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I’m giving away 5 copies of Firewall iP via RockYourPhone.

To enter you’ll have to do a bit more than last giveway . Make a post/thread about Firewall iP in one of your favorite forums (no forums which support piracy please). Then post a comment here with a link to it. Make sure you comment with a real email address so I can contact you when it’s over.

The giveaway ends on the 28th February 2010 at 12 pm GMT. Winners will be announced here and contacted via email.

The only Firewall for the iPhone

-Block outgoing TCP & UDP connections selectively
-Shows you the hostname for the connection & can provide you with WhoIs information
-Block connections of apps when you are on a cellular network
-Block analytic providers / data collectors which PrivaCy can’t
-Block unneeded content (ads )
-Easy to use interface & control app
-and many more….

Requirements & Rules:

- a jailbroken iPhone so you can use this app

- you’ll need to have a RockID so I can activate a free license for you

- you’re only allowed to post 1 comment

- only forum-posts/threads made within the duration of this giveaway count.

Good luck and have fun.

PS: You can follow me via twitter for upcoming giveaways: @_Yllier_

Autolock is sometimes annoying. Most users use to set a long time interval until locking or even have disabled autolocking. Only problem: this consumes a lot of battery, especially if autolocking is disabled. But now there will be an app for that: ScreenDimmer

From now on it doesn’t matter if you forget to lock your device or your device is laying next to you waiting until autolock kicks in, cause ScreenDimmer will dim your iDevice’s screen after a user-defined time, saving lots of battery. A simple touch will bring the display back to live.

In case you are running an app which needs the screen to stay “alive”: ScreenDimmer handles this automatically  (for example Navigon, VideoPlayback, …)

ScreenDimmer is being developed by Crash-X (3G Unrestrictor) and Yllier (Firewall iP).

Features

• dims your device’s screen
• you set the time interval
• doesn’t dim when the battery is charging
• doesn’t dim when an app needs an active screen
• ability to exclude apps

ScreenDimmer will be integrated into your Preferences.app.

It will be available via CydiaStore for only $0.99 !

I’m giving away 10 copies of Firewall iP via RockYourPhone.

The only Firewall for the iPhone

-Block outgoing TCP & UDP connections selectively
-Shows you the hostname for the connection & can provide you with WhoIs information
-Block connections of apps when you are on a cellular network
-Block analytic providers / data collectors which PrivaCy can’t
-Block unneeded content (ads )
-Easy to use interface & control app
-and many more….

To enter simply post a comment and use a valid email address so I can contact you. You can enter till 11th February 2010 at 12 PM GMT. Then I will choose 10 random winners.

Requirements:

- a jailbroken iPhone so you can use this app

- you’ll need to have a RockID so I can activate a free license for you

- you’re only allowed to post 1 comment

Good luck and have fun.

FiP via Rock doesn’t use RockExtensions. It’s still using “normal” MobileSubstrate
Update:
and the winners are: Meecrob, Jaron Liu, fuoco, Erik Joya, neo, hermdog, gurcu, Ashley, millergr, Stefan
Congrats! You got mail

If you didn’t win this time: stay tuned there will be a new give-away in about 1 week.

You need openSSL in your iPhone app? Using  C# is a lot of work, but luckily the guys at Septicus Software made a nice wrapper for it, called SSCrypto.

provides a simple wrapper around OpenSSL library functions for encryption, decryption (both symmetric and RSA) and checksums. It also encodes and decodes base64 data and can generate both private and public RSA keys.

I’ve  prepared the wrapper for easy use in iPhone Apps. Download it from here.

usage:

if you want to build your project for simulator and iPhone I suggest having 2 targets, one for the Simulator (linked with the *i386.a files) and one for the iPhone (linked with the *arm.a files)

Check out the readme.txt for examples.

SSCrypto is under the BSD Style License, so you can use it for free in commercial apps without telling anyone about it.

Apparently there a new security flaw has been found in iPhone OS. According to Cryptopath’s blog there is a major flaw in the iPhone’s certificates. The hacker posted a description on how to exploit this issue. The new firmware version 3.1.3 is also affected.

Cryptopath says that it might be able to establish a proxy and control the iPhone using this leak.

According to the Register this hole can’t be used to execute malicious code but it could be used to stop executing applications or block websites.

Users should be careful with accepting profiles, especially root certificates.