Apr 1st 2008 -- PRESS RELEASE, for EMBARGO until 12:01am [EST]
ARMPIT VIEW, Preston., April 1, 2008
WickedPsyched Inc. (NASDAQ: BITEME) announced today that it has agreed to acquire both BitTorrent and Comcast for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing global online iPhone development systems for UNIX with two of the largest pr0n delivery vehicles in the world.
As a result of the acquisition, WickedPsyched - a global leader in torrent applications for the iphone, will now be able to deliver 'utter boat loads' of high quality digital pr0n to cellular "touch" devices.
"This is a one of a kind acquisition", said senior management at WickedPsyched, "We will immediately proceed with the scale up of our iPhone torrent algorithms, starting with our newly acquired Comcast subscribers within the upper Alaskan territories"
Systems staff interviewed at the WickedPsyched offices today also confirmed "This approach is the best way to test the pr0n torrenting capability of the iPhone within the newly acquired network from Comcast" They also added, "We really had to start out with Alaska because basically, the New York State region is just so jam packed full of bittorrent pr0n, we can't effectively get anything through to our iPhones right now!"
"Alaska is pretty much just plain perfect. It may be slow, but at least the pr0n comes through nice and clean. Also as a unforeseen bonus, the Alaskans have some really rather spectacular yet unseen snow and ice pr0n!"
"Yeah, we've got that whole internet pr0n to your iPhone thing pretty much sorted now!" said Co-founder and President Core Ster, a longtime supporter of so-called "torrenting pr0n while sitting on the pan, while no one can see you" approach to iPhone torrent and digital video technology.
About WickedPsyched Inc.
WickedPsyched's innovative and slightly dodgy technologies connect millions of people around the world with slow edge connections to pr0n every day. Founded in 2007 by Stanford Ph.D. wannabe Core Ster, WickedPsyched today is a top web property for a rather sad iPhone torrent client.
Mar 27th 2008
So, it turns out that we can actually make the iphone talk!
To make it happen, you will need Erica's play audio from here and a copy of flite cross ported to the iPhone from Festival (you can get an iPhone version from saurik). Then you need to simply issue these two rather obvious commands:
iPhone:~ # flite "Yes it is true that. Da. I Phone. Can speak" -o tmp.wav iPhone:~ # ./bin/playaudio tmp.wav
Feel free to replace "Yes it is true... etc. etc." with what ever you like - this is after all native text to speech conversion right on the iPhone!
Here is a wav file pulled directly from a real speaking iphone! This was generated right on the iphone using the commands, and rather dodgy linguistic tone as above.
As one may imagine, this play audio feature coupled with an ssh connection and the volume turned way up on your iphone in to a selected remote area plus a few judiciously phrased expletives... Well quite frankly one could have a whole pile of "fun". Please be careful out there kids, this could become... well we will leave the rest up to the imagination.
Parents note: Pull strings are NOT required! And this time, fortunately the batteries are finally 'included!' :)
Mar 25th 2008
Of email and video -- Some small tiny updates to the various email programs we have ported, we actually forgot how many bonkers things we did there, especially the native postfix email server port for the iPhone!
Oh and the procmail port may come in handy at some point in the future... we guess (ok well maybe not) :) Well, anyway if you don't think that running an email server on your iPhone is a particularly fine idea we also stumbled back to our ffmpeg experiments again last night.
So, we got dragged in to running some rather interesting ideas around making ffmpeg use the iPhone camera, right now this is just a concept - it works but is terribly messy. In essence this will once finished allow you to be able to take stop frame animation via ffmpeg to deliver an m4v movie to play natively and directly on the iPhone, here is an example of how simple it is for a directory full of pictures on the iPhone to produce a native movie:
iPhone:~/Media root# ../ffmpeg -f image2 -i \ /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/IMG_000%d.JPG -s 320x240 -f mp4 ./test.m4v
One line. Not so shabby :)
Clearly this needs a whole lot more work, but team drunknbass are really working hard on the details to make this all work out properly. We just provided some initial concepts - they are going to carry on and run with this idea. We are looking forward to their results! There is some more info and an example video we created natively on the iphone over here
Mar 23rd 2008
Ok, so lots and lots of emails came through to us when we 404'd the site with the "thanks for all the fish page". It was both heartening and saddening all at the same time to see the email from folks. Albeit that we are still frightfully sad that the iPhone SDK is still truly bloody awful, and pretty much useless, we took some time to stop and think. There are still loads of people out there on the 1.1.x code bases that most of the stuff on this site (fortunately) still works for. Best we not wait until June/July whenever the "proper" SDK arrives (yes we have seen what the $0.00 gets you, and we would love to see the $99.00 version), however it is the same thing... anyway we digress. So, there are probably even some ways we may, given recent announcements along side a small amount of good luck and a following wind even make our previous attempts at gnash work out some how!
