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This guide and tutorial will show you how to use the freshly released PwnageTool to jailbreak your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, or iPhone 3G. There has been a couple jailbreak tools for iOS 4.1 released recently but only PwnageTool will preserve your baseband allowing you to update to a jailbroken 4.1, while still preserving your baseband so you can unlock.

PwnageTool is available for Mac only. If you don’t have a Mac, try to find a friend who does, and simply use his computer to cook the firmware. This guide was written using an iPhone 4 but the steps are the same, no matter what iPhone model you have (only the firmware downloaded will change).

This being said, make sure to follow this guide to jailbreak your iPhone iOS 4.1 with PwnageTool. As always when hacking your iPhone, you are proceeding at your own risks… Read More

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Technically, it’s not possible to unlock an iPhone that has been updated to iOS 4.1 because there is no unlock available for the iOS 4.1 baseband. Now depending on your situation, there might be a way to unlock your iPhone.

If you are still on iOS 4 or 4.0.1, then you can use PwnageTool to jailbreak your iPhone while preserving the baseband (see our guide here). This will make sure you update to the latest iOS version but don’t update the baseband, which is the key part in unlocking your iPhone… Read More

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Okay, so it was never on the Mac to begin with, but who didn’t see that coming? At Apple’s ‘Back To The Mac’ event this afternoon — or morning, depending on where you call home – FaceTime was announced for Mac OSX.  This means that all of those with iPhone 4′s just got a few million more potential friends to talk to via Apple’s suddenly ubiquitous social service.

Of course the most exciting news is that FaceTime for the Mac is available for download today.  For your convenience, we’ve included a video demonstrating a FaceTime call between a Mac and an iPhone 4. Check inside for the full details.

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When an app touts that its predecessors have been played 50 million times, with the direct prequel being a Kongregate top 25 mainstay, it’s safe to say that the app deserves a look. For fans of the Protector Series, the fifth game, titled “The Planes,” is only going to be released on the iPhone, shunning its Flash gaming roots. Apparently ZigZaGame is moving from the free flash model to the moneymaking App Store. I can respect that.

Unlike Kongregate though, the App Store is a whole different animal. People demand a level of polish that they may otherwise not care about in a flash game. Maybe it’s because people are paying for these iOS games, or maybe people just expect a lot due to the retina display; whatever the reason, ZigZaGame had their work cut out.

Protector: The Planes is a fixed path tower defense game that requires a bit more thought than the average TD. The game is really based on an element system, which means that units don’t simply do X amount of damage. Instead, units in Protector adhere to their particular element, meaning that fire wizards do fire damage, ice wizards do ice damage, and so on.

To make things a bit more difficult, each enemy has its own strengths and weaknesses, meaning that wave 1 could be resistant to fire while wave 10 could be weak to it. Levels in the game tend to follow patterns, so you have to make sure you choose the right types of units to use before the level starts. Once you are in a level, you can’t sell any units, so you also need to have a base placement strategy down before you start.

To aid in your element selection, the game offers an extensive stat upgrade tree. As you beat each level, you are given a point that you can allocate to any number of things, from upgrades to certain types of units to unlocking special units. All of the points can be reallocated at any point, so it is up to you to use the stats to your advantage in each level.

As well thought out as the game is, though, the graphics are a mess. Each map, no matter what the setting is, is full of dark colors and the muddiest, jagged squares possible. The units are all stiff and dull, and their weapon blasts really aren’t that much better. Protector also breaks the one rule of a great tower defense game, and that is that none of the units change visually when they are upgraded. Something as simple as a dot on the back of the characters would be enough to make me happy.

If you can get past the graphics, you’ll find that Protector: The Planes is about as deep of a tower defense game as they come. There is just simply more to do, with a higher level of difficulty, than just about any other game out there. It’s really just a shame that the brains behind the operation couldn’t steal the art team from Fieldrunners or Sentinel.

[ Protector: The Planes Review is a post from 148Apps ]

written by MinhA18Mumford

When it comes to viewing photos on the iPhone, well, it has been a fairly hands off approach. Most apps have you loading up photos, setting up some transitions, and that is about all there is to it. Time to change all of that with a new way of viewing photos: your own personal art gallery. At least that is what 3D Gallery is looking to accomplish.

Firing up 3D Gallery for the first time will almost instantly give you the idea this is not a normal photo-viewing app as you start in a 3D room with a few menus. This is where I would suggest the first thing you do is go into the help menu, as this will give you a greater understanding of how to setup the wealth of galleries you are about to embark on setting up.

There are three galleries to choose from, and each gallery has multiple rooms. Each of these rooms is unique not only in structure, but also in presentation and how many photos you may have hanging on the walls. Some rooms enjoy colorful ambient lighting, while other portray an open, and airy, outdoor setting. Navigating from room to room happens by “walking” through the doors that separate them via a virtual directional pad. To look around, just drag a finger around the screen to move your virtual head. The controls are intuitive, and almost immediately comprehendible.

Putting photos into each room is just a matter of a few taps. Hit the menu button to select the gallery you want to work in, which photo set you want to edit, and what course of action you will take. The editing option will allow you to move, resize, and rotate images with ease. You may edit multiple images just by double tapping on them. The picking option is used to replace the default-loaded images with images from your photo library. Those who want to fully load a room with photos have the option of just picking photos and letting the software decide where to put each photo. Finally, the viewing option allows you to walk from room to room, tapping on images to blow them up to a full screen view.

3D Gallery packs in a few more fun options outside simply hanging your works of art on virtual walls. Some rooms come with a picture frame that cycles images based on what you have hanging on that rooms walls. While this is a small touch, it is a welcome addition to overly abundant static images. Those who want to put up more risqué photos in your galleries can password protect the app for that added bit of security. It would have been nice to password protect specific galleries, but at least there is some form of protection.

This is a great start to changing how photos might be viewed, but it is not without a gripe. It is fun to walk around a gallery, but many of the walls feel like apartment white paint is coming into style. The outdoor scenes also feel as though they are simple backdrop ripped from FPS games like Doom. These sub-par textures do dwindle the overall experience some due to the overall odd feeling they put into some rooms.

3D Gallery is ultimately a unique and immersive way to display your photos. If you are like me and use your phone as a make-shift photo album, this is a great way to let people view your images in your own art gallery, minus all the need of playing dress up. Those of you who fit into this photo-centric category, this is well worth picking up.

[ iPhone Review: 3D Gallery is a post from 148Apps ]

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