Now that there is a very bold statement. But it has it’s reasons.
So this is the story, all about how Zodttd turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how he became the ass of the Jailbroken iPhone…

ZodTTD is a very talented and hardworking software developer, he is best known for porting emulators to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoyed by many, his projects are very successful with thousands of Jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch users using his software. However there is a fee for his two most popular products, SNES4iPhone and GpSPhone, but it wasn’t always like that…
About a year ago he offered all his ports free of charge out of consideration for the community, but allowed for donations for those who appreciated his work. He showed his appreciation of donations, by offering all the betas of his software to donaters before he released them to the public. His work was very generous, and so personally I felt he deserved the donations, so I of course donated what I could, he only allowed a few “set donations” so I made the “Generous donation”.

However his offer of unreleased betas soon died out, and everyone got the software at the same time. This isn’t such a bad thing as donaters still get software as its ready, it simply isn’t delayed for the public. However a few months later ZodTTD made a controversial move, he put a price on GpSPhone. He didn’t hold his word for donaters to get all his software first and now donaters don’t get it at all, without giving out more money. This made him lose some followers and lowered his reputation. But due to the negative reaction, he promised it will be the only commercial emulator. Which lessened the impact to his followers.
But once again, a few months later he broke his word. Now snes4iPhone also has a price on it. For us donaters, we felt as if we were scammed. We believed that our donations were going to the cause of continuing his great work in offering free software for the community, but that wasn’t the case.

He also put snes4iPhone on the controversial and much disliked RockApp. Which many of the community have disliked.
Throughout all these events he did not announce his intentions before hand, the community only found out about the new prices when it suddenly cost money to download the software. snes4iPhone has had a price for over a week now, and he has yet to post an update about it on his blog. This spontaneous price addition catches a lot of people off guard and it seems he purposefully hides his intentions from the community, he doesn’t announce any of these additions and he also REMOVES large discussions on the topic from his forums, so much so, that he has now removed his forums to stop people from making such discussions.
This constant deception has earned ZodTTD a bad reputation, and from me the tagline: The ass of the Jailbroken iPhone.

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts | No Comments » | November 27, 2009

My iPhone got a virus. :O

Luckily it wasn’t destructive. You may be wondering how an iphone gets a virus, well that’s my fault, I jailbroke my phone and enabled SSH, but I didn’t change the password, it was the default; alpine. So anyone could change my iPhones files if they knew my ip and the default password. So someone wrote a program which connected to SSH placed files, including a copy of the program, which sends it to others randomly on the phone network. I noticed it when I was greeted by the photo below when I called someone, it replaced my wallpaper.

I have now changed my password

In other iPhone news, the iControlPad has gotten a redesign, one that I think is quite stupid.

the design worked but obviously needed to be altered for each type of iPhone and the controls were a bit cramped, plus it was quite large to carry.

That was their reasoning behind the design change.
I understand the cramped controls thing, as I can see that it has much more room, plus it has 2 analog nubs, which is an awesome addition. But the layout seems very bulky. I asked how you could possibly carry that thing around, the following is the response I got:

The side parts unclip and it’s left as just the size of the ipad when not on the phone.

So anytime I want to play a game, I have to build it first?
Seems kind of annoying…
I think that if I want to play a game on my iphone, I want to be able to quickly take it out, and more importantly quickly put it away. If I have to pull it apart and put it all in my pocket, it seems like it would take a few seconds longer than it should.
You may say its a pretty stupid argument, but I’d rather have it a bit bigger, and cramped, to have it all in one piece.

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts | No Comments » | November 13, 2009

UPDATE: well the sites back and its been released… =D
The Turn By Turn Voice Navigation software for iphone and ipod touch has missed its release date. I think.
I think the release date was set at 20th of Feb, but was noted that may be delayed to around the 28th.
It is now the first of March…
I was excited for this program and was wondering what has happened to it, so I decided to visit the website. http://xgpsdev.xwaves.net/ It used to be a blog, but obviously they changed the site. So anyway there are notes of XGPS on the homepage, but following any of the links will get you to a dead end.
WTF?
I googled it, and found a link to their website http://xgpsdev.xwaves.net/forum/ which is just a 404
So xGPS has just dropped off the map…
Checking their Cydia page reveals nothing, except the estimated release date (Feb 20)
Awww Whatever this sucks
Just like Rack111s frequent downtime (rack111 is my server host)

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts | No Comments » | March 1, 2009

A video response to a parody of an iphone 3g ad by ProtonFilms.
MP4.

http://ricardodude.com
The dark knight needs a good phone too…

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts, My Videos | No Comments » | February 11, 2009

Well, I am now on holiday… Yay?
I decided the best way to make posts would be to make them in the app, then post them through safari, as the app works offline and there is crappy optus reception here, only GPRS…

Optus reception is quite horrible, I now see the advantages of telstra, as my dad almost always has full 3g >(…
But optus has much better data rates, not great but is less horrible than telstra… Teletra data prices = balls

I was surprised I was able to connect to my pc through Jadbu VNC, it was quite slow, but it worked… I probably won’t use it that often though, as it was a bit too slow to be practical.

Jaadu is quite a useful app, get it if you can.
It allows you to connect to your pc from your iPhone, providing it is on and you have the server thing running.
There are also some other VNC apps on the iPhone, but I don’t really know much about the subject, so I don’t really know which is the best choice.
Anyway I will include some screens below.

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Ricardodude | Category: All Posts, Site Progress | No Comments » | October 1, 2008