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  • Hijinks Reviews: Kate


    Pros:     Easy to use settings interface, adds a few nice functions.
    Cons: Not worth the price. Or the possibility of bricking of your iPhone.

    Platform: iPhone

    Version reviewed: 1.3

    Developed by: Rip Dev (ripdev.com)

    Pricing: Subscription based. $20 for 6 months, $35 for 1 year, $45 for lifetime subscription.

    The developers of Kate (formerly Caterpillar) describe it as being “a commercial package of tools and toys to extend your iPhone”. While offering an all in one approach and slick settings management, Kate doesn’t really bring much to the table that can’t be gained from using multiple free packages.

    Admittedly though, there is a certain appeal to only having to install one program to do a bunch of things. (more…)

  • It’s alive!

    After countless failed attempts, I finally got my iPhone working last night. I ended up having to restore it to 1.1.3 and then upgrading it to 1.1.4 and jailbreaking it with Liberty+.

    Now comes the time consuming task of reinstalling all those applications.

  • Multi-Touch + ThinkPad = Drool

    X Tablet

    You see something like the new ThinkPad X Tablet and you just want to touch it, right? I know I do. Apparently though, that’s exactly what Lenovo is expecting you to do.

    In addition to being a pen tablet, the screen also sports a MultiView/MultiTouch interface, allowing you to “use your finger or the pen to interact with the notebook, open applications, etc.”

    Check out the full specs and features here.

    No word on how sensitive or precise the touch interface is, but I’ll be looking into this further… stay in touch.

  • New Themes Added

    Ed has submitted two new themes, Summer and Hijinksinc, which are now available from the Hijinks Repo.

    To access content from the Hijinks Inc. Repo, add http://i.hijinksinc.com to your sources list.

    If you’ve already added our repository to your sources list in Installer, just refresh your sources to access the new themes.

  • Bricked my iPhone

    I installed some early beta software on my iPhone a few days ago, and apparently something went terribly wrong because I couldn’t use Installer.app after that. No problem, I’ll just restore to 1.1.4 and use ZiPhone to jailbreak it, right? Wrong.

    After restoring the phone to 1.1.4 I ran ZiPhone, things went normally until it reached the “Installing base apps…” screen, where it decided to lockup. I killed the ZiPhone process and restarted the iPhone, it booted right back to the ZiPhone install screen again, and again, and again.

    Next I tried booting into DFU mode. If you’re unfamiliar with DFU mode, you enter it by pressing and holding the home and the power button simultaneously, once the phone turns off, continue to hold the home button while turning the phone back on. It’s important that your iPhone is connected to your computer with iTunes running for this to work.

    DFU mode led to moderate success, iTunes recognized it and allowed me to restore the firmware to 1.1.4. However when it restarted it now only displays a black screen with one white block in the upper left-hand corner.

    My plan right now is to try restoring it to an older firmware and seeing if that yields any result.