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App Store Welcomes Google Voice Apps with Newly Open Arms

Monday, September 20, 2010

Google Voice has had to travel a rocky road on its way to what we presume is absolute App Store acceptance this time. Apple decided to remove GV Mobile and other similar apps from the App Store over a year ago, and although GV Mobile lived on in the Cydia Store, an official Google Voice [...]

‘Jailbreak Away’ Says US Government!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Jailbreaking your iPhone has always been a legal grey area, with Apple saying you’re breaking the law and everyone else either keeping well out of it, or defiantly waving Cydia-equipped iPhones in Apple’s face. The US government have now stepped in to put the issue to rest and perhaps surprisingly, have concluded that jailbreaking falls [...]

Jailbreaking news: iPhone Dev-Team release PwnageTool 4.01 for Mac OS X

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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The iPhone Dev-Team has released the latest version of Pwnage Tool, which is currently sitting at version 4.01. Bottom line, you can now jailbreak iOS 4 devices. Of course, that bottom line is not quite as simple as it sounds when it comes to jailbreaking. And remember this is not an unlock. To begin with, [...]

Jailbreaking news: iPhone 3G running OS 4 with full multitasking [Video]

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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We all saw the news that the iPhone 3G would receive limited support for certain iPhone OS 4.0 features. But leave it to the tinkerers, and here we have a video showing an iPhone 3G that is running iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 with full multitasking. So much for the iPhone 3G not being able [...]

Jailbreaking news: StyleTap brings Palm OS the the iPhone

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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StyleTap has finally released their iPhone app that will allow you to run Palm OS on your iPhone. I say finally because it seems as if it has been a long time coming, this was first given a walkthrough way back in May of 2008. But in the end good things come to those that [...]

Jailbreaking news: Dev-Team releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X

Monday, February 8, 2010

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As the post title mentions, the Dev-Team has released an updated version of PwnageTool. The latest version of PwnageTool is 3.1.5 and it will work on firmware 3.1.3. But now for a bit of bad news, PwnageTool 3.1.5 is available (as of this posting) only for Mac OS X. Getting back to the good news, PwnageTool [...]

Apps that make me willing to jailbreak: QuickReply

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Just to offer something a little different from all of the rumors, I will mention another app that makes me willing to jailbreak. Of course, I should point out that after the announcement later today, the whole jailbreaking scene is likely to become unstable for a little while again. So if you decide to jailbreak [...]

Apps that make me willing to jailbreak: Shrink

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Of course, assuming we see the unveiling of iPhone OS 4.0 the jailbreak scene is going to become very unstable for a while, and given that I would not necessarily recommend now as a time to begin jailbreaking. But just in case you already are, here is another app that makes me willing to jailbreak. [...]

GV Mobile version 2.0 coming soon?

Saturday, December 26, 2009

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The elusive Sean Kovacs has recently offered up a new post over on his SeanKovacs.com blog alerting us that a new version of GV Mobile is in the works. Nothing has been given in terms of a release date, but that aside there was some good news included in that post. To begin with, is seems [...]

Jailbroken app alert: mQuickDo has been changed to QuickDo

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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I once highlighted an app called mQuickDo in my “Apps that make me willing to jailbreak” series. This is not only an app that I was using at the time, but it is one that I am still using to this day and it is also an app that I would place in my top [...]