Archive for the 'iPhone Hacks' Category

Geohot to release blacksn0w on November 4, will unlock iPhone OS 3.1.2

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

In some big news coming during this past weekend, Geohot announced that he had unlocked the 05.11.07 iPhone baseband. Which for those not following along as closely, has not been able to be unlocked up until this point. Anyway, if you remember back a few weeks, Geohot was also the person who first released the

Apps that make me willing to jailbreak: HomeScreen 2.0

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Coming back with another post in the ‘apps that make me willing to jailbreak’ series I am going to highlight HomeScreen 2.0. Yup, for those following along, this app is another that deals with the lock screen and makes it more useful. This app does stray a little from my preferred path in that I am

Jailbreaking news: An another sn0wbreeze teaser video

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

For those playing the follow along at home game, we now have a second sn0wbreeze teaser video. But first, just to recap — so far we have seen the news about what sn0wbreeze would be able to do, and in short it will be similar to Pwnage Tool in that it will allow Windows users

Jailbreaking stats: 38% of the 4 million jailbroken iPhones have used a pirated app

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

I have often wondered about how many people actually jailbreak, and these latest stats happen to coincide nicely with a recent “in real life” experience. First things first though, according to Pinch Media, it is being estimated that there are currently 4 million jailbroken iPhones. That by itself is not all that surprising, after all

Apple begins shipping jailbreak proof iPhone 3GS’s

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Anyone who follows the jailbreaking scene can attest to how it is a constant game of cat and mouse with Apple. Even as someone who is simply a user and not a developer this game has become increasingly harder to keep track of. Now it would appear as if Apple has taken some addition steps to

Jailbreaking news: blackra1n for Mac now available

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Late last evening, Geohot followed up on the release of blackra1n for Windows with the Mac version. #blackra1n for mac is live!!!!!!!!! This latest release is similar to the Windows version and will work for all iPhones and every iPod touch (except for the third generation touch) on firmware 3.1.2. In short, you will need to update

Jailbreaking news: Dev Team releases Pwnage Tool 3.1.4 for OS X

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The Dev Team has once again returned with an updated version of Pwnage Tool, which brings it up to version 3.1.4. This release is currently available for Mac OS X and is able to offer a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2. This release is currently noted as supporting the original iPhone, iPhone 3G and 3GS

Jailbreaking with blackra1n, my experience

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

I cannot say this will work for everyone, so in no way is this intended to be an end-all tutorial, but that said, these are the steps that I followed to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS running OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n. And yes I am aware my situation is a little abnormal because I generally use

blackra1n: Geohots latest jailbreaking tool now live, jailbreak away

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Picking what may be the strangest time I have seen for a launch, Geohot has released his latest jailbreaking tool at approximately 4am this morning, yup, 4am on a Sunday morning. Of course, despite being able to get a slight chuckle out of the time picked — blackra1n is live and appears to be working

Apps that make me willing to jailbreak: mQuickDo

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Once again I return with another app that I am willing to jailbreak to be able to use. This time the app is called mQuickDo and once again it offers more functionality for my lock screen. And similar to the Lock Calendar app, this is an app that I am actively using and have come