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EFF petitions to extend legal iPhone jailbreaking

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2012)

In 2010, the Copyright Office said jailbreaking a handset did not violate the DMCA and the jailbreak community breathed a sigh of relief. What many people didn't realize was that the exemption covering jailbreaking will expire later this year. When ...

Lingual adds Siri language translation to jailbroken iPhones

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 26th, 2012)

Now that we can jailbreak the iPhone 4S, jailbreak developers can finally use Siri in their tweaks. One such tweak is Lingual which adds language translation to our favorite voice assistant. The tweak, available from the Big Boss repository in ...

whited00r gives older iPhones iOS5 features

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 19th, 2012)

Apple devices age well, so well that there are still people using the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. When we think of those phones, we think "classic hardware with older software," but it doesn't have to be that way. For Apple fans with ...

iPhone 4S jailbreak demonstration video

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 16th, 2012)

The A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S is making excellent progress. Chronic dev team member @DHowett posted a video to YouTube that shows an iPhone 4S with an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1. The short video shows Cydia running on the handset ...

Apple reportedly cracking down on App Store pirates

by Steven Sande (Jan 4th, 2012)

According to a post this morning on Ars Technica, Apple is taking legal measures to make it more difficult for pirated copies of App Store apps to make their way to the hands of iOS device owners. The company is sending takedown notices to ...

iPhone 4S/iOS 5 preliminary jailbreak on the way, not yet ready for public consumption

by Steven Sande (Oct 28th, 2011)

OK, jailbreak fans. It's not complete, and it's definitely not widely available, but the first jailbreak for the iPhone 4S is starting to make the rounds. It's actually a jailbreak for iOS 5, and works not only on the iPhone 4S but also the iPad ...

Jailbroken iPhone mod mimics Mac OS X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th, 2011)

Jailbreakers can bring some of OS X Lion to their iPhone and iPod touch. Lion Ultimatum is an advanced Dreamboard theme that includes Lion features like a file manager, dock, Launchpad, Mission Control and more to your iOS device. It's an ...

Redsn0w 0.9.8b7 jailbreak tutorials available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 1st, 2011)

Good news for jailbreakers running iOS 5 Beta 7, latest version of Redsn0w will let you jailbreak your newly updated iOS device. While Redsn0w 0.9.8b7 was released for iOS beta 6, it does suport beta 7. This jailbreak works with any iOS device, ...

iOS 5 beta 6 gets a Sn0wbreeze for Windows jailbreak

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Windows users can jailbreak their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5 beta 6. An updated version of Sn0wbreeze for Windows now supports the latest version of iOS 5 and can jailbreak your iPhone without compromising the baseband. The ...

HTML5 game running on Apple TV

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 8th, 2011)

The Apple TV 2 could become a new platform for playing HTML5-based games and applications. A hacker installed the Couch Surfer browser on a jailbroken Apple TV and used it to play an HTML5 version of BlackJack. The game is rudimentary, but it's ...

Forbes profiles Comex, the hacker behind JailbreakMe

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2011)

The Apple world knows him as Comex, the person who developed JailbreakMe to let iPhone users quickly and easily jailbreak their devices. Now Forbes has outed Comex in a preview of an article that will be published in the magazine later this ...

JailbreakMe fix available for stuck Verizon iPhones

by Dave Caolo (Jul 13th, 2011)

A fix has been released for Verizon iPhones stuck after jailbreaking with JailbreakMe 3.0. Some users found their Verizon iPhones stuck at the white Apple logo after applying the jailbreak. Not to worry, as Comex has provided the following ...

Apple to patch PDF vulnerability in iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 7th, 2011)

Apple said it will issue a patch that will close a PDF hole in iOS. Though this security hole is well known by iOS owners, it made headlines recently when the German government issued a malware warning about this "critical weakness" in Apple's ...

redsn0w tethered jailbreak available for iOS 5 Beta 1

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 10th, 2011)

The iPhone dev released a new version of redsn0w that jailbreaks iOS 5 beta. The release is meant for developers to test their jailbroken apps with Apple's latest mobile operating system. The dev team warns people that this jailbreak will not ...

Biometric face recognition for jailbroken iPhones with RecognizeMe

by Samuel Gibbs (May 18th, 2011)

Have you ever wished your iPhone 4 would recognize your face and let you past the lock screen? RecognizeMe, a facial recognition lock screen tweak for the jailbroken iPhone 4, does just that. Simply hit the RecognizeMe button on the lock ...

Cydia Search lets you search for jailbreak apps from your desktop

by Samuel Gibbs (May 6th, 2011)

Searching for the perfect Jailbreak app in Cydia on the iPhone can be a frustratingly slow experience. Cydia Search from Planet-iPhones.com eases your pain by allowing you to browse through the plethora of Cydia apps by category, repository or ...