Saurik has just recently pushed an updated version of his popular Cydia Installer for jailbroken iOS devices. With the update comes increased performance and an updated UI and icon for iOS 7.

READ FULL STORY for complete changelog

Sadly, I have been away from the Brewology for longer than I care to think. Life gets in the way, and a person’s education becomes a far greater priority than a forum board. With that said, I came back for nostalgic reasons and saw the atrocity the forums have become with spam. I set aside a few hours today and cleaned the forums to be more presentable. In the process I’m sure a few legit/older topics were also deleted (specifically the general chat). I’m sure spam will continue until the site owner implements more spam prevention measures.

I hope Brewology will one day be a thriving community as it once was.

Estwald have released a new version of Iris Manager v2.93

IrisManager is an open source manager originally developed by Estwald (aka Hermes) and D_Skywalk, based on HermesManager. It is a completly legal open code manager Made with Homebrew tools.

Supports the custom firmwares: 3.41 (Hermes), 3.55 (Kmeaw), 4.21 & 4.30 CEX (with LV1 access,
like Rogero or Rebug), 4.31 CFW, 4.21 DEX, 4.40 CEX MLT, 4.41CFW, 4.41DEX CFW, 4.46CFW,
COBRA 7.0 and 4.50 CEX/DEX, 4.53 CEX and 4.55 CEX.

IMPORTANT: After installing the PKG, restart the PS3, if Iris Manager was loaded before.

What’s New in version 2.93:

- Updated the ISO tools ( PC_ps3iso_utilities_with_src_v1.8.zip ) to patch ISO games
  with required FW version up to 4.60 in patchps3iso

- By request of Lustar ( GameTDB ) I have introduced a new system to update the covers (covers):
  Iris Manager now use the User Agent "IrisManager - v2.93" to access that server.

- In the game updates, the User Agent was changed also to simulate a PC

- Added support ( for Cobra / Mamba ) for Bluray movies, DVD Video and MKV (using "BluRay Drive"
  on Showtime).
  In the "Homebrew" category the homebrews/PSN are listed first and in the new "Films" category
  (only the movies are listed)

NOTE 1: As a reminder, pressing R3 / L3 you access the various categories.

* Supports internal (hdd0) and external hard drives in NTFS, EXTx or FAT format.

* The bluray movies should be in the root folder /BDISO, the DVD movies in /DVDISO (as in multiMAN).
  Subfolders are allowed and a JPG with the same name as the ISO is supported as cover
  (e.g. my_film.iso -> my_film.jpg as cover).
  The display name is taken from the file itself, so it is recommended to edit it if it is too long
  or non descriptive.

* The MKV should go in the root folder /MKV.
  Subfolders are allowed and a JPG with the same name as the ISO is supported as cover
  (e.g. my_film.mkv -> my_film.jpg as cover).
  The display name is taken from the file itself, so it is recommended to edit it if it is too long
  or non descriptive.
  After selecting a movie, an ISO is created dynamically to associate with the BDVD unit,
  then Showtime is launched to play it.

NOTE 2: For films the Options menu (accessed with SELECT) is not available.

NOTE 3: We have also made ​​other changes to the code level, such as the inclusion in main.h
        of the tags that define the internal flags for the games / movies.
        I hope that I have not screwed it up in the translation of the code.

NOTE 4: In principle, the support for /BDISO and /DVDISO was included thinking on those who have
        a broken the Bluray drive.  Since we were doing this, MKV support was added (creating
        a dynamically ISO) if someone wants to use such films using covers.
        Showtime can play perfectly these movies with its NTFS support and it also allows you
        to navigate freely between directories: this option is mainly for geeks.

Download Iris Manager from the Brewology Store.

You can download the source code, compilers (Win32) and libraries from here:
https://github.com/Estwald?tab=repositories

The official package for Iris Manager 2.93 can be downloaded from:
http://mods.elotrolado.net/~hermes/ps3/irismanager-4-x.rar

flat_z has ported his “amazing” EID Root Key Dumper to dump the root key of your PS3 directly from GameOS on 4.50 (CEX).

It is not longer needed to downgrade to 3.55 to get your root key, which is useful to access the content of your PS3 HDD on the PC or convert your CEX to DEX, among other uses.

Howto

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* install package

* Unplug all USB devices

* run eEID_RKDumper from XMB

* It will show a black screen (no GUI) for 10-15 seconds, then 3 beeps and restart the console automatically

* FTP (other otherwise) retrieve your eid_root_key / PCK1 from /dev_hdd0/tmp/eid_root_key   or for 4.50 in /dev_hdd0/game/FLTZ00010/USRDIR

Download it from the Brewology Store.

News Source: PS3HAX

Alexader has released Unofficial Iris Manager v2.68U (Final).

- Arabic language has been added (Thanks to Haider Kiara)

- Persian language has been removed

(Due to poor translation, it was unnecessary to include it. Will be added back later if some users kindly got the result)

- Automatic recognition of language (beta)

- PAYLOAD mode DISCLESS pre-activated (Fake BD) for CFW’s 3.55 / 4.30 / 4.46

- New background color:

Deep Ruby, Color Ocean, Razzmic Berry and Rich Electric Blue

- Fixed minor bugs for better stability

- Payload 4.50

(Thanks to REIZA72 for the lv1/lv2 dump, IDA PRO and Kakaroto for the lv2_dump_analyser)

Download it from the Brewology Store.

