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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 36,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Installer 4.0 Returns for iOS4.3.3

The world’s first 3rd party App Store, Installer, has been successfully ported to iOS 4.3.3 and below by Infini-Dev Team according to a blog entry on their web site.

Installer was the original jailbreak App Store long before Cydia, Icy and Rock joined the scene, and is now being ported to more current versions of iOS with a version available for download right now. Ironically, the download is done via current jailbreak App Store kind, Cydia.

Yesterday we had success “porting” Installer to 4.3.3 and below.
Installer was worlds first 3rd party app store, Introduced by NullRiver, or later known as RipDev.
RipDev was awesome at Installers, they also made Icy, Hood, and other apps.
Icy is also ported by us, and released 1 month ago.

Installer’s inner workings are slightly different to those of Cydia which means current repositories will unfortunately not work with the new-old comer to the scene. What this means is until new repositories begin to come online, the store’s usefulness is limited.

Installer works with a different system than Cydia, that why you won’t be able to add a Cydia repo into installer.
As we speak we are working on a new community source for installer only, which means you will be able to install things via installer.
We could use help, you may help us by submitting apps that where hosted by installer, or apps that have the installer structure. Or by making app with a installer structure.

For those still eager to download and try Installer though, just follow these easy steps and you’ll be good to go in no time.

1.Jailbreak your iOS device (instructions here), but you did that already didn’t you?
2.Fire up Cydia and add the following repository: http://fr0stdev.co.cc/repo
3.Search for ‘Installer’ and install it
4.After a swift respring you should be golden
5.Once installed tapping the Installer icon should allow you to browse the apps already available, with new ones presumably being added.

For those who remember the early days of jailbreaking iPhones and iPod touches, Installer is a welcome walk down memory lane. The fact it’s actually useful is a real bonus!

Via Redmondpie

Why Should You Jailbreak Your Device?

Jay Freeman (saurik), the developer of Cydia, explains why.

Apple Now Field-Testing iOS5

App Store developer FutureTap just revealed that they have received their first crash report from an iOS 5 device. This means that Apple is currently field-testing their next-generation mobile operating system that runs on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with applications from the iOS App Store. The application apparently crashed in iOS 5 due to the MKUserLocationBreadCrumb. Developer Will Strafach (Chronic) let us know that this API relates to the iOS maps and location functionality.

Just received the first iOS 5.0 crash report. MKUserLocationBreadCrumb sounds interesting.

This could possibly mean that Apple changed up some map and location APIs in iOS 5, causing issues with map-based applications built for current versions of iOS 4. iOS 5 is expected to take on some new cloud-based features and will be officially unveiled at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in early June. Apple is expected to release iOS 5 in September alongside the fifth-generation iPhone. Thanks, Peter Silie!

via 9to5

Coming Tonight – Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story and Galaxy on Fire 2: Valkyrie

ZENONIA® 3: The Midgard Story, Dynamic Action RPG.

The ZENONIA series gets revamped and up-scaled for an epic third generation, providing even greater enjoyment than the previous two ZENONIA’s combined!

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NEW FEATURES

VAST AND FASCINATING REALM OF MIDGARD
227 unique maps of Migard and 136 quests of action-packed adventure.

FOUR DISTINCTIVE CLASSES
Melee and range type classes to choose from; Sword Knight, Shadow Hunter, Mechanic Launcher and Nature Shaman.

ADDITIONAL NETWORK MODE
Combat through the new Execution Room Mode dungeons in single or asynchronous co-op play.

COLLECT ACHIEVEMENTS & TITLES
Acquire and show off 48 Game Center achievements plus 47 in-game titles with special effects.

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW
No more weight or hunger system. New slot-based inventory management and easier item combining.

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IMPROVED FEATURES

DYNAMIC CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
184 weapons, 120 helmets, 120 armors, 100 gauntlets and 100 footwear for maximum character customization.

THREE DIFFERENT MODES WITH PVP ARENA
Normal, Hard and Hell Mode plus an asynchronous online PvP arena to challenge friends.

GREATER RPG EXPERIENCE
Over 200 intelligent monsters, intuitive Fairy synchronization and more mini-puzzles to master.

