If you were looking for an excuse to jailbreak your iPhone 4 using FaceTime over your carriers 3G network may just sway some of you to bite the bullet and go through the process. This can be done by installing a application located in Cydia called My3G [$3.99]. The app allows you to run any Wi-Fi only app over your carriers 3G network. While the FaceTime video calling quality suffers a...
Those of you looking to break your iPhone 4 free from it's carrier lock have less than 48 hours to wait as iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing announced late last night on Twitter that the unlock is just around the corner. It was just yesterday that Comex released his new web-based jailbreak but not without some issues. Those issues consisted of some users losing MMS and FaceTime. Since...
For those of you who were patiently waiting to jailbreak your iPhone running either iOS 4 or 4.0.1, your wait is finally over as iPhone hacker Comex has released a tool to get the job done. It is a web based jailbreak so simply point your mobile safari browser to www.jailbreakme.com and your wait will be over. Heck, you can even use this tool to jailbreak your iPad running 3.2.1. The...
The Library of Congress' DMCA exception for jailbreaking is big news for our community. The new ruling basically says that jailbreaking or unlocking devices is not illegal. But I think the bigger question on most people's minds is what that's going to mean for end users and the jailbreak community in general. So what does this ruling mean for you, jailbreak ninjas? Read on to find...
Did the Library of Congress just add a DCMA exception for Jailbreaking? Why yes they did: Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset....
Twitter lit up this morning with signs that an iPhone 4 jailbreak and unlock is definitely on it's way. On the other side of things, original iPhone Jailbreaker, GeoHot (George Hotz) has apparently deleted his Twitter account and made his blog private. What's going on? Keep reading. I noticed this morning @planetbeing had posted a tweet saying a soft unlock had been achieved. He's...
It's no secret our beloved iPads will not be running Adobe Flash natively anytime soon. That however hasn't stifled the communities desire to at least try it out. Be it good, bad or just downright ugly; @comex has come to the rescue of those with inquiring minds by putting together what he considers and alpha build of Frash. Frash, being a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android...
Geohot has updated his blog to let us know that he's apparently jailbroken his iPhone 4 in less than one day. There's a little caveat though -- he's said he probably won't release it. Well I guess my question is, what's the point in posting it up then? Most people are familiar with Geohot's blackra1n and purplera1n jailbreak tools. They were simple and downright easy. He also took...
Frash is an effort to take Android's Flash implementation and get it working on an iPad, Jailbreak style. Brought to you by comex, the mind behind the Spirit Jailbreak, it follows up on his efforts to get Flash up on iPhone and iPod touch. How's it look? Check the video after the break. Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer...
iRealSMS 3.0 for iPhone is a jailbreak utility that you can use in place of the default messaging app. Up until this point, I had always used QuickReply for SMS. A several of you TiPb'ers recommended I look at iRealSMS 3.0 so I did. And I'm impressed. iRealSMS 3.0 exceeds the features of QuickReply for SMS by a landslide. When you launch the app, you're greeted with a screen that...