Tag Archives: iphone jailbreak

My Absinthe Was Very Smooth on the iPhone 4S – How ‘Bout Yours?

by on January 25th, 2012 at 2:54 pm

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

by on January 23rd, 2012 at 12:07 pm

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 …

Zephyr – Jailbreak Tweak Brings iPad’s Slick Multitasking Gestures to iPhone

by on December 30th, 2011 at 3:16 pm

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

by on October 8th, 2011 at 10:17 am

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

by on October 7th, 2011 at 10:42 am

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 …

MobileNotifier beta4 for iPhone now available [Jailbreak]

by on May 4th, 2011 at 10:13 am

Peter Hajas’ MobileNotifier, the most recent alternative iOS notification system for jailbroken users, has reached beta4. The release brings with it a re-imagined lockscreen interface, a doubleheight statusbar notification style, streamlined notification dismissal (e.g. dismissing one Beejive message will dismiss them all), and  “significant performance and bug fixes”. I would …

New GreenPois0n and RubyRa1n Jailbreaks Coming Soon?

by on January 31st, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Our friends over at the iPhone Download Blog have lots of good news for jailbreak fans today. First off, as you can see in the tweet above from Dev Team member MuscleNerd, there is speculation that the brilliant geohot may be getting ready to release a new untethered jailbreak (meaning …

Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 Now Available (for Mac)

by on October 22nd, 2010 at 11:20 am

In amongst all the excitement of Apple’s Back to the Mac event the other day, I spotted that the Dev Team had released their new version of their excellent Pwnage Tool jailbreak package. I just hadn’t had an opportunity to mention it until now. Pwnage Tool – which allows you …

Notified Pro 1.5 for iPhone: adds statusbar icons [Jailbreak]

by on October 5th, 2010 at 9:59 am

Notified 1.5 Pro hit Cydia last night and the biggest change can be seen right in the statusbar (or in the handy dandy screenshot above): icons! Lots of lovely little icons! Basically, what this means is that Notified Pro ($2.99) now provides the basic functionality of other jailbreak apps (or …

Is Jailbreaking Your iPhone a Real Risk?

by on March 10th, 2009 at 5:08 am

This weekend PC Magazine considered the danger of jailbreaking. There are many people who do it, and because of the current popularity of Cydia Store there’s no question more average people want to try the risk. Especially when there are new providers who promise adult stuff. Charlie Miller, principal analyst at …

ZiPhone 3.0 Released

by on March 31st, 2008 at 10:47 am

As you might already know, I’m a huge fan of the ZiPhone iPhone Unlocking/Jailbreaking utility. It’s so easy to use and only takes seconds to run. There’s more good news about ZiPhone today as version 3.0 has been released. It is able to hack any version of firmware from 1.0.0 …