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The above video shows an Expose-like app running on an iPhone. This app makes it much easier to find an app by displaying all of your home screens in one view. This feature will be coming to Jailbroken iPhones soon. Let's hope Apple sees this and possibly implements it in a future update. Via Engadget .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/15/2009 09:22:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, iphone 3GS, iphone os, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/14/2009 11:02:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"The nation’s cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices — that’s what Apple claims.
A jailbroken iPhone is a weapon of mass disruption, Apple claims.
The Copyright Office is considering a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to legalize the widespread practice of jailbreaking, in which iPhone owners hack their devices to accept software that hasn’t been approved for distribution through the iPhone App Store. Apple made the claim in comments filed last week with the agency.
The company’s filing explained that jailbreaking could allow hackers to altering the iPhone’s BBP — the “baseband processor” software, which enables a connection to cell phone towers.
By tinkering with this code, “a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,” Apple wrote the government. “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result." Via Wired .
I thought we moved passed using "threat to national security" on things that don't actually have a threat. Sounds like it's more of a threat to Apple's App Store.
Labels: apple, iphone, jailbreak
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/31/2009 12:48:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: iphone 3GS, jailbreak, unlock
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/26/2009 08:52:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Your application duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion."
The jailbreaking community has actually grown since Apple began allowing 3rd party applications to run on the iPhone OS. Cydia , the installer app that runs on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touch has announced that beginning today Cydia is opening its own App Store where developers will be able to sell and distribute their applications.
This news will definitely anger Apple, but hopefully it'll show them that developers and customers want to be able to create and purchase applications that add functionality not allowed or available due to Apple's choosing.
Copy/Paste is reason enough to jailbreak ;)
Labels: app store, iphone, iphone 3G, iphone os, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 3/07/2009 05:44:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Copy and Paste wasn't a high priority for Apple in the iPhone OS, but it's a feature that many people need in a smartphone. Leave it to the developers creating applications for Jailbroken iPhones to come up with a solution. Clippy allows you to copy and paste through out all of the iPhone stock applications (Safari, Mail, Text, etc.) and some applications from the App Store (I used Zenbe above). Clippy can be found on the Cydia app.
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/20/2009 09:11:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"A group called the iPhone Dev Team released a free piece of software called 'yellowsn0w' that unlocks the iPhone 3G. The software lets users reprogram the phones so they can work on any wireless network based on the same technical standard," Kane reports.
"An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the iPhone Dev Team's work, only saying that Apple doesn't support unlocked iPhones in the U.S. Apple offers such phones in Germany and Hong Kong "where government regulation requires it" but they usually come at a steep price," Kane reports. "Software programmers have been trying to unlock the iPhone 3G since it came out last July." Via MacDailyNews .
Labels: hack, iphone 3G, jailbreak, unlock
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/04/2009 09:48:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, software, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/16/2008 09:58:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Addition released their application iPhoneModem Saturday through the MMi Cydia source. They describe it as "an application for the iPhone that aims at making it really easy to use the iPhone's internet connection on your computer," and they deliver.
iPhoneModem makes tethering a 10 second process. For those of you running OS X Leopard (iPhoneModem is actively working on the desktop client for MacOS 10.4 and Microsoft Windows, as well as a 1.x iPhone version of the app), you simply install their Leopard app (200kb .dmg direct download), open it, and press connect. This will automatically create an ad-hoc network named iPhoneModem on your Mac." To get more information about iPhoneModem head over to ModMyiFone .
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, software
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/13/2008 06:27:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
That was fast! Apple released the iPhone 2.1 firmware yesterday and the iPhone Dev Team has just released the Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn to allow jailbreaking on firmware 2.1. I used it on my iPhone 3G and it was a success.
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/13/2008 12:56:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"We’ve just had word that our friends at RiPDev almost have Installer 4 (Beta) ready for public beta release, with that awesome news we’ve decided to include it in the PwnageTool 2.0.2 release, we are waiting for the software from them and we need to quickly test and add a small couple of changes that go alongside Installer.
Usually we don’t give release dates, this is so we don’t feel pressured into releasing something if it isn’t ready, or we can hold off if something comes up in the last minute (last time this was the addition of the 3G jailbreak), today we thought we were releasing, and you guys seemed restless (we read the comments) so we said “sometime today”.
We think the Installer 4 beta is big news, and I’m sure lots of you guys want it and because of this the release should now take place sometime tomorrow (Friday), we want to do all this in one hit, we don’t want to make two releases in two day."
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/08/2008 09:41:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Who said all the great apps are on the App Store? "Am I Rich" (not to be confused with "I am Rich") is a new application for Jailbroken iPhone users from BigBoss . You get all the features of the $999.99 app without spending the cash. Doesn't it feel good to pay less...
(Installed on my 1st generation, Jailbroken, unlocked iPhone.)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/07/2008 09:23:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
The iPhone DevTeam has announced that the Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 will be released today allowing Jailbreaking of iPhone firmware 2.0.1.
"PwnageTool 2.0.2 is undergoing final checks and will be packaged, signed and should be uploaded within the next few hours, so count on it being released sometime on Thursday. This will be available via the PwnageTool software updater that is built in and checked when you start PwnageTool, we’ll also publish a link here for direct downloads.
* As always PwnageTool 2.0.2 contains Cydia, in fact it contains a new version of Cydia with some bugfixes and other general goodness, thanks saurik!
* Installer 4 isn’t released by RiPDev as yet so PwnageTool 2.0.2 does not include installer.app - check out the RiPDev blog for the latest information.
* WinPwn uses compatible bundles (as provided by Planetbeing’s XPwn code), so we anticipate that WinPwn will be updated soon after our PwnageTool release, so Windows users shouldn’t have to wait too long! Please remember the DevTeam doesn’t provide end-user support for WinPwn!"
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/07/2008 11:14:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
The iPhone Dev Team has released the Pwnage Tool 2.0 . The tool will allow you to jailbreak and install 3rd party apps on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPhone 3G running 2.0 firmware.
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/19/2008 08:25:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Gizmodo is reporting that the iPhone Dev Team has announced that the Pwnage Tool that will be released very soon will not unlock the iPhone 3G. The good news is the tool will be able to Jailbreak the iPhone 3G, allowing you to run 3rd party applications as well as the App Store. The original iPhone with firmware 2.0 installed will be able to be unlocked and Jailbroken.
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/17/2008 11:29:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
The iPhone Dev Team has posted a screenshot of the very soon to be released Pwnage Tool. As you can see from the above screenshot the Pwnage Tool will support the 1st iPhone, iPod touch, and iPhone 3G. The. Pwnage Tool will allow you to run jaibreak apps as well as the ability to still run applications from the App Store.
Labels: iphone, iphone 3G, jailbreak, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/15/2008 05:24:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"If you were wondering how I was doing push email tests on iPhone OS 2.0 and Vodafone UK, this is the reason why. The code wizard commandos at the iPhone Dev Team have been working on this non-stop since the early days of beta testing. In fact, I had iPhone OS 2.0 running on my iPhone since last week. That was version 5A345, two below 5A347, but identical in functionality.
Now that the official iPhone OS 2.0 is out, the iPhone Dev Team will release their Pwnage tool for everyone to unlock and jailbreak their iPhones soon."
Here's Gizmodo's video of MobileMe's Push Mail on an unlocked & Jailbroken iPhone 2.0 . Who would have thought 2.0 would be jailbroken and unlocked already???
Labels: iphone, jailbreak, mobileme, software, unlock
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/10/2008 05:14:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
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