Brushes on my iPod

First art on my iPod.. after some grueling hours with biochemistry textbook i spend about 30 minutes on this painting. Fully painted on my iPod touch with the app called "Brushes" available on iTunes for $4.99 as usual there's always other way of getting it :-). It is in B&W because i really don't want to mess with colours, i'm not good at colour. :-p

i'll try to sketch other thing on my iPod, if my drawing is improving i will consider for an iPad...

Chaos Ring

"War cost a lot of money and sacrifices, so do Exams"

i bought a lot of food

i ate a lot of food

i sacrificed my sleep

After stressful hours of study i downloaded this game.. This is how i feel about it.

A tale of love and loss??
Goldfish boss..The Graphics is on par with the Final Fantasy 6, 7, 9 on Playstation.. P/s: It does makes my device a bit warm, not a very nice side effect during this summer season.

If your device suffers any kind of stuttering during the game play, you can always go to option to disable the special effect like the fog and snow even in the middle of the Boss fight. With a wonderful graphic, i'm quite impressed with the performance. No stuttering at all on my device(iPod Touch 2G Fw3.1.2) with the special effect "on". I don't know how it perform on 1 gen iPhone and iPod touch.
To differentiate itself from the popular sequel "Final Fantasy", Square Enix has implemented some special feature, not a new feature but just a new terms, instead of using the same terms over an over. Eg "Gene" to replace the popular Magic feature. The gene is acquired after you defeat a monster or boss.

Cerberus, the only boss i remember..hahaha. The most troublesome. I'm not used to cast a magic during this period.. I defeated him mostly using physical attack..

The first boss (Dragon-o-what).. i couldn't recall its name (as usual) :-) ... The combat interface let you choose Solo or Pair.. If you choose "Solo", each character will attack, use item or use magic at different time according to its speed. If you choose pair, both in the party will attack at the same time thus giving the sum of their attack power to the opponent..

I've been playing this for 4 hours 3+1 , and no sign of getting bored.

Highly recommended for

1.RPG PHREAK!

2.mobile gamers who wants a long story mode

Hate:

1.makes my ipod hot. Heat can kill battery fast.

Cost: $15.99 on iTunes quite steep when compared to other games

Size: 253Mb

There is always easy way to get it without selling any of your limb or organ. :-p

click here its a Mediafire link.

P/s: make sure your device is jailbroken, and "installous" already *installed

*if you don't want to use itunes to sync it.

Opera Mini for Iphone/IPod Touch

It was approved by Apple..

now what?

I'm quite happy with Safari on my IPod Touch, it is fast and responsive unlike other web browser that ever approved by Apple before for the IPhone OS.

Appearance

It was designed with simplicity in mind, if you have been using the iPhone/iPod Touch for a time being, it wont be any steep learning curve to learn how to Opera Mini. On my first run of it, i was greeted with some tips and tricks of the Opera Mini (no one ever need it i think) :-) .. The main element of the Opera Mini is the popular speed dial. It comes with 9 slot for users to customize. Customizing the speed dial slot was a breeze, just tap a little longer on the tile and it will prompt you whether to remove or edit, it just common sense. The second element in this apps is the bottom bar where you can find the setting, refresh button and the tabs. To view the tabs you have opened, you just need to tap on the tabs tile, then it will show you small tilled style preview of every tabs running in background, so no interruption when you're checking the tabs. This is what i've been waiting for in Safari, no browsing interruption while i'm checking the tabs.

Speed

The dirty secret which makes the Opera for mobile so fast is the preprocessing of the web data on the Cloud to make the data size and the browsing speed too be blazingly fast. It compress the web and makes less data transfered to your device thus lowering the loading speed and may save few bucks if you're not on unlimited Data plan. Plus, your web wont be rendered on the device, thus reserving the CPU resource. When you are in the go or kind of need any quick info you can always check the lowest image quality from the settings so that you can have a relatively fast browsing effect.

Browsing

I couldn't review on browsing speed as i'm using a very slow wifi connection at home. I dont know how to describe this, the pinch to zoom gesture seems to work but not perfectly like on the Safari. If you apply the pinch, there is no intermediate level of zoom for example when you zoom it will zoom all the way up and if you pinch again it will go all the way down.

++ Feature

1.Find in page( find a word in the opened tab)

2.Font size changer(user can choose from small medium large) good for the elderly. It such a emotional moment to see my parents struggling to read the text on my iPod, i really hope I can help them :-)

OS 4.0

Since the first OS, a lot has improved.. The reality is, Apple intentionally release the feature bit by bit just to make their customer feels its a great product. Most of the iPhone, iPod Touch are jailbroken, and Cydia always hears the owners prayers. Lets hope that the release of the OS4.0 today will bring something superior than what we can get on Cydia for now.

My hope for today OS4.0 announcement

1.Bluetooth DUN profile

2.FM radio. I hope the chip will be unlock today.(most of the people said it is impossible due to lack of antenna)

3.New way to transfer picture(drag&drop)

what i would hate to hear:

1.bug fixes

2.$5.99 to upgrade

live coverage for the OS4.0 event here [Gizmodo Live]

IBluenova

Oh God.. Nice to see my iPod can now transfer files using bluetooth like any normal gadget.. Hey Apple can't you just hear our little voice on bluetooth.

