So, big news tonight folks: Spirit, the universal jailbreak tool we’ve all been waiting for, it’s out. You can go check it out here. I’ve just managed to jailbreak my iPad (my iPhone is already jailbroken and stuck at 3.1.2) and the process has been very fast and easy. Check the tutorial after the break, together with our impressions about the first apps we’ve installed from Cydia.
Jailbreak the iPad With Spirit for Mac And Install Your First Cydia Apps - Compatibility List
World of Warcraft, Streamed To The iPad
Gaikai is a revolutionary online gaming service, lead by the well known game developer and personality David Perry (@dperry), that will allow you to play games inside your web browser using server side streaming technologies for games. The service is currently accepting signups for a private beta invitations, just go here and enter your details.
Well, David has just posted a picture of what it seems World of Warcraft streamed to the iPad. The interesting fact is that Gaikai for desktop computers should work with Flash Player, but obviously this won’t happen with the iPad so maybe we should expect a specific version for Apple’s device. We can’t wait to find out more.
Check out the photo after the break. [via]
Find Your Car with Sally Park
I tend to park in the same parking lots every time I go out. Maybe because my town is relatively small, or just because I’m that type of guy that enjoys getting used to things, I’ve gotten used to park my car in the same lots.
But when I go out of my town with my friends, it might happen that when it’s time to come back we spend a few minutes trying to remember where we left the car, and sometimes we also get lost in the attempt to find it. And when these situations occur, we have to thank Doseido for releasing Sally Park in the App Store.
Instinctiv, An Alternative to doubleTwist
There are definitely a lot of new kids on the block nowadays. For the iTunes alternatives, we don’t have to look farther than Ecoute and Everplay for smaller solutions, and Songbird and doubleTwist as full library / syncing replacements for our multitude of devices. With doubleTwist making a name for itself with its ability to sync to the Droid (including recent Podcast and Amazon integration), one more player has stepped into the field that’s currently open to the public. Instinctiv syncs playlists to my Droid, shuffles music to my mood, and is a rather simple solution for playing and searching your music.
Jailbroken iPad 3G Sending SMS [Video]
The iPad is jailbroken (at least for the Dev Team guys) and this means that a lot of new stuff will be possible. We saw multitasking, we saw Cydia, now it’s time for text messages. Musclenerd, the popular member of the Dev Team, has just managed to use his jailbroken iPad 3G to send texts using a command line tool, but there no GUI for it (yet?).
Check out the image and video after the break, and you can bet that this is coming to Cydia someday. Next, phone calls?
Binary Nights Releases Forklift 2.0 [Beta]
What a week for file transfer apps for Mac OS X. Panic has released the long awaited Transmit 4 this week (be sure to read our review here if you missed it) and now Binary Night has finally put the first official public beta of Forklift 2 online, you can go download it here.
Forklift 2 features a completely rewritten and 64-bit compatible engine, which according to the developers should make this new version 3x - 33x faster than any other app on the market. We’ll let you know about that after our tests during this weekend. Also, the 2.0 update brings new features like Workspaces and Synclets, Stacks, Unarchiver framework and many other stuff. Stay tuned for a complete review next week.
In the meantime, go download the beta and check out two screenshots after the break.
Adobe Rewriting Wired Magazine App in Objective C
Remember the Wired iPad app? Yes, the one Adobe and Condè Nast were working on, and which was built using Flash. Well, according to All Things Digital Adobe is actually rewriting the whole application using native Apple’s SDK, because of the well known problems Apple has with Adobe’s framework. Adobe and Condè Nast still haven’t confirmed anything, but sure this seems as the only solution to be accepted into the App Store.
Well, unless you build a webapp for that. If you missed the video of the Wired app, we’ve embedded it again after the break.
The iPad 3G Is Jailbroken [Video]
Well that didn’t take long. The Dev Team has just released a video of an iPad 3G jailbroken with Spirit, and there are Cydia and iSSH running on it.
Check it out after the break.
Steve Replies to Email: “All Video Codecs Are Covered By Patents”
It seems like John Gruber was right once again, this time about video codes and patents. After reading Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash” post yesterday, Apple fan Free Software activist Hugo Roy decided to write an open letter to Steve Jobs about the statements he made in regards of openness and web standards. Of course Steve replied.
Check out the full conversation after the break.