the 2nd gen iPod touch and the 3th gen iPod touch as well as a version of the jailbreak that is PC compatible (the PC compatible version of the jailbreak is called redsn0w). [Read more…]

Freeverse Announces Skee-Ball

Available In: App Store       Price: Coming Soon  

Skee-Ball Freeverse has announced an official released of a Skee-Ball application… just in time for Skee-Ball’s 100th anniversary.

“Skee-Ball’s authentic gameplay and irresistable bowling action set it apart from any other game of its kind. Taking advantage of the flawless touch screen controls and featuring bright, colorful graphics, Skee-Ball brings the enjoyment of the great arcade pastime to life in your hands. Roll the ball up the incline with a simple flick of the finger to land in one of the high value holes to rack up points for redeemable tickets! In addition to more than 80 hilarious in-game prizes, players can challenge themselves by working their way up the Skill Star levels to earn more tickets per game.”

Check out the screenshots, demo video and press release below. [Read more…]

reQall and Evernote Team Up

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## It seems that the developers of Evernote (an app that allows you to easily capture information in any environment, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere) and eQall (a voice-enabled memory aid that seamlessly integrates your iPhone, email, text messaging and IM into a powerful organizer, reminder system and productivity assistant) are teaming up and integrating the apps.

“reQall (www.reqall.com) and Evernote (www.evernote.com), two of the most popular productivity applications, today announced a partnership that will allow their users to easily share, link, and find information across these complementary services. This partnership introduces the industry’s first end-to-end memory solution that allows users to save important items to Evernote and have reQall automatically recall them.” [Read more…]

iBOX Carbon – WinterBoard Theme

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

iBOX Carbon iboxcarbon3 iBOX Carbon is a WinterBoard theme that contains 323 icons, a dock, wallpaper, statusbar, slides, badges, loading screens, Messages app mod, Weather app mod, pop-up mods… etc. The developer of the theme says that it contains; “2000+ icons and a FTP to help supposrt the endless new icons coming out. FTP – http://www.marcovanveelen.nl/Carbon/.” So, if you are looking for additional icons, you can check out that website. iBOX Carbon is available via the modmyi source. [Read more…]