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By Usman on March 15th, 2012

GeoHot, the genius behind the original iPhone jailbreak, was arrested today for possessing marijuana while he was driving to the annual SXSW conference in Austin. On his way to give a talk at SXSW, he reportedly had to pass through a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca where the Department of Homeland Security had drug dogs that…

By RoryPiper on March 13th, 2012

iH8sn0w has released another version of his popular Windows jailbreak tool, Sn0breeze. It now supports AppleTV 2G, on iOS 4.4.3/4.4.4. Added Apple TV 2 support for iOS 4.4.3/4.4.4. Fixed rare issues with iOS 5.0.1 where it would halt on the Apple upon boot. Just adding this in mainly for users who dumped their SHSH blobs….

By Gary Ng on March 12th, 2012

Two heads are better than one, right? Pod2g thinks so, as he has just posted some guidelines on how you can help the jailbreak community by sending in crash reports to discover vulnerabilities in iOS 5.1. Pod2g was the master behind the untethered iOS 5.0.1 A4/A5 jailbreaks. Earlier, he noted he working on finding a…

By RoryPiper on March 12th, 2012

This probably goes without mentioning, but iOS hacker @pod2g has confirmed that he is looking for vulnerabilities in iOS 5.1. He is the hacker who has found vulnerabilities in previous iOS versions, which eventually led to an untethered jailbreak in some cases. The Absinthe jailbreak for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S was based on exploits…

By Gary Ng on March 12th, 2012

We’ve heard from many of you that newly released iOS 5.1 has resulted in better battery life, as promised by Apple. The question remains–are you willing to lose your iOS 5.0.1 Absinthe jailbreak to get access to increased battery life in iOS 5.1? The A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S was a long time coming….

By Usman on March 11th, 2012

We’ve recently published a guide on how to install the new iPhoto for iOS app on the original iPad which is not natively supported by Apple and now, we have another tutorial to help you bypass the iOS 5.1 restriction for installing iPhoto and the latest iMovie update on your jailbroken iOS 5.0.1 devices. As…

By Usman on March 11th, 2012

While there are presently a couple of other methods too which allow Siri installation on un-supported iOS devices, the advantage of i4Siri hack is that it does not need an iPhone 4S at hand or require a proxy server setup for installation. i4Siri is currently in beta and supports features like time, timer, notes, www search, dictation,…

By Usman on March 10th, 2012

The Dev Team has already released an update to Redsn0w following the public release of iOS 5.1 earlier this week and now, Windows exclusive jailbreak tool Sn0wbreeze has been updated to support Apple’s latest firmware. Sn0wbreeze v2.9.2 can now jailbreak iOS 5.1 on A4 devices by creating custom jailbroken firmware files. Newer devices with A5 chip i.e…

By RoryPiper on March 9th, 2012

Each year, Apple holds the WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference), to get the developers together and show off some new products that are soon to be released. Well, the jailbreak community has started getting their developers together to share ideas and celebrate the modding/hacking community. The WWJC (World Wide Jailbreak Convention) comes to San Francisco…

By Usman on March 8th, 2012

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 5.1 for all supported iOS devices and as always, Dev Team folks have been quick enough to push an update to their popular jailbreak tool as well i.e Redsn0w 0.9.10b6. The latest Redsn0w brings iOS 5.1 jailbreak support for iPhone 3GS / iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G / iPod touch 4G and the…