Normally when you wait for Snowbreeze (or your favorite jailbreaking tool of choice) to do its thing, you have to stare at the screen and generally count the seconds by. But with the latest Snowbreeze 2.2 (release date unknown), you can now play an old classic while you wait — Pac-Man. Other important updates with Snowbreeze 2.2 include the ability to preserve your baseband for the path to 4.2.1, enabling users to continue jailbreaking the new firmwares. Stay...

The Chronic Dev Team is back with their latest attempt to restore balance and harmony to Apple’s uber-strict world of iOS with the latest Greenpois0n, untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. The “untethered” verbiage means you don’t have to hook up to your computer and re-run the jailbreak each time you power cycle the device. The jailbreak is compatible on the big three — Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. **Currently, the jailbreak is only...

PS3 owners who haven’t yet upgrade to firmware 3.56 need to seriously consider holding off for the time being. Reports are starting to circulate that Sony is back to their old ways — attaching rootkits to their official updates/products. A rootkit is basically a snippet of code that allows a third party/remote entity load code onto a particular device. If you recall, Sony pulled such stunt a few years back with 52 different music CDs. That move resulted in a...

Apple may know a thing or two about designing beautiful, intuitive user interfaces, but that doesn’t mean other competitors don’t get it right every once in a while as well. Windows Phone 7 in particular is more or less the polar opposite of Apple’s mobile OS. Instead of bright and flashy, WP7 is subdued and extremely minimal in design — truly unique in the modern smartphone world. It is so unique in fact that many people want to port the...

It wasn’t but a few short articles ago (ok, one article ago) that we noted Geohotz’ legal woes and the initial goal by Sony — to basically ruin him for life. But more exciting than that depressing affair is news that the very same PS3 firmware that was pushed out early, and the one Sony is urging PS3 owners to update to as it features a new security patch, has been jailbroken. The update is really minor in actuality as it features nothing more than a new...