Everyone may not have to share Macs and iOS Devices with others, but there are many of us that do. For the Mac, it’s easy and a great idea to set up User Accounts for times when someone needs guest access or has a different OS setup than what we normally use from day to [...]
Owners of the iPad 2 can now get a full, untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 (the latest version of iOS). This uses the same Absinthe tool that the iPhone dev team released for the iPhone 4S (see our iPhone 4S jailbreak instructions here). The method is able to beat out the protection Apple put around [...]
iPad 1 users can now jailbreak their device using Redsn0w & PwnageTool, however iPad 2 users are still left out in the cold. Here is what the dev team have to say about the latest jailbreak. WARNING WARNING — ultrasn0w users don’t update yet! See a few paragraphs down! The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes courtesy [...]
The iPhone Dev-Team has released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1. The jailbreak implements the untether developed by i0n1c. The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes courtesy of Stefan Esser (@i0n1c on twitter), a security researcher based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community [...]
The team behind the Xbox Media Center has released two versions of the software for jailbroken iOS devices. XBMC is a more flexible media center platform, for instance supporting audio and video formats either omitted or deliberately blocked by hardware manufacturers. In the case of iOS devices users are also no longer limited to sharing [...]
Here are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPad on the 4.2.1 firmware using RedSn0w for Mac. You will only be able to perform a tethered jailbreak at this time, which means you will need Redsn0w’s every time you want to restart your device. It’s a hassle, and at this time we recommend holding off [...]
Are you looking to for all the previous iPad Firmware Files? The list below shows all the previous firmware issues, you may require to download an older version if you are looking for certain types of jailbreaking. 3.2.0: iPad1,1_3.2_7B367_Restore.ipsw 3.2.1: iPad1,1_3.2.1_7B405_Restore.ipsw 3.2.2: iPad1,1_3.2.2_7B500_Restore.ipsw 4.2.1: iPad1,1_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw
iOS 4.3 Beta has added several multi-touch gestures for the iPad. This feature is not enabled by default, and thus needs to be enabled manually. As this is a Beta version of iOS 4.3, this specific feature needs to be enabled via Xcode on you Mac. Download iOS 4.3 Beta firmware, and restore it on [...]
The iPhone Dev-Team has announced plans to release their ‘backup plan’ untether this holiday weekend. — Over the Christmas weekend we’ll be releasing a version of redsn0w that implements the ‘backup plan’ to the 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak. We’re seeking your help to test this redsn0w and find any bugs before we do a general release! [...]