Just like iOS; Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform is a well monitored and closed system. All apps that are submitted for Marketplace goes through a strict screening process. If an app is found to be violating guidelines set by Microsoft, then well, it is rejected and sent back to the drawing board.
Many of the millions of iPhone, iPod, and iPod touch users across the globe are keenly awaiting progress on that elusive untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. With a little time and patience, we wait in hope that the hackers will find the solution, allowing iDevice users - including those of the brand new, but as-yet un-jailbroken iPhone 4S - and iPad 2 - to enjoy free reign.
It's a familiar predicament; you get a message on your iDevice, and somebody in your vicinity manages to see who it's from, and sometimes has the audacity to ask questions about it.
The jailbreak community presents the perfect opportunity for developers to plug the holes which exist with each and every iOS release. Apple's fifth iteration of its mobile operating system has brought forth some great new features, but there is, and always will be, room for improvement.
A new Cydia package called “SemiTether” jailbreak for iOS 5 is now available on BigBoss repository which basically helps reboot tethered-jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch without having to plug in your device into PC or Mac. This is second best thing to having an untethered jailbreak. The only one downside to it is that it doesn’t allow you to use Safari, Mail, Cydia, and jailbreak apps installed on your device.
We seem to do this dance every time Apple launches a major new iOS release, and iOS 5 is certainly no different. With Apple bringing iOS 5 to the party last Wednesday, pretty much the half the planet rushed off to download it, with the results being Apple's own data centers curling up into the foetal position.
If you've ever dabbled with the world of jailbreaking, or even if you're a jailbreak aficionado like so many of our readers, the chances are that at some point you've struggled to find what you're looking for in Cydia.
Anybody who takes more than a fleeting interest in the jailbreak community will have heard of Jay Freeman. For those of you that haven't, he is the mastermind behind the Cydia infrastructure which is at the heart of every single jailbroken iDevice to date.
These days, in order to downgrade an iOS device to a previous version of iOS, you need to have an old SHSH blob of that version, and the only way to do that is to back it up ahead of time, that is, when Apple is still signing the firmware. iSHSHit is a tool that backs up the firmware's blob for later use right on the device itself. The said app has now been updated to work with iOS 4.3.4 and 4.2.9 (for CDMA iPhones), which were both released to the public last week.
The number one reason why people jailbreak their iOS device is for the experience-enhancing tweaks. From little tweaks like MultiIconMover to the big, game-changing ones like Winterboard, SBSettings etc; all tweaks help make iOS an even more powerful mobile OS.
