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SwirlyMMS 1.2.15 Cracked (Patched)

XSellize Successfully Unlocks SwirlyMMS Version 1.2.15

SwirlyMMS is nothing short of a Goliath when it comes to providing multimedia messaging for the iPhone and iPhone 3G.

Apple has refused to release the all-to common and simple function over countless firmware updates, AT&T has refused to allow any iteration of MMS on Apple products opting instead to run a rumored, daily iPhone MMS disabling agent, and the AppStore has released apps that claim to have answered the demand of MMS for iPhone, but have dubiously fallen short in an unheralded fashion.

If you are desperate for MMS on your iPhone, SwirlyMMS is the only true MMS iPhone application. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks.

1. It can only be installed on a jailbroken iPhone (3G)
2. It will rarely work with AT&T*
3. The App is permanently linked to only one iPhone
(if you lose, replace or upgrade your iPhone, expect to repurchase this app)

As far as iPhone apps are concerned, SwirlyMMS is a giant among an army of mini-me’s, yet the practice of repurchasing the app is a questionable method to impose on its users; as an $8 price tag per license can add up.

The AppStore shines in the respect that it records your purchases, so if you were to lose, upgrade or replace your iPhone, you could re-download previously purchased apps for free.

SwirlyMMS is in a position to re-engage in the successful, yet rather underhanded marketing of A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens first released the story in a weekly paper that was purchased, then as a collected works from the paper, then in a leather bound collection, essentially selling the same book to the same group of people three times.

There is also a school of thought that perhaps SwirlyMMS has not established a method of tracking purchasers and therefore is enacting a primitive method of purchasing and non-tracking.

If you find yourself in the position of having broken, lost or updated your iPhone and feel conflicted over repurchasing SwirlyMMS, XSellize and its talented iPhone dev team have released a working solution. The fortress that was SwirlyMMS has collapsed and you can now install SwirlyMMS without repurchasing or downloading a two week demo license.

Goliath meet David.

Steps to Install

1. Add the XSellize Cydia Source to Cydia
(http://xsellize.com/cydia/)
2. Install SwirlyMMS
3. Do NOT change your iPhone date after install

How to Install Manually:
Remove SwirlyMMS from Cydia

1. SSH into iPhone
2. Copy Swirly.deb to /var/root/
3. Open Terminal

Steps in Terminal:
(Type)

1. ssh root@ur.ip.address.here
2. enter password (alpine)
3. dpkg -i Swirly.deb

How to Remove:
1. Open Cydia
2. Manage Packages
3. Remove Swirly Crack Package.

 
 
 
 
 
 
*A great deal of other carriers are supported including FIDO, T-Mobile, Roger, O2, Vodafone, etc.

App Review: Christmas with Weezer

Tap Tap to Weezer Versions of Popular Christmas Songs

Weezer has come to the iPhone in time for the holidays, unfortunately it has been given the Tap Tap treatment.

Tap Tap has always fallen short when it came to transcribing notes. It lacks the refined Guitar Hero or Rock Band feel where notes actually have some semblance of rhythm.

The place where Tap Tap excels is in it’s multi-player mode and it’s ability to acquire such talent as Weezer and Nine Inch Nails.

There are six songs remixed masterfully by Weezer:

O Come All Ye Faithful
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Silent Night
Hark the Herald Angel Sings
O Holy Nigh
The First Noel

Along with two Bonus Tracks:

Pork and Beans
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

Conclusion:
If you simply must have a Christmas album this year and do not want to shell out the extra dough for Sufjan Stevens, then this is the album to own.

The game play, although ineffably unrefined is still enjoyable when you are waiting for food with a friend. The magic will inevitably dwindle after the holidays, as will it’s price tag.

AppStore meet AppShare: Free Apps for Your iPhone

A Free Version of AppStore is Available for Unlocked iPhones
Sponsored by the “samaritans” of Hackulo.us

Download Cracked/Hacked AppStore Apps directly to your iPhone.

The Hackulous Team has developed a service that the much beleaguered Apple AppStore has yet to accomplish; and that is to enforce their own quality control standards through AppShare and Installous.

