Jailbreak
My Absinthe Was Very Smooth on the iPhone 4S – How ‘Bout Yours?
It’s been a little while for me on the jailbreak front, but I have to say the Absinthe jailbreak on my iPhone 4S has been one of the smoothest I can remember. I did not do a restore or anything special prior to applying Absinthe (I had a relatively recent …
Siri Doesn’t Understand ‘Is Cydia Installed?’- But It Is
And that post title is my way of saying that my iPhone 4S has joined the ranks of jailbroken iOS devices. I was a little under the weather on Friday when the lovely new Absinthe untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released, but I got a chance …
Shiny New Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Out Now
Today should be a very happy day for iOS jailbreakers, thanks to those clever guys at Chronic Dev Team. They have released a new (and the first) untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. As a little icing on the jailbreak cake the new jailbreak has a …
Whited00r Brings New iOS Features to Legacy 2nd & 3rd Gen iOS Devices
How cool would it be to be able to enjoy some of the latest, greatest iOS features on older 2nd and 3rd gen iOS devices? Whited00r is a new custom (jailbreak) firmware that offers to help you do just that, to bring some of the latest iOS features to older …
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S Coming Soon, Demoed on Video
Looks like an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S will be released very soon. Today an iOS hacker called pod2g released the YouTube video above – which offers a demo of this upcoming iPhone 4S jailbreak. It shows the iPhone 4S being rebooted and coming back up with Cydia still …
Zephyr – Jailbreak Tweak Brings iPad’s Slick Multitasking Gestures to iPhone
Zephyr is a very cool new jailbreak tweak from chpwn, one of the leading jailbreak developers. It brings iPad-like multitasking gestures to the iPhone – so you can pull up the multitasking / app switching bar with just a swipe and swipe to move between recently used apps, by just …
Jailbreakme.com Domain Safe Again, Transferred to Saurik
Yesterday I posted about Dev Team member MuscleNerd alerting us that the jailbreakme.com domain had changed hands and was viewed as being entirely untrusted and unsafe. Today there is good news on this. As you can see in the tweets from Saurik (creator and owner of Cydia and also a …
Jailbreakme.com Now Untrusted, Ripe for Malware – Per the Dev Team
As you can see in the tweet above from Dev Team member MuscleNerd, it appears that the jailbreakme.com website has changed ownership. More importantly, under its new ownership it is deemed: absolutely unknown, untrusted, and unsafe. in perfect place for iPhone malware That’s a real shame to hear, but MuscleNerd’s …
Dev Team Member MuscleNerd Vists Apple
Well there’s a tweet you don’t see every day, or expect to see on any day. MuscleNerd, Dev Team member and a leading figure in the jailbreak community, made a visit to Apple’s headquarters last Friday. And was duly impressed apparently: That’s very cool that Apple used MuscleNerd for his …
Man Behind JailbreakMe.com Hired as Apple Intern
As we’ve reported here before, JailbreakMe.com makes it incredibly easy for a user to jailbreak their iOS device simply by visiting the site. The man behind the service was simply known as Comex, and he made a surprising announcement today via Twitter: It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also …
iOS 4.3.4 Released – Patches Exploit Used in Latest Jailbreak
Apple has released iOS 4.3.4 (and iOS 4.2.9 for the Verizon iPhone) today – the latest updates to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch operating system. These updates were promised by Apple a week ago and their primary purpose is to patch (fix) a PDF-related security vulnerability in iOS that …