Well, since I have totally lost hope in the upcoming jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS 3.1.3, I am now in charge of the App Review department, and the next app is, “The Dog.” This app is what you think it is, you start off from a choice of five dogs, Beagle, Yorkshire Terrier, Boxer, Labrador, and a German Shepherd, in my case, a Boxer. The dog variety is not so great, and I’m hoping they’ll add more choices in the next update, but hey, you never know what’s in the next update. You start off with the basics, training the dog, buying food, and how to take it for a walk. One thing that is really confusing is the white backround, I mean, everything is white! You have a floating couch in the middle of NO WHERE! That’s one big thing that they should change, but probably won’t happen. The Dog, in my opinion, is not so entertaining, well, I’m a guy, maybe some 8 year old girls will enjoy it, but not some dude. I’ll say one thing though, walking the dog is pretty fun. The graphics in this game are great, but they’re also a bit choppy. In “The Dog,” I have learned a few ways to treat a dog, which I think was helpful in some way. My opinion is that I think this game can have a bit more variety, all I do is feed my dog, take him for a walk, put him to bed, and then it’s all over again, but sometimes there’s a twist. Since I’m an ex-owner of a cat, I’m not a fan of dogs, I’m just waiting for “The Cat.” This app sells for $4.99 in the App store.

My Overall Rating? 7.4 out of 10 stars!

This is a theme created by Andre. Sporting over 500 icons, a Safari theme, Battery, and much more.

Sheesh. We tell you the theme is going to be out within a week or two, and we have it done in one day. With no quality lost. You guys should start kissing our feet.

This week’s theme is a special theme, almost as special as last week’s iBox Carbon. Glasklart is an amazing theme, not only does it have a Springboard design, but it is a package that
comes with wallpapers, a variety of icons for each application, alternate arrow slider (meaning the words “slide to unlock” do not appear when hitting the sleep/wake button), and even a dock flow!
Many quirky aspects of Glasklart include an invisible background for the icons, midnight blue bubbles for text-messaging, and many more.

With Glasklart, the wallpaper for the Springboard is not necessary, as a matter of fact, I highly recommend that if you install Glasklart, you apply “transparent dock,” and your own wallpaper (any image) to the Springboard by applying “user wallpaper.” This is because, since the icons are transparent, you can have a better view of your wallpaper. Though, Glasklart does not support all of your icons with a design, it covers most of them and it is extremely appealing.

If not, Glasklart is definitely in my top 3 of favorite themes of all theme. Maybe as good or even the same as iBox Carbon.

Here are some images I would like to compare for you.

This is what I recommend by using your wallpaper as your Springboard background which looks A LOT better in my opinion than this:

My overall rating? 9.6 out of 10 stars!

A classic, yet if you were born in 1996 and after, you wouldn’t of heard about it. This week’s review, Crystal Maze.

Basically, it’s a 90’s TV show made into a game. Yet it’s a very unique TV show. The concept is that a team (consisting of men and women) must be locked in a maze facing a bunch of challenges. Each challenge has a time limit and a time crystal. At the final round, the contestants are put into a crystal dome to catch tickets. There are gold and silver. Gold is equal to a ticket and silver deducts one. If you can get 100 gold tickets you get a prize. The time crystals in the earlier rounds are used for the ticket catching round. When the time limit is up in a challenge, a contestant in your team is locked into the room, preventing two more hands from grabbing TICKETS! So an easier way of saying this: Complete challenges before the time limit while getting a crystal. Then walk into a dome and catch golden tickets. There are four types of challenges in four different categories. Aztec, Medieval, Industrial, and Futuristic. Each has its designated time limit and way of getting through. Sometimes though, you can be locked in before reaching the time limit. An example of that is if you lose too many lives or make to many mistakes. In the video game form, Aztec is basically like Labyrinth. Get the ball past a maze of holes (falling through a hole makes you lose a life) to reach the time crystal before the time limit goes up. Medieval is like a logic test. Multiple choice, with 3 questions. Get two wrong you lose. Get two right you escape. Get three right you can escape with the time crystal. Industrial is a circuit connect. Place circuits to connect them from a battery to a powered chamber releasing the crystal. Futuristic is based on timing. You have a crane and you have to pick up Plutonium rods from a conveyor belt. The crane can be moved. Once 12 rods are picked up, the crystal appears in a rod. Pick that up before time runs out. Alright, enough explanation, time for the pros and cons.

Pros:

1. The gaming is quite varied providing a completely new experience every round.

2. The concept is really creative.

3. It comes with a soundboard

Cons:

1. The game is a bit buggy. Not enough to mess the game up though.

2. Some of the games are changed up a bit but I think more games should be added to one section or it gets boring after a while.

3. It’s close to impossible to get 100 gold tickets unless you have all 4 crystals with no one locked in.

4. Some games are too quickly beat. Add a difficulty mode to heat things up. Maybe you get to change the time limit, number of lives and difficulty.

It’s a great game really. There’s a lot of potential but there just isn’t enough games (even though all 4 are addicting). Once you beat it, you don’t really play it again. Add more games and a difficulty mode and this game would definitely be worth $2.99. For now, I would say it’s worth $1.99.

