Sunday, January 30, 2011

Geohot To Release Untethered Jailbreak After 2.10.11 (Verizon iPhone 4 Launch) ?

Continuing the jailbreak theme today comes news that jailbreak supremo MuscleNerd has claimed that Geohot might release a new untethered jailbreak in the coming weeks.



The news comes after another iPhone developer and hacker Pod2G informed the world that a new vulnerability has been discovered for iOS and that GreenPois0n is being actively worked on as it is clear that Apple has blocked GreenPois0n in its upcoming version of iOS – version 4.3.
Reading MuscleNerd’s comments it appears we could be getting at least one new untethered jailbreak for at least some devices sooner rather than later.
As our illustrious leader @TaimurAsad points out, the date of February 10th is no coincidence – that’s when the Verizon iPhone finally lands in stores. New owners looking for a jailbreak on day 1 could be in luck!
Of course this is still unconfirmed by Geohot himself, so fingers crossed. Hopefully he can pull himself away from all that Sony drama going on in the PlayStation jailbreak scene to help us out in iLand!


SOURCE : REDMOND PIE

Friday, January 28, 2011

MOTOROLA ATRIX Promo

Motorola has released a video touting the Atrix 4G, a new smartphone that can be used as a fully functional laptop.

The phone runs Android and features an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It is the first phone to use the PenTile qHD display with 24-bit graphics.

You can check it out in the video below...

Read More [via 9to5Mac]





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ORIGINAL LINK : ICLARIFIED

Redsn0w 0.9.7 for Windows Will Untether iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak with iOS 4.1 Firmware. Expected to Release Soon

The iPhone Dev Team has confirmed that a Windows version of Redsn0w 0.9.7 is on its way for jailbreaking iOS 4.2.1 with iOS 4.1 IPSW instead of iOS 4.2b3 firmware and SHSH blobs.

Since Apple still serves the 4.1 IPSW (not blobs!), we’ll do a Windows redsn0w release for untethered 4.2.1 via Monte-4.1
Unfortunately though, it wont be as fast as its Mac OS X counterpart. This is because the Windows version of Redsn0w 0.9.7 will be using filesystem instead of RAM, which will make the process a whole a lot slower.
Please don’t complain too loudly about how slow it takes :) The Win version uses filesystem instead of RAM: slow!
As always, we will keep you updated. Stay tuned for more!

 LINK : REDMONDPIE

Sony Granted Temporary Restraining Order Against Geohot, the King Of All Things Jailbreak

Well well well, what do we have here? Engadget reports that a US District Court has granted Sony a temporary restraining order against George Hotz, or Geohot as you may know him. Sony had previously sued everyone’s favorite hacker for jailbreaking the Japanese company’s PlayStation 3.
…the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted Sony’s request for a temporary restraining order forbidding Mr. Hotz and his merry men from distributing or linking to the jailbreak, helping or encouraging others to jailbreak, hacking into the PS3 or PSN, or distributing any information they’ve found while hacking.
PS3
Hotz has also been ordered to hand over any computers and/or media that may be used in the production of the jailbreak.

LINK : redmondpie

Monday, January 24, 2011

Theme It brings theme store to iOS! Here's How to do it

Cydia added a new feature yesterday to bring Theme Center which includes all popular themes for your iPhone but Today Theme It is available as a Cydia package for jailbroken iOS device. Theme It comes with a clean, easy-to-use interface and quite few themes. Let's see how to install it.





STEP 1: You need a jailbroken device to perform this guide, you can use our guide posted HERE to jailbreak your iOS 4.2.1 device using Redsn0w.

STEP 2: Open Cydia, tap on Manage, then Source, edit and add the below repository source as shown in the screenshot below:
http://www.themeitapp.com/repo

STEP 3: Return back, navigate to the source and install Theme It app as shown below:

STEP 4: That's it, now you'll get Theme It on your home screen, launch it and have fun !




