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By Ex on August 23rd, 2010

This month, an Apple patent application that has been made public indicates that the company is looking to identify “unauthorized” users of iOS devices. The patent details how some activities on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch could be identified as “suspicious behaviour” leading to unauthorized device use. Specifically Apple details how facial, voice, or…

By Ex on August 23rd, 2010

The multitasking feature found in iOS 4 is great to quickly switch between apps without having to actually close the app. However, Apple’s multitasking always seemed to lack that Apple finesse. After recently jailbreaking my iPhone 4, I came across Multifl0w, an app that adds a great multitasking interface to iOS 4 (or iOS 3.2…

By Ex on August 12th, 2010

This week, Apple announced that iOS developers can begin to create metadata for Game Center leaderboards and achievements. Game Center is Apple’s new social gaming initiative which will collectively track the progress of iOS game achievements. Similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, Game Center achievements are rewards for players who accomplish a task such as…

By Ex on August 11th, 2010

Today Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4 (iPod touch 2G/3G too). This is a minor update to firmware 4.0 that addresses a recent security vulnerability in the way Safari handles PDF files. iOS 4.0.2 also patches the JailbreakMe.com browser hack. Below are the updates in firmware 4.0.2: Fixes security vulnerability…

By Ex on August 7th, 2010

With the recent release of beta 3 of iOS 4.1, a major find was revealed regarding FaceTime on other iOS devices. The most recent iOS beta reveals a new option in the “Contacts” app that allows users to make FaceTime calls using a phone number or an email address. Currently FaceTime supports phone numbers only….

By Ex on August 6th, 2010

This week, the discussion boards at Apple’s online support site have seen an increasing number of users posting problems regarding iOS 4 on the iPhone 3GS. Despite the public outcry, Apple claims it has not received any reports of problems with iOS 4 on iPhone 3GS. However, after updating to iOS 4, some iPhone 3GS…

By Ex on August 5th, 2010

On Wednesday, it was noted that Apple was aware and investigating the vulnerability in mobile Safari that has allowed users to easily jailbreak their iDevice. The security hole, which exploits a flaw in mobile Safari, allows a remote site to gain control over a user’s device. In the case of the new JailbreakMe website, the…

By Ex on August 4th, 2010

This past weekend marked the release of a new web-based jailbreak for iOS devices that offered users a free and extremely simple method to jailbreak their iDevices. Some will remember the website JailbreakMe.com from the 2007 days of iPhone. Well, JailbreakMe.com was released again this weekend for iOS 3.2 and higher devices. The new jailbreak…

By Ex on August 3rd, 2010

Apple today has released another version of iOS 4 to developers. iOS 4.1 Beta 3 has the following changes: The SDK is build 10M2308 and the firmware is build 8B5097d. There are five distinct downloads, one each for the iPhone 4/3GS/3G and iPod Touch 2G/3G. This latest build, which comes exactly a week since the…

By Ex on August 3rd, 2010

One of the earlier keyboard hacks that was released for the iPhone was the ability to use Emoji, or ‘emoticons’, when typing. Emoji allowed iPhone owners to send each other little smiley faces and other unique characters in emails, SMS, notes, and more. The stock iOS 4.0/4.0.1 firmware once again continues to disable Emoji. So,…