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By RoryPiper on December 27th, 2010

The iPhone Dev Team have been teasing an untethered jailbreak for the newest iDevices on iOS 4.2.1, for a while now. The rumour was that Christmas weekend would be the release date. Well, they came really close, and released a beta of Redsn0w to beta tester who have a Mac, and were willing to possibly mess…

By Gary Ng on December 20th, 2010

Last week Erica Sadun created AirPlayer, a program that allowed streaming of video from your iOS device to your Mac. Today, Erica has released AirFlick, which allows streaming of data outside iTunes. Here’s how it works: AirFlick offers the potential of real-time transcoding of otherwise unsupported file types into Apple TV-compatible data. It also allows…

By Gary Ng on December 15th, 2010

Late last week we wrote about antid0te, an upcoming tool that add Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security to your iPhone. Some new information has emerged from the official antid0te.com website. antid0te will not be a new jailbreak tool, but will used with already jailbroken iPhones, and slated for a December 24th release. Below is…

By Gary Ng on December 4th, 2010

A new tweak has appeared in Cydia called Air Home Video. For $0.99, this tweak will bypass the inability of AirPlay in iOS 4.2.1 to stream videos from your camera roll to your Apple TV. Apple really needs to fix this. Don’t forget AirVideoEnabler to stream other videos to your Apple TV. Air Home Video…

By Gary Ng on December 1st, 2010

Well we’ve had AirPrint for a few weeks now but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, other than a few new AirPrint enabled printers it doesn’t really work for most of us. Lets fix that. Regardless of your OS of choice we’re going to show you how to get it working with ANY printer…

By Ex on November 29th, 2010

Pretty much since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, users have wanted to create photo albums on their iPhone. iPhoto on the Mac lets you easily do it, various Windows photo software lets you do it, so why not on iPhone? Currently, the only official way to create and manage photo albums on your…

By Gary Ng on November 28th, 2010

Update 1: If you’re on iOS 4.2.1, and inject the 06.15 iPad baseband, you won’t be able to restore to stock firmware, or downgrade your baseband to 05.xx. Explained by the Dev Team: WARNING — YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!  PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF UPDATING TO 06.15. There is no way to…

By Gary Ng on November 28th, 2010

Update 2: from the Dev Team: There’s an error in the bundle for the iPhone3GS 4.1 that prevents the new baseband from being used.  If you know your way around OSX, please download the fixed bundle, and unzip it if Safari hasn’t already done so.  Then “Show Package Contents” of PwnageTool.app, navigate to Contents->Resources->FirmwareBundles and…

By Gary Ng on November 28th, 2010

The jailbreak community comes up with some amazing stuff. Today the latest tweak is Pull to Refresh for the iPhone’s Mail app. Pull to refresh first came to the iPhone via Loren Brichter’s Tweetie app. Now, that feature is commonplace amongst various iPhone apps (E.G. Facebook app). Pull to Refresh for Mail is something that…

By Ex on November 26th, 2010

When Apple released iOS 4.2, one of the most anticipated features was AirPlay. For those running the latest iOS, AirPlay is essentially a method of streaming digital media from your device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) to another device such as the 2010 AppleTV or AirPlay-enabled speakers. Once in action, AirPlay is really awesome, as users…