INTRIGUING EPIC STORYLINE
An immersive new tale from the world of ZENONIA. What has happened to Regret? Who is Chael? What lies in Midgard?…

This update essentially includes two components. For free, all players will get access to three “refurbished” space ships from the original Galaxy on Fire in addition to a personal space station where you can store multiple space ships and cargo. The Valkyrie portion of the update is an add-on available via IAP which includes a new storyline (with voiceovers), as well as new ships, weaponry, and improved equipment. There’s also new planets, and a “black market trading system” which we’re anxious to try out.

via Touch Arcade

iPhone 4S/5?

BGR’s T-Mobile iPhone prototype leak from earlier today is not simply an iPhone 4 packed with guts that support the T-Mobile 3G network radios, but it also carries the A5 processor from the next-generation iPhone.

The ‘N94′ prototype build (above) is the exact iPhone build that we found carries an A5 or ‘S5L8940′  processor a few months ago.

…and the iPhone 5 (N94AP), has the same S5L8940 processor as the iPad.

That makes last week’s story pretty convenient…

Remember that ‘iPhone 4S’ we told you about? That’s the prototype iPhone with an A5 processor that game developers are using to prepare their iPhone 5 apps.  That sounds a lot like this phone.

The only question now is if that is a prototype ’4S’ or ’5′.

via 9to5

Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story TBR on April 28th

While the rest of the world anxiously waits for GLaDOS to reboot, Gamevil announced on our forums late last night that Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story will be released on April 28th. In fact, if you want to know basically anything about the game, the beta testing thread on our forums is full of more information than anyone would likely ever need to know about it.

We also got a good amount of time with the game back at GDC, and explained the game’s premise:

The story goes like this: The world of Zenonia was divided into the Heavenly Realm and the Earth Realm until a war between the Divine Tribe and the Devil Tribe caused the creation of the Midgard Realm. The main character of the original Zenonia, Regret, appears to his son, Chael, the hero of this story. Chael, shortly thereafter while walking in a wood with his fairy friend Runa, disappears into the mysterious Midgard Realm. Your goal, as Chael, is to help the Divine Tribe get back to the Heavenly Realm and return yourself to Earth.Exciting stuff eh? Among other improvements Zenonia 3 will also sport Retina Display graphics and some of the best animation we’ve seen out of the series yet. In other related news the original Zenonia [99¢] dropped to a buck in anticipation. We had a great time with the game when we reviewed it back in 2009, although admittedly the original Zenonia is a little old and busted by today’s standards. The sequel, Zenonia 2 [$2.99] is also worth checking out in anticipation.

via Touch Arcade

iOS 4.3.2 Out, Do Not Update!

As the subject says. Apple is pushing iOS 4.3.2 via iTunes. You cannot jailbreak it so do not update. You will gain nothing and lose everything you have installed on your jailbreak. The official changes in the 4.3.2 update is “fixes some facetime issue and 3g connectivity issues on ipad”. Sigh.

via BigBoss

iOS 4.3.2 can be jailbroken with redsn0w by pointing it towards the 4.3.2 IPSW, which will give you a tethered jailbreak. Currently most of the jailbreak features are broken or unstable, and it is recommended that you wait until an official jailbreak is released.

ultrasn0w users should also avoid updating in order to preserve your baseband.

How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.1

iH8sn0w has released their newest version of snowbreeze (2.5.1) that you can download here:

http://ih8sn0w.com/index.php/welcome.snow

The tool is very easy to use, and gives you an untethered jailbreak. But just in case you hit a snag, here are some instructions.

1. Run snowbreeze, and drag and drop your 4.3.1 IPSW into the box. (alternatively, you can use the browse button)

2. snowbreeze will identify the IPSW, and then allow you to choose Simple or Expert mode.

3. Depending on what you want, choose either of them.

4. If you choose expert, you will be allowed to change options such as enabling battery percentage, installing custom packages, adding sources to Cydia, etc.

5. Let snowbreeze create the custom IPSW. While it’s running, you can choose to play Pac-Man, or just look at the spinner.

6. Now that the custom IPSW is finished, follow the instructions on screen to put your iPod/iPhone into recovery mode.

7. Go to your iPod/iPhone’s tab in iTunes, and press shift+restore.

8. Choose the custom IPSW, which should be saved on your desktop.

9. Let iTunes do the rest, and when the restore is complete you’ll have a jailbroken device with Cydia 1.1.1 installed.

If you get any errors during the restore, simply use iReb to put your device into a pwned DFU state. Although it says for AppleTV, it will work for other devices.