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Updated: 8/6/08

Jailbreakers of the new iPhone 2.0 firmware are noticing that both the PwnageTool 2.0 and WinPwn 2.0 package Cydia as an application installer instead of the familiar installer.app. While the core function of these two applications is almost identical, many have noticed that the vast list of applications that were available on installer.app are not currently present in Cydia.

This is because those apps are just now being ported to Cydia. The following is a list of the apps that Cydia currently offers as well as a brief review. This list will be updated frequently as more apps are ported so don’t forget to check back here often.

BossPrefs for those of you who are not familiar, is a tool that you can use to totally modify your iPhone. It has been hugely popular with first gen jailbreakers and I am sure that it will be with the new 2.0 platform as well. The version that you will currently find on Cydia is v2.0.2a (alpha). This is the first working version of BossPrefs for 2.0 devices. You may see some issues but the major functions should work. The airplane / phone toggles are not implemented, the add plugin GUI is not implemented, and there may be some other minor issues. Double tap home needs some work. BigBoss reports that The bulk of it works. “I put it out immediately because there was no other way to toggle SSH. Will update it again very soon.” We’ll bring you a report on those updates as soon as BigBoss releases them.

Poof is an app hider. This app is also integrated into BossPrefs but because Poof was out a couple days earlier it shows up as a separate app. For those that want to hide apps without BossPrefs, this is what you are looking for.

UPDATE 8/2/08: For those of you that do not use BossPrefs, Poof has been updated to v2.10 for firmware 2.0 only with the same changes. Note: for anyone that has both apps installed, you must update both or you will have problems with hidden icons that one app hides and the other cannot unhide.

The NES Emulator ported by Nervegas has been extremely popular with jailbreakers so far. So popular in fact that this was the very first app in the Cydia repository. You can enjoy all of your old NES games. For more information on the NES emulator and ROMS click here.

UPDATE 8/2/08: The NES app was updated a few days ago. The new version is v2.3.0. and it adds accelerometer support (excellent!).

The respring app has ported to 2.0. It was used this during the development of poof and BossPrefs to reset the springboard. However, this functionality is now fully integrated into BossPrefs in the Power button so you really do not have to have it unless you do not want BossPrefs (and I really cannot imagine anyone not wanting BossPrefs).

Flashlight: There are currently several flashlight apps offered through the App Store but in my opinion they all suck because Apple would not allow the developers to make the screen brighter. I have used the flashlight app a lot and highly recommend this one. It properly brightens the screen when you load it and also has the ability to strobe when you tap it.

Gojonnyboy made this nice reboot/respring/power off app called Power Tool. It existed for 1.1.4 and now has been ported to 2.0.

Metronome has been released. It’s a full featured metronome app made with the SDK but in Cydia for free. Very nice! (Sorry I don’t have the icon here. It seems to only be viewable on iPhone).

MacMan is an outstanding Pacman knock-off with a nice twist!

Play the redefined classic! Pilot Macman in 300+ exciting stages using the built-in accelerometer in your iPhone/iPod Touch.

FEATURES:

• Modern graphics & full screen gameplay
• 300+ stages & increasingly tougher A.I.
• Simple control with just motion sensor and touchscreen
• Never drop a game – autosave on picking up calls or exiting
• Friendly & Affordable – FREE and suitable for all ages

Quake4iPhone – Finally a cool jailbreak app.  Definately a great way to end the weekend – Quake4iPhone has appeared on the Cydia installer. Click the link to read more.

Neverball has been updated to v1.4.1.  The main changes here are to update the data files used to allow for NeverPutt. (Note:Neverball is now called NeverballME).

NeverPutt ME has been released. This is a nice Putt-Putt golf game based on the Neverball engine.

Finally! A themes app for 2.0. Because of the great work of Saurik, who developed Cydia, we now have Winterboard on 2.0 OS! Winterboard provides some of the functionality that SummerBoard provided but it will probably be a while before we have the full functionality that we have grown used to through Summerboard. Currently you can only select your theme, but you can expect this to be expanded in the future. (Note: the configuration GUI is not done yet).

Fortunately when Winterboard was released, many themes were also released into Cydia. For example, all of the Summerboard themes by BigBoss are now available for use through Winterboard. Some of the BigBoss favorites  are shown here (from left to right, Xadacka’s Mystic Blue, iWood Realize, Chromium)

Jokes.app was ported today to 2.0. Jokes is an expandable Joke server app that randomly shows you jokes in a category of your choosing. Some of you may remember that we recently featured Jokes.app in our Crapplication list. This release seems fast, easy to use and just as worthless as the original release. On the upside, the creator reports that there are lots of extra joke packs available to install.

BigBoss announces that  WebSearch is now ported for 2.0. According to the developer, WebSearch is a very handy app that saves lots of time especially on slow networks. Consider normal use of the web on say EDGE. You pull up a web page, you have to wait for it to load. You then get to the search page, wait for it to load, type in your search, wait for it to load. With WebSearch, you program in search criteria (based on firefox’s “add a keyword search”) and then you just click the search for the site, type the search string, and wait only one time for the search page to load with results. It also launches safari so you can hide your Safari icon with BossPrefs if you’d like.

