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By Gary Ng on February 1st, 2012

Absinthe v0.4 is now available for download, as noted by @pimskeks. This latest version brings support for OS X 10.5 and PowerPC and Intel Macs. Here’s the full change log: Version 0.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~ – Mac: added support for OSX 10.5, PPC and Intel CPU – added consistency check on startup to make sure required files…

By Usman on February 1st, 2012

Zeppelin is a brand new Cydia tweak from iOS developer jivhg which lets you choose cool custom logos for your iOS device’s status bar by replacing the default carrier name. Once you download and install Zeppelin from Cydia, you will need to respring your device once to get a new tab in the Settings.app. You can easily enable…

By Usman on February 1st, 2012

Corona iOS 5 untethered jailbreak from Chronic Dev Team has received a series of updates in the past 24 hours, the latest being Corona 1.0-8 which reportedly fixes all the major issues reported by numerous jailbreakers. @Saurik (Jay Freeman) has been tweeting about the updates as well and has strongly suggested that all users jailbroken on iOS 5.0.1,…

By Usman on January 31st, 2012

ColoredKnob is a simple new tweak in Cydia which lets you change the color of your ‘Slide To Unlock’ arrow on your iOS device’s lockscreen. By default, when you visit the lockscreen you see the stock Grey colored arrow at the bottom but with ColoredKnob, you can change it to Red or Green. If you don’t…

By Gary Ng on January 29th, 2012

Earlier we told you about a Corona 1.0.6 update to address a DRM issue with iBooks. The iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of redsn0w 0.9.10b5 for download to address these issues: Update #5: redsn0w version b5 incorporates yet another fix for iBooks, this time involving DRM. @planetbeing wrote a utility called “crazeles” that…

By Kris Meador on January 29th, 2012

Jailbreaking has become a lot easier over the years, and the latest instalment for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 is no exception. Using Absinthe v0.3 for these two devices on firmware 5.0.1 is literally as simple as one click of the mouse. To prove it, my first video with iPhoneinCanada shows you just how…

By Usman on January 29th, 2012

A new utility called iOSOpenDev is going to introduce an open source platform for iOS developers containing Xcode templates for creating new Cydia tweaks with little programming knowledge. The iOSOpenDev project will allow users to build common types of jailbreak tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, Notification Center widgets, SBSettings toggles, and Mobile Substrate tweaks….

By Usman on January 29th, 2012

A couple of weeks back, Corona 1.0.5 update was released in Cydia to solve the iBooks crash upon launch issue which majority of users were reporting after applying the untether patch for iOS 5.0.1 on their jailbroken A4 devices. However, the issue was never fully resolved with users reporting randomly disappearing text and images from their installed iBooks…

By Usman on January 29th, 2012

Zephyr, an awesome Cydia tweak from iOS developer Chpwn which brings gesture based multitasking to iPhone and iPod touch allowing users to swipe between applications using left or right swipes and seamlessly move between applications, has just been updated to version 1.1. The latest update brings improved stability and bug fixes as well as a couple of…

By Usman on January 29th, 2012

A new tweak has been recently pushed to Cydia called Vexillum which allows users to customize the background and font colors of the notification banner in iOS 5. The tweak is pretty simply and does what it says by adding new options within the Settings.app. Once you download and install the tweak, Vexillum tab appears in the…