RiP Dev Releases Hood 1.1

[Money Over]

RiP Dev has released Hood 1.1 a quickly accessible panel to your iPhone that allows you to toggle AirPort, Bluetooth, kill active application and monitor the memory usage in real time.

New Features:
* EDGE Toggle. Unlike other solutions (actually, all that I've seen around), this one disables and enables EDGE without touching the APN settings. For this reason, when you disable EDGE, the "E" icon will still be lit in the status bar (indicating that the network is up) but the respective service will be effectively down. This is much more reliable than before, and is actually the way Apple meant to implement it - the code hidden inside Preferences.app does the same.
* Settings. Now you can access settings of Hood inside of Settings > RiP Dev > Hood preference pane. Very easy and convenient.
* Process List. This feature is turned off by default, but you can enable it in the Settings. Hood will show a list of processes running on your iPhone, with the ability to quickly kill any of them by sliding your finger across the process name (much like you delete stuff in any table form on the iPhone). Be careful and don't kill stuff that you don't know, especially owned by root - or you may end up rebooting your iPhone!
* Assignable Buttons. Remember these four button slots on top? Well, instead of creating a mess by stacking 16 icons each doing something next to each other, we are letting you choose which 4 options you want. Later on, when more toggles are added in (VPN and SSH are next in line, by the way), you will have a wider selection. Assignable in Settings, as well.
* Really Quits Processes now. Version 1.0 only emulated the Home button press when you were hitting the Quit Application button. Which means - Safari, Mail.app and others were not completely closed (this is the same for most "other" managers too). Now the applications are properly killed and the memory is instantly released - as you can see on the pie chart.
* New Icons. Thrasos Varnava did us a big favor and made up new and improved icons for the toggles. Thank you!
* Bug fixes. Fixed a bug with Hood staying open when you lock the device with it open (or it auto-locks). Also fixed a few other cosmetic bugs.
* Still free! Hood was and will remain free and lightweight tool, thanks to your comments, support and suggestions.

Hood 1.1 is available now in the Installer.app category Utilities.

[cricketlang]

SBSettings is way better and even looks nicer. after the installer issues i dont trust anything from Rip Dev anymore. sorry guys.

[Cocchiararo]

New Features:
* EDGE Toggle. Unlike other solutions (actually, all that I've seen around), this one disables and enables EDGE without touching the APN settings. For this reason, when you disable EDGE, the "E" icon will still be lit in the status bar (indicating that the network is up) but the respective service will be effectively down. This is much more reliable than before, and is actually the way Apple meant to implement it - the code hidden inside Preferences.app does the same.

either this is badly explained, and Hood makes the E dissapear, and thats is BETTER than other apps (in my opinion), OR, hood makes it remain there just like all the other apps, and this part has no reason for existing :P

[Imahottguy]

Though this app is fugly, it brings some features to the table that I would like to see in SBSettings. The memory thing is cool, but not really useful, I don't need to see my memory that often. However, the assignable buttons is a nice concept. I'd like to see BigBoss take this to the HNL (Whole aNother Level lol) by allowing us to re-order our toggle list. My bet is that this is already in the pipeline, it's just not a top priority. Actually, that's it. I thought that there was more that I agreed with but I guess not. I too do not trust RipDev, sorry guys...

[z3r01]

im gonna have to go with hottguy with this one, plus like cricketlang said, i dont trust intaller anymore

[Broomhead]

Magic eight ball says, we'll have multiple threads in 2 weeks "Help Rip Devs Hood messed up my phone"
Thanks but no Thanks

[iamse7en]

Hahaha. This is hilarious. What an awful and ugly knock-off of SBSettings.

I'm sorry RiP Dev. I think it's time to say, RIP.

[liveforit]

Magic eight ball says, will have multiple threads in 2 weeks "Help Rip Devs Hood messed up my phone"
Thanks but no Thanks

Agreed, why anyone would install anything written by RipDEV confuses me..

[Cocchiararo]

why would people still put installer in ther iphones, confuses me more :P

[reznor9]

I wish BB would add the ability to kill running apps though.

[Cocchiararo]

me too

a lot :P

pd: he said he was up to someting related to that

[liveforit]

I was thinking of the ability to kill apps, in reality though, what would you want to kill/stop from the springboard?

[evolutionarymc]

You would want to kill the process that says "this device is not made for the iPhone" and turns off almost all UI sounds. This can be caused by a 3rd party device or by moisture in the dock. It would've saved me from paying $150 to have it fixed. But that is the ONLY thing I like about this SBSettings wanna be. What's Installer again?

[JAG2621]

SBSettings is way better and even looks nicer. after the installer issues i dont trust anything from Rip Dev anymore. sorry guys.

+1

[cricketlang]

RIP Dev....Rest In Peace Developers.....own your name and just let it go.

i wil say that the task list would be nice for SBSettings but it will be there soon

[Chase817]

Looks ok, but for now I'll stick with SBSettings.

[marcoiac]

Well, I must say, I am no fan of Installer anymore, although I've used it a lot in the 1.x days, and it was great, and I am grateful. Now I am kind of afraid of using it, and I don't see too much of a point in using it (although I miss Sysinfo from 1.1.4 and this new thing from Installer looks like a good replacement), but I don't see why we should be so critical. There are many reasons why Installer isn't as good as it used to be, and we all know them. Let's give the guy a break.