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.
The iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 has been rolled out to developers and interestingly it resolves lots of bugs over any of the previous Beta releases of OS 4. Apart from the usual bug fixes and API improvements, following features are noticeably new in this release.
We all at some point in our lives are keen to know what does future have in store for us. If there is one power that is worth having, it is the ability to predict the future. Imagine all the endless possibilities that could come from such a great skill.
Internet Explorer 9 is shaping out to be quite a significant jump over its current incarnation i.e. Internet Explorer 8. The first platform preview of IE9, which was released back in March at MIX10 had significant performance increase over IE8. The new IE9 Preview 2 has even more improvements. The first platform preview of IE9 scored an impressive 55 out of 100 on Acid3 test. This number has now reached 68.
Having spent a fair amount of time in it’s beta stage, Dropbox for Android is finally available now for everyone to try on the Android Market. Syncing files from your Android device to the Dropbox cloud space will now be a snap! The whole idea is to enable you to store all types of media on the cloud space so that you can later on view it from anywhere, anytime, from any device. The Dropbox app for Android does this task as smoothly as it’s iPhone counterpart.
Apple has been busy lately in safe-guarding the design and innovation of its products by taking legal cover of patent grant policy provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In the recent past, we have seen how Apple filed a legal suit against HTC, for its alleged involvement in infringing 20 iPhone OS patents "related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware”. Apple was also recently granted patent for the "Ornamental design" of the original iPhone which was released back in 2007.
Now things are taking a U-turn again, or sort of anyway. If you thought that Microsoft has buried the Courier project somewhere in their labs, you might be wrong, as it now looks like that some parts of that ambitious Courier project may return in the upcoming Tablets from Microsoft. Recently, Bill Gates in an interview said that Microsoft is working on Tablets which would use a pen-based input method (as opposed to finger-only mechanism in Apple iPad) which would go mainstream in students.
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.
