It was only a few days ago when iOS developer and hacker Pod2g showed off his new untethered jailbreak exploit running on iOS 5. At that time, he tested it on a third-gen iPod touch running iOS 5.0 and wasn’t sure if it would also work on the new iOS 5.0.1 as well. But he did promise to test it on iOS 5.0.1 and report back accordingly with results.
Angry Birds. The name is known across the tech universe as an extremely popular game for many of the top gaming platforms. Developed and released by Rovio on December 10, 2009; it was an immediate hit. So far there have been over half a billion downloads across all gaming platforms, over 400 billion “birds” shot by users and 300 million minutes played daily across all platforms.
Although there are thousands, even tens of thousands of free apps on Apple’s App Store, how many of them are worth your ever so precious time? With so many to choose from, it becomes hard to see which ones are worth your valuable storage space on your beloved iOS device. When it comes to finding the right free application on the App Store, there is a place to start. Luckily for you, we at Redmond Pie, have found a few for you.
Starting with iOS 5, Apple added some new checks to ensure people stick with the latest version of iOS. This made downgrading to iOS 5 impossible using SHSH blobs saved by Cydia or TinyUmbrella. But now, thanks to iH8sn0w’s iFaith, you can downgrade from iOS 5.1 or iOS 5.0.1 to iOS 5 custom firmware as long as you have APTicket + SHSH blobs saved for it.
Cue dramatic music: "It's patent watch time here at Redmond Pie headquarters folks, and boy have we got a story for you today. Today's drama from the courtroom comes courtesy of Apple, Motorola and a German Judge". If you'll excise the overly dramatic opening for a moment, the latest round of legal mumbo jumbo is actually quite an interesting one, and it's a very important one if you were thinking of buying an Apple iPhone or iPad in Germany any time soon.
Following up to his untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 and demo, pod2g has answered one very important question regarding the jailbreak’s support for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Check out the details after the jump!
The Samsung-Apple lawsuit in Australia has finally come to an end, folks, and it’s a pretty bittersweet ending, to be sure. Details after the jump!
The next version of popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w will be able to use iOS 5 SHSH blobs, Redmond Pie has learned. Details are given after the jump.
As anybody familiar with Apple products will know, music video (and pretty much everything else) is centered around the iTunes app, and if the Cupertino company had it their way, that's how it would stay.
We're coming up to the end of 2011, and everyone is writing their 'top apps of the year' lists, and Apple is no different. Under the heading of 'App Store Rewind 2011' Apple has listed the apps it thinks have caused a stir during 2011, with both apps and games getting shown off. As well as announcing the company's favorite apps, Apple has also released new charts showing which apps were downloaded the most through 2011, as well as which grossed the most money. Interesting reading, if you like that sort of thing.