Thanks to the hardcore coders like

It is the rebranded apps that appear a long time ago in Cydia called the iBluetooth, but back a few years earlier the iBluetooth only support the iphone, there is no support for iPod Touch which left the iPod Touch user at the back alone, now it is already supported on iPod Touch too.

To install, make sure you add this repo to Cydia:

http://sinfuliphonerepo.com/

sinfuliphonerepo.com does host a number of cracked popular apps, so if cracked apps makes you feels guilty, install the one from ispazio repo & of course it cost you $5.99.

I tried this App and it just works!!hahha. I already transfered .jpeg, .3gp ,. mp3.. These three format extension should be enough for a casual user but i THINK it can accept all kind of files that you throw at it.

The test was done using SEk770i. It got good data transfer of about 50kbps & i found(http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=264613) several other phone also works

Compatible Device

Nokia 6230i
Nokia 6680
Nokia 3555b
Nokia 5130
Nokia 2660
Nokia 5800
Nokia 6121
Nokia 7210 Supernova
NOKIA 6300
nokia E51
Nokia N95
Nokia N82
Samsung Jet
Samsung Rant
Samsung Sync
samsung eternity
c903
MOTOZINE-ZN5
E71
Sony Ericsson k618i
Sony Ericsson Z710i
Sony Ericsson k660i
Sony Ericsson w580
Sony Ericsson w205
LG Vu
Motorola RAZR V3xx
Motorola KRZR K1


Partial Success / Issues Reported

Sony Ericsson W995
Sony Ericsson W580i
Sony Ericsson W810i
Sony Ericsson W760i
Most LG Phones report issues/difficulty in configuring/transfewring
Some issues with Windows Vista & Windows 7
Blackberries
P1i
env2

The main page is nicely grouped into 4 subgroup, "Rapid Switches" for toggling you bluetooth on/off and your device visibility.

Second group is the "File Manager", it handles about which file you're about to send.

3rd group is the "Activity" group, the name is self explanatory and the last group is the 'Others" group which shows two option, the settings and info.

This app also allow you to change your iPod's bluetooth name & configure your file location whether in library or on the iPod's file system(this only work with images) while videos and music will be simply saved at the

private/var/mobile/media/downloads/yourtube by default.

All in all this is a great little tweak and adds a huge value to the iPhone/iPod Touch. In my opinion this app adds a missing piece to the iPhone that should of been there from the start.

Sharepod

Loading iTunes proves to be an annoying process you'd ever encounter if you use a low end computer... just imagine you need to transfer a few tracks to your ipod, its not worth of waiting itunes load up the whole crap..

Thanks to Sharepod, www.getsharepod.com
This little free app support the ipod touch and iphone and not just ipods that support disk mode(1st gen to nano 5g).. everything was smooth from the beginning the app was being loaded to the end of the process(ejecting the ipod).

list of thing that sharepod can do;
1. copy tracks to ipod
2.edit, add playlist
3.capable af editing ID3 metatag(artwork, lyric, album,etc...)
4.capable of playing tracks on your ipod.
5.view photos
6.copy all content in your ipod to pc.

i think it is more than enough(well, not all)..

Driver for the iphone or ipod touch is not compiled with the sharepod, dunno why.but maybe copyright issue or to keep the software as light as possible to be downloaded.. this means that you still need to install itunes. anyway, you still gonna use it sometimes because sharepod still does not support application syncing.

Blackra1n

Yesterday, after some serious study, I started to listen to music with my ipod touch as usual.. Out of nowhere while listening to the music I tap on the Cydia icon and the only thing happen is nothing. (my ipod touch just make dono). I tapped several times more but still with the same result. I tried a solution on youtbe but doesn't seems to work. My cydia crashed!!!

Without Cydia, a jailbroken ipod touch/iphone is nothing compared to the not yet-jailbroken devices out there. So I searched back the OS 3.1.2 firmware that I downloaded months ago in my flash drive and start restoring my ipod touch.

The only difference in this Jailbreaking process is it is really one-click process, no more DFU mode(hold both button for 20 sec then release 1 button then releaese the other one). entering DFU mode proved to be a tricky task for first timer, they usually didn't get the timing and confused wether they have entered the DFU mode and the most annoying thing happen is when they post threads on multiple forum with some sorts of standard whining title PLEEASE..PROBLEM!!. Thanks to Blackra1n

Steps:
1. Download the OS/firmware or whatever you want to called it. .ipsw
http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
then the jailbreak software (both mac and windows are supported)
http://blackra1n.com/

2.Restore wtih the OS/firmware.. go to itunes>click on your ipod/iphone>on the 1st tab click restore+shift so that it will prompt you where is the location of the .ipsw file. let itunes restore it

3.After itunes finished.close itunes and run Blackra1n.exe it will do the rest for you..

4.after the ipod/iphone rebooted blackra1n icon should appear.
5. tap on the Blackra1n icon and select cydia or both Cydia and Rock to be installed...then you can choose to uninstall the blackrain or just leave it there. I choose to leave it there. no big deal.

p/s: i'm not very sure about the baseband, so for iphone owner please do some research before performing these steps or you will probably loose the unlock