It's one of the most exciting parts of a new iOS beta being seeded to developers, and people just love digging around for it. "It" is any kind of reference to a new iDevice or Apple TV hidden inside the latest betas to ship out of Cupertino, and iOS 5.1 beta 1 has thrown up a few interesting tidbits already.
Apple has just seeded the first beta version of iOS 5.1 for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad 1, and iPod touch to the registered developers of iOS Dev Center.
We've barely got the Black Friday madness out of the way and now we're into Cyber Monday! Traditionally the first Monday after Black Friday, 'Cyber Monday' is the day that online retailers try to persuade customers to shop online, and Apple is no different.
If you like the idea of using your iPad as a fully functional phone, now you can. Thanks to a hack by iPhoneIslam, iPad users running the new iOS 5 update can install PhoneIt-iPad and start making calls right from their device.
Today has been a bit of a happening day for the jailbreaking community. A couple of hours ago, Chronic Dev Team released their Reporter program which sends crash reports to Chronic Dev Team servers (instead of Apple’s) so they can find exploits, and now we’ve received news of yet another jailbreaking tool. It’s called Ac1dSn0w and it jailbreaks iOS 5/iOS 5.0.1 tethered on OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. Check out the step-by-step guide after the jump!
Chronic Dev Team - the folks behind the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool which was used to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 - have announced and released an all new program which allows jailbreaking enthusiasts to send their iOS device crash reports straight to Chronic Dev Team instead of Apple. Why would you want to do this? Well, you’ll have to check the details after the jump!
With the battle between Apple's iOS and Google's Android beginning to mimic the Mac Vs. PC battle of the nineties, the same old debates are beginning to arise.
The accelerometer, while not everyone's favored method of controlling cars in Real Racing (primarily because it looks strange on the subway) could have many other uses besides iOS gaming - at least if the tweaksters have their way!
When Timeline dropped at Facebook's f8 keynote back in September, it was billed as one of the biggest features to be added to the social network leader since its inception several years ago.
Despite the lack of (as yet), an untethered jailbreak, the Sn0wbreeze and Redsn0w tethered utilities - along with the SemiTether patch - have seen the Cydia community continue to thrive through to iOS 5.
