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Password Protect your Media and Applications on the iPhone! [Free License Giveaway]

18 June 2008 13,449 views 48 Comments

How many times had this thought struck your mind – ‘Gosh, I wish I could hide these videos from my family/friends!’ Then comes this – ‘iSteamy is really hot but I don’t want my wife/children to know about this steamy adventure!’

All your questions are now answered, thanks to the developers at HidePod. They have just finished Apple’s unfinished business of protecting your ‘Stuff’! The next time someone (in my case – my professors, family members…) asks your iPhone for a quick look – you can innocently hand it over despite not so innocent stuff hiding back there!

We all know about Poof, an application for hiding your applications but HidePod dives in with password protection feature and even letting you hide the HidePod application behind the regular/normal looking Calculator icon!

I can assure you that it is so difficult for anyone to hack into your protected stuff. I myself had a tough time using the app initially, and you can just imagine how hard it will be for someone to get to the hidden videos/apps – thanks to the added layers of protection (password, and hiding the application itself!).

Why wait, you definitely stand a chance to win a license.

Hidepod also offers free upgrades to AppStore license if approved to be released by Apple. All you have to do is drop a comment/few words about this blog and how it can be improved. Lots of licenses up for grabs! Hurry, offer expires June 25.

Some insider info from the developer team at HidePod. The future of the app and a possible picture integration to this wonderful app are detailed.

We’d like to wait until we release the picture version which will be available
very shortly. (we’ve emulated the picture viewer app and are working through a memory bug .. right now we can flip through about 130 images or so before we experience a memory problem)
We should have this tracked down shortly.

Regarding the Appstore release.

We will try to get it on the Appstore (if we can)
Anyone who purchased our previous version would get reimbursed when they get the 2.0 on appstore.

We may however have to release it on the unlocked version of the iphone 2.0.
(In that case the existing registration keys would work)
The reason for this is… we tie into the iTunes database to access the movie file listing.. Apple is preventing this in the current iteration of the Developer kit.

An advantage of releasing it on the open developer platform is we would have access to those libraries… We could also modify the program so that movies and pictures could be accessed from other sources. We could set it up so that you could directly upload picture files, download movie trailers etc.

If we use the AppStore we may be restricted to funnel all content through iTunes
which may restrict content and access to content.

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48 Comments »

  • Anicet said:

    Love this blog, one of my favorite. Keep the hard work reviewing the good stuff on our “precious”.

    …and it would be just wonderful if I could grab a license for Hidepod.

    Regards

    A

  • Vincent said:

    It’s quite useful …
    For we can found lots of softwares.

  • kiran (author) said:

    Expect your serial numbers once the offer expires. Keep the comments flowing guys!

  • Abhi said:

    one license for me too!!

  • David said:

    hey kiran how to get one ?

  • Robert said:

    sounds like a plan i need this my wife like to use my iphone and she hates that i look at the stuff shoot i could use a license too

  • kiran (author) said:

    “All you have to do is drop a comment/few words about this blog and how it can be improved. Lots of licenses up for grabs! Hurry, offer expires June 25.”

  • leo said:

    can’t wait for this software good job!

  • David said:

    ok that easy huh? well i really like this blog. i think its the best one out there for iphone owners and even non iphone owners. keep up the good work kiran.

  • Phil said:

    Hi, just to say thanks for this site, it’s one of the few sites I always read in my Feed reader. Keep it up!

  • prashant said:

    great app. I would really like to get my hands on it. Will it help in protecting my mail app

  • Abhi said:

    Why don’t you add free audio feeds using odiogo and subscription by mail using feedburner

  • Nate said:

    The great thing about this blog is that it is regularly updated with lots of content-rich, juicy news. Plus, you keep us readers interested by offering us great prizes and contests such as this one with HidePod and the other great discount with MobileMe. Please, keep it up. I don’t know how you get these great deals but they certainly have caught my interest.

    A suggestion of mine would be to include a Themes page built off of the Summerboard program. I’m not sure if this will still be in use after the App Store is released, but a nice index of thumbnail pictures of each good theme plus a download/repo link would be something I’d love to use.

    Thanks and keep up the good work =)

  • cirus said:

    yeah this app is so great
    now i feel much better when i give my ipod away to anyone…

  • geschichte said:

    seems to be a good idea to hide your ***** stuff/software^^
    hmmm i could do so too…
    do i need a license to use this software?

