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JailbrakeMe.com – The all-iDevice Jailbrake Tool
Posted by Ben in Apple, Cell Phone, Websites on August 4, 2010
Like so many others have done, its quite fun to head down to your local Apple Store and get a few iPhone 4's jailbroken!
No joke here. Thanks to comex and the rest of the dev team for this magnificent release. With jailbraking only recently becoming legal (thanks to some US court systems) you can jailbrake your new iPhone 4 right from the device, no computer needed! It couldn’t be any easier thanks to the work of the Dev Team. Hit up JailBrakeMe.com on your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), or iPad, then just “slide to jailbrake”. It will download some stuff then get right to jailbraking with a simple progress bar. Done in about one minutes time, Cydia is added to your homescreen! The only downside to this is that the exploit was created from loaded a PDF with the “jailbrake” code on it. In a way, you can understand how other, more malicious forms of code can work your way onto your iDevice. So just for a recommendation, only load up PDFs on your iDevice that you trust! Or you can jailbrake, and download a package from Cydia that will actually help you monitor the loading of your PDFs. Its an interesting decision, but its up to you. And by the way, I jailbroke my iPhone 4 if you were wondering.
Appulo.us gets too popular; new “Troll Bridge”
Posted by Ben in Application, Websites on November 18, 2009
Appulo.us was designed and is maintained by Kyek, and provides a solution to the "get rich quick" scheme pulled by most wannabe developers; saving you time, money, and frustration.
As Kyek described in his long documentation for the reason of this troll bridge, its pretty obvious that some of you are there for the wrong reasons. For those of you that are unfamiliar, after you jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch (which I will not condone in anyway), after patching the installation file can install what are known as “cracked .IPA’s”. Very basically, n .IPA is the extension used by iPhone and iPod Touch applications. When you download an app, your username and login credentials are added to small details inside the app so it can only be installed on your approved devices (computers that you have authorized).
Well some clever guys out there, who are actually the good guys, though the App Store was corrupt (like most of us) and decided to “patch” these apps so you could obtain and run them without purchasing them. The idea behind it was that you could “demo” applications that you thought looked cool without having to fork out the money. In the event you love the game, tool, what have you… you go to the App Store and purchase it to support the developer. If it sucks, you delete the app and thank Kyek and others for saving you from spending some money on a app that sucks.
Back on topic, Appulo.us, the main source for finding these cracked .IPA’s recently put up what they call the Troll Brdige. Now its only temporary as they are trying to move to more powerful servers, but in the meantime, instead of not letting anyone use it, those in the inner circle of Appulo.us can get access by answering a short, daily trivia question.
In conclusion, its not that the question is hard, and its not there to piss you off: its there to give you a better connection to the site! Honestly, if you don’t know the questions or have any respect for the people who figured out how to get free apps, you really shouldn’t even have the right to use Appulous, but obviously that’s not in my control.
Enjoy Appulous, thank Kyek (and others), and support your developers!