Back in the early days of jailbreaking, there was a young Cydia competitor going by the name of Icy. Working in a similar way to Cydia, Icy was always the faster, smoother and generally shinier app aggregator and download service. Unfortunately development on the app was ceased but now it's on its way back, and you can download a beta version right now.
One of the most common questions asked of people in the iOS jailbreak community is a simple one: why should I jailbreak my device? It's a hard one to answer - some like the powerful tools, others just want to customize their home screen. Head of all things Geek Robert Scoble decided to ask this very same question of the guy behind the jailbreak App Store Cydia, Jay Freeman and filmed the answers.
The newly released Sn0wbreeze 2.5.1 adds in the ability to enable “Animate” (custom animated boot logos) on devices jailbroken on the latest iOS 4.3.1 firmware.
In an interesting advertising move, Toyota released an official jailbreak theme for iOS through advertising firm Velti. Turns out though that Apple wasn't so keen on this approach to advertising and told Toyota to pull it.
In the past Apple has tried blocking jailbreakers by changing how iOS handles memory and has made changes to its mobile iOS in general many times. Now though they're just trying to make life difficult even after you've jailbroken.
Saurik has just announced a major upgrade release for Cydia, bumping the version number up to 1.1. The highlighted features of this new major upgrade are said to be speed improvements, “resume where you left off”, and lots of bug fixes.
Cydia, the App Store for jailbroken iDevices has never been the quickest app out there, with long delays in pulling data from its servers. Now though, developer Jay 'Saurik' Freeman has given the app a speed boost.
The following step by step guide will help you fix Mobile Substrate issues in Cydia after jailbreaking iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on iOS 4.3.
The new and updated Twitter for iOS v3.3 brings a lot of welcoming changes over the previous version. But, what we don’t like about the update is the trending topics bar which is officially known as the Quick Bar. I personally found it annoying as hell and there was no way to get rid of it, until today.
The first iDevice convention is to be held in London, England on September 17th 2011. MyGreatFest will focus on Apple's popular iPhone, iPod touch and iPad as well as the growing jailbreak community.