Downloading an App based on misleading descriptions and unintelligible reviews has become a method of the past for unlocked iPhone owners. The opportunity to download an app without purchasing, taking it on a trial run and choosing whether or not to support the developer after evaluating their work seems to be perceived more as a luxury than a requisite through Apple’s policies.

If this service was available, when the “I am Rich”* App was released, it wouldn’t have been such a large blow to the credibility of the programs Apple allows released on their platform.

AppShare also supports apps that were removed from the AppStore. These removed apps are ones that mostly benefited users and not AT&T (such as NetShare, where you could have tethered your iPhone 3G’s internet to your laptop).

The rational behind these programs are found in their faq pages:

The solution to what?
As many iPhone and iPod touch owners have discovered, Apple’s iTunes App Store has many flaws which render it useless to the common user. Apple has chosen to allow a multitude of ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications through its “strict” screening process, nearly all written by mediocre programmers with a dream of getting rich quick. Many of these programmers game the reviews system, misrepresent their application in the description, and generally try to swindle the honest buyer. Applications generally do not cost much, but small fees add up. The iPhone/iPod community has wasted so much money on these programs, an epidemic has taken hold where people have simply stopped buying apps they aren’t certain of so they don’t find themselves purchasing yet another waste of a program.

How does Appulo.us help that?
Apple could quite easily solve this problem by implementing a sort of trial period for each application, but they do not. The user is forced to buy blindly without ever getting to try the application first. Appulo.us 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.

Doesn’t this hurt developers?
Many people have stopped buying applications by independent developers solely out of fear of wasting their money yet again. Even programs that are great are being undersold and pointedly hindered by Apple’s allowance of programs like “I Am Rich” and the seventh Sudoku game submitted by a 14-year-old writing his first program. Developers are being hurt by the company they provide their content to.

Unlimited trials are easy to abuse, and there is no denying this fact. However, there is an impressive number of people in the community who do honestly pay developers for software they enjoy after trying it. Having the opportunity to review the sales statistics of a well-reviewed, independently-developed game, the developer experienced a great number of installations by people using the unlimited trial — but over 99% of these installs were by people who statistically would not have purchased it regardless. A single digit of sales were lost to others who may have purchased the game, and with the trial resulting in purchases that would have otherwise not been made, the end result is strikingly positive.

I came across an article in TouchPodium** that related AppShare and Installous to theft. This was my response to a highly debatable topic, that has no concise answer:

In all fairness, I do believe the creators of the AppShare App released it with a “Try Before You Buy” mentality.

There are numerous instances of complaints regarding Apple’s quality control in regard to what makes it to the AppStore. Those who would pay for an App, only to find it bugged or broken or not what it seemed have no recourse whatsoever.

I am currently working on developing an iPhone App so I can see how this can be a complete disservice to the developers, then again maybe it levels the playing field so that consumers don’t feel shafted.

Regardless, all forms of media will find themselves on the net, freely distributed. Their only support will derive from those who are truly committed to donate or purchase an app they enjoyed and in turn help further development and put a warm meal in the developer’s stomach.

*I Am Rich sold for $999.99, the highest price you can list an app for in the AppStore. It’s only function was to execute an easily programmable script that did nothing more than display a red gem on your screen. More than 7 people made this purchase, before one complained.

**A wonderful and informative blog

AppStore Limited Time Freebies

“Rock’n'Roll”

FREE TODAY ONLY!!!

Premise: Another application utilizing the iPhone’s motion response technology. Collect items throughout the stages.

Download Rating: 45%

AppStore Limited Time Freebies

“Hudson Games: Nothing to Rave About”

Throughout the duration of the world’s largest computer entertainment show, aptly dubbed “Tokyo Game Show 2008″, Hudson Games offers you the opportunity to download 3 lackluster iPhone Apps.

Free until October 12, 2008.

Available Titles:

Aqua Forest

Watch shapes with different elemental properties interact in a well-developed physics engine.

Unofficial features: Draw, Watch, Erase, Repeat
Download Rating: 75%

Catch the Egg

Catch an Egg that drops from the sky.

Unofficial features: 40% Instructions, 59% Waiting, 1% Game
Download Rating: 1%

Neo SameGame

Touch similarly colored dots to make all the other similarly colored dots explode.

Unofficial features: Choppy techno style loops, slow touch/game response, hangs/freezes/crashes intermittently throughout game.
Download: 45%