Free Apps with Appulous

I assume that within the social circle of people that I follow on Twitter, very few have taken the leap in jailbreaking their iPhone because not often do I come across any chatter on the topic.

I’ve shared in the past my reasoning in being a daredevil with the device but rarely spoken on the added sweetner that comes with having pages full of Apps that may have not reach my iPhone by traditional means.

I buy Apps all the time. In fact, perhaps a little too much and I have the App Store Expense Monitor to remind me of it daily but as much as you’re inclined to purchase one, there’s always that bit of doubt that lingers on whether this expense will meet your expectations. Applications generally don’t cost too much but small charges add up.

So essentially the problem is that there’s no method for you to test drive an app without commiting to buying it first. Why hasn’t Apple implemented this? Don’t know but I surely feel more pursuaded in purchasing a book once Amazon has allowed me to download sample chapters for it first on the Kindle.

Solution to the Problem

Like I said, I do buy Apps and I do it because that sense of obligation exist in supporting the talented single person or crew behind applications that I truly enjoy.

But before I reach that “supportive” level, there’s a dark side that I rely on to ensure that I’m going to take pleasure in whatever I’m buying 90% of the time. With a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, you also inherit a pass to take part in a community site called Appulous -

Appulous is a collection of links to allow iPhone and iPod touch users the ability to try out full, unlimited versions of device software before making the decision to buy it.

Yes, you read right and that my friends is how I’ve been able to be very judicious in the Apps that I actually buy as oppose to just winging it and hoping that anything I purchase will be a keeper.

Is this illegal?

Appulous states on their site -

Appulous is not illegal. This website is merely a collection of user-submitted links, and Appulous takes no responsibility for what users submit to this site or use this site for. Appulous does not host any illegal files, does not submit any of the content, and does not police its database.

Absolutely no money is generated by this web application. If you feel the need to spend money, use it to purchase your favorite iPhone applications, showing developers your appreciation and encouraging them to produce more excellent work

And this is exactly what I do. I try an App and if I love it, I go ahead a buy it, already knowing that my experience with it was amazing. No regrets, no second thoughts, just pure commitment to something you deem worthy investing in. I would be a hypocrite if I said I don’t keep Apps that I haven’t paid for because I do.

Is everything there?

No all the newest Apps are always readily availble. It generally takes a couple days or weeks but the wait is worth the money you could end up regretting spending.

How do you do it?

• AppSync is a patch that’s needed in order to install all the Apps you download on Appulous, so we have to add the source to it so that you’ll be able to find it on Cydia.
• Launch Cydia and click on Manage
• Go to Sources
• Click on Edit on top righthand and then on Add
• Add source http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com
• It will take a couple minutes to install but once complete, do a search in Cydia for AppSync and install it.

Once the operation is complete, I simply head over to the Appulous, search for a particular app and once the download is complete, it automatically imports into iTunes and appears as if it had just been purchased on iTunes. The next step is to just sync your iPhone to load the Apps.

Safari for some reason doesn’t do all this automatic import process and downloads the App format differently, which is why I recommend Firefox for any downloads on Apppulous.

So there it is. That’s what I do and it’s mostly because I hate this feeling that Pat Dryburgh goes through which I’m sure a lot of other potential buyers go through and this is my way around it.

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Tethering your Jailbroken iPhone

AT&T has confirmed tethering coming to iPhone in 2009 but you may not have to wait or pay if you’ve jailbroken your iPhone.

You may recall hearing about Nullriver – the company that created an App Store app called NetShare, which allowed an iPhone to share its EDGE or 3G Internet connection with your Mac or PC and smartly navigate the web. Well, that didn’t last too long for obvious reasons unless you were one of the few that dished out $10 to purchase it before it was pulled out by Apple.

Having recently jailbroken my iPhone mainly for the purpose of customization and not for ripping off developers by inundating the device with unpaid apps, I came across Addition’s iPhone Modem 2, which operates alongside the same dimensions of NetShare. Here’s how it works:

iPhoneModem has two sides: the Modem application on the iPhone and the iPhoneModem helper for the Mac or the PC. On the computer, the helper application creates a new computer-to-computer (or ad-hoc) WiFi network and configures the system preferences to use the iPhone as a proxy. On the iPhone, the application opens DNS, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS proxies and connects to the helper on the computer.

I tinkered around with the tethering, and it works flawlessly. You can’t expect fast network speeds but just enough to surf an array of pages and check your emails without any problems. It’s also interesting to note that iPhoneModem can run in the background for registered users.

Testing on my iPhone was done with a 1G iPhone over Edge so you can anticipate a considerable increase in speed if you own an iPhone 3G.

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