Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Winterboard Update, Now in Cydia

This one is for all you jailbreakers! A nice update to Winterboard has been released in Cydia. Winterboard is the app used to set themes and changes sounds on your iPhone or iPod Touch. It has been around for quite a while, and very rarely gets updated. Really, why should it? It has always worked fine,...

“Spirit” – A New Userland Jailbreak

On the heels of the Pwn2Own competition, where we heard about two hackers who found a way to hack the iPhone, through an exploit in Mobile Safari, we are already seeing jailbreakers using a similar exploit to create a new jailbreak tool. This comes form a dev known as "comex". If you're a Nintendo Wii...

SpringBoard Rotator for iPhone

Developer limneos has released a new tweak for the iPhone and iPod Touch called “SpringBoard Rotator“. This new tweak brings a little bit of the iPad to the iPhone, in that it allows landscape mode for your entire iPhone interface. Not just within the apps, but on all the springboard pages. Similar to the iPad, you can...

Facebook Video Player for iPhone

One of the biggest gripes people have had with their iPhones is that fact there is no Flash support. This makes a lot of the world wide web un-viewable on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Many sites embed video using Flash, or have Flash games, or are completely built in Flash. This can be frustrating...

Geohot Is Back! Untethered For All!

George Hotz, the original iPhone unlocker, made a quick post on his blog yesterday, showing a new jailbreak. Also known as "Geohot", this hacker is the guy who brought us Blackra1n and Blacksn0w, and also discovered an exploit that could allow for the PS3 to be rooted and modded. He always seems to pop up...

f0recast Released for Mac!

iPhone hackers iH8sn0w have released a Mac version or their popular Windows application, "f0recast". F0recast easily allows you to find out what device you have, what firmware you're running, what baseband you're on, and whether or not you can jailbreak and unlock said device. iH8sn0w released the Windows version a while ago, but now that...

Sn0wbreeze 1.5.2 Released

This week the iH8Sn0w Dev team release version 1.5.2 of their jailbreak software, "Sn0wbreeze". Sn0wbreeze allows Windows users to build a custom software, that you use to restore with in iTunes, to achieve your jailbreak. This new version now supports iPhone OS 3.1.3, and fixes an issue with 64bit systems. You can also use Sn0wbreez...

Cook Gets $5 Million to Fill in for Jobs

Modmyi is reporting today, that Timothy Cook, the guy who covered for Steve Jobs, while he was on medical leave, received a $5 million dollar bonus to take the reigns of Apple for fiscal 2009. These were definitely some big shoes to fill, but it seems the company was very happy with the way Tim...

WiFiFoFum Released for Free, in Cydia

t was recently reported that Apple has started pulling all WiFi finder apps from the App Store, due to an issue with an undocumented, private API being used in some of these apps. Developer Aspecto Software has decided to go the jailbreak route, and release their app, WiFiFoFum in Cydia, for Free.

L5 Remote, for iPhone Coming Soon!

At CES 2010, L5 Technologies announced their "L5 Remote", for iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a universal remote control for the iPhone and iPod Touch, that will control any IR (infrared) device in your home. A small IR transmitter peripheral plugs in to the dock connector of your Apple touch device, and an app...