INTRODUCING, APPULOUS.
Some of you would be familiar with Appulo.us by now – long regarded as the alternative solution to a flawed Apple App Store. Especially iPhone & iPod touch users out there. With more than 3 million visitors a day, and with nary an ad in place, this ‘charitable’ site catering to iPhone or iPod touch users has something else that entices one & all – cracked iPhone .ipa apps and games. We’re not even talking about the Lite or Free versions, these are the officially released Full apps & games that one would have to pay for should they decide to download it from the official App Store channel.

Because of that, the sheer number of daily visitors are clogging up the servers over at Appulo.us, and these days, even the speed is akin to a miserable crawl. So, with that in mind, folks at Appulo.us have decided to add in some more servers to split the load. Before that could happen, here comes The Troll Bridge…

So here’s what’s up. Appulous is popular. So popular that the sheer number of hits we get every second are enough to kill our server. So even though almost 3 million people come here a day, very few people are actually getting through.

So we’re moving. We’re in the process of getting more servers to split up the load, making Appulous crazy fast again. But that kind of setup doesn’t appear overnight, and we need to do SOMETHING until then. Introducing the troll bridge.

In order to get in, You have to answer the question. It’s that simple. If you’re at all involved in the scene, the question should be ridiculously simple to answer. If the only thing you have to do with the scene is leeching from Appulous… well then it’s not as easy. Go research if you want in that badly.

Hopefully this will take traffic down low enough that the site will work great. Remember, though, THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY! No more troll after we get our new servers.

Cheers!
–Kyek

THE TROLL BRIDGE: WE TRAWLED THE WEB TO BRING YOU THE ANSWERS!
1. Who Am I? Kyek

2. Three people were responsible for posting a huge number of apps to Appulous before it was ever opened to the public. These people are most_uniQue, bugmenotaasdf, and who else? sonic

3. What was the name of the short-lived app on the Hackulo.us repo meant solely for refreshing your springboard cache? (R _ _ _ _ _ D) REBUILD

4. This developer was the first to program a library for pulling all of the screenshots for an app out of the app store. doosje

5. Hackulous started off as Geniusblog.net

6. The very first public forum dedicated specifically to iPhone 2.0 app cracking was hosted at haklabs.com

7. What is the name of Appulous’ caching algorithm? REcache

8. The Appulous test servers, on which new backend code and server configs are tested semi-publicly before moving to production, are provided by what company? Amazon

9. Who did Labrat attempt to con into writing a private Appulous clone for his website? AndyDam

10. SaladFork is slightly forky

11. To whom did SaladFork turn over the Crackulous project? Angel

12. Who was the first person to start mass-cracking “self-aware” apps? panik Thx itsfall!

13. I was part of the team that discovered how to crack apps. My name is ________-fr. iceman

14. TheMonkeysBall.com was a two-man team: Wyze and _____________. Scuzzy19

15. Before Genius’ Hackulous tag said “Root Admin”, what did it say? President

16. You ssh to your phone and decide to rename “Documents” to “Other crap”. Type the command to do it, without using quotes. mv Documents Other\ Crap

17. Kyek modified a Greasemonkey plugin to check if an IPA link was dead. The original was the _____ Links Checker. cavern