BigBoss reports that he has ported iRCm to 2.0. Right now the app is pretty rough, but for the most part works as it did on 1.1.4. but the developer says it was never finished there either.  it is the first and only GUI iRC client for iPhone 2.0. Note: this is ported from SVN 36 in googlecode.

Whirlwind21 is a new solitaire / 21 card game made for iPhone OS 2.0. Newly ported to Cydia.

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The following is the full list of apps available for Cydia. As they are ported to 2.0 we will review them and add more information.

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• Abstract Butterfly Battery – Abstract Butterfly Battery as a standalone install for iPhone and iPod Touch created for the girls by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.
• Apple Battery – A sleek metallic Apple battery charger created by Allen.
• Apple Sliders – Apple themed sliders created by Allen
• APR – platform abstraction library from Apache
• APR-util – data structures and utilities for Apache APR
• Aptitude – advanced command-line APT frontend
• Aspell – command line spell checking engine
• Assuan – GnuPG’s inter-process communication
• ATT Signal Bars – Replaces the signal bar icons with the ATT logo.  Created by ice9812 of Planet-iPhones.com.
• Automatic SSH – continually reconnects an ssh session.

• basic-cmds – msg, uudecode, uuencode, write.
• bc – arbitrary precision console calculator
• BIND DNS Server – the standard DNS server used by millions
• Bison – GNU parser generator derived from Yacc.
• BitchX – incredibly common IRC attack client.
• Bootstrap Commands – Mach interface and stub generator.

• Cannabis Battery – Cannabis Battery charger created by Allen.
• Cannabis Sliders – Cannabis Slider icons created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.
• Chromium Notes – A matching notepad for the ever-famous Chromium iPhone! Created by Allen.
• Class Dump – reverse engineer Objective-C headers.
• Class Path – open source implementation of Java.
• connect.c– very simple SOCKS and https proxy.
• Cool Notes – Change out that old yellow legal pad for a cool blue pad with white paper.  Created by Allen.
• cpio – predecessor to tar that is used by RPM.
• Csu – library loading and support stubs.
• cURL – flexible multi-protocol file transfers.
• cvs – the original popular revision control.

• Darwin CC Tools – linker and assembler for the iPhone.
• developer-cmds – ctags, error, hexdump, rpcgen, enifdef
• Dew Battery – Mountain Dew Battery Charger created by Allen.
• Dew Sliders – Mountain Dew themed sliders created by Allen.
• dict – client for accessing online dictionaries.
• Digital Signal Bars – Replaces the signal bar icons with digital bars.  Created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com
• DMG2IMG – converts compressed dmgs to HFS+

• ed – the standard text editor, ’nuff said.
• Erica Utilities – A collection of command-line utilities for various purposes

• FAAC — open source library for MPEG-4 AAC.
• FAAD –open source library for MPEG-4 AAC.
• fastjar — faster native alternative to Java’s jar.
• Festival-Lite — embedded text-to-speech library.
• file — guesses the type of file from contents
• file-cmds — chflags, compress, ipcrm, ipcs, pax
• Flex — GNU lexer derived from Lex
• Flower Sliders — A Flower Slider set for the ladies.  Created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com

• Git — fast content-addressable filesystem.
• glib — basic object management used by Gnome.
• GNU C Compiler — a native c compiler _on_ the iphone.
• GNU Cryptography — LGPL cryptographic algorithm library.
• GNU Multiple Precision — (Big) Arithmetic Library.
• GNU Portable Threads — portable threading library used by X.
• GnuPG 2 — newer encryption compatible with OpenPGP.
• GnuPG Errors — GnuPG’s error management library.
• Google Data APIs — GData client library (Objective-C)

• IE7Edge Icon — replaces the Edge Icon with the Internet Explorer 7 Icon.  Created by ronanz of Planet-iPhones.com.
• indent — automatically prettifies a C program.
• Input (Prototypes) — prototypes for X’s input layer.
• Insomnia — allows applications to continue to run and WiFi to work long after the screen has been switched off.
• Inter-Client Exchange — X’s inter-client exchange library.
• IOKit Tools — ioallowccount, ioclasscount, ioreg.
• iPatchers — removes the brick mode from iPhone.
• iPhone/Java — example applications (with source) in Java.
• irssi — supposedly advanced console IRC client

• JamVM — small, intricate, fast Java interpreter.
• Java SQLite — JNI bindings and JDBC driver for SQLite.
• Jikes —  native faster alternative to Java’s javac.
• JocStrap — Java/Objective-C connection library.
• Jolt Battery — A Jolt Battery Charger created by NoMaAutr.

• kbproto — prototypes for X’s keyboard layer.
• Kerberos — giant authentication system from hell.
• Kernel Extension Tools — tools that work with kernel extensions.
• KSBA — GnuPG’s certification management library.