  • Kiran (author) said:

    The offer now ends and Anicet, David, Phil, Abhi, Nate win free licenses! Ping back your device serial numbers and the licenses will be sent to you! Thanks again for your comments and have great fun with your iPhone, now that you have a reason to hide stuff ;)

  • David said:

    hey kiran,
    i will email you my serial info of my iphone within a day or two. please check it at your leisure.
    thanks.

  • David said:

    Hey kiran,
    i emailed you my iphone’s serial no. what do i have to do next?

  • Maniak said:

    по-настоящему удивили и порадовали :) Никогда не поверил бы, что даже такое бывает :)

  • Nalla Nayya said:

    The idea is great but I also need to hide individual contacts, is there anyway to do that.

  • david said:

    nope, nothing of that sort yet. just rename the contact to something the other persons(person you want to hide from seeing it) wont recognize. thats what i do/did in the past.

  • vipin cherian said:

    i am eagerly waiting for an apple store release of this application. i have a non-jailbroken phone.

  • Zed said:

    It’s not about contacts its about photos and videos ;-) also waiting for that app store release……

  • fieldisj said:

    this app sounds great be good to get my hands on it.

  • Andrew said:

    This is awesome! I want one!

  • Josh said:

    Hey if you can build it we will come this could be just as big as a bagel slicer LOL I want a licence please

  • sherri said:

    looking forward to this app! Definitely need a way to protect personal information on the iphone…especially contact info!

  • RoyWL said:

    It should make sense to Apple! People are always asking to check out my IPhone, but I won't do it because of certain sensitive apps. I would love to help promote how great the IPhone is, but need to secure certain aspects of the device before I just hand it over to a curious person. I hope this app comes online soon! Thanks.

  • kkiran (author) said:

    Hi! These apps are already on cydia but not on AppStore. Try jailbreaking your iPhone and then download it from Cydia for free!

    Sent from my iPhone

  • Neil said:

    Hi,
    This seems like a great applications. Would likve to get a license to check it out. Good luck.

  • jjyxk845 said:

    Great Blog I check it out for all the latest news.

  • tallgeezer said:

    Oh my god – this is the app that all blokes (and some woman) need…

    Where / when / how can we get it (+ do we need a jailbreak device) – I have an 'IPHONE 3G S', which I don't beleive those clever chaps have managed to jailbrake, yet. (doesn't usually take people long)

    Amazin' app – could I have a license / instructions how to get it on.

  • kkiran (author) said:

    There is a free alternative on cydia already!

    Sent from my iPhone

  • Nabil said:

    Hi
    i just got a new iphone 3G and i used to have sonnyericsson that had similar application called mumsms , it protected calls and sms into hidden secured folder
    i need to have this application , please advise how to purchase it
    thanks

  • kkiran (author) said:

    You will have to jailbreak your iPhone 3G to access this functionality. Did you jailbreak your device?

  • brian said:

    iphone 3g 3.0 vista

  • Rebellions said:

    i have been looking for something like this for sometime..where i can hide my personal videos so noone can see them. Really looking forward to install it on my iphone

  • Rebellions said:

    hey guys how can i get this application? is it still available?

  • David said:

    was this app ever released?

  • iLikeMyiPhone (author) said:

    Yeah, long back. Now a commercial app exists in Cydia…

  • Maneesh said:

    Its great idea. How can I get a license?

  • Spink said:

    am looking for something like for a long time, would be great to get the licence! thanks in advance!

  • michael said:

    is it good if we have a list of "icons" to pick instead of the default "3.14 calc"?
    otherwise, other iphone users using same app will "know" your hiding something :)

  • Kiran (author) said:

    Good point! This app is out of date. Newer software will be reviewed soon…

  • David Alen said:

    Every one having the same problem regarding hiding or locking text messages on iPhones. Recently I downloaded a program from http://faketexts.com/ and it hides the iPhone SMS button and replaces it with a fake one that you can edit. Basically it doesn’t show all the girls I am talking to.

  • takım çeliği said:

    merhaba paylaşım için teşekürler

  • Iphone Applications said:

    WOW! With millions of iphone users across the globe, a dollar or less worth of app can quickly lead to millions of income.

  • Durgesh said:

    i have been looking for something like this for sometime..where i can hide my personal videos so noone can see them. Really looking forward to install it on my iphone

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