All of us remember the Safari Download Plugin from the 1.1.4 firmware. This plugin allowed you to download supported files directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch from the internet. These files could then be taken off, or manipulated in other ways. Well, the improved Safari Download Plugin 2.0 has appeared in Cydia today, along with a BossPrefs toggle. » Cydia: Safari Download Plugin 2.0

According to Aviv Raff the iPhone’s mail and safari applications are having big security risks. Both applications are openly available to phishing attacks. The good news is that he didn’t make the exploit publicly available, and he’s not planning to do this before Apple has posted a firmware update that fixes these issues. Hit the break to read all the details.
» Security risk – iPhone is Phishable and SPAMable

I’ve had some people asking me on how to take save pictures (photos) with safari on the new iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 2.0. This is actually a very easy. When you have found a picture that you’d like to save, just press and hold the image untill a new screen pops up with a request to save the image.
» How to save Safari Pictures Firmware 2.0 (iPhone, iPod Touch)

Safari on the iPhone has a little problem that it doesn’t save usernames and passwords when you have entered them. iRemember fixes this little issue by allowing Safari to save cookies. This is a must have little mod that will save you quite some time when entering usernames and passwords.
» iRemember – Saves your password in iPhone Safari

A lot is going on for the moment in iPhone repo land. some packages moved, some repos got removed. I’ll go a little bit in more detail after the read more.
» iPhone repository updates.

Swapplugins is another application that let’s you swap a setting.
This swap application gives us the option to download the files we watch or stream.
In standard mode, your safari file will be played into the iPhones native music or video player.
When you press the swapplugin, safari will ask you to download the file locally onto your iPhone so later on you will be able to play it locally from your iPhone.
» Swapplugins 1.04

After some hard work on the server and the server configuration, I’m back with some iPhone news.

It appears that the hackers at hackint0sh found a new capability of firmware 2.0 or is it 1.2 :)

Following have been discovered so far:

-Contact search option (whohoo, i need that)
-Embedded youtube support (no flash but either a transmogrify kinda hack)
and the newest …
-Saving pictures from in Safari
» New firmware allows saving of pictures in safari.