LINK ; REDSNOW

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Apple’s App Store Crosses 10 Billion Downloads Mark, Paper Glider is the 10 Billionth Downloaded App

They grow up so fast!  It doesn’t seem five minutes since the iTunes App Store was launched, but it just hit the 10 BILLION download mark Apple announced via press release.  That’s one impressive number!
Apple’s online sale counter ticked over the magic number earlier today, and one lucky punter has scooped a $10,000 iTunes voucher. The lucky app-fiend is Gail Davis of Orpington, UK after she downloaded Paper Glider. Just think how many apps you could download with $10,000!
CUPERTINO, California—January 22, 2011—Apple® today announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store℠ by the more than 160 million iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ users worldwide. The 10 billionth app downloaded, Paper Glider, was purchased by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 10 Billion Apps, Gail Davis will receive a $10,000 iTunes® Gift Card.
“With more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half years—a staggering seven billion apps in the last year alone—the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The App Store has revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and sold. While others try to copy the App Store, it continues to offer developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet.”
The revolutionary App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users in 90 countries around the world, with more than 60,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
As Engadget points out, 10 billion is more downloads than this planet of ours has humans. Just think about that for a minute and tell me it isn’t mind-boggling!


link : taimurasad

TinyUmbrella Updated With Support For iOS 4.3b2

  • Just update TinyUmbrella with support for iOS 4.3b2. 
  • For those of you with Apple Developer accounts, this means you can save your SHSH’s for that version and restore to it permanently.
Download TinyUmbrella:
Mac From HERE.
Windows From HERE.
Linux From HERE.



LINK : REDSNOWS

Google Android 2.3.2 update for Nexus S

Google is rolling out two OTA updates that will fix a certain SMS bug that has been plaguing some Android handset owners.

The Nexus S has received the Android 2.3.2 update, sized at only 600kb, which comes with some important bug fixes, including the SMS bug fix but also addressing the issues that caused the Nexus S to randomly reboot.


Nexus One owners received the Android 2.2.2 update – not quite a Gingerbread upgrade just yet – that has been said to address the same SMS bug and also contains other “important bug fixes”.

If you own a Nexus S and you haven’t yet received the update, it is possible to install it manually:

  1. You need to download the file from Google’s Android repository from HERE
  2. Rename the file to update.zip, place it on the phones internal storage 
  3. Apply the patch from recovery.

NOTE: If this is something you haven’t tried before, we suggest you wait for the official update.


LINK: REDSNOWS

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

2 December, 2010 iPhone can read your mind [02:30]

A team of Engineers from Republic Polytechnic's school of engineering has invented an iPhone application which can read your mind.

(Which will be seen in the video).


download iOS 4.3 Beta 2 for Developers now, iPad's Gestures not Coming !

Apple has just released iOS 4.3 beta 2 to developers. This beta release is only available for members enrolled the iOS Dev Center program.


Apple has informed all the developers that the new iPad's gestures are not coming in the public launch of iOS 4.3.
This feature will not be enabled in iOS 4.3 for customers, but we are providing this preview to gather input on how these gestures work with your apps.
iOS 4.3 beta 1 was released last week on January 12 and we showed a great walkthrough inside it.
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sources : geohot

Apple VS. Facebook: Walled Garden

This suggestion come from security firm Sophos as a report that takes a look at threats from 2010, and offers advice on how to stay secure for the coming year. Sophos said in 2010 it analyzed 95,000 pieces of malware every day, almost double the amount the company tracked in 2009.



No sooner had Sophos published its report than Facebook fired back, arguing its security measures are already more effective than what Sophos suggests.
"We have a dedicated team that does robust review of all third-party applications, using a risk-based approach," Facebook said in a statement. "This ensures that the team is focused on addressing the biggest risks, rather than just doing a cursory review at the time that an app is first launched."
At issue are the numerous online games, quizzes, calendars and online productivity suites you can interact with on Facebook. Some of these applications have proven to exhibit malicious behavior in the past such as Farm Town, which was infected with a malicious ad last April.

Sophos said the social network's more than 500 million users are a prime target for online attacks, and that Facebook isn't doing enough to protect users.
"Any user can create an application, with a wide range of powers to interact with data stored on user pages," Sophos said, suggesting a malicious actor can create and run a scam on Facebook with relative ease. "To combat this serious problem, a 'walled garden' approach may be more suitable."