So, bottom line after much deliberation, we finally decided that we probably ought to leave this site up and running for folks in the community. If only so the emails will finally stop coming in to us asking for copies of MySQL, php/GD and Drupal and (we were shocked) even the odd request for perl! :-)
So for now we are back, albeit frozen in time.... The "thanks for all the fish" has gone. Maybe the SDK will also, at some point become real (for some value of "real"), but quite frankly we are not holding our breath on that one.
No background processes, and lots of missing private frameworks are just pretty tough to deal with in a UNIX world. It's as if one were trying to run windows CE or something... *sigh*. Anyway, we really do hope to see the SDK flourish. However, for now, we are at least "present" on the net again, thanks mainly to all the support from the community. At least the folks that think that a decent UNIX framework for the iPhone is worth all the effort can get at their binaries again. We do hope we can get back at some decent development really soon! Sorry for the 'outage'... it was our own little "rage against the machine". However, deep down, we all know that the machine will win, but for now at least we once more have some code to play with :)
Note: We still have not been given any SDK certificates from Apple for the 1.2 firmware over here @ wickedpsyched, so the 1.2 SDK is just totally lost on us - sorry we can't help with any development on the Aspen frameworks, we are frozen in time until a real SDK is released and is legal for us to look at. Sorry.
Oh and for the record - we are not, and never have been looking for any donations.... we do this solely for the love of it, nothing more, nothing less. Keep that there free GPL binary spirit free!
However, if you *do* want to donate - we would suggest sending some bucks this blokes way. You can find him over at http://saurik.com. Jay did a lot of the really rather hard porting work in the UNIX world for the iPhone with Debian APT, plus he has one of those natty "donate" buttons... Make sure you check out http://www.telesphoreo.org/ when you get a chance. The SVN repository reads like pure poetry - trust us, it is a thing of true beauty!
Mar 13th 2008
Thanks for all the fish... we are going to step out of the fray given that the SDK was released and we subsequently realized that the world no longer can use a whole boat load of UNIX tools for the iPhone with the *new* SDK. Or we guess, more importantly, these apps will not actually work under the Aspen frameworks... Ah well, it is a shame, a crying shame, but such is life.
Mar 2nd 2008
Of Onions and iPhones -- We guessed it was time to be anonymous on your iPhone, if you wanted to be.... Onion router binaries from http://www.torproject.org/ are available. Initial tests seem to show it is working. All possible from using select() rather than poll() in libevent. Simply remove POLL_H from your configs if you need to build this for your event driven apps. transmission and TOR need to have this, but once libevent is compiled, then both apps seem to work just fine and dandy. Always remember, that "fine and dandy" be considered for some value of "dandy" on the iPhone. Sometimes things work well, other times... well you get the picture :)
Mar 2nd 2008
A moderate tale of success! -- We eventually solved the torrent problem! Much kudos to a really decent CLI we found over at http://www.transmissionbt.com/ This was a fairly brutal hack job on our part to get this to skip the poll() events. We are sure it will show up in Cydia really soon!
Remember! Don't try this on EDGE kids (seriously - DON'T!)
Mucho kudos to Erica and Cory for the PR over at TUAW!
This one should be fun to watch how it all plays out in the comment fields ;)
Feb 27th 2008
True iNdependence -- so it is funny how they say that 'a day is a short time in politics'. As it turns out - In iPhone history, it is often way shorter! Today we saw a tuaw post. Then shortly after we saw the real deal from the best folks in the iPhone game (in my honest opinion - they have the added benefit of being frightfully honest - a rare quality!).