M.H.A.Q.S. has released PS3 Cloud Drive v1.1.5.

Current Features:

• The application works with Google Drive. You will need a Google account to use it.
• Google Drive comes with 15GB of free space compared to PS Plus’s 1GB.
• Remote Authorization through “OAuth 2 for Devices” does not need you to give application any of your personal information.
• Bi-Directional Sync is possible. The application will sync your saves to the cloud and will download them to your hard drive.
• Resume support is present and you can quit the application any time you want. The app will pick up from where it left off.
• Resumable uploads and partial responses are supported.
• Save Revision and pinning/sticky support.
• Save Difference and update will only sync data that has changed to cut bandwidth usage.
• gzip compression for faster transfers. This is to save bandwidth on those ridiculously big “replays” and saves from some games.

Planned Features for next releases:

• Selective Sync. Users can select the game-saves they want to sync to the cloud. This also requires a GUI for the user to select which saves he needs transferred. Most likely a Dual panel layout.
• PSX/PS2 card slot sync. This might have made into the current release but I need to test some stuff before I put this in.
• Multiple Playstation 3 units support per account. A user may sign into a PS3-Cloud-Drive account and download saves from another ps3. This feature is highly dependent on selective sync.
• Save Resigning. Oh yeah, I know this’ll have to be done some day to make this app super awesome on all levels. But it’s prolly way down the road.

Download it from the Brewology Store.

Application’s Homepage: http://blog.tabinda.net/playstation-3/playstation-3-cloud-drive/

News source: ps3hax

deroad has released PSChannel v1.10.

Fixed tons of bugs
Removed the “install theme feature” since no one makes themes for my homebrew
Info section moved to main menu and can be seen by pressing SQUARE
Added Lang support (EN,PT,SP,IT,FR,DE,RU,NL)
Added game update support with autodetection of games (NO homebrew support!! NO search mode, NO support for backups folders!!)
Changed some icons (new apps and game update)
Added support to https (thanks to PolarSSL)

To be clear, PSChannel will look only in the NP (not SP-INT or QA) environment. in the next update i will try to add SP-INT env for dex console (SP-INT gives me “404 + not allowed”).

PSChannel has nothing to do with SONY or any trademarks owned by sony.

PSChannel will only search updates for NP******* BL******* BC******* XC******* UL******* MR******* APPID with the USER AGENT ["Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00)"]

How to change language:

To change language just go to the main menu, press square, then triangle till you find your language. This is the order of the langs EN,PT,SP,IT,FR,DE,RU,NL

Bug reports here: https://github.com/wargio/PSChannel/issues

Want to add a language? send me (deroad) a private message on one of the followings forums Brewology/PS3HAX/PSX-Scene.

I want to thanks for:

• Translations: a_titkov (RU), zecoxao (PT), vgturtle127 (EN,PT,SP,IT,FR,DE,NL)
• 4.41 Rebug testing vapour
• sandungas and Ada love lace for SFO infos
• Kakaroto for EFL and gzorin for RSXGL and all the PSL1GHT devs

Wargio/deroad will NEVER request donation for this Homebrew.

please remember that deroad (aka Wargio) created this and not other people.

Download it from the Brewology Store.

CaptainCPS-X has released PS2 Classics Manager v1.02.

Main Features (Quick List)

- Set PS2 converted games active in PS2 Classics Placeholder

- Encrypt valid PS2 ISO(s) / BIN(s) as PS2 Classics and automatically patch LIMG segment (no need for anything else, just the ISO / BIN)

- Import External PS2 games (ISO / BIN / ENC). Split games supported (.ISO.66600 / .BIN.66600 / .ENC.66600)

- Game List with display of Cover images, Information box, Title ID, Title acquired from a text DB and more.

- Memory Cards manager to easily switch between your collection of VME, and assign them as SLOT 1 or SLOT 2.

- Automatic export / decryption of the active Memory Cards to XMB->Memory Card Utility as VM2.

…more at the change log. 

Download it from the Brewology Store.

deroad has released PSChannel v1.09.

This version will bring some improvements like allow fast translations of the homebrew.

Now you can install a theme or a translation easily and choose the pkg to download. in this way if you are on 3.55, you can install the 3.55 version, if on dex, the DEX/unsigned version, etc..

INSTALL A THEME
To install a Theme for PSChannel, you need to create a zip with the modified edj files and place the zip in the root folder of a usbkey; then you only need to go into ‘info’ and press triangle and it will install the theme. The zip MUST be called ‘psc_theme.zip‘.

TRANSLATE THE HOMEBREW
Translating the homebrew is quite easy. you only need a notepad that reads unix text files and translate it. PSChannel will read lines, so you can use spaces as you want. to install the files, you need to put the Categories.txt and/or Lang.txt into the root folder of a usb and go into ‘info’ and press triangle. it will install all the files.

You will find opium theme and the original Categories.txt and Lang.txt links at the end of the news.

Changelog:

Improved stability
Added the ability to choose the pkg to be downloaded
Added the ability to install custom themes
Added the ability to install translations
Added USB Scan
Fixed some minor bugs..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9g3vguu65qgi27/psc_theme.zip Blue Theme by Opium2k
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8ropvcfs09htaf/Categories.txt (click on the download button)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wufnwv7fcul2o46/Lang.txt (click on the download button)

Download it from the Brewology Store.