Sophos points to Apple's App Store for iOS (and now Mac) devices as an example of a so-called walled garden where every app has to be vetted for security and quality concerns.

At the very least, Sophos believes Facebook should allow users to "secure their own page," where only vetted applications would be allowed to run. It's not clear what Sophos means by "vetted applications" absent an approval process.

Facebook argues it is effectively dealing with rogue apps and that its users are safer than ever.
"As a result of our efforts ... spam, malware and other attacks [on Facebook] have decreased in their effectiveness," Facebook said. 
Facebook did not have any statistics available to show by how much malicious attacks on the social network have decreased.

While an approval process may help reduce malware, the scheme wouldn't necessarily catch all threats.

In July, for example, a Vietnam-based developer was able to rack up charges on the accounts of unsuspecting iPhone users. In August, there were reports of iTunes accounts being hacked and overcharged for more than a year.

Nevertheless, despite its shortcomings, an approval process could be an effective tool for Facebook to combat online scams. This is especially true since Facebook plans on giving developers the ability to request more sensitive Facebook profile data such as your home address and mobile phone number. Facebook launched the new developer feature on Friday, but had to reverse its decision late Monday after heavy criticism. The social network plans to reintroduce the feature.
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sources : redsnow

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Motorola Xoom: As a Test For Life Beyond The iPad

Is the iPad a one-hit wonder or will the tablet market take off broadly in 2011? That's the question Motorola's Xoom tablet will likely answer.
And this broader market, of course, includes Hewlett-Packard's WebOS tablet and RIM's PlayBook, among others. But Motorola's Xoom stands as the biggest potential consumer rival to the iPad 2 because Motorola is a first-tier supplier that has already competed mightily against Apple in the smartphone market (think Droid) and, more importantly, packs in plenty of eagerly awaited goodies, including: Google's Android Honeycomb operating system for tablets, a powerful dual-core processor, a high-resolution (1,280x800) display, dual cameras, and lest we forget, the Verizon 3G (and soon-to-come 4G) network.


That said, tucked into a research note I received on Friday from Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, was this morsel: "The magnitude of tablet opportunity beyond Apple is unclear." And he also writes that "we believe that iPad volumes in the current quarter will dry up ahead of the iPad 2 launch."
So, will we see long lines at Verizon stores the day of launch, like the iPad? Or has the tablet novelty worn off enough that it's not a line-forming impulse-buy anymore? And/or is it principally a phenomenon linked to the cachet of Apple products?

Based on my own experience, I believe that the media tablet is more than a one-hit wonder. The sheer utility of my iPad has cut my laptop use almost in half, as I've written before. (And the iPad trumps my iPhone too, in a number of respects, like mapping.)

So, what kind of numbers do we need to see? Considering that the market is still nascent, that's a tough call. Kumar said that Apple shipped between 6 and 7 million iPads in the most recent quarter, "with the lower end (Wi-Fi) dominating the mix." With Apple as the high-water mark, we can't expect those kinds of numbers from Motorola initially.

Asia-based rumors claim Motorola is aiming to ship as many as 800,000 out of the gate and RIM a bit more. Those would be healthy numbers.
And Motorola appears to be doing all it can do to make interesting accessories, too--like this speaker dock and Bluetooth keyboard, among other add-ons.
Who knows, the tablet, in one form or another, could eventually make the laptop obsolete. That would result in huge, market-upending numbers. But I'll leave that highly-speculative analysis for next year.

sources : cnet

Thursday, January 13, 2011

All You Want to Know about iOS 4.3 Beta 1 !

New Multi-touch Gestures to iPad:

iOS 4.3 brings new multi-touch gestures to the iPad. The new four and five finger gestures makes movement much easier, quicker and better; pinch to the home screen, swipe up to reveal multitasking tray, swipe left/right to switch apps.


