Ios 5

Untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1 shown off

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 7:44 pm

pod2g has shown off an iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak running on an iPhone 4.

Here is a new video demo of the current status of the 5.0.1 jailbreak running on an iPhone 4. This is meant to reassure people that were thinking it only works on older iPods. The jailbreak is near ready for prime time (excluding 4S and iPad 2).

Hopefully iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners won't have too long to wait, however, as he previously said he'd overcome the cache issues on A5 devices -

AlbumArt on AppSwitcher [Jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 4:11 pm

AlbumArt on AppSwitcher does exactly what the title says - adds album art to your app switcher. I personally like having this functionality because I have a tendency to forget what songs come from what albums. This way I don't have to jump into my iPod app, I can simply bring up my app switcher and look without having to stop what I'm doing.

Once installed from Cydia there's nothing to configure or set up, it should just work. It's available for free and requires iOS 5.0 or higher.

Free - Cydia Search Link

Daily Tip: How to get your music artwork to show up on all tracks of an album when using iTunes Match

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 12:22 am

If you are like me and spent hours ensuring your album and track artwork is all in order in iTunes only to find that when you subscribed to iTunes Match it all went haywire, you are not alone. I signed up for iTunes Match last week when the international launch went live. I uploaded all of my music only to find that the album artwork showed up fine in album view but only the first track of each album showed any artwork, all of the other tracks had missing artwork.

Forums: 50 days with the iPhone 4S, What else do you own?

By Chris Parsons, Monday, Dec 19, 2011 a 7:39 pm

A new week has started and we're already well under way here at TiPb. If you happened to miss out on any of today's or this weekends events make sure you get caught up either here on the blogs or in the TiPb forums -- and stay tuned for what the rest of this week will bring. You can register now to get started today:

iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak update

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Dec 19, 2011 a 10:59 am

pod2g has updated his blog with the current status of his iPhone 4S jailbreak he's been working on. The good news is he seems to be working extremely hard on this one. The bad news is he seems to have hit a bit of a snag when it comes to the untethered part.

The untether fails right now because I'm having processor cache issues.

I'm close, but I can't figure out what happens. It certainly has something to do with the Cortex-A9 cache management.

I could sort it out quick, it's a matter of chance.

I'll report you my progress tomorrow.

Forums: Freeing up iCloud space, iPhone 4S restores

By Chris Parsons, Friday, Dec 16, 2011 a 6:17 pm

As we roll on into the weekend, it's always a good chance to get caught up on the things you may have missed out on from the week. You can skip on back a few pages, and see if you missed out on anything and while you're at it -- make sure you check out the TiPb forums as well. You can register now to get started today:

Daily Tip: How to set up custom vibration patterns in iOS 5 [Video]

By Andrew Wray, Friday, Dec 16, 2011 a 3:15 am

Curious how to set up the new accessibility feature in iOS 5, namely the custom vibration patterns? Custom vibrations patterns let you set up uniquely identifiable series for contacts in your address book -- a handy feature to say the least!

Forums: Siri censored, Irritations, iPod Gaming

By Chris Parsons, Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 a 7:33 pm

We've reached mid-week here at TiPb and in case you happened to miss out on anything from this week thus far -- now is a good time to skip on back and get caught up before tonight's iPhone Live! You can also take a stroll though the TiPb forums or start your own thread today -- just make sure you come on back before we get started. You can register now to get started today and make sure you check out some of threads below:

Forums: iOS 5.1 Beta 2, Photostreams on your PC

By Chris Parsons, Monday, Dec 12, 2011 a 11:15 pm

With another week now kicked off, we're excited for what this week will bring and hope you'll join us for it all. Thus far, Apple has given us a new iOS Beta to play with and if you're looking to discuss it some more -- we have just the spot. The TiPb forums. You can register now to get started today and make sure you check out some of threads below:

Vote now for iOS feature of the year [2011 TiPb Awards]

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Dec 11, 2011 a 10:30 am

iOS 5 is one of the biggest software updates Apple has ever released for their mobile operating system, with changes almost too many to enumerate (we've tried!).

Siri is the first step in taking the digital assistant out of sci-fi and into reality. iMessage bypasses the exorbitant carrier text charges and brings iOS users, all over the world, one step closer to BBM-like instant messaging. Notification Center finally brings iOS alerts out of the dark ages. Newsstand put most of our newspapers and magazines all in one place. PC-free along with Wi-Fi sync cuts the cord to iTunes and takes us to the iCloud, where all our data gets stored and pushed and backed up. Reminders brings task management to iOS. The camera app is now fast to access and faster to take shots with.

While there will always be features we wish for next time, from message previews to fast text response to themes to a whole lot more, this year, these are your choices.