Seeqpod is by far the coolest and most useful web application usable by Safari on both the iPod touch and iPhone. Seeqpod is an application that lists music by popular searches from open web servers it finds. Not sure about the legality of this, but it’s definitely a great web application.
The application lets you search for artists or tracks of your choice, or will let you chose from popular artists and playlists. The popular artists section gives a nice current list of artists, most of them you will know who they are.
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Catching, well, just about everyone by surprise, it’s taken less than 24hrs for hackers to break the v1.1.2 firmware that Apple released for the iPod Touch. Although no guide or software has been released yet, what we do have is the following screenshot of a Touch running the latest Cupertino update; in order to get it, the owner would have had to install a screen-grab app.
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After long waiting for a keyboard and resizing abilities, the VNsea dev team released version 0.5.0 Monday with everything everybody has been waiting for. Along with a keyboard tab they added a number of other Apple keyboard buttons, fix vertical or horizontal, and ability to resize the window.
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Hah! Apple, Conceited has beat you to the release of another great piece of software, internet radio for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It works great on the iPod Touch with a WiFi connection, and reports are it works well with the iPhone’s EDGE connection as well.
(Thanks Ken Allen!)
The streams are MPEG streams, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction. It starts fast, works fast, sounds good, and will continue playing even when the iDevice locks, just like the iPod app.
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One-click iPod Touch Jailbreaking tool AppSnapp has exceeded expectations with a stunning 144,000 downloads in just four days. The software, which only hit the internet on Sunday and promises to unlock your Touch to third-party software as well as make the PMP “MORE secure than it was without AppSnapp” through fixing the TIFF bug that has permitted all the hacking in the first place.
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So let’s say you wanted to JailBreak your iPhone or iPod Touch over the past few weeks since the release of the first 1.1.1 JailBreak. It was a fairly lengthy process, and depending on when you got up the nerve to try it, required a decent chunk of time on the command line interface.
Well now its as easy as navigating, on a wifi connection, and in Safari, to jailbreakme.com and clicking “Install AppSnapp” at the bottom. That’s it, no PC required; it makes use of the TIFF exploit and then goes to work.
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So you’re lucky enough to have a 16GB iPod Touch, and cavalier enough to consider Jailbreaking it - just think of all the third-party applications you can install on that, eh? Not so fast, soldier: in actual fact, both the Touch and the iPhone have been pre-partitioned into an OS section and a media section, with the latter being far, far smaller than the former. Understandable, if you’re Apple, as you don’t intend to whack that many apps into it, but as a dangerous, modding sort you could do with all the space that you can get. Thankfully, Erica Sadun comes to the rescue with a relatively straightforward way to trick the PMP into using some of the capacious storage space for applications.
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Sure, you and I just see it as a fun media player, but can it really be used for business? Sure, I mean, it has a WiFi connection with a better web browser than anything short of a full on UMPC or laptop, that’s a good start.
On top of that, there is a calendar, contacts, and you can now use the video out which means you can throw up pics, vids, or music relevant to a business presentation with ease. On top of that there is the clock and the calculator.
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Although this is not for the average user, and is also not available for the public yet, some hackers have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications. So far the, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked Touches.
Now its just matter of time until there countless apps. Seen here is the weather app for the iPod Touch.
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The Apple-Touch forums have been a hive of activity recently, as ace hacker AriX continues to polish his own automatic iJailBreak application. Initially an Intel Mac application, he’s also working on a PPC version and a Windows app; it’s special because it allows iPod Touch owners to Jailbreak their PMPs with no more intervention than a single restart of the device.
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