However, as far as Narayen is concerned, from a business point of view there’s only one reason why Apple hasn’t invited its former-friend to the party: control. Speaking of Apple, he stated:

heir behavior can be explained as them wanting to control the environment. We’re living in a very interesting environment. It’s the future of mobile that’s at stake here and there are different strategies that companies are taking.

When questioned about the future of the two companies’ working relationship, Narayen simply stated:

Our doors are open. You will have to ask them about their part.

It’s interesting, I think, to hear that Adobe has taken the moral high-ground with these statements. It would have been easy for the company to get very catty and throw a few comments about regarding Apple’s “closed-off” way of running things, but Narayen didn’t.

Even so, it’s still very fair to say that Apple isn’t going to be implementing Flash on its iDevices any time soon, if ever. As Apple’s (and the Internet’s) move to HTML5 becomes more and more of a concrete reality, many are left wondering how Steve’s radical decision is going to affect iDevice users in the long run. Can the web catch up with HTML5, or are we forever going to be crippled at the hands of Apple’s “scorning” of Adobe Flash?

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IP4Play has launched the first FaceTime video sex chat service for owners of the iPhone 4.

Chat with our live models in real-time via Face Time on the iPhone 4! Don’t forget — you have to have an iPhone 4 and be on a wifi network.

How it Works
1. Browse our list of talent and choose who you’d like to spend some time with.
2. Registration is free. Be sure to provide your phone number — we can’t call you back without it!
3. Purchase time in blocs of 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes
4. The talent will contact you on your iPhone using the Face Time app.
5. Enjoy your personal encounter!

Calls reportedly cost $4.00/minute. Despite Steve Jobs’ attempts at keeping porn off the iPhone. It seems to have arrived in a big way. It’s expected that numerous companies will begin offering similar services in the near future.

Read More [via CultofMac]

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Dynamically enables native tethering for iOS3.X and iOS4.X+ devices. This should work on any carrier without the need for customized bundles or preferences. NOTE: You MAY need to reboot your iDevice if upon installation or removal cellular service does not return.

There is no icon for this item. After installation or reboot, tethering will be available to turn on in Settings -> General -> Network, or install the Tethering Toggle for SBSettings

Thanks to case.

Easy Install:

Add http://theiphonespotrepo.net/apt to your cydia sources and install via iphonespot apps section.

Deb for Manual Install: http://www.multiupload.com/9PLMZKA7PJ

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Customize your lockscreen to get the information you need, when you need it. LockInfo gives you access to all of your important information right on your lockscreen. LockInfo supports plugins to expand the available information for your lockscreen.

Cracked by fabius:

Easy Install:

add http://theiphonespotrepo.net/apt to your cydia sources and install via iphonespot apps section.

Deb for Manual Install: http://www.multiupload.com/5DSPLTW681

iPhone Recovery Stick is a USB stick that can recover deleted text messages, call history, contacts, photos, etc from your iPhone.

The iPhone Recovery Stick will easily recover deleted text messages, contacts, call history, even photos, voice notes and calendar entries.

Because of its versatile recovery capabilities and easy-to-use interface, the iPhone Recovery Stick is ideal for private investigators, concerned parents, school and security personnel, and suspecting spouses.

The iPhone Recovery Stick costs $197.95 and only works with iOS 3.2.1 and earlier. iOS 4 support is expected soon.

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One of the best hacks for the iPhone, SBSettings, now works with firmware 4.0. This hack let’s you swipe the status bar and a drop down menu pops out with all kinds of quick settings like brightness adjustment and toggles for wifi, bluetooth and 3G. There are different themes, all kinds of info like running processes, IP address, & memory. Best of all, it’s free. This is a must have app!

ATTENTION 4.0 USERS: Currently an activator bug prevents the SBSettings window from appearing in some apps. For the time being, load settings, activator, and set SBSettings also to short hold home so you can hold home button to also bring up sbsettings in apps.

Description

Welcome to convenience! Move your important toggles directly into Springboard where they are always available instantly even while other apps are running.

Note: This does not come with an icon. You can swipe the statusbar to bring down the main window. You can configure in activator settings other methods of opening the SBSettings window. Customize it to your liking!

Known 4.0 Issues
- Activator issue with swiping statusbar. Configure an alternate method to launch app in apps in settings app.
- Phone toggle not working well. Looking into it.
- The rest is working well.

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Dissident from Hackulous explains the reasoning behind cracked iOS applications and their effect on application developers in a guest article on TorrentFreak.

