Jailbreak

Stefan Esser, aka @i0n1c became famous worldwide with his contribution to the untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak. Stefan took the time to exploit iOS, and passed on his findings to the iPhone Dev Team to implement it into their existing jailbreak tools. Now, @i0n1c has revealed his jailbreak hardware used exploit iOS in his detailed paper...

Here comes another simple yet handy Cydia tweak called Magnifier For Safari. As the name implies, the tweak works with MobileSafari allowing you to adjust the font size of viewed web pages for easy reading. Once you download and install Magnifier, you will see a new button “Adjust FontSize” added to “Add Bookmark”, “Add to Home Screen”...

iOS developer Vertex has just released a brand new tweak for all jailbroken iPhones and iPods called FolderIcons which brings the ability to customize iOS folder icons. Normally, each iOS folder icon is made of folder background image and thumbs of icons in folder. However, this simple tweak allows you to set your custom icon for selected...

Apple seeded iOS 5 beta 7 to the developers yesterday and it didn't take our Canadian homeboy iH8sn0w much long to update his Windows exclusive jailbreak tool. Sn0wbreeze 2.8b7 has just been released and is now available for download with full support for tethered iOS 5 beta 7 jailbreak on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod touch 3G and...

The Dev-Team has just released another update to their iOS jailbreak tool. The latest version is Redsn0w 0.9.8b which brings support for iOS 5 beta 6 and iOS 4.3.5 IPSW. Previously there was a bug recognizing the two IPSW files but the latest version is now fully compatible. Once again though the jailbreak is tethered for...

The hacker Comex is widely known for his popular JailbreakMe jailbreaks. He has been profiled by Forbes, and also won a 2011 Pwnie Award for 'Best Client Side Bug'. More recently, he tweeted out of his upcoming internship at Apple. Now, Comex has posted a Q&A on Reddit, answering questions from users about his experience...

Cydia is the reason we all jailbreak our iDevices right? Whenever we see the Cydia icon on our iPhone, iPod or iPad's homescreen after performing a successful jailbreak, it brings a smile on our face! Developed by Jay Freeman also known as Saurik, Cydia allows us to find and install thousands of tweaks, software packages including apps, interface...

A brand new tweak called PlayAwake in the Cydia store that allows you to do something which Apple should have included in iOS 5 or even before that. The tweak lets you use any song from your iPod music library and set it as an alarm from within the native Clock app. Once you download and install...

Nicholas Allegra a.k.a @Comex, the creator of user-land iOS jailbreaks such as Spirit and web based JailbreakMe, has been hired by Apple as an intern. Comex made the announcement on Twitter just recently and says he would be starting his new job the week after next. Well, it does sound kinda weird as he would be...

It appears Jay Freeman a.k.a. "Saurik", the creator of the Cydia jailbreak store, has filed a lawsuit to acquire the domain cydia.com from a company named Cykon, as reported by Domain Name Wire. Freeman's first attempt to acquire the domain failed as it was determined Cydia.com was registered in 2002, years before the creation of...

Heads up guys! MuscleNerd has just announced the release of  RedSn0w 0.9.8b6 "JetBlue Edition" which supports tethered iOS 5 beta 6 jailbreak on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G and iPad 1. No love for iPad 2 once again since the current Limera1n jailbreak exploit used in both Sn0wbreeze and Redsn0w...

Apple pushed iOS 5 beta 6 to the developers a couple of days back and we already have our first working jailbreak solution. iH8sn0w has just released Sn0wbreeze v2.8 b6 with full jailbreak support for iOS 5 beta 6. Like the previous release, this one also adds the ability to remove device UDID checks which means...