For those of you who have been holding off on updating to the latest 2.0.1 firmware due to the lack of a jailbreak — or even for those of you who have updated and don’t mind doing it again for a proper jailbreal — prepare to get your download on. According to the Dev [...]

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It seems the folks at RIP-Dev (you know, the folks who caused a stir with their Kate (formerly Caterpillar) application?) have pretty much taken over development of Installer from Nullriver and have been hard at work on the next incarnation of Installer for the masses.
While it is currently about a week away from being unleashed, [...]

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Yeah, 2.0 is great and all, but we know one of the primary killer apps you’re waiting for: Summerboard. But it hasn’t been updated yet, has it?
Worry not, springboard pimpers. iPod Touch Fans member Saurik has got ya back, because he has just released Winterboard, a brand new springboard themer designed specifically for [...]

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Seems like CMW is back up working once again after releaseing three different versions of Winpwn a week or two ago. Instead of the next Winpwn 2.0.0.4 he’s making a big jump all the way to Winpwn 2.5 which is going to be released very shortly according to the creator himself. With this next version [...]

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It was only a few days ago when we talked about ZodTTD porting Quake 1 to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The day has finally come that Zod has released this beast into the wild.
But there’s a catch. You must be running a jailbroken/pwned version of Firmware 2.0. If you are, then [...]

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So, 2.0 has been Pwned. But what exactly does that allow you do? As it turns out, not a whole lot, because a good 99%+ of toolchain-developed software has yet to be updated to work with firmware 2.0.
You see, I decided to take the plunge. I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0 more [...]

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For those of you who didn’t want to decided to wait instead of braving the hacktastic convolutions of the Mac-to-Win Pwnage 2.0 kludge (WacPwn?), you can slide your butt back from the edge of your seat, because WinPwn has been unleashed to the general public. As with the Mac version, this will let Windows [...]

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So the new Pwnage 2.0 tool has been released to much fanfare, but aimed mainly at the non-n00b crowd, and strictly for the Mac at the moment. So what’s a Windows user to do? We could wait. We’re used to that. Or you could do like user Srini has done and [...]

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Those of you who are waiting eagerly for the Dev Team’s all-singing, all-dancing roll-your-own-firmware has been released — kinda. In its present incarnation, it’s still very much for hardcore hackers only, and doesn’t yet play nice with the one-touch hack crowd. It is advised that if you want the so-easy-a-caveman-can-do-it version, give it [...]

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We were all expecting it of course, but nobody has been sure when we’d see the first signs of it. Fortunately for us, the Dev Team have shown off a bona fide jailbreak on the iPhone 3G (and by extension, any device running firmware 2.0).
Don’t get too excited just yet though. It’s not [...]

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Veteran iPhone hacker and current Google employee George Hotz is back in the blogosphere, now that the 3G is in the hands of many, to address the question of an unlock for Apple’s shiny second-generation iPhone.
You’ll recall Friday’s report that the iPhone Dev Team are updating Pwnage to jailbreak and/or unlock iPhones running firmware 2.0. [...]

Posted in Jailbreak, iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G 3 Comments »

Apple store employees have caught four teenagers jailbreaking iPhones - downloading third-party applications onto a demo iPhone. This caused them to be banned from the Apple store “for life”.
Daniel Fukuba (left), 17 years old, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 years old, met up with two friends; Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at a local Apple [...]

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So you wanna roll your own firmware? No problem! WinPwn’s got your papers, and now that it’s out of beta, anyone can build their own custom IPSW file without worrying about whether or not it’s going to brick your device.
There are those however who think that perhaps this might be a little too [...]

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According to iPhone/iPod Touch hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, refurbished iPhone’s may contain the personal data of previous owners of the device.
“A verified detective from the Oregon State Police notified me this afternoon that an out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone he purchased contained recoverable personal data including email, personal photos, and even financial information which he was able to [...]

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The first of the WinPwn releases; WinPwn 1.0 RC1, has been released to the public. According to the development team, this version is much more stable than then beta releases and includes many changes.
New features include:

Completely rewritten installer app that adds support for nearly every package (Including Cydia).
You are now able to remove items from [...]

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