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By Gary Ng on November 10th, 2009

There’s been a lot of hoopla lately about the latest “iPhone worm” that apparently will Rickroll your iPhone. The worm makes its way to your iPhone through SSH, since the default password is “alpine” for every single install of OpenSSH. Now, before you get freaked out, you don’t have much to worry about if your…

By Ex on November 9th, 2009

Before you begin to read, this post ONLY applies to the following iPhone users: Jailbroken iPhone Baseband: 04.26 Firmware: 3.1.2 To check your baseband, on your iPhone to go Settings > General > About and scroll the the bottom beside the title “Modem Firmware”. If you do not have the three points above, please stop…

By Ex on November 5th, 2009

Did you jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone/iPod Touch recently? If not, we have a great guide you can check out here! If you did jailbreak/unlock your iPhone/iPod Touch with Blackra1n and/or Blacksn0w and after the jailbreak/unlock have problems in the areas of WiFi, GPS, and YouTube, we’re here to help! Fix My Everything! Push Notification…

By Gary Ng on November 3rd, 2009

Thanks to the efforts of Geohot, blacksn0w did trend as a topic on twitter and subsequently was released in full force to the internets! What makes this latest unlock impressive is that both PC and Mac users can use blackra1n to jailbreak immediately. No more waiting! blacksn0w Download Now Live and Ready to Unlock Your…

By Gary Ng on November 3rd, 2009

Remember when Geohot posted about unlocking the latest 05.11.07 iPhone baseband? Well, he succeeded in doing so and demonstrated to the world in a short videoclip. He announced the release was going to be on November 4th, but it looks like blacksn0w is going to be available TODAY! blacksn0w Download Will Be Available At Noon…

By RoryPiper on November 1st, 2009

With so many awesome apps available for the iPhone, a lot of folks have the 11 pages of their springboard, all full. One of the best new features in iTunes 9, is the ability to organize your apps, right in iTunes, on your computer. What if you’re one of the many jailbreakers out there, who…

By Gary Ng on October 31st, 2009

Yesterday we posted about Geohot and his attempts to the unlock the latest 05.11.07 baseband. Well, it looks like Geohot has been successful in his efforts! Today he posted a video showing proof that he has indeed unlocked an iPhone on the 05.11.07 baseband. Here is the video: blacksn0w Scheduled to Be Released November 4th…

By Gary Ng on October 30th, 2009

Just a short tidbit for all you iPhone unlockers out there. Earlier this week, revered iPhone hacker, Geohot (maker of the blackra1n jailbreak utility) announced on twitter that he was going to start searching for an exploit for the 05.11.07 baseband (the current iPhone baseband firmware; use PwnageTool 3.1.4 to preserve your baseband!). blacksn0w: The…

By RoryPiper on October 25th, 2009

One of the main reasons people jailbreak their iPhones, is to get the ability to customize the iPhone OS with different themes that can be downloaded from Cydia or, if you have the capability, create yourself. A “revolution” – ary new theme that was released a few weeks ago, by Justin Williams, in the Cydia…

By Gary Ng on October 24th, 2009

If you’ve been into the whole jailbreaking game, you’re probably familiar with Icy and Kate. These two apps are some of the most popular 3rd party apps created by the Ripdev Team. Here’s a brief description of what Ripdev was: Ripdev was a team* dedicated to the development of innovative applications for the iPhone. Started…