As we are working on categories for 2.0, I would like to replace all the icons I provide with some that make more sense. Therefore, I am asking for artists that wish to be part of the project to come forth and provide some icons that they would like included. For those that don’t know, categories is an app that provides folders on your springboard. Things like: games, apps, misc, settings, docs, internet, speed dial might make good categories. Here are my favorite icons to give you an example.

Notice the folder theme. Anyways, if anyone would like to contibute some icons please just make them around 60×60 png files (57×57 I think is standard size) and email me a zip of them here.

 While you can now always see the latest updates on the site using our latest apps WebApp, I’ll call out some highlights here.

New version of bitesms (v2.1) is out. With some decent features:

• As per the Apple SMS application, biteSMS now provides the [Add to Contacts] feature.
• Fixed up truncation of long SMS conversations when displayed in the conversation bubbles.
• Improved the rendering of conversation bubbles, such that text does not appear squashed.
• When composing, we now hide the keyboard if you tap above the compose text box. This lets you have a better look at the conversation.
• Fixed issue whereby some users would be presented with a white screen and biteSMS would not start properly.

AppBackup is out. This will backup your Appstore apps settings so that if you have to restore your apps you can. This is useful for reinstalling your apps on your iPhone. But if you restore, your backups, too will be gone unless you SSH them off of there.

Lockdown v3.0 is out with a lot of improvements. If you need to be able to lock certain apps with a password so you can hand your phone off to someone else for a bit, this is the app for you.

Scrobble is the first iPhone 2.0 Scrobbler app without the ridiculous restrictions Apple imposes on the SDK submitters. This app will sit in the background listening to what songs you listen to and scrobble them onto the last.fm servers.

For those of you that like quickpwn but want a GUI, there is one now. Here is a guide on how to use it. Before getting started, understand who this is for.

Who should use this tool? This is for those that are not planning to restore. It’s not clear what the activation state is after the process therefore, I only recommend this for those that have a contract carrier or an unlocked phone already. This is also perfect for those that pwned and did not install Cydia as it will result in Cydia being installed. If you are on a 2g and need to unlock, you can do so with bootneuter, but this will not activate for you. If you are on a stock device and using AT&T or a contract carrier, this is the perfect jailbreak for you. You will not lose your contacts or have to do any backups. Finally, if you are going to restore anyway, especially if you need to unlock a 2g, you may as well use winpwn or such.

Step 1: Download quickpwn gui and extract it. For this guide, we will use c:\quickpwn.

Step 2: Load iTunes and make sure it sees your phone. Leave iTunes running and do not touch it again.

Step 3: Download the proper firmware image (see firmwares page here for firmware of your choice). Save this image in the same folder with the quickpwn.exe file. For our example we will use c:\quickpwn. Your folder should now look like this:

Step 4: Launch quickpwn GUI.

Step 5: Select your device and hit the arrow at the bottom of the window.

Step 6: Click Browse

Get to your c:\quickpwn folder and select your firmware.

It should show you this when you are done:

Click the Blue arrow

Step 7: At the next screen, you are prompted to choose Cydia and Installer. Both are selected by default. You must select Cydia or your jailbreak will be useless. Installer is not a replacement for Cydia, is not ready, and has almost no packages. In addition, there is still a huge buglist in installer. In short, choose Cydia. This shouldn’t even be a choice. Select Cydia. Select installer if you want to but don’t forget Cydia. Note, you can also select to replace your bootlogos here if you wish.

Step 8: Click “Go”

Step 9: Wait. You will see some stuff go by on the screen:

Then you will be prompted to turn off your phone and press enter when you have done so:

Step 10) As it says on screen, turn off your phone by holding power, sliding to power off, and waiting for it to power off. Do not take the phone off the pc connection! If you do, you must start over.

Note: If you are being asked “Is your iPhone/iPod connected to your computer via USB” it is because you did not load iTunes and let it see your phone before starting. At this point it’s too late and you must start start back at step 8.

Step 11) In this next step we need to get our phone into DFU mode so it can be pwned. If you have any problems following the onscreen instructions, then refer to this DFU guide. The program will help you through the steps but it often takes multiple attempts to get into DFU mode. And, if you fail to get into DFU mode, the app quits and you must start over at step 8.

