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Jailbreak Tues â€” Your questions answered

By Bob Niffen August 17, 2010 - 11:49am EST Comments

From time to time, I receive Â reader questions about jailbreaking and unlocking their iPhones. I do my best to answer each of those questions. But today, I wanted to u reach out to one reader particular. Terri emailed me with several issues that I feel all of us can learn from. . . So let's start with the overall concern that Terri is having with... Read more »

UK carrier 3 blocking jailbreakme.com

By Andrew Steffy August 16, 2010 - 2:03pm EST Comments

Apple has already gone ahead and blocked any and all access to the jailbreak website Jailbreakme.com from wifi routers at its retail stores, as has BestBuy. The iPhone maker has also provided a fix for the PDF exploit that made jailbreaking iOS devices such an easy task. But now it seems that an even bigger step has been taken to prevent any jailbreaking for devices... Read more »

1st gen iPhone/Touch must jailbreak for protection

By Bob Niffen August 13, 2010 - 4:32pm EST Comments

Apple's recently updated iOSÂ to 4.0.2 to address the vulnerability to malicious PDFs. (The patch also prevented devices from using the ridiculously easy hack offered by JailbreakMe.com.) So all's good now, with Apple devices being safe from bad hackers out to do harm, right? Um, no... at least not if you're still using an original iPhone or iPod Touch. If you... Read more »

CallMe jailbroken app puts contacts on home screen

By James Pocock August 12, 2010 - 6:11pm EST Comments

CallMe, a jailbreak app that allows users to put contacts on their home screens, enables users to create contacts' icons just like apps. Just a tap places a call or sends an SMS to that friend, depending on what you set it to do. Better yet, the current update works great with iOS 4, allowing contact icons to also act the same way as apps â€” which means you can... Read more »

Jailbreak app “FaceTime Mod” enables vid chat via Edge/3G, improves quality

By James Pocock August 11, 2010 - 10:33pm EST Comments

A new jailbreak app has been released on Cydia named "FaceTime Mod" that does more than just make FaceTime video chat possible without Wi-fi â€” a feat already accomplished by the My3G app (which tricks the handset into thinking it's using Wi-fi when it's actually using 3G cellular data). In addition to working over EDGE and 3G, FaceTime Mod also improves the... Read more »

Jailbreak Tues â€” Expand your folders

By Bob Niffen August 10, 2010 - 12:31pm EST Comments

Now that the dust has settled down, we will now look at a possible advantage of jailbreaking an iPhone 4. This week I tackle my biggest issue, space for my apps. I will show you how to expand the capacity of your folders that are only able to hold up to 12 apps and make it hold an infinite number of... Read more »

Frash: Flash for the common jailbreaker

By Andrew Steffy August 9, 2010 - 2:35pm EST Comments

Everyone who owns an iPhone knows about the sticky argument going on between Apple and Adobe about the latter's dynamic web content technology, Flash. Apple says it's too buggy and takes away from the whole experience of the iPhone and can create security holes. Adobe says that Flash is more than capable on today's mobile devices and has it working on Android 2.2... Read more »

Apple stores block Jailbreakme site, Android fanatics undeterred

By Andrew Steffy August 9, 2010 - 12:50pm EST Comments

Going to the website Jailbreakme.com from any iPhone offers possibly the easiest jailbreak method in iPhone history. Using a PDF security flaw the website uses a corrupt font that makes running code possible. Many people figured this was the perfect chance to have a little fun at the Apple stores, running around from iPhone to iPhone to iPad jailbreaking each one... Read more »

Security breach and how hackers can access your iPhone [UPDATED]

By Bryce Daniel August 4, 2010 - 4:15pm EST Comments

Don't download any PDF files on your iDevices. Right now, because of a security bug, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch areÂ susceptibleÂ to getting hacked, just by viewing a PDF. This security bug affects any device running iOS 3.1.2 and higher, so be warned that this is not just an iOS 4 thing. How it works: All it takes is for the user to visit a web... Read more »

iOS Jailbreak opens a dangerous can of worms?

By Michael Sherlock August 3, 2010 - 6:46pm EST Comments

Security Advisor Sean Sullivan has revealed how jailbreakme accesses system files in order to accomplish the extremely simple jailbreak. Simply put, the iPhone Dev Team utilizes a security hole with PDF viewing to insert their custom code in the browser. Although this security flaw makes it dead simple to jailbreak your device, it also exposes an extremely scary... Read more »