Chinese are known for making clones of the Western products, especially of the popular electronics and digital devices which comparatively cost less than the original products.
Earlier, we reported about an iPad clone which was available in China even before Apple iPad was released in US. Same is the case with Chinese “iPhome 4G”, which is a copy of the next Apple iPhone and is now available in China for one third of the price.
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.
The following step by step guide will help you enable this cool trick with which you can run iPhone apps on iPad without pixelation of any kind in full blown native resolution of iPad. You will need to have a jailbroken iPad to enable this. Follow the step by step guide posted here to jailbreak your iPad on OS 3.2 with Spirit.
The following guide will help you enable “Voice Control” feature which is found in iPhone 3GS and the 3rd-gen iPod touch 3G. Make sure you have jailbroken your iPad prior to following this guide. Step by step guide on how to jailbreak your iPad using Spirit can be found here.
The all-in-one untethered iDevice jailbreak for iPhone 3.1.3, iPad 3.2 and iPod touch 2G/3G is finally here. Available for both Windows and Mac OS X, Spirit is a userland jailbreak but it does not work out-of-the browser as previously thought. It is in fact a simple one click app, like Blackra1n which can jailbreak (not unlock) any Apple iDevice on iPhone 3.1.2 or 3.1.3.
Wow! There is some great work being done in the jailbreaking community for the newly released iPad 3G. The infamous iPhone Dev Team has managed to send SMS text messages from iPad 3G using command line terminal. Even though it is early in development (no GUI), it still gets to show one of the many possibilities that you can get using a jailbroken iDevice.
Since Spirit jailbreak release is on the horizon, it is time to save your SHSH blobs so that you can jailbreak (by downgrading) your device again should Apple release a new firmware once the exploit is public. The following two paragraphs explains what are SHSH blobs and why is it important to save them now.
This will erupt lots of cries and disappointment but this was important to post as I know many of you have been really looking forward to it. The creator of Spirit has posted an update, “now” confirming that he is not going to release his jailbreak tool on Friday (tomorrow). Moreover, he has also deleted his “update” where he said that it was coming this Friday.
Well it now looks like Geohot is not going to release his jailbreaking bits for the iPhone and iPad anytime soon. According to some of his recent tweets, his tools are not ready for primetime use yet. What this probably means now is that he is not going to release blackra1n for untethered iPhone 3.1.3 jailbreak (as previously thought), iPhone OS 4 and iPad before the next-iPhone is out this summer.
Apple has just released iTunes 9.1.1 for both Windows and Mac. This is a minor release for stability and bug fixes which addresses issues like problems in “converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing”, “stability issues with VoiceOver ”, and various other bug fixes.
