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Spirit Jailbreak Released!

It's finally here! Untethered jailbreak for all Apple touch devices! Now your iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rd gen can be jailbroken, without worrying about a reboot, while you're away from your computer.That's right. Untethered. All devices. MC serial number. New bootrom. Everything. Spirit will jailbreak all iDevices at iPhone OS 3.1.3, and 3.2 (iPad)....

How To: Change the Names of Your SMS Tones

Hey, everyone. Rorypiper, again. Got a great tutorial this week, that will show you how to change the names of your SMS tones. Typically, when you download new SMS tones from Cydia, and apply them in Winterboard, you still have the same stock names of the tones, when you go into Settings -> Sounds ->...

Make Your iPhone Look Like an iPad

Since the announcement of Apple's iPad, there have been a few new themes pop up in Cydia, emulating the look of the iPad's UI. This isn't much of a stretch, as the iPad UI is very similar to that of the iPhone and iPod Touch. With some subtle changes to the wallpaper, lockscreen, and dock,...

Notifier: Puts Notifications to iPhone Status Bar

Every time I take a screenshot to review an iPhone App or to broadcast my iPhone's homescreen on the blog, I always get questions about the little icons I have in my iPhone's status bar. You might have seen them too, and been wondering where they are from. The tweak is called Notifier and it's...

Stream Video to Your iPhone with Air Video

Do you find that you never have enough room on your iPhone for all the movies, TV shows, and podcasts you want to carry around? Then Air Video, may be the app you've been looking for. Air Video is a simple app that allows you to stream video from your computer to your iPhone, over...

How to Change the Default SSH Password on Your iPhone

There's been a lot of hoopla lately about the latest "iPhone worm" that apparently will Rickroll your iPhone. The worm makes its way to your iPhone through SSH, since the default password is "alpine" for every single install of OpenSSH. Now, before you get freaked out, you don't have much to worry about if your...

How To Create Your Own “3G” Logo

Hello. RoryPiper here again. This week I've got a "how-to" Winterboard theme, that will allow you to set anything you want as your 3G logo. This will work on Mac or Windows. All you really need is some kind of image editing software, that will allow you to create and export a PNG file, with...

iPhone Theme Review: PogoPlank

One of the main reasons people jailbreak their iPhones, is to get the ability to customize the iPhone OS with different themes that can be downloaded from Cydia or, if you have the capability, create yourself. A "revolution" - ary new theme that was released a few weeks ago, by Justin Williams, in the Cydia...