Test Multi-Touch Gestures for iPad
This beta release contains a preview of new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad. You can use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen; swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar; and swipe left or right between apps. We are providing this preview before releasing them to the public to understand how these gestures work with your apps. Test them and give us your feedback on the Apple Developer Forums.

(via Gizmodo)

Personal Hotspot to all iPhones

As expected, Apple has pushed personal hotspot feature to all iPhones on iOS 4.3 but it'll work like tethering on AT&T, likely with those fun-time data caps. No word on AT&T yet.


New Camera Effects

As noted by iSpazio, iOS 4.3 beta 1 firmware files hints at some references to new effect in the Camera app. The effects are; Thermal Camera, X-ray, Kaleidoscope, Normal, Tunnel of Light, Collapse, Turbine, and Enlarge.

New FaceTime Icon, Full Screen iAds

As reported by 9to5mac, iOS 4.3 brings a groovy, new FaceTime icon (above) as well as a new full-screen iAd banners and adds Airplay and Apple TV services (not apps on Apple TV -- yet) for apps. Specifically:
AirPlay Video support is now available as an option for developers in the MPMoviePlayerController class. It is also available to web authors via the QuickTime Plug-In or media element

Brings Back Orientation Lock

It seems like Steve Jobs changed his mind and decided to bring a new setting lets you choose for the switch to be an orientation lock or the new mute switch (via MacStories):

iPhone 3G and iPod touch Support Drop

As we reported, iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G have been discontinued as of iOS 4.3. Both of the devices are not listed anymore on the iOS developer website. This indicates that the latest iOS build for iPhone 3G and iPod touch may be iOS 4.2.1.

source : geohot  

Apple to Remove Home Button on iPad 2 and iPhone 5

According to BGR sources, Apple is about to make a significant change on iPad 2 and iPhone 5, as Apple will drop the home button on the both devices. The source has mentioned that Apple added multitouch gestures for iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button.



We have exclusively been told that the reason Apple just added multitouch gestures for the iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button. Yes, we are told that Apple, at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home screen and also to launch the app switcher.

That’s not all, however. In addition to the home button disappearing from the iPad, we’re told that this change will make its way over to the iPhone as well. Our source said Apple employees are already testing iPads and iPhones with no home buttons on the Apple campus, and it’s possible we will see this new change materialize with the next-generation iPad and iPhone devices set to launch this year.

Additionally, we’re told Apple’s popular photo-taking application, Photo Booth, will be appearing on the next iPad. It’s also very possible that we’ll see iLife apps for iOS unveiled around the iPad 2 release as well.

It has been said that Steve Jobs didn’t want any physical buttons on the original iPhone at first, and it looks like he may soon get his wish.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Official PlayStation App for iPhone Available for Download !

The official PlayStation app for iPhone has just been released for iOS devices. The app doesn't let you play games but it allows the PlayStation faithful to log in with their PSN ID and connect to their Trophy haul, friends list and gaming news via the PlayStation Blog.

Take the incredible world of PlayStation everywhere you go.

The official PlayStation app is your one-stop source to keep you ahead of the game, no matter where you are.

Sign in with your PlayStation Network Sign in ID. If you don’t have a PSN account, you can create one here eu.playstation.com/registration.

In this version (1.0) you can:
- Keep up to date with your trophies, friends’ games and online status.
- Check out all the latest games, news and hardware.
- Read all exciting announcements from PlayStation.Blog
Official PlayStation app for iPhone can be download via iTunes app store from the link below.

Download PlayStation Official App [iTunes link]
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Redsn0w 0.9.7b5 Download Available ! Fixes Bluetooth Issues !

The iPhone Dev Team has just updated Redsn0w 0.9.7 untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak to fix bluetooth issues and any sand-box related issues will be fixed.


The Windows version is not released yet due to it's slow compared to the Mac OS X version. So the iPhone Dev Team working on speeding it and release it as soon as possible.
 
The update follows as:
The fifth beta is now available (testers ONLY please!). Bluetooth is now working (and any sandbox-related issues should be resolved too). Please do not pirate the 4.2b3 IPSW! Only those enrolled in the iPhone Developer program have legitimate access to that IPSW using these links (http://pastie.org/1403214) (the links won’t work unless you’re a legit developer currently logged in).

