How-Tos

Power iPhone user kgirl24, of the ehMac.ca forums (Canada’s Mac Community), posted an interesting workaround for you international readers fiending for US App Store access.

We’ve received countless inquiries through our Contact Us form looking for a solution, like the one below:

I live in Brazil. The iTunes store does not allow me to download (or even purchase) apps from the US app store leaving me to choose from a much smaller collection. Do you have a neat trick to go around this problem. Try for yourself to purchase anything form a non US iTunes store. Stupid isn’t it?

Before we’d have sent Erik on his way, disappointed and appless, but now we’ve unearthed the hidden key he’s been looking for…

The process runs as follows:

User kgirl24 goes on to recommend buying iTunes gift cards and purchasing US iPhone apps to your heart’s content! Check out her full post HERE.

While we might not see a free version of SummerBoard, one of the most highly-anticipated jailbroken apps, iPhone customization-junkies are turning to an alternative: WinterBoard.

For those of you who don’t know what SummerBoard is, it’s an application that runs in the background of your iPhone and allows you to easily apply pre-made and custom themes that you can download directly from Installer / Cydia.  The themes can have customized elements such as icons, backgrounds, title bars, docks, etc..

SummerBoard was created by a company named Nullriver (also the original creators of the famous Installer.app or Apptapp Installer, as well as the controversial Netshare App). Nullriver licensed the rights of SummerBoard, and Installer, to a new company called RIP Dev.  RIP Dev has an application you can purchase ($45 for an unlimited subscription) that now has a more advanced feature-set of SummerBoard included (called FaceLift). The application is called Kate.

For those of us who have no money, and wish to have SummerBoard style theming anyway, Saurik (the creator of Cydia) has blessed us with WinterBoard.  WinterBoard is an open source application that promises to apply any SummerBoard theme, as well as allow for some new amazing effects (ie. animated/changing backgrounds, theming batteries, sliders, etc.).

Here, I’ll walk through installing WinterBoard and downloading a theme from Cydia to apply to the iPhone Springboard.  I’ll also show you a few of the different variations of theming that can be applied using WinterBoard.

Walkthrough

1.  Download WinterBoard from Cydia

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Some of you were lucky enough to grab a copy of NetShare before it was taken down from iTunes (twice), but for those of you who weren’t (present company included), I’ll walk you through accomplishing the same result using a jailbroken iPhone.

NOTE: This walkthrough assumes you have already jailbroken your iPhone, see our 3G Jailbreak Tutorials for Mac Users & Windows Users (this walkthrough is for Mac users only, Windows version coming shortly).

Walkthrough

1. Download Boss Prefs from Cydia (see this Tutorial for help)

Boss Prefs is a great program that easily lets you enable and disable certain functions on your iPhone. Some of the built in features it supports are:

• 3G Data on/off
• Edge Data on/off
• WiFi on/off
• Bluetooth on/off
• SSH on/off

Boss Prefs also lets you create custom toggles, which we will be doing in this tutorial.

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NOTE: This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To strip the DRM off the songs, please follow this guide.

As you all know by now, iPhone ringtones are available from the iTunes Store for 99 cents a pop.

But what if you want to hear Kanye’s “Gold Digger” whenever your ex-gf calls, and she left you with no money to buy it?

Do not fear, AppleiPhoneApps.com is here — just follow these steps to show that money-grubber who’s boss, and do it for free:

1. Pick the song you want to use from your iTunes Library

2. Right click on the song name and select “Get Info”

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Chances are that if you’ve followed one of our tutorials to jailbreak your iPhone, you might need some help on how to get files on and off.  One example of where this might be needed is putting NES Roms on the phone for the NES app that’s available in Cydia.

In this article I will walk you through the entire process of copying files to the iPhone using Mac software. A separate Windows tutorial will be available shortly for non-Mac users — fear not we haven’t forgotten you!

A few things are required to be able to follow this tutorial:

• iPhone/iPod must be jailbroken (see mac or windows tutorials for help)
• Download an FTP Client  (see note below for a list of clients)
• iPhone/iPod must be on WiFi (no Edge or 3g for SSH/SFTP)

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MxTube v1.5a Beta | Published by MxWeas | Via built-in Cydia Repo | Free

What’s New In This Version

Everyone’s favorite app for downloading YouTube videos and storing them directly on the iPhone has now been updated to work with the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Version 1.5a is a temporary release to get users back on MxTube while the new features of version 2.0 are being tested.  Currently, v1.5a offers the same exact functionality as the original MxTube, with the following extras:

• Background Downloader
• Video Descriptions
• The ability to watch videos on MxTube before downloading them

For those of you who have never used MxTube, I’ll take you through the application in the form of a walkthrough.

NOTE: This walkthrough assumes you have already jailbroken your iPhone, see our 3G Jailbreak Tutorials for Mac Users & Windows Users.

How-To

1. Download MxTube v1.5a Beta from Cydia (see this Tutorial for help)

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Customize v2.1.1 | Published by SpicyChicken | Via built-in Production Cydia Repo | Free

Overview

SpicyChicken has been working hard to get one of our favorite apps ready for the 2.0 software.  Customize lets you do exactly what the name implies. . . ‘Customize’ anything and everything dealing with the appearance and sound of your iPhone.

Some of the customizable options include:

Here we’ll walk you through changing an entire theme all at one time, as well as applying just individual parts of a theme.
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