Therefore, I recommend that you get into DFU mode before hitting ENTER. Read the DFU guide link and press enter when you are in DFU mode. Then ignore the directions on the screen until it recognizes your phone is in DFU mode. When you are in DFU mode, the app should automatically take over and you will see this:

Wait a bit for the process to finish, and congratulations! You are done.

Step 12) Optional 2g phone only. If you need to unlock your phone, install bootneuter from Cydia and run it! Select “neuter, unlock, do not change bootloader settings, and then flash!”.

I updated BossPrefs today to version 2.12b. The changelog can be viewed in the link but one feature that is worth calling out. I added an apple killswitch neuter button. This will allow you to turn off Apple’s killswitch.

Betty’s Cookbook is a nice cookbook featuring 24 recipes and pictures to help you become that master chef.

Qik is a social networking / video recording app. Check out the types of videos at www.qik.com. (Sorry no icon, but it cant be decoded on a pc).

The Fantasy Pack theme has been updated. It now contains 350 pictures (up from 100) and also has been redone to use less CPU and have smoother transitions.  The theme uses advanced features from Winterboard. Enjoy

BiteSMS updated today to v2.0. Here is the large list of changes:

The first fully functional biteSMS for firmware 2.0!

• Ability to make biteSMS the default SMS application (configured via biteSMS settings page, defaults to OFF).This controls the following characteristics:
  • If ON, when clicking to Reply to an incoming SMS alert, you’ll be taken into biteSMS instead of the Apple SMS application.
  • If ON, the badge that denotes how many SMS’s are unread will be shown against the biteSMS icon instead of the Apple SMS icon.
  • ON or OFF, incoming SMS messages containing biteSMS credits are handled in a more user friendly fashion.
• Fixed the issue, whereby if an error was displayed during the sending of an SMS, then it would exit back to the Home screen.
• Improved matching of incoming SMS numbers against Contacts.
• For an unread SMS, upon starting biteSMS you will be taken directly to this SMS conversation (just like the Apple SMS app).

Yes it is true, installer 4 beta is included as part of pwnage 2.0.2. However, installer may not be working very well yet. Most these issues should be fixed soon, but here are current issues you (as users) will find with working with this revision of installer. At this point (for stability), I recommend using Cydia to manage your package installs.

• The custom info pages as intended for you to see the package by the packager does not show up on the first viewing of any package. You must click the package twice to see it. This means no “more info” links otherwise.
• Updated packages only show “uninstall” when viewed in “recent packages” or “all packages”, but it shows the “update” button when viewed in the “update” category.So for your updates, you must use the “update” category, not the “recent” category like old installer.
• Packages are seen multiple times in some cases. This can be confusing. They are most likely the same package, however.
• If internal icon is not present, package task loads forever trying to fetch the icon. No timeout. You may see a spinner on a package forever due to this.
• If a package fails to install for any reason, it sits spinning forever until installer is closed.So if you get a failed package install, close installer and reopen it.
• Package page views show the data from the previous page view initially. So if you are looking at package “bossprefs” and then go to “bosstool” you will see the description for BossPrefs still until BossTool page loads. This can be confusing especially on a slow internet connection. So you should wait for the page to load patiently.
• Installed packages do not show much indication when they are done other than the red tasks thing goes away.So you hit a package to install it, and nothing appears to h appen. The package is also not moved into the installed list until you exit the category and enter it again. You can gage when the process is done based on the red “tasks” number going away.
• Community sources package is incorrect. It is missing most the main repositories and also missing all the icons in our repository causing a whole bunch of “file not found” errors to pop up when browsing packages (making installer unusable). This will be resolved soon. If not, we will put out a package called “bigboss installer icons” that will resolve it.
• Some packages will never appear in installer such as Winterboard, BSD. This may cause dependency issues when apps require this. These things must be installed from Cydia. BSD is a *must*. Many apps use it.
• Sometimes refreshing sources does not pick up new packages. You must refresh each source individually by clicking on it and its refresh icon.