Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

October 4, 2008 0

iPhone 2.1 Hacking – Getting Around

By Levi Senft in iPhone

Now that we have a way into the iPhone it is time to start exploring. If you have ever used Linux, OS X or UNIX the iPhone will have a very familiar layout as it is based on BSD UNIX just like the desktop version of OS X.

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September 21, 2008 5

iPhone 2.1 Hacking – Getting Started

By Levi Senft in iPhone

The iPhone 2.1 hacking series is going to focus on cracking open the iPhone and using it to learn programming, UNIX and networking.  To write this article I’m using a first generation iPhone with a fresh install of the 2.1 firmware and a MacBook Pro.

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June 30, 2008 1

Nintendo Entertainment System ROMs for iPhone

By Levi Senft in iPhone

I’ve setup an Installer.app repository that downloads NES ROMs from popular ROM sites. The ROMs are installed in /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES , the iPhone NES emulator will be able to find the ROMs and they will show up in the list of games.

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March 12, 2008 2

iPhone Hello World Using UILabel

By Levi Senft in iPhone

In this version of my iPhone Hello World app I’m using a UILabel widget to display the text instead of a UITextView. I’m also centering the label.
helloworldAppDelegate.h:
1 //
2 // helloworldAppDelegate.h
3 // helloworld
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March 12, 2008 10

iPhone Hello World

By Levi Senft in iPhone

Last week we finally got the official Apple iPhone SDK. I’ve spent the last few years as a web developer, but ever since I’ve gotten a Mac I’ve wanted to get back to doing some “desktop” application programming. So I’ve messed around with Cocoa a little but haven’t really gotten past the stumbling [...]

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March 6, 2008 1

Jailbreaking 1.1.4

By Levi Senft in iPhone

Jailbreaking the 1.1.4 iPhone firmware is now a breeze. iNdependence will downgrade jailbreak then upgrade your phone in a one step process.

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December 30, 2007 0

Stop Mobile Safari From Zooming

By Levi Senft in iPhone

A while back I used iPhoney to create an iPhone version of Humaniz Interactive’s website. I stripped out all the flash components and tried to optimize the graphics and text as best I could. Knowing that it may or may not work right on a real iPhone we didn’t release it. Right [...]

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December 22, 2007 1

How to Jailbreak Your 1.1.2 iPhone

By Levi Senft in iPhone

I finally got an iPhone. After playing with it for a day I decided to Jailbreak it. I hacked my little brother’s Touch back in October using Erica Sadun’s partial instructions, which was a little hairy as it was a transitional period where new firmware had been released but know one had released [...]

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