You can head over to TorrentFreak to read the entire article or read some highlights below…

In 2008, Apple unveiled the App Store, a virtual marketplace for developers to sell their applications via an Apple-controlled channel. Since the beginning, one of the key missing features of this store has been a trial service, or even a refund policy. Considering that many competitor products have had these policies for years, some would expect them to be unquestionably employed by Apple, yet two years later in 2010 people are still being swindled by sub-quality applications. The iPhone “cracked app scene” started from the idea of people being able to trial apps before sinking their money into them; an especially useful and welcome exercise considering that such a large number of apps on Apple’s App Store are pointless, underdeveloped, overpriced, and with deceptive descriptions to boot.

Dissident presents four important details that “demonstrate that Hackulous’ brand of activity is not causing as much damage as the Dev Team and everyone else may think”.

1. Most of the pirates who use our services do so because they simply cannot afford to purchase the applications. One of the prominent members of the Dev Team, planetbeing, described the pirates who use our software as “predominantly in their early teens where money is scarce and time is abundant.” Since these users have never had any intention or capability to purchase the applications whether or not cracked versions are available, developers of these apps are losing significantly less than what they believe they are to these people.

2. Another portion of our pirates are those who have the capability of purchasing iPhone apps, but not the desire. These pirates typically do not “need” any particular application for free, they just want whatever application that can provide a certain level of entertainment for them. They are not so much making the choice between purchasing or pirating software A, but rather making the choice between pirating software A or B. So again, the profit lost attributed to this tribe of pirates has been overestimated; these pirates would not have forked over their money anyway, they would just move on.

3. Over three million devices are running our software, Installous, to download and install cracked iPhone apps. The people using these devices are Apple customers who are likely to purchase another device, purchase new Apple products, or refer their friends to Apple. As I have stated before, the people who use our services to trial iPhone applications actually help Apple more than they hurt it….

4. Piracy also helps to expose an application to the masses, much like music piracy helps artists and bands get more publicity. Without cracked app sites like apptrackr, a lot of applications would be left languishing in the pits of the App Store among the rest of the 240,984 apps (at last count) available. Only the top 100 free and paid apps and the top 10 free and paid apps in each of the 20 genres, summing up to 600 apps, get any considerable notice. A large number of apps only get to enjoy recognition from the people within the developers’ circle of influence. When they are placed on apptrackr, however, they are exposed to an extensive audience which make up millions of unique visitors a month….

Let us know in the comments what you think of his arguments. Are cracked apps a legitimate way of trialing an application?

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This is a major reason why you should jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch if you haven’t already. Apple made a sweet move by adding the ability to add folders full of icons calling the feature ‘folders‘.

Of course they probably just copied the jailbreak hack called ‘categories’. Anyway, I’ll admit that Apple’s implimentation is better and the GUI is beautiful.

The major downfall to the feature is the limit of apps you can fit in a folder, just 12. Well, what if I have 20 ‘Kids Games’ or 30 ‘News’ apps?

With Infinifolders you can now have them all in one folder. And this is the stock folders from Apple. Now you can scroll down past the 12 app limit. Here’s a video fo what it looks like.

Like I state in the video, the only problem I’m having with the app is when another app crashes and I get kicked into safe mode, all the extra apps come back out of the folder. Hopefully this can be fixed.

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Mitube is a new app in the Appstore that allows you to stream and download youtube videos directly to your i-device. Yes you read it right, download youtube videos on your i-devices to watch over and over again without having to use anymore data and wait those long times for it to buffer.

This app is great but there is one small flaw, you have to search for specific videos and you get no preview/ cool front page like Apples youtube.app. A lot of you may remember this app formerly known as mxtube which was only available to jailbroken users.

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Bejeweled 2 + Blitz for the iPhone and iPod touch has received a Boosts & Coins update that integrates with Facebook.

The world’s #1 puzzle game is one of the top paid apps of all time. Match multiple gems for dazzling, high-carat fun. And face-off with your friends on Facebook in the electrifying Bejeweled Blitz!

What’s New In This Version:
The Boosts & Coins update to Bejeweled Blitz on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch is here! Use your Coins to get Boosts so you can score higher, match longer and explode your way to the top of the leaderboard. Then, when you play on Facebook, you can even use the Coins that you earned from Bejeweled Blitz for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch! What will you do to celebrate your victory this week?

● Earn Coins and use Boosts in Bejeweled Blitz mode! Coins earned on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch can be used anywhere you play Bejeweled Blitz!
● Get a 50,000 Coin bonus the first time you play online from an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
● Improved iOS 4 compatibility
● Improved support for international player names
● Other miscellaneous enhancements

You can purchase Bejeweled 2 + Blitz from the App Store for $2.99

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