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I am a huge fan of forums when it comes to discussing vast topics such as iPhone and iPod Touch development. I had looked around the web for a few well structured forums with something more than just a place to ask questions. After not really finding anything I started iDevKit.com. I’ve posted quite a few code samples and I’m really only there at the moment to help anyone who has been having trouble with Apple’s SDK or just development in general. If you’ve been looking for a nice iPhone and/or iPod Touch development forum go check it out! I check it daily and try to help others to the best of my ability.

Max

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I just got back from vacation to find a new firmware update and an update to pwnage tool that includes installer 4. I finally got around to checking out installer 4 and I found it to be laggy and almost unusable. It spawns a new task for anything it does including basic things like loading images, which is the cause of the lag. Cydia on the other hand is fast stable and contains a very powerful backend. I plan to get MxTube up on Installer 4, but I strongly suggest using Cydia whenever possible. The apt backend provides an amazing packaging system to devs which assures all packages are installed & removed exactly how they should be. Unless you require shiny graphics in your package manager, Cydia should be all anyone would ever need.

Max

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I’ve received numerous emails regarding MxTube 1.5. Here are some new features you can expect in the next update:

Proxy Settings
MxTube 1.5′s background downloader uses libcurl instead of Apple’s downloading APIs. Therefore all proxy settings like those for tzones are ignored. libcurl supports using a proxy and if I cannot set it to use the user proxy settings, I will add a small settings panel for custom proxy settings.

Localization
All iPhone apps have the ability to read from a dictionary of localized strings, making translation very easy. The next update will implement localized strings allowing anyone to translate MxTube into any language.

TV out (maybe)
Apple’s Movie Playing class in the SDK has no documented methods to enable TV out. I’m going to take a look at the YouTube app to see how it is enabling TV out and if possible incorporate it into the next MxTube update.

Max

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