iPhone apps are loose! July 28, 2008

So as you may know I am one of those guys whose pretty fluent with the technology.

I was looking around the web yesterday and found out people are cracking iPhone/iPod Touch apps. One of the key communities I found for the “cracking” scene is a forum at haklabs.com. Basically there are two current methods of cracking and installing. One method involves modifying a file on the iPhone so you can install via iTunes and the other is through SSH. One is packed as a .ipa file and the other a .app directory. Both methods require a jailbreaked 2.0 device. I’m not going to go into how to crack or install the apps, but right now it’s not real user friendly on either end. To crack the apps it is necessary to own the file and have your iPhone/touch jailbreaked. You’ll also have to use terminal and SSH.

I spoke to one of the crackers and he let me know that while its difficult at the moment, a GUI version will hopefully be out soon.

More frustration with video files July 22, 2008

So today I continued my battle with video files and soft subtitles. I have no idea why apple hasnt posted any information about this feature. It is so useful, yet not widely used or documented. I have checked to make sure its not an error on my part. The subs display on iTunes, quicktime, and on the ipod classic. Why no iPhone love? A couple ideas:Maybe the iPhone’s new 2.0 software reads this yet used feature differently. Maybe it’s my iphone’s firmware file. Maybe it’s the fact that muxo is flawed and I’ll have to learn how to add the subs manually to get damn subs on this French movie. Whatever my answer is it should not be this hard.

[UPDATE]

I have succesfully managed to get my subs working! Just needed to do some problem solving to narrow my problem down to the subrip file (.srt). Here’s a screenchot from a test video I made with a sample clip and sample subs i made to find out that my original subs were bad.