• LAME — open source (lgpl) mp3 encoder
• libarchive — backend library for working with tar files.
• libdict — backend library for dictionary servers.
• libffi — dynamic generation of function calls.
• libgpod — iPod data access library.
• libpcap — low-level network capture library.
• libsigc++ — callback framework for C++.
• LibVNCServer — Backend library VNC servers.
• lighttpd — very small, supposedly fast, web server.
• Link Indenty Editor — pseudo-codesign Mach-O files.
• links — console web browser with mouse support
• lsof — shows what files programs have open.
• Lynx — older, better, console web browser.

• m4 Processor – arcane macro processing engine.
• Make — dependency-based build environments.
• Metasploit — development platform for creating security tools and exploits.
• Midnight Commander — portable console file manager.
• minicom — serial communication software.
• MobileTerminal — local UIKit-based Terminal emulator.

• nail — modern implementation of mail.
• ncftp — the best FTP client known to man.
• neon — HTTP and WebDAV client library.
• NES — NES Emulator for iPhone.
• Netatalk — open-source ApplTalk implementation.
• netcat — Simple socket manipulation tool.
• ngrep — filter network traffic by filter.
• nmap — analyze and scan remote network hosts.
• NOS Battery — A NOS Battery Charger created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.
• NOS Sliders — A set of NOS Sliders to match the NOS Battery created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.

• Ogg — open multimedia container format.
• OpenNTPD — designed specifically for OpenBSD.
• OpenSSH — secure remote access between machines.

• patch — merge a difference onto a file.
• Pink Notes — replaces the traditional brown and yellow legal pad MobileNotes.app theme with a hot pink pad with white paper.  Created for the ladies by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.
• png — library for manipulating PNG files.
• Poof — Hide icons, unhide icons. Get some of those icons off your springboard that you do not want to see.
• pthread-stubs — fills in missing pthread prototypes.
• PyObjC — Python/Objective-C connection library.
• Python — architectural programming language.

• rdesktop — www.rdesktop.org
• Respring — this performs a fast, non-locking restart of your springboard.
• Rhino — Java implementation of JavaScript.
• rlwrap — provides readline to anything.
• Rounded Apple Sliders — Rounded Apple themed sliders created by Allen.
• rpl — replace strings within files.
• Ruby — optimized for developer happiness.
• RubyGems — standard ruby package manager.
• RuFix — RUSSIAN.
• rzip —  the best compression algorithm.

• Screen — multiplexes a terminal into many.
• Screw Battery — A Screw Battery Charger created by Allen.
• Session Management — session management library for X.
• Setup Tools — package manager for Python modules.
• SOCKS Relay — simple SOCKS 4/5 proxy server.
• SpiderMonkey — Mozilla’s JavaScript implementation.
• Stealth MAC — set arbitrary wireless MAC address on boot.
• Structured Group — search patterned data using patterns.
• stunnel — wraps connection with SSL support.
• Subversion — modern version control system.
• Sudo — temporarily assume root privileges.
• SuperGirl Battery — A custom battery for the ladies.  Created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.

• tcpdump — dumps and stores network traffic.
• TENEX C Shell — enhanced version of the BSD C Shell.
• TIFF — Tagged Image File Format Library.
• top — at-a-glance process watching tool.
• Transparent Sliders — Makes the background on all sliders transparent.
• TZones Hack — Enable T-Mobile $5.99 TZones Internet.  You must subscribe to T-Mobile TZones.  See more info for further instructions.

• UICaboodle — iPhone-specific JocStrap extensions.
• UIKit Tools — command line access to Apple’s UIKit.
• unrar — decompresses files in rar format.
• UUID Generator — universally unique identifiers.

• VBinDiff — hex editor and differencing tool.
• VFDecrypt — decryption utility for iPhone images.
• Vi IMproved — the best syntax highlighter, ever.
• Vorbis — open audio compression format.

• wget — simple HTTP file transfer client.
• whois — client for querying whois servers.

• x11 — core library used by X applications.
• x264 — open source implementation of x264.
• xau — X authentication protocol library.
• xcb — smaller, faster X protocol library.
• xcb-proto — prototypes for X client library.
• xext — helper library for X extensions.
• xextproto — prototypes for X extensions.
• xeyex — the original desktop spyware.
• xi — X input extension library.
• xineramaproto — prototypes for Xinerama library.
• XML Perser Toolkit — steam-oriented XML parser written in C.
• xml2 — simple tools to help grep xml.
• xmu — miscellaneous X utility library.
• xproto — prototypes for core X libraries.
• xt — X toolkit intrinsics library.
• xtrans — X transport abstraction library.

• Z Shell — a shell with interactive features.

• 3D Liquid Battery — A 3D liquid filled battery charger created by Allen of Planet-iPhones.com.
• 3G Edge Icons — Replaces the Edge icons with 3G icons. Created by Ravishan of Planet-iPhones.com.
• Eproxy — tiny free proxy server.
• 7-zip (POSIX) — claims to be a good compressor.

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