So I guess, feel free to share the "Digg love" right here, for freedom, liberty, justice, and well heck, even the good old 1st amendment if need be!! :):
Feb 26th 2008
Updated ffmpeg -- Added a new version of ffmpeg. This one can go grab flv files from a popular flash video site and then download them directly to your iphone with one line:
iPhone:~/itubby root# ./itubby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUc5PbEh3E test
Happy times, bring back the 80's. At some point I'll write a native mp4 player, at the moment Erica's "play audio" is the best thing we have, there is some code for Celestial that will probably do a neater job at this, but right now, at least we have a decent ffmpeg at long last :)
Feb 22nd 2008
A tale of woe! -- Well turns out not all things quite work out as planned. Crazy ideas galore exist in this post, clearly the iphone does not want to be convinced to be a P2P torrent client no matter how many crackpot ideas we come up with to try and force the issue. libtorrent, java, well, what ever we throw at it, we can't get it to fly. Thought I'd help spread and share the misery :)
Feb 21st 2008
Zibri did it again! -- Well quite frankly, this just blew me away in 6 steps! I know I'm behind the times here, but I really need, and I ought to add a healthy dose of sarcasm alongside a hefty portion of reality. This man never ceases to amaze and wonder as to his incredulous moral integrity... read on...
Feb 2nd 2008
Current LLVM svn -- has enough to build arm bins with 4.2.1 on any platform, A quick test showcase is up here: http://wickedpsyched.com/iphone/gcc Clearly there are lots of commits going in for the SDK, but the good news is 4.2.1 will build arm mach-o without any issues, and basically negates all the work for the previous toolchain. Progress at last :-)
Jan 28th 2008
Go Go Saurik! -- Quick shout out to saurik (awesome iphone developer) has ported apt, and not only apt, but all the code that makes up close to a perfect distro for the iphone over at his web site (http://apt.saurik.com/). He also ported java to the iphone and a bunch of other really cool stuff (http://www.saurik.com/), but this apt repository really takes it to the next level. Brilliant stuff indeed!
Jan 21st 2008
So 1.1.3 (the "new" firmware) ...
Yes folks it can be done!
Jan 19th 2008
7.6 iphuc work arounds -- New releases of iTunes have issues with iphuc. This is a nasty horrible hack, but it works for the 7.6 code and allows iphuc to behave in a 7.6 environment. For some unknown reason each of these environments to fail: DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH DYLD_FALLBACK_FRAMEWORK_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, so why we wrote this script.
Jan 5th 2008
Current CoreOS - iPhone toolchain stats -- Phew! Well Crikey! +1 million files! and about 37GB of data in source and object files, we sure as hell have made a dent in this whole iPhone development thing. We wanted to post this to show that all the things we often try to do don't quite work out as we would expect. Enjoy :)
Jan 4th 2008
GTK+ ported to iPhone -- Well I guess we had to do it, since there was so much hype about GIMP for OSX, us iPhone folks were feeling left out. So we pushed a GTK test case. We are still working on a native X11 server for the iPhone,
So I guess we need to watch this space :)
Jan 3rd 2008
X11 ported to iPhone -- From Digg.com: This tiny device now runs X11. So what possible use could that be? After all, ought we not be all using this new web 2.0 thing? Have these crazed iPhone hackers finally lost their minds? Can we even imagine having our entire desktop available from within our iPhone? Well maybe time will tell...
Dec 31st 2008
GNASH native -- is here, broken and in its full glory. We post here when things half work and we keep on posting until they are complete!
Dec 31st 2008
New search posted -- So we decided that this site deserves a decent look and feel, some things may have moved about a little.
Nov 12th 2007
AFP for the iPhone! -- wickedpsyched finally saw the "The Digg effect" We worked rather hard on AFP, it was much more important than we thought it would be. Great to see it being used!
Oct 11th 2007
New BSD tools (BSD_Base-2.0.tar.gz, BSD_Extra-2.0.tar.gz) compiled by NerveGas http://iphone.natetrue.com/ No need for libarmfp any more!
Sept 16th 2007
New cctools here: iphone-dev It is now trivial to compile code for the iphone. Awesome job Patrick - totally amazing!