pod2g the infamous ios hacker who brought us the corona jailbreak has today released a blog post answering some question.
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Webagram, View Yours and Others Instagram Photos Online + Interview With Developer!
Instagram the awesome little photo sharing app for iPhone has been on the market for 1 and a half years now and was recently ported to android and later sold to Facebook for $1 billion. this sale has caused many users to move away from the service. Instagram currently has over 30 million users any service that integrates with it is sure to get lots of users.
Will Evans (Who was kind enough to give us an interview below) previous iPhone developer decided to use the instagram API to integrate his website with instagram so users could log straight in with their instgram login without having to make a new account.
Webagram allows you to view all your Instagram photos online in a nice viewer as you can see above as well as allowing you to download all your photos for users wishing to move away from the service. once a user has logged into the site via the instagram API they can easily view their photos at http://www.webagram.net/[Instagram_Username]. the only thing that i would be cautious of is the fact that once you have approved this service anyone can input your username and see all your photos.
As you can see the images are nicely set out so you can see them and any comments you have put with them. it also allows you to see how many people liked the photo. A feature that i really like about this is that its super simple to set up which can be an important thing for some people. The service is available for free at www.webagram.net and i would recommend it to all instagram users.
“I wanted to have a personal service for myself and then started to get some interest when I shared it. It all grew from there to what it is today.”
What other services like this do you currently have on the web?
“I used to have a service, ClipBoy but I recently shut that down, for various reasons.”
Do you plan on expanding to other apps and doing similar things and future plans for Webagram?
“Hopefully I am going to be implementing some cool new things, maybe liking and commenting on images and also some better sharing techniques.”
future plans for new services?
“At the minute I plan on making new services when I feel the need for there to be one, I cannot predict when, but whenever there is an opportunity, I will hopefully be making something.”
You made iOS apps, do you have any upcoming iOS projects?
“Not at the minute, my iOS career has very much ended for the time being and I mainly just do web development now, I find it much more enjoyable and versatile. Although I may be porting webagram to a web-app in the future!”
And as always if you need any help with anything iOS or just want to say hi feel free to contact me on Twitter.
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iTunes Facing A New Lawsuit
Well it seems Apple are having yet another lawsuit against them. This time it’s to do with iTunes. Benjamin Grobler belives that iTunes and PSN breaches his copyright data vending system. which basically allows sharing of apps an other such things from a central network. The part of iTunes that infiringes this is iTunes in the cloud.
The patent holder is trying to claim damages from Apple, however we will have to wait and see how this one turns out. The patent number for those interested is No. 6,799,084
As always feel free to follow me on Twitter if you want to ask anything or just say Hey!
Company Shows New Way To Get Past iPhone Passcode!
Micro Systemation have found a way to get around the iPhones pass code. Forbes published a report on how they did this and above you can see the video demonstration. This particular hack allows them to get into all your iPhone’s data and uses exploits similar to those used for Jailbreaks.
im guessing Apple will fix this in the next update or maybe we’ll see a jailbreak tweak first. who knows?
As always feel free to follow me on Twitter if you want to ask anything or just say Hey!
Apple Introduces New Price Tiers For App Store Developers!
Apple today announced two new pricing tiers for high-end apps on the app store. this allows developers to price their apps at 2 new prices: $124.99 and $174.99.
this allows more flexibility fordeveopers to sell their apps at the price they want. nobody is quite sure why apple introduced these prices specifically but it’s always good for developers to have more flexibility.
And as always feel free to follow me on twitter and ask me any thing tech related or if you just want to say hi.
How To Fix The White Icons After Absinthe Jailbreak
After I jailbroke my iPhone 4S I was riddled with stock apps having white icons. I used v0.1 of absinthe. Then @planetbeing said if you were having an issue just install an app from cydia something which I had already done.
The white icon bug doesn’t affect functionality but is really annoying. After asking around ad searching the web for hours I was told to use the Fix dir permissions in SBSettings this didn’t work. I even restored and rejailbroken with absinthe v0.3.
So I looked through the default packages in cydia and realised the install that configured the icons is called libhide. Reinstalling this package fixes the white icons no matter how many times you reboot and restore.
Below is a guide to re-installing libhide
1. Open cydia
2. Goto the manage tab and click on settings
3. Change it to developer
4. Go into installed packages
5. Find libhide
6. Click manage then reinstall
Done
Let us know in the comments if this fix worked for you. Please note we are not responsible for any damage this may cause to your device.
Secret Codenames For Every iOS Version
developer @stoughtonsmith has shared the code names use by apple to identify the different versions of iOS they are as follows
1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly)
1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest)
2.0: Big Bear
2.1: Sugarbowl
2.2: Timberline
3.0: Kirkwood
3.1: Northstar
3.2: Wildcat (iPad only)
4.0: Apex
4.1: Baker
4.2: Jasper (4.2.5 – 4.2.10: Phoenix)
4.3: Durango
5.0: Telluride
5.1: Hoodoo
you may notice that iOS 1 was called Alpine and if you have ever SSH’ed into our iDevice you’ll know that alpine is the default password set by apple.
coincidence i think not!
Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.1 With iTunes Match
Apple today released iTunes 10.5.1 to the public its not currently aviliable in software update but is from apple’s website. this service has been available for some time but only in iTunes beta. it was meant to be released in October but it was pushed back.
iPhone 4S Contact bug found in iOS5.0.1
Paul Hontz from The Startup Foundry has found a bug in iOS5.0.1 that prevents the phone from remembering the contacts. the contacts were still in the address book but in the messages and phone app the number would not be recognized as a contacts number.
This problem only seems to be affecting Verizon customers on 5.0.1 and only on the 4S if you have found it in any other carriers or phones let us know in the comments below.
A fix that works from some people has been found:
1) Open the Phone and dial *228. This is a Verizon over-the-air programming number.
2) When the system answer press 1 for “Program or activate your phone”
3) Wait for the call to disconnect. You should get a prompt stating something like, “Settings updated.”
4) Open the Task Manager (double click the home button) and kill the Phone, Message, and Contacts Applications
5) Wait a few minutes
6) Open the Message App to verify the fix.
How To – Enable Hidden iOS5 Feature Autocorrect Bar
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2I3rr5LNk
Today another hidden iOS5 feature has been uncovered, this time its an autocorrect bar and was found bysonny dickinson. The bar looks simmilar to the one found on android and is displayed over the keyboard whislt typing.
This method can be done with OR without a Jailbreak simply follow theese steps much like the hidden panorama feature.
- Backup you device in iTunes
- Navigate to the backup location, and open it using iBackupBot.
- Edit “Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboard.plist” and append the following code to the file. <key>KeyboardAutocorrectionLists</key><string>YES</string>
- Save the changes and restore from the modified backup using iBackupBot.
Like the panorama mode weposted baout a few days ago its unsure wheter appleplan on ever realing this to the public.
