“While he agreed that the app doesn't technically break the rules, he said that it does encroach upon the boundaries of what they can and cannot allow on their store. He also cited security concerns.”
is not entirely surprising. We had noted that the communication between the
” and hence the app could be rejected. Also, it is highly possible for Apple to introduce this functionality in one of the future versions of iPhone OS. This could be (more…)

and offers a very easy way to scan the neighborhood for 802.11 wi-Fi networks and provides information like the SSID, MAC, RSSI (signal strength), channel, AP mode, security mode and transmission rate about the networks it detects. WiFiFoFum was available for $2.99 at the App Store and has been downloaded several thousand times since it first launched. It is available on Cydia Store for free. However, their
continues to say that their iPhone app (more…)

“I also uploaded a new version of APT I've been working on: it has an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing.
I improved APT's cache generator (most of “Reloading Data”). On my 3G[S], this dropped from 22s to just 2.2: 10x improvement.”
“This means less error screens when connecting to repositories that might have an error at that particular moment, which used to end up causing Cydia users a ton of grief, (more…)

Grooveshark is a free web based music streaming service that allows users to upload, share and stream tracks from a massive catalog of songs. The new iPhone app will allow their Premium/VIP members of the service use their
to search for music from the huge database. Additionally, users may also organize tracks into playlists, mark tracks as favorite and listen to songs offline. The web based alternative available on the company's website runs (more…)

The issue was caused by a unicode character used in zodttd's packages file. This character brought out a bug in cydia which caused it to not launch. (a similar problem was created in the past when another community source missed a line break between entries.) This is not the fault of anyone at macciti or zodttd this is simply a bug in cydia.
As it stands now, the issue has been fixed. However, should you still be experiencing crashing at startup, (more…)