Hackulous .installous

See, there's a new Installous in town, and it's by a developer called Larisa Flora. It's not the Installous you're thinking of though — this one's a game which involves gears and colors, apparently. In what seems like a small victory against app piracy, the Hackulous team announced today on its site that it is shutting down, bringing down its most popular apps in the process: Installous and AppSync.

Although it's still unclear what the reasons behind the shut down are, Hackulous claims on its website that it's mostly due to stagnant forums and the difficulty to moderate them. Although I never hang out in the forums, I find it hard to believe that there was little activity in there, especially given the notoriety of Hackulous in the piracy world In this week's episode of Ask Jeff, I tackle a whole host of interesting questions.

This episode dwells more on the personal behind-the-scenes side of things, so I hope you folks enjoy. I believe I've hit a record by personally answering 10 different questions from our readers, so tune in to see if your question was among those answered Stefan Esser, better known as "i0n1c," has been receiving a lot of heat from the jailbreak community as of late. Stefan is a prominent member of the jailbreak developer scene, and he was responsible for the untethered exploit that has been used for the iOS 4.

He stated that if he were to release the jailbreak for iOS 5, he would consider placing a restriction on installing apps from the infamous 'Installous' repo. Millions of jailbreakers use Installous to download pirated apps. Sometimes downloading their apps, like Hackulous Installous 5, is the only consolation they are getting from us — it simply shows our appreciation to what they have created. However, it is also true that Hackulous Installous 5 is not the only repository there is in the sea.

There are still numerous repositories out there in Cydia that offers free but pirated iOS apps. Siddartha is a Blogger from India. He is currently working as a Java Front End developer and he loves writing about tutorials, technology, algorithm, etc. It is so sad that to see Hackulo. I normally use it a lot. What will I do. Well I decided to opt the other way. We don't support piracy and the installation of pirated apps, the purpose of jailbreaking an iOS device should be to gain access to features that Apple does not allow.

I am sure that many jailbreakers won't be too happy with the fact that these tools will never exist, ever again. By Adnan. Dec 31, EST. Share Tweet Submit.