Jailbreak

Earlier we wrote about Jay Freeman, aka 'Saurik' updating Cydia to a newer and faster version. Saurik released Cydia 1.1 today and announced it on twitter: Cydia 1.1: faster, slimmer, and more stable; including an improved search algorithm and "resume where you left off". Available in Cydia now! How to upgrade/install Cydia 1.1 on your...

The folks at Tawkon had developed an app that determines SAR levels from phones, and had been in discussions with Apple executives about the app, only to have it denied by Steve Jobs. The response was short, typical of a "Steve-mail": No interest. Sent from my iPhone Hey, when the CEO of Apple tells you...

The creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman aka 'Saurik', announced on twitter a couple days ago Cydia now has improved launch times. His tweaking over three months has resulted in slightly faster response times, as seen in the following graphs: Saurik accomplished this via the following: Just switched Cydia's www over to the new "CDN->ELB" stack...

@i0n1c, aka Stefan Esser previously revealed to the world his untethered iOS 4.3 jailbreak on his iPad. Esser has added an update via his YouTube video that the ETA for releasing his untethered jailbreak would be 'before next weekend': Because so many people are asking for an ETA: I am pretty sure that the untether...

With Apple's release of the iPad 2, some of the exploits used to create jailbreak tools for iOS have been patched. According to Canadian iPhone hacker iH8sn0w, the Limera1n exploit has been closed: Muscle Nerd from the iPhone Dev Team also confirmed the SHAtter exploit has been closed by Apple as well. SHAtter was an...

Yesterday we saw the video of an untethered iOS 4.3 jailbreak by German security expert, Stefan Esser (@i0n1c). The exploit he used is a "buffer overflow in the kernel heap" (someone translate this for me), and has not been discovered yet by Apple. @i0n1c Says an Early iOS 4.3 Jailbreak Release Will Burn Exploit With...

Update 1: @i0n1c stated back on February 15th he was anticipating the release of iOS 4.3 so he could release his untether. Signs are looking good folks...http://antid0te.com/ The day after iOS 4.3 was released early by Apple, an untethered jailbreak video has been posted on the web. Stefan Esser from Cologne Germany, who goes by...

Apple released iOS 4.3 GM to developers last week and recently a few unofficial tutorials have popped up on the web detailing how to jailbreak this GM seed. Big Boss just detailed on his blog a warning to get people to avoid jailbreaking iOS 4.3 GM as it will mess up MobileSubstrate, a requirement for...

Did you update to the latest iPhone version of twitter? Then you probably noticed the new Quick Bar. Personally, I don't like it. The bar gets in the way of scrolling for tweets and reduces the size of my timeline. iOS developer @chpwn appears to have felt the same way. He just created a tweak...

Let's be honest: iOS notification are long overdue for improvement. Currently I use Boxcar, one of the best ways to keep track of my email and twitter notifications. Now, there's a hot tweak called MobileNotifier (beta 3 release) via Cydia that makes notifications unobtrusive and allows you to keep using existing apps. An elegant bar...

If you're an existing user of XBMC (formerly XBOX Media Centre), you'll be happy to know that it has been ported over to iOS, for jailbroken iPhones (and iPads). XBMC allows for a world of possibilities on your iPhone. The XBMC team ported an iOS version just yesterday, and is compatible with all A4 iOS...

If you have not already jailbroken your iPhone, please get on it, because you're missing out on some fantastic tweaks, like Animatr! Animatr is another one of those really cool jailbreak tweaks that come around every little while. It is a visual jailbreak tweak that brings really neat animated transitions to your iPhone home screen....