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By RoryPiper on February 5th, 2012

As a reader, I visit iPhoneinCanada.ca everyday. As a writer, I seem to drop in and out, depending on my schedule at home. As a graphic designer, I have released a few themes in Cydia, but haven’t done so in a long time. Well, today I have released a new add on for the Zeppelin…

By RoryPiper on October 30th, 2011

iOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith has successfully ported a fully working version of Siri over to the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G. Steven Troughton-Smith has been working on this since the first day he got his hands on an iPhone 4S. He posted his progress on his Twitter feed (@stroughtonsmith), and now with the help…

By RoryPiper on October 23rd, 2011

With iPhone 4S in the wild now, and with millions of sales, no doubt there are some folks out there coming from a jailbroken device to a non-jailbroken device. I have had my iPhone 4S for almost a week now. I am coping without my jailbreak, but I am going through some withdrawl. Probably the…

By RoryPiper on October 16th, 2011

With the release of iOS 5, comes the ability to set pretty much any sound for anything, in your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Custom SMS tones has been a long awaited feature, but the tones in the iTunes Store are limited. Since text tones are now in .m4r format, the process to create your…

By RoryPiper on October 9th, 2011

Last week’s keynote, brought the news that iOS 5 will be released to the public this Wednesday. iOS 5 brings over 200 new features to your iDevice. Many of these new features seem to be inspired by jailbreak tweaks and apps, so will you still need to jailbreak your iDevice after iOS 5 is released?…

By RoryPiper on January 19th, 2011

Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 4.3 to developers. Features include the WiFi hotspot, as advertised on the Verizon iPhone 4, and more should be revealed as developers open it up and take a look. If you are a developer wanting to test this firmware, the minimum system version required for iOS 4.3 development…

By RoryPiper on January 18th, 2011

There have been some tweaks released, in the jailbreak community, to enable AirPlay to work with 3rd party apps. With the beta release of iOS 4.3, we now know that Apple plans to open up this feature to developers, so that they can add it to there own apps. The are still some cool apps…

By RoryPiper on January 14th, 2011

Some key players in the jailbreak community are feuding again. Members of The iPhone Dev Team and The Chronic Dev Team have been bickering back and forth about who has the best jailbreak and/or unlock for current iDevices. If you follow these folks on Twitter, you know what I’m talking about. In my opinion, this…

By RoryPiper on January 13th, 2011

With the release of iOS 4.3beta1, some details about future features and hardware changes for iOS devices have been uncovered in the iOS 4.3 code. BGR is reporting that the discovery of new multigestures in the iPad firmware, suggests that Apple is moving towards getting rid of the home button. Here’s what BGR reported: We…

By RoryPiper on January 10th, 2011

The iPhone Dev Team have released another beta of Redsnow 0.9.7. This brings the untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 to beta 6. This time they have resolved the Skype and Bluetooth issues. That have been present up to beta 4. (They fixed the Bluetooth issue in beta 5). Also, there is no need for a…