Jay Freeman aka saurik aka the guy behind Cydia recently gave a rather interesting TED talk at TEDxAmericanRiviera where he talked about Apple’s “closed” App Store vs. the relatively open Cydia store.
iOS 4.2, at least from what information we have so far, is slated for release this Friday and it’s going to be a significant update for iPad (not so much for iPhone / iPod touch, though). And of course, there’s going to be a jailbreak to accompany the new iOS version. Here’s all you need to know.
Although iOS alerts you when the device’s battery drops below 20%, you might want to change that to something higher or lower depending on your preference and you can do that with PowerAlerter.
Apple enthusiast site 9to5Mac is reporting that the new iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch will be publicly available sometime between 9 - 12 of November 2010. They have received conflicting reports from two German based websites who are claiming to have received this information individually.
The iPhone developer and hacker behind Sn0wbreeze has confirmed that Cydia has started saving SHSH Blobs of iOS 4.2 betas for the next untethered jailbreak on the final version of iOS 4.2.
Interested in watching free TV shows on your iPad? With a new internet service called FilmOn, you can now watch HD quality television shows from channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BBC, Sky News, ITV and many more right from the comfort of your iPad.
There is a new jailbreak tweak available on Cydia which allows you to enable or disable iOS 4.x features without having to go though the pain of SSH’ing your device.
Google Instant - the real-time search engine that gives you results before you even complete typing - is rolling out to iOS devices.
Apple has already seeded the final Gold Master version of iOS 4.2 to developers. Public release is looming near. Once the new firmware is out, Apple will stop signing the old firmware, which will make it impossible for you to get SHSH blobs for iOS 4.1.
Geohot’s Limera1n used a userland exploit from Comex to make an untethered jailbreak for all iOS 4.1 devices. While Apple cant patch the original bootrom based Limera1n exploit, the userland exploit though can be patched easily by a firmware upgrade such as iOS 4.2.
