Looking for cool widgets to stuff in iOS 5′s Notification Center drawer, stuff that Apple hasn’t made available yet? Your only avenue for such ventures at this point is to jailbreak. Sorry but that’s just how it is. Some may not like going the non-Apple approved route. But until Apple releases more widgets into the App Store jailbreaking is all we’ve got. With that said, just think how awesome it would be to get tweaks such as...
iPhone 4 users grabbed most of iOS 5′s awesomeness this past Wednesday save for one very intriguing feature — Siri. The voice recognition and “personal assistant” was deemed not suitable for the single-core iPhone 4. Calling Apple’s bluff were legions of iPhone 4 users and iOS hackers citing the device was plenty capable. Varying opinions aside, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has managed to get Siri up and running albeit with a one major...
iOS 5 is still what many would consider a virgin and already its defenses have been compromised by none other than the iPhone Dev-Team, hackers extraordinaire. Before you get too excited there a few things worth stressing. First and foremost, the new iOS 5 jailbreak is tethered-only for now. Second: The iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are not supported. Still, for an iOS release that’s barely 12 hours old getting at least some hacked functionality is something, isn’t...
Huge news in the Jailbreak scene, MuscleNerd has Tweeted an upcoming version of redns0w will give us the ability to create custom IPSWs. If you are familiar with the PwnageTool on Mac OSX, you’ll be familiar with the pros of having this done for you. For those that count and rely on a carrier unlock, keeping your iPhone’s BaseBand at an unlockable version is key. Bringing this to the speedily redsn0w utility will be a big win, especially for those on...
Sony, Sony, Sony. New reports are circulating around the web this morning that many a PSN user will surely not want to hear: Sony has been hacked attacked. Again. But before you get all bent out of shape and launch your PS3 through a window we must stress that it’s far less severe than back in April. Much less in fact. According Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, the Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online...
After our post earlier warning everyone, via MuscleNerd, to steer clear of jailbreakme.com because of the new owner, we were all left wondering the future of the extremely popular domain. Of course, the tool can be ported, but jailbreakme.com has been around for a long time now, and it will go down as the site that was first able to jailbreak the iPad 2. We might not have to worry about directing our iDevices to any other domain, as Saurik has given us the latest info...
