YourTube: Watch HD YouTube Videos and Save Them to Your iPod Library

YourTube has been updated to let you watch and save HD YouTube videos to your iPhone or iPad's iPod library.

We’re proud to announce that YourTube has the ability to import downloaded videos directly into your iPod app! We call this new feature “Gremlin” and you will start seeing this in many of our tweaks on Cydia, including Safari Download Manager and Attachment Saver.

YourTube 2.0 is newly re-designed for iOS4. It includes a host of stability fixes, improved memory management, improved download speeds, and fixes for the nasty iOS4 sandbox. And don’t forget the ability to import your downloaded videos into the iPod library ;) 

You can purchase YourTube HD for the iPad from the Cydia Store for $5. The iPhone version will be available shortly.

Leaked Shot of Next-Gen iPad Hints at FaceTime

A leaked spyshot of what appears to be the next-gen iPad, has been leaked to 9to5 Mac. The shot shows the unit in a Video Call debugging mode, hinting at FaceTime. This same mode was noted in the leaked iPhone 4 shots earlier this year. Additionally, The iPad 2 is also rumored to have a retina display.

Apple iOS is Now the Third Most Popular Platform

Apple's iOS mobile operating is now the third most popular platform on the Internet, according to data from Net Applications.

Computer World relays information from the company that found iOS to be six times larger than Android and account for 1.1% of all hardware on the Internet last month.

For the month of August, Linux fell to a 0.85% share, the third month in a row that the open-source operating system lost ground. Windows and Apple's Mac OS were the No. 1 and No. 2 operating systems on the Web, with 91.3% and 5%, respectively.

"It's something to take note of when a mobile operating system passes something that's been around forever," said Vince Vizzaccaro, a Net Applications vice president, talking about iOS overtaking Linux. "Mobile's growth curve is strong, and mobile is becoming quite a phenomenon on the Internet."

How to share internet connection on PC with "iphone" by wifi

I am assuming that you are using windows XP or Vista. I am assuming that your ethernet is already configured properly for accessing internet. We first need to make your PC/laptop capable of talking to the iphone and viceversa. Follow the below steps to setup an adhoc network between the PC and the iphone.

1. Go to control panel -> network connections.
2. Right click on "Wireless network connection" and choose properties
3. Choose "Wireless Networks" tab.
4. Click the "Add" button, in "Preferred networks" section.
5. Give "iphone-net" as SSID (you can choose any other name)
6. Select "Open" for "network authentication"
7. Select "Disabled" for "data encryption"
8. Tick the checkbox saying "This is a computer-to-computer(ad hoc) network..."
9. You need not change anything else in the other two tabs.
10. Save your settings, by pressing OK in all the places. If everything goes fine, in your iphone, you will be able to see "iphone-net" as one of the available wi-fi networks when you turn on the wi-fi in the iphone. Do not connect to it yet. The procedure ahead is very simple if you have DHCP available on your ethernet. i.e if you automatically get an IP when you connect the LAN cable. Most of the ADSL broadband modems have this functionality. They assign an IP to the PC, when the LAN cable is connected. If you are not a geek you mostly would use this feature to get an IP for your PC.

For now, let us assume that you have DHCP available on your ethernet, where you have internet connection. (If you do not have DHCP, you should follow some extra steps that I mentioned at the end of this tutorial). Follow the steps to create a network bridge.

1. You will have at-least have two entries in your network connections.
2. One will be of the ethernet, and another will be of the wireless network.
3. Select the two connections (by doing ctrl+left click).
4. While both the connections are selected, right click and select "bridge connections"
5. It will take a little while to bridge connections.
6. You will get one more entry in network connections with name "Network Bridge"

You are almost ready to go. Do your routine exercise whichever you follow to be able to access the internet on your PC. For e.g starting your ADSL modem, and/or connecting the LAN cable etc. Once you are able to access internet on your PC, do the following on your iphone.

1. Turn on the wifi
2. Select iphone-net that will be shown in the available networks.
3. Click the small blue round arrow on the right
4. It will give more details about the connection.
5. You should see the IP that is in the same range as that of your PC.
6. Open the safari browser, and open some website. It should work.
Enjoy!!

(I am bored now, I will write later on how to access internet if there is no DHCP on the ethernet. For the knowledgeable, its obvious that we need give static IP in both the PC and iphone in the same range. I will explain it later)

One big and irritating problem that I face is that, the network connection keeps dropping very frequently. It gets disconnected every 10 mins or so. The wifi signal indicator does not become grey, but internet access will cease. I do not know a permanent solution to this. If you know, please help me. The workaround is to turn-off the wifi and turn it on again.

See the following tutorial about network bridges for general idea. This network bridge is available only on windows XP and vista. This technique is very simple. I couldn't succeed to share the internet using the ICS(Internet connection sharing) feature. I did not try much. Also, I am not sure if we can create a bridge with a dail-up connection. I do not have first-hand experience but by quick googling it seems that it is possible.

Recommended Cydia Repo

hackulo : http://cydia.hackulo.us

xsellize : http://cydia.xsellize.com/

bigboss : http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/

boolean : http://booleanmagic.com/repo/

iphoneil : http://cydia.iphoneil.net/

http://david.ashman.com/apt/

beyouriphone : http://repo.beyouriphone.com/

ispazio : http://ispaziorepository.com/

modmyi : http://apt.modmyi.com/

sinful : http://sinfuliphonerepo.com/

touch mania : http://cydia.touch-mania.com/

zodttd & macciti : http://cydia.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/

Twitter for iPad review

It’s no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps — it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter back in April. That delayed the release of an iPad version, but Twitter’s finally come through — and as you’d expect, Twitter for iPad does things just as uniquely as its sister apps on the iPhone and Mac. In fact, we’d go so far as to say a few of its interface conventions will become as commonplace as slide-to-refresh, which was first introduced in Tweetie for iPhone — but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

These basic interface elements are the same regardless of portrait or landscape orientation, although there’s a massive empty space to the right of timeline in landscape view when you first open the app. But wait: selecting a tweet brings up a slideable sheet that fills the space with a number of context-sensitive panels — user profiles, a browser pane that loads the links in a tweet, a pinch-and-zoom photo viewer. All of the panels can be slid back and forth so you can see what’s underneath and switch between them — it’s almost like overlapping windows.
Twitter’s sliding panels UI is definitely one of the most unique and usable iPad interface concepts we’ve ever seen, and we’re pretty sure it’ll be aped by all sort of other apps in the near future — and just like pull-to-refresh, there are going to be good implementations and complete catastrophes. Indeed, even Twitter’s implementation can get a little cluttered and chaotic. But it’s nice to see Twitter and Loren Brichter have carried on Tweetie’s legacy of UI innovation with Twitter for iPad — and that they’re doing it in a great free app makes it even better. We’re told it should start appearing in the App Store now, so go grab it.