Turning Japanese: Free Emoji on your iPhone

Posted in Apps, Freebies, How-To, News by meebz. Published March 23rd, 2009

Erica Sadun releases Freemoji, an app that enables emoticons on your Apple iPhone.

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The release of Firmware 2.2 enabled emoticons (emoji) exclusively for iPhones running on a Japanese network. Thankfully, all other iPhone users did not have to wait long for Erica Sadun to release a solution.

Freemoji is available on Cydia as a free download and will work on any jailbroken iPhone running firmware 2.2.X and up.

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Steps to Enable:

1. Open the Free Emoji App
2. Switch Emoji Support to On

Next:

1. Go to Settings
2. Keyboard
3. International Keyboards
4. Japanese
5. Switch Emoji support to ON

To Disable:
1. Open App
2. Switch Emoji Support to OFF

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Update:

SpiceLoop has released iEmoji - Unlock Emoji in the AppStore.

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iEmoji replicates the function of Freemoji and additionaly includes a list of “nerd” codes for those looking to add more useless knowledge to their emoji lifestyle.

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All iPhones on firmware 2.2.X may now enable emoji by downloading this free app from the AppStore and following the same instructions as Freemoji.

Copy and Paste on your iPhone

Posted in Apps, How-To by meebz. Published February 1st, 2009

CopierciN by GomerciN is one of two apps* that enable a copy and paste function for your iPhone.


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When you open the CopierciN it will take you to a blank page,
select Menu to get to the options:

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You can choose where you would like to copy and paste from:
(in the “import text from” section)

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Using email as an example:
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Find the text you would like to copy:
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Hold your finger down and run it across the section, then click Copy:
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Hit Clear, then Paste:
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Go back to Menu and scroll down to the Export Text As:
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Sending through Mail:
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CopierciN “Copy and Paste” is available for download in Cydia, only for jailbroken iPhones.

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*The second app, hClipboard integrates itself into your
iPhone keyboard for a more global function.

Make and Bake a .CAF File in 3 Easy Steps

Posted in How-To by meebz. Published January 17th, 2009

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.CAF is an audio format Apple uses in it’s iPhone infrastructure for UISounds (Lock, Unlock, Voicemail, New Mail, etc).

You can convert .MP3, .WAV, .AAC, .AIFF, and Apple Lossless audio files to .CAF using iTunes.

Converting to .CAF File

1. Set your Import Settings in iTunes to Import Using: AIFF Encoder

(Open iTunes Preferences, Under General Settings “When you insert a CD:” Click the Import Settings button)

2. Convert the audio file you want to .AIFF

(Select Song in iTunes, Go to Advanced, Create AIFF Version)

3. Drag the Newly Created Song to your Desktop and Rename the .AIFF extension to .CAF

Disable iPhone Auto-Correction in 3 Easy Steps

Posted in Apps, How-To by meebz. Published January 5th, 2009

Lose the Faulty iPhone Spell Check

Sick of typing a word and having the less-than-brilliant iPhone auto-correction feature butcher it?

Well iClarified has created a solution in Cydia that nullifies the spell check feature.

The only setback, though, is that the double spacebar = a period function is also disabled.

3 Steps to a More Functional iPhone Typing

1. In Cydia (Go to Sections Tab –> Repositories Folder)

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2. Install iClarified (You Can Also Manually Add It*)

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3. Install Disable Auto-Correction (Should Now Appear in Changes Tab)

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*To Manually Add a Source in Cydia

iClarified Repo: http://cydia.iclarified.com

How to Manually Add a Source in Cydia

Posted in How-To by meebz. Published January 5th, 2009

To Manually Add a Source in Cydia

1. Go to Manage
2. Click on Sources

Repository

3. Click Edit

>Repository

4. Click Add

Repository

5. Type the Address of the Repository (Repo)

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