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By Gary Ng on October 4th, 2011

MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has announced the release of redsn0w 0.9.9b2 for Mac/PC, to jailbreak iOS 5 GM, which was seeded to developers today. Update #10: Version 0.9.9b2 has been released with fixes and enhancements related to: Verizon iPhone4 firmware detection, Fix Recovery, Stitching, and blob processing. If you encountered a problem with…

By Usman on October 2nd, 2011

A brand new tweak has just made it to the Cydia store called PhotoEdit. As the name implies, it allows you to edit your photos but unlike many other apps, this tweak brings all the basic photo editing functions straight to your iPhone’s native Photos.app. It is quite a handy tweak because you don’t need to…

By Usman on September 27th, 2011

If I’m ever asked to state the single reason why I jailbreak my iOS devices, I would simply say “to install SBSettings”. Its really that damn good! Of all the thousands of tweaks, both free and paid available on Cydia today, SBSettings is perhaps the most frequently used. With this awesome tweak, a simple swipe at…

By Usman on September 21st, 2011

Intelliborn has just updated its popular tethering app MyWi with full support for upcoming iOS 5 firmware update. MyWi is a jailbreak app available in Cydia store which allows users to enable wireless tethering on any carrier and take full advantage of their mobile data plan by turning their iPhones into WiFi hotspots. MyWi 5.0 can be downloaded for a price of…

By Usman on September 19th, 2011

Couple of days back, @MuscleNerd of Dev-Team made an announcement on twitter regarding an upcoming major Redsn0w jailbreak tool overhaul. Today, that update has been released which brings tons of new features. Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 supports all current iOS devices except the iPad 2 and can jailbreak iOS 5, iOS 4.3.5 as well as iOS 4.3.3 among…

By Gary Ng on September 18th, 2011

In cased you missed it, MyGreatFest (now known as JailbreakCon) took place on September 17th in London, and featured some amazing presentations from speakers such as Saurik (Jay Freeman, the founder of Cydia), p0sixninja (Joshua Hill from the Chronic Dev Team), and more. iPhoneinCanada.ca was a sponsor of the event and if you want to…

By Usman on September 18th, 2011

Just minutes ago, @posixninja of the Chronic-Dev Team has tweeted that people interested in working for them can submit their CVs to admin@chronic-dev.com. To refresh your memory, Chronic-Dev Team is a group of iOS hackers/enthusiasts from all over the world. The team was established in 2009 and over time they have produced many jailbreak tools including the…

By Usman on September 18th, 2011

We all know master iOS jailbreaker Nicholas Allegra a.k.a @Comex was hired by Apple as an intern a few weeks ago. But looking at a picture (shown below) tweeted by Dev-Team member @MuscleNerd, it seems as if Apple is trying to grab another iPhone hacking genius ahead of the iOS 5 / iPhone 5 launch. He tweeted this photo during his recent trip…

By Usman on September 18th, 2011

The creator of Cydia Jay Freeman a.k.a. @Saurik, explained during his speech at the world’s first jailbreak convention MyGreatFest in London why Cydia for Mac OS X Lion has not yet been released even though he had announced creating a new version of MobileSubstrate called “CydiaSubstrate” compatible with both iOS as well as Mac OS. According to FSM, Freeman said that: People can…

By Usman on September 17th, 2011

A couple of days back, Chronic Dev Team member @pod2g revealed how their team was closing in on an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5 on all current devices, though it won’t be released until after the public release of iOS 5. But now at MyGreatFest, the world’s first iOS jailbreak convention, another key member of his team @P0sixninja…