While addressing graduates at Hampton University on Sunday, US President Barack Obama in his speech said that the era of iPads, iPods, Xboxes and PlayStations are a source of distraction, rather than a tool of democracy for the United States. This statement of Obama, which was reported by AFP is as follows.
MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev-Team has come up with a very useful compilation of Cydia apps that works with the iPad. In one of his latest tweets, he invites users from the community to contribute to the jailbreak scene by helping to update the official iPad jailbreak compatibility list.
If you loved the idea of having an iPad fitted in your car dashboard, but were too lazy to try out the D.I.Y manual guide, Scosche may have an answer for you. The Scosche iKit accessory for iPad can replace your car stereo with a ball joint mount, 30-pin dock connector and audio input where you can easily install an iPad – both in landscape and portrait orientation.
iPad’s official Camera Connection Kit has turned out to be a pretty useful accessory from the last time we saw it. After surprising us with the ability to support USB headset and keyboard, you can now also use it to connect an external hard drive with your iPad for extra storage.
We already did a complete step by step guide on how to save SHSH blobs (ECID SHSH) files of iPhone OS 3.1.3/3.1.2 and iPad OS 3.2 on Windows using AutoSHSH. But then I received lots feedback via email from users on OS X who couldn't figure out on how to save their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch SHSH files using a Mac.
The initial release of Spirit had this bug, which accidently deleted all photos from the iDevice which you used to jailbreak with it. If you were wise enough to make a backup before jailbreaking your device, you can now recover it using iPhone Backup Extractor.
AppSync has been updated to bring support for the iPad. For those of you who don't know, AppSync patches MobileInstallation file on iPhone and iPad OS which is needed in order to install .ipa files manually without using iTunes. A new version of AppSync has now been released which is compatible with the latest iPad 3.2 firmware. Make sure you have jailbroken your iPad on firmware 3.2 before following the steps below. Complete step-by-step guide on how to jailbreak your iPad with Spirit can be found here.
The all-in-one untethered jailbreak tool, which was released yesterday has been updated. An issue which was reported earlier where it deleted all the saved photos on the device once the jailbreak was complete has been fixed. This update to Spirit resolves error code c0000005 which some Windows users were facing.
The official Dropbox app for iPhone has been updated to bring the much needed support for iPad. This new version 1.2 of Dropbox takes full advantage of higher resolution screen space of iPad to display files and folders in a list menu. Also added is the ability to export documents from Dropbox to third-party apps on iPad like Pages, Keynote and GoodReader.
Apple doesn’t like to kid around when they’re talking about numbers. In a press release today, Apple has revealed that they have sold 1,000,000 units in the first month of it’s launch. This according to Apple is less than half of the 74 days it took for the original iPhone EDGE to achieve the same milestone back in 2007.
