[Michael Johnston]

The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived. iFuntastic version 3 is here, and chock full of new features. Of course, the biggest feature request of all has been fulfilled - support for PowerPC processors. It also includes a real file browser which allows installing apps, uploading NES ROMs, and other miscellaneous files. But that's just the beginning.

One of the most important new features in v3 is "Unshackling". No longer will you have to un-jail and re-jail your iPhone for every modifiaction. Once you unshackle, you're free to make any modifications you please while simultaneously maintaining iTunes' ability to access the phone. Very sweet.

The Home Screen section has been significantly updated. Just as you could in previous versions, iFuntastic allows you to rearrange the icons on your home screen, but it gets even cooler. You can now have multiple home screens with a different set of icons on each. Take that, Spaces. On top of that, you know have the ability to put backgrounds on each home screen as well as rotate them. Can you say "useful"?




Ringtones has also been updated. Remember that handy tip on getting free ringtones from iTunes? Now you can use iFuntastic to rip iTunes previews for you. Simply create a playlist of songs from the iTunes Music Store and drag the exported version into iFuntastic. The songs are downloaded from the store and uploaded right into your iPhone.

The new File Manager is awfully cool. It can be used to install new applications, save and delete files, and everything in between. iFuntastic also allows you to fiddle with system images and change the carrier logo, as you could in the past.

According to bitSplit, (summarized) changes since the last version are:

* PowerPC support! Finally. Thanks for keeping the faith :-)
* One-time unjailing - called 'Unshackling'.
* Drag and drop any file onto the phone in the new 'File Manager' (formerly Browser :-)
* Edit text files directly on the phone.
* Drag and drop installation of native applications - no restart of the phone necessary.
* Info page: a one-stop-shop for all documentation (still sparsely populated right now, sorry.)
* Troubleshooting page: a one-stop-shop for pummeling the phone and inquiring about its status.
* Much improved ringtone installation.
* Drag and drop replacement of system sounds.
* Completely reworked Home Screen Editor. Place applications anywhere you want them (gaps are OK.)
* Support for multiple home screen 'pages'. Have up to 80 applications at your fingertips!
* Custom home screen 'wallpaper', better called home screen backgrounds, to distinguish from the 'real' wallpaper.

Requirements:

• Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
  
• Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
  
• iTunes 7.3 or later

Get iFuntastic v3.0.3 here. Big thanks to the guys at QuickShareIt for hosting the file. If you ever need to send files to someone, check out their nifty little Mac app.

Please post questions, problems, and feature requests in the Third Party Apps forum, and not in this story's comments.

Enjoy!

[Pepper]

been using it for a couple days, its great! great work on this one guys... (i'm on powerpc )

If you have any problems, search for "iFuntastic" in your user Library and trash everything that comes up. That seems to be the best way to solve problems.

Guys what is Ppc? I used the earlier version on my mac at home. Does that mean i can use it with Vista? I want to start messing with this at work. Please help.

[iamse7en]

This is sick nasty...

Great work.

[iPhoneWriter]

I can't wait to geek out tonight after class!

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Guys what is Ppc? I used the earlier version on my mac at home. Does that mean i can use it with Vista? I want to start messing with this at work. Please help.

PPC is what Apple used before them moved to intel. It still doesn't work with Windows, but their will probably be work put into a windows version at some point in time.

Hi there and thank you for your great work with iFuntastic. Everything seems to go as planned, but in the last step of the Unshackle I get stuck. I've tried it 3 times all over again, I've tried to disconnect, I've tried to restart, but nothing works. I keep getting the message "Waiting for iPhone ..." and finally a pop-up saying "STOP-Communication Failure". Any clues here?

Let me know if you want more info, use xtruhgoy - at - yahoo/ dot com

Im really loving the fact that you can set a wallpaper on your home screen! awesome work guys.. it works great!

tommy
iPhone Wallpapers

[bitSplit]

@ Frans
Well, that's not acceptable! Sorry to hear that.
What is your computer model?
You can 'Keep Trying' a few times to extend the time.
Let everyone know what works (or doesn't.)

This looks AMAZING!
(now we just need windows support!)
=D

[iamse7en]

Must the iPhone really be fully restored in order for the unshackling to work? Or is it just a recommendation. I'd hate to get rid of all my installing and modding that I've done.

Originally Posted by Frans

Hi there and thank you for your great work with iFuntastic. Everything seems to go as planned, but in the last step of the Unshackle I get stuck. I've tried it 3 times all over again, I've tried to disconnect, I've tried to restart, but nothing works. I keep getting the message "Waiting for iPhone ..." and finally a pop-up saying "STOP-Communication Failure". Any clues here?

Let me know if you want more info, use xtruhgoy - at - yahoo/ dot com

Im having the same issue as well

does anyone know how to install it? are there any steps?

thanks.

@Frans
that happened ot me to first...
but after i did a restore of my entire iphone
i tried again and it worked fine...

one question though for anyone who might have the answer:
How can I change the names of the apps...
right now my phone is called MobilePhone... my Mail is MobileMail...
i cant seem to figure out how to change the names back to the originals...
i see in the screenshot that it has the original name...
so if anyone has any answer to this...
it will be a great help...
thanks alot

how do you install on PC?

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

does anyone know how to install it? are there any steps?

thanks.

First off, you need to have a Mac (intel, or PPC)

Then all you need to do is open up the package and drag the icon to your applications folder and then start it up! Just following the steps and you'll be good.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

how do you install on PC?

You cannot currently install on PC, it is not out for you guys yet

[nofim]

cant update home screen so im switchin to the old version

Hello, great work but just to let you know the last step does not work for me as well. It keeps trying to connect to the iphone and finally times out. I am running firmware 1.0.2 in the iphone and a MBP running iFuntastic. All other releases worked great, just this one is having some problems.

Everything works.. It says that I get it "Unshackled" but when I try to do anything I get "Communication Failure" it just keeps timing out? I know it is connected cause I see it in Itunes. Tried to restart phone and computer. Anyone else running into this?

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by yoYo

Everything works.. It says that I get it "Unshackled" but when I try to do anything I get "Communication Failure" it just keeps timing out? I know it is connected cause I see it in Itunes. Tried to restart phone and computer. Anyone else running into this?

I've had it give me that error multiple times in a row, i just kept choosing "try again" (or whatever the choice is), and it eventually started to work.