There is actually a Windows version of beta5, but it’s excruciatingly slow compared to the Mac version because it’s forced to use files on your hard drive instead of RAM while it’s processing the very large IPSW images. It really is very very painfully slow, so we probably won’t be releasing it for testing purposes unless it can be sped up somehow.
To use Redsn0w 0.9.7b5, use our guide posted here while removing STEP 4 since it doesn't required usbmuxd anymore.
Two days ago we have showed you a video presenting the jailbreak for PlayStation 3 (PS3), this jailbreak is a
 shared success between fail0verflow team and Geohot, after that I have been asked a lot about the full step by step guide to jailbreak PS3 using Geohot method.




How To: Jailbreak PS3 on 3.55 only
STEP 1Plug a USB stick into your computer
STEP 2: Create a folder in the root of the USB stick called PS3
STEP 3: Create a folder inside the PS3 folder called UPDATE
STEP 4: Download http://geohot.com/jailbreak.zip
STEP 5: Unzip Jailbreak.zip to PS3UPDAT.PUP
STEP 6: Move PS3UPDAT.PUP to the directory UPDATE that you just created on the USB stick
STEP 7: Plug the USB stick into your PS3
STEP 8Navigate to Settings Tab
STEP 9: Choose System Update
STEP 10: Choose Update via Storage Media
STEP 11: It will say it found Version 3.55-jb
STEP 12: Choose OK
STEP 13: Accept Conditions and Install Update
STEP 14After less than a minute, your PS3 will update, beep 4 times then shut down.
STEP 15Power up your PS3 (You will have to do it on the console and not by the controller)
STEP 16: Your PS3 is now jailbroken!

How To: Install Packages
STEP 1: Plug your USB stick into your computer
STEP 2Drop http://geohot.com/test.pkg into the root of the USB stick
STEP 3: Plug your USB stick into your PS3
STEP 4Navigate to the Game Tab
STEP 5Choose Install Package Files
STEP 6: Select the test.pkg
STEP 7: After it installs you will find the test package from geohot installed below the Install Package Files folder
STEP 8: Wait for more packages to be created by the PS3 community

Note: With the above geohot's PS3 jailbreak guide, you won't be able to play backup games or pirated games or whatever you choose to call them. You can install packages with the provided installer. More packages will be coming from the PS3 jailbreak community in the coming weeks and months. [via StealthBravo]

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 Download Available with Few Bug Fixes !


Redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 was released couple of days ago with ‘one-click’ tethered boot option to ease the process for those having a tethered jailbreak until the untethered redsn0w 0.9.7 jailbreak is finalized. Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 offers a few bug fixes from rc7, most significantly that custom tethered boot logo commands will now report if and why an invalid PNG file is attempted.

You can download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 from the links below and use the same methods to boot tethered your iOS device mentioned here.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 for Windows
Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 for Mac OS X
Download iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Download iTunes 10.1 for Windows and Mac OS X

Sunday, January 2, 2011


Step One
Create a Pwnage folder on your Desktop and in it place:
RedSn0w 0.9.6rc7
● Your iPhone firmware ipsw (download here)


Step Two
Double click the RedSn0w archive to extract it.


Step Three
Press the Windows and R key then input cmd and click OK to launch the Command Prompt.


Step Four
Input the following command for devices with the new bootrom:

%homepath%\Desktop\Pwnage\redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc7\redsn0w.exe -j -i %homepath%\Desktop\Pwnage\iPhone3,1_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw

Input the following command for devices with the old bootrom (iPod 2G, iPhone 3GS):
%homepath%\Desktop\Pwnage\redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc7\redsn0w.exe -j -o -i %homepath%\Desktop\Pwnage\iPhone2,1_4.2.1_8C148a_Restore.ipsw

**Important: remember to change the filename to the filename of the ipsw you downloaded in Step One.


Step Five
RedSn0w will now open, instruct you on placing your iPhone into DFU mode if it isn't already, and boot your device.