Jailbreak

Tired of seeing those large iPhone icons on the springboard? How about you would like to have the option to customize the icons to be smaller, or even really tiny? Well now you can! Thanks to Paul Griffin and his development of Shrink. Shrink those icons down! Shrink downscales your springboard icons so that you...

As you may have heard, a new beta version of the iPhone Dev Team's easy jailbreak tool, redsn0w 0.9, has been released. It jailbreaks all Apple touch devices, on firmware 3.0 and 3.1.2, except iPod Touch 3rd gen, but this will be fixed when it is out of beta. It is available for Mac and Windows....

Great news for the iPhone community! Earlier today MuscleNerd annouced the realese of redsn0w 0.9Beta3. As you may know, redsn0w is a cross-platform jailbreaking, unlocking, and customizing tool for iPhones and iPod Touch which now supports FW3.1.2. (Keep in mind that this release is still BETA and you may come across some bugs) UPDATE: Need...

When I got my iPhone 3G back in July 2008, the first thing I did was jailbreak it. I did this because of all of the awesome stuff you could do which I had learned from jailbreaking/unlocking my iPhone 2G. When the iPhone 3GS came out, I chose not to jailbreak simply because most of...

Developers iH8Sn0w had released a public beta to their upcoming jailbreak tool, "Sn0wbreeze". This is basically the iPhone Dev Team's Pwnalge Tool, ported to Windows. Sn0wbreeze will jailbreak and hacktivate iPhone 2G, 3G, and 3GS, except the ones with the newer bootrom, and any serial number starting with MC. It will also jailbreak iPod Touch...

In other jailbreaking news, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has announced that a version of PwnageTool is to be ported to Windows and Linux. Previously, PwnageTool was only Mac compatible. PwnageTool allows users to build custom .IPSW, or iPhone firmware, files. This method of jailbreaking is sometimes seen as more reliable and foolproof against...

Good news for iPhone/iPod Touch jailbreakers. MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team, reported that he has recovered the source code to redsn0w and is now considering updating the jailbreaking software to support iPhone OS 3.1.2. As previous redsn0w users know, the jailbreaking program is extremely simple to use to hack the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS...

If you've been looking for reasons to jailbreak your iPhone, you can add this to your list. If your iPhone is (or will be) jailbroken, you can now use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone! The hack is enabled via a Bluetooth Keyboard driver that is available from Cydia. The full version is not yet...

This past week, Zod released "nes4iPhone". His newest Nintendo emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app emulates the original NES, featuring games like ExciteBike, Super Mario Bros., and Punchout. The coolest thing about this emulator is, it features WiiMote support! Yeah, you can sync a WiiMote with your iPhone, via Bluetooth!! You can...

The iPhone Dev Team has created quite the gem with their custom iPhone firmware tool, PwnageTool. The downfall though? It is only availabe for OSX, which leaves out a huge chunk of iPhone users on the PC. Well, Sn0wbreeze is coming to town fairly soon and it is the Windows equivalent of PwnageTool. It is...

One of the iPhone's shortfalls compared to others out there is the inability to run 3rd party apps in the background. Now, this is possible if your iPhone is jailbroken, since you can bypass this by installing Backgrounder. This will enable you to run any app in the background, such as streaming radio, while you...

With Bell and Telus now selling the iPhone (along with Rogers & Fido), Apple will continue to sell billions of these phones in Canada during Christmas and the holidays. Along with the influx of these new iPhone owners, online forums will get flooded with the same old questions since the first gen iPhone. Review: Not...