My overall rating? 7.8 stars out of 10 stars!

Well, we’ve been slacking, we know. But, we finally finished the How-To segment. From How-to Jailbreak, to How-to download a package, we have it all!

So check it out!

(WE HAVE A 3.1.3 JAILBREAK FOR YOU! CLICK HERE!)

(Our source is also done too! Just read the upper left widget to find out more!)

As you know I updated my 3GS to 3.1.3, which updates the bootloader, modem firmware, etc, thus, having no jailbreak for about a month. *smacks self.* So here’s my APPSTORE application review, because I have no other choice. (Not really). iDroid Mini is the Android web browser, for the iPhone. I’m still wondering what the HELL was going through Apples mind when they approved something BETTER than something the iPhone comes with, I mean really, it’s two times faster than the Safari browser, and I timed them both to go to iPwnAge.com, and the time Safari took was 6 seconds, and the time iDroid Mini took was 3 seconds, you can clearly tell the difference. iDroid Mini lacks one thing, which is history. I mean, I can go back, but I really wanna see my history. I’m actually glad I found a Safari replacement. No offense to Apple, but that’s the worst browser known to man. One feature about iDroid Mini that I LOOOOOVVVVEEE is that you can turn off landscape mode! I can now surf the web in bed!! You can also preview tabs, while you’re doing something else, just like that preview feature in Windows Vista & 7. One really annoying thing about this though, is that you can’t save a browsing feature. If I get a notification, and quit the app, then you will return to find everything lost. Boohoo. I am, looking forward to the next update. They always update it when an Android update is released. This application is currently FREE. That’s right F.R.E.E; but only until the 21st! Then it will return to it’s original price of 99 cents.

My overall rating? 8 out of 10 stars!

When I first jailbroke my iPhone several years back, I wanted my phone to be “pimped” out and there were tons and tons of Winterboard themes to choose from. I’ve reviewed many themes before such as Alit and Southpark, however, iBox Carbon is the one I’ll stay with for a long time. You might be muttering, “This guy is stupid. He said Alit and Southpark were the best themes ever to be created and here he goes with another outrageous thought.” Think again! Anyways, here are just a few reasons I believe iBox is amazing.

First and foremost, each and every app you download/install has a silver/gray trimming that makes it very classical and unique. This makes the springboard very catchy to the eye and bright.
Secondly, iBox has it’s own lockscreen. Nothing special, just a gray background. However, there’s not an ordinary “slide to unlock” on the bottom of the screen. There’s a “tap to unlock” which I find very convenient. Thirdly, when you click on any icon; it pauses and a screen that says the icon you just clicked shows up. For example, if I clicked messaging, a screen where it says “messaging” would simply appear. The message bubble while texting is dark blue and gray. Fourthly, the AT&T bars change color when you go into different apps which is very appealing to the eye. Fifthly, in Safari, the toolbar on the bottom has an intricate black coloring and gray on the browsing toolbar.

Anyways, enough of me ranting about the pros of iBox Carbon. The biggest con of this theme is that it takes A LOT of your battery because iBox not only gives you a springboard theme but the whole nine-yard. But if you don’t care about your battery and more if your iPhone being “pimped” out, who cares? Here are some images.

This is just a quick post to get the word out.

Since the iTunes store debut (in 2001), songs have been the main focus. But since the App Store opened, they have been selling like hotcakes on the National Pancake Day. You all remember the billionth download, right? Of course you do. Well, now Apple is doing the same sort of thing only for songs. The prize? A $10,000 iTunes Gift Card!!! So what should you do? Well, watch the ticker, refresh every 5 minutes or so and once the ticker hits the last 100,000… BUY! BUY SONGS LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW!!! And if you are like Steven, there IS a free song of the week if you are feeling lucky.

UPDATE: Apple has aded a live ticker to their site. And if this ticker is the actual count, and not just an animation, Apple is selling about 100 songs a second! I will try my hardest to get a Javascript plugin of the ticker here on iPwnAge

Since I was idiotic enough to update my 3GS to 3.1.3, without paying attention, I’m stuck with stock firmware for the next couple of weeks, or months (Beats himself), so for the time being, I’m doing AppStore utilities, because STEVEN IS FORCING ME TO I have no other choice. RedLaser is basically a barcode scanner, and to admit it, it is pretty darn accurate. Actually, it doesn’t scan THE barcode, but it scans the numbers at the bottom, which it always gets right. RedLaser is the perfect thing to take to the supermarket, if you’re too shy to go up to the lady and ask her to scan it, pull out your iPhone and KAPOW! Scan away, but it never tells you the sale price, so don’t expect the sale price. I spent 3 hours scanning my bathroom drawer, and then my kitchen, and it was pretty darn good, I still have my basement to go, and then, I’ll have most of my house scanned. One thing I REALLY like about this app is that it shows you where the product is available closest to you, which is really awesome. Here’s an example, I scanned an Axe can, and it gave me the correct price, and the correct kind, “Instinct.” This application sells for $1.99 on the Appstore.





My overall rating? 9.6 out of 10 stars!