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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 it expires, companies can go after jailbreak ...

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 Cydia, lets you say "Siri, What is how are you in ...

Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 20th, 2012)

After months of work, Pod2g, the iPhone Dev Team and the Chronic Dev Team released the untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S. The jailbreak tool, Absinthe, is compatible with the iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406) and the iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1. ...

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 and the phone resetting without the need to connect ...

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 Apptrackr, a site that commonly directs users to ...

Proof of concept: iOS apps on jailbroken Apple TV

by Michael Rose (Jan 2nd, 2012)

If you're eager for the possibilities for a fully app-enabled Apple TV, the jailbreak hacker geniuses are right there with you. Last week saw some proof of concept demonstrations from Steve Troughton-Smith and @TheMudkip, featuring native applications running on the iOS-based settop ...

Use iFaith v1.4 to downgrade to iOS 5.0

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 5th, 2011)

The jailbreakers among you are probably anxiously awaiting the first untethered iOS 5 jailbreak promised by pod2g and MuscleNerd. However, if you've upgraded to iOS 5.0.1, you'll be out of luck because the first untethered jailbreak will be for iOS 5.0 only. Nothing later. In iOS 4 and ...

Chronic Dev team releases C-Dev Reporter tool

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 28th, 2011)

As noted by RedmondPie the Chronic Dev Team, the people behind the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool, have released a beta of a new tool which aims to circumvent iOS crash reports being sent to Apple and instead funnels them to the Chronic Dev Team. The tool, called C-Dev Reporter, aims to notify ...

iOS 5.0.1 For iPhone, iPad, iPod touch can be jailbroken with Redsn0w

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 11th, 2011)

For the jailbreakers among you, you'll be happy to hear that iOS 5.0.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch can indeed be jailbroken with Redsn0w. RedmondPie has tested and confirmed that Apple's latest version of iOS 5 can be tether-jailbreaked by using the latest version of Redsn0w. Redmond does ...

Panorama mode for camera found buried within iOS 5 code

by Chris Rawson (Nov 8th, 2011)

Numerous third-party camera apps already exist on the App Store which allow users to stitch together multiple photos into a panoramic image. 360 Panorama is the best example I can think of, and it does a really good job of creating panoramas from multiple images. It seems Apple considered ...

Siri hacked to work on jailbroken iPhone 4 and iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Oct 29th, 2011)

iPhone experts Steven Troughton-Smith and chpwn seem to have just gotten the iPhone 4S-only Siri working on jailbroken iPhone 4 and current-gen iPod touch units this evening. This bypasses earlier authentication issues. They tweeted their success and posted a screen shot showing Siri working ...

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 2. iClarified reported that the iPhone Dev-Team ...

Siri being tested in jailbroken iPad 1

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 24th, 2011)

It's been ten days since Siri hit the scene and the virtual assistant is in the process of being torn apart by the hacking community. Siri, as it exists on the iPhone 4S, has been ported to the iPhone 4 and now the iPad 1. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith, who worked on the iPhone 4 port, ...

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 ambitious project started by a college freshman. If ...

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, except the iPad 2. There's a few points to keep ...