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JailbreakMe Goes Live, Couldn’t be Easier!

If you’ve always wanted to jailbreak your iPhone but have been put off by complicated processes, very geeky terminology or confused by the sheer amount of different jailbreak options out there, then the answer has arrived in the form of JailbreakMe 3.0. If you’re after the easiest way to jailbreak your phone, this is it, as [...]

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Greenpois0n iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak Now Available

If jailbreaking is your thing, then the news that the Chronic Dev Team have released an untethered version of Greenpois0n should be very welcome.  It’s the second jailbreak suitable for iOS 4.2.1 after Redsn0w, and although only a Mac version was available at first, both Windows and Linux versions have subsequently been released. As normal, you [...]

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Monday iPhone Videos: Apple’s ‘Two is Better Than One’ Ad, Untethered Jailbreak and Dead Space Gameplay

Welcome to another collection of iPhone related videos that have recently appeared on the Internet.  The first is Apple’s response to Verizon’s iPhone commercial, and this time they actually show the phone and what it can do.  The applications come thick and fast, with everything from Pinball HD to Facebook and iBooks featured, as well [...]

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The Return of the iPad Orientation Lock Switch

If you’re already missing the handy orientation lock switch on your iPad, something that was converted into a considerably less-useful mute switch with iOS 4.2, then the jailbreak community has the answer. Head over to the Cydia store and look for a plug-in called NoMute inside the BigBoss repository, install it, and your magical tablet will [...]

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Greenpois0n and Limera1n Now for Mac/Linux

Last week was a busy one in jailbreak land, when two methods to free your iOS 4 device from its manufacturer imposed shackles appeared, bringing with them considerably more controversy than normal too.  At the time, both Greenpois0n and Limera1n were only available to Windows users, but that has now changed. As of yesterday, if you [...]

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Greenpois0n Now Available for Download

Last weekend saw plenty of excitement in the jailbreaking community, with the surprise release of geohot’s limera1n just ahead of Chronic Dev Team’s greenpois0n, a tool that had been ‘officially’ announced, causing considerable friction and ultimately resulting in greenpois0n being delayed. To avoid exposing their own SHAtter exploit, the Chronic Dev Team decided to make use [...]

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GreenPois0n Jailbreak Release Delayed

While jailbreakers have now got limera1n to play with, the expected release of the Chronic Dev Team’s GreenPois0n jailbreak has been delayed.  The tool was due to be out yesterday – at the portentous time of 10:10:10AM on the 10/10/10 – but this has now been changed to ‘ASAP’. According to the Chronic Dev Team’s Twitter [...]

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iOS 4.0+ Jailbreak limera1n Available Now

Those who have been waiting patiently to jailbreak their iOS 4+ devices have been rewarded this weekend with the release of limera1n, a tool that supports the iPhone 4, the 3GS and the iPod Touch third and fourth generation.  The iPad is also listed and iOS 3.2.2 can be jailbroken too. Limera1n is currently only for [...]

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Some Hope for Jailbreakers Wanting to Run iOS 4.1?

The warning sent by the iPhone Dev Team was pretty clear, upgrade to iOS 4.1 and risk losing your jailbreak and unlock forever.  This is due to Apple changing the modem baseband and although this could be designed to stop iPhone owners from jailbreaking their device so easily in the future, it hasn’t stopped a [...]

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Ultrasn0w iPhone 4 Network Unlock Out Now

If you’ve been patiently waiting for a network unlock for your brand-new iPhone 4, the your wait is over, and it’s thanks to the Dev-Team and their ultrasn0w crack.  It looks simply enough too, as version 1.0-1 is ready and waiting inside Cydia and it works on any iPhone firmware version post 3.1.2 and pre [...]

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