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Haptic Pro is something i really missed when i moved to 3.0. At first when i start using the app i was sceptic and didnt really know if its a good thing to send repeated non regular small impulses to the iPhones vibrator thingy ( love the term, soooo technical ) , but using it i started to really love it.

Now it was ported to 3.0 ( dont know exactly if its official or not ) and im not really impressed. Why? Some people experience huge slowdowns using the phone ( especially when they are typing an SMS, and the haptic feedback its not quite as realistic as it was in the previous FW.

You probably can get it to work as you want to , if you play around with the advanced settings. Just go to Settings> HapticPro>  Advanced Settings> scroll down to the duration sliders. Play around with the sliders until you get the effect you want , or at least one real close to the one you want to. NOTE: those are not the correct settings. I was just playing around.

How to get and install HapticPro for iPhone OS 3.0 :

First thing you need to do is to download the .deb file. Than SSH into your iPhone ( Mac or Windows ), and put the .deb file into /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall .Now just restart your iPhone and you’re good to go. IF nothing happens you should restart AND respring your iPhone.

On a previous HowTo article on FSMdotCOM , you learned how to jailbreak your brand new iPhone 3Gs and of course how to get Cydia as well.

Unfortunately ,  ”Winterboard” does not work correctly. Following the installation, the Springboard continues to crash by sending the phone in Safe Mode.

The only way to solve this problem is to uninstall the utility, which, at the time, you should not even try to install it.

Saurik already knows about the problem, and as soon as there is a response about this problem, you will be the first ones to know.

Reason for this is simple: GeoHotz jailbreak method  lacks some patches to the kernel that do not allow the use of Winterboard.

purplera1n is only compatible with Windows XP and Vista 32 and 64 bit. Purplera1n to start on Vista, you must click on the file purplera1n.exe with the right mouse button and choose the option “Run as administrator”. Versions for Mac and Windows 7 will be released, most likely next Monday.

1. This type of jailbreak has some problems so it is advisable to wait for the programs of the DevTeam. It seems, in fact, that Geohot made available purplera1n to entice a team of hackers to release their tools before firmware 3.1.
2. With purplera1n may happen that the iPhone is put into Recovery Mode and that the jailbreak is not done properly.
3. The jailbreak of purplera1n appears incomplete. Some patches are not present and for this reason some applications like Winterboard, will not work.

The procedure for jailbreaking iPhone 3Gs with purplera1n is pretty simple: just, in fact, start the program, click a few buttons, wait, and finally click on the Freeze, which will appear on Springboard, to install Cydia.

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The DevTeam is back again to speak. This time, the official blog was published a video produced by planetbeing showing an unlocked iPhone 3Gs with ultrasn0w.

Hackers reveal that their tool works on the new device exactly as on the iPhone 3G.

The method, however, is rendered unusable by the 3.1 firmware update.

The DevTeam therefore call again on the owners of iPhone 3Gs to stay away from the 3.1 update  and to wait for the release of the programs they developed that will allow you to update your iPhone to avoid the update of Baseband .

“You have no idea what’s coming on iPhone.” These are, apparently, the only information we have about a mysterious video appeared on the trailer site Coming On iPhone. The video shows a breathtaking game graphics reminiscent in many ways the most famous GTA.

One of the most successful clones of the latter, speaking of video games for mobile phones, was certainly Gangstar: Crime City, a game developed by Gameloft. Through research on the small domain hosting the trailer, was recovered on the IP address that is behind the site. Guess where it comes from? Well the guys from iSpazio did a lil bit of research and this is what came up:

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Abstract: Systems and methods for providing real-time feedback to karaoke users are provided. The systems and methods for providing users with real-time feedback while they are singing karaoke generally relate to receiving the user’s vocals, determining whether the user is singing on key/pitch and providing real-time feedback to the user while the karaoke song is being sung.

The feedback will be positive feedback if user is on key/pitch and it will be negative feedback if user is off key/pitch.

For example, the feedback signal if the user is singing too low can be an exaggerated low signal of the user’s own voice. This will encourage the user to sing at a higher pitch.

We actually really like this idea, even if it has little chance of making it to a final product.  It might be better on the AppleTV platform if Apple is still interested in that hobby.

Stranger things have happened.  Have a gander at this somewhat hilarious patent illustration filed by Apple:

[via 9to5Mac]

My best bet is that i told you everything from the title of this Article.

The land down under is the way to go…

As you can see from the image below, you can buy a 16 gigs 3Gs from for $ 879 Australians ( €499 or $707 ) while the 32 gigs model is $1040 (€590 or $835).

You can learn two thing from the statement above: Australia is badass, and the US dollar is weak…

Not require a contract and the devices can be activated with any SIM, just like in Italy. If you plan a trip or you have any relatives in Australia… let us know!!!

Do you know who Charlie Miller is? Well, Charlie is a hacker who, during the Pwn2Own event, took full control of a Mac in just 2 seconds using a security flaw in Safari. Impressed? Oh well…

Charlie moved his attention on the iPhone and in particular to a security problem in the management of SMS that allows hackers to send malicious code without user intervention.

Through a bug in the SMS in fact, the device may be attacked and then run a program without user intervention. In the case of Jailbroken devices, this program would take the Administrator privileges.

Mr Miller has also held (during the conference Syscan Singapore) that Apple is already at work in search of a remedy. Basically, despite the limited number of characters available in 1 SMS you can send a small program in binary form through multiple consecutive messages.

Finally, Miller argues that the Jailbreak eliminates about 80% of the protection system Apple, for which an iPhone is even more vulnerable to this problem.

difrnt, has released a new application called “IBEC & IBSS Grabber”.

As you can guess from the name, the purpose of this software is to get the two folders in the temporary files in such a way as to preserve the Jailbreak your iPhone 3Gs.

This application is Windows only and can be downloaded by clicking here.

To understand fully the usefulness of the IBSS file IBEC and you can read this article.

How To Use:

1. Start the application and click on the button corresponding to “Save Location”.
2. Select the “Pwnage” that you created on your desktop
3. Click on Start Watching and run the two reversals as shown here. It ‘important to leave open the utility during the restoration.

DevTeam recently published a new article in which a group of hackers  talk about the jailbreak of iPhone 3Gs, inviting users to stay away from firmware 3.1 and explaining a new method for backing up of two certificates (IBEC and IBSS), which have the potential to unlock and jailbreak the new device in the future.

They said:

Remember we warned you to stay away from any updates to 3.1 if you want to be able to jailbreak or unlock your 3GS.

Well this is an additional message to all you 3GS owners that would like to jailbreak your device sometime soon, but this advice comes with a warning! A warning that if you accidentally upgrade to 3.1, you will not be able to use Ultransn0w, so please re-read and double check this warning at the bottom of this post before proceeding.

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