After going through a relatively quiet patch during the latter months of 2011, the last three weeks have been a hive of jailbreaking activity. They say; you can have never have too much information, but there has been so many updates posted to blogs, and various Twitter accounts that in some circumstances it has been difficult to keep up. Let's try and bring some sanity to the situation and see where we are at.
Whilst our iOS devices provide a novel way of playing music through the stereo, the rigmarole of getting up and traipsing towards it to skip those guilty Britney tracks can get pretty darn annoying; after all, we’re far too technologically advanced to be participating in such nonsense.
Whilst Apple has spent much of 2011 arguing patent issues in a just but often petty ongoing back and forth with Samsung, one website in particular has been overtly undercutting the Cupertino company of potentially millions.
After a couple of months anxiously waiting, the very first iOS 5 untethered jailbreak arrived in a blaze of glory just two day ago, and techies far and wide running Apple’s latest mobile OS duly obliged to the calling of the iPhone Dev Team’s ever-reliable utility.
The December holiday period is arguably the busiest and most manic shopping time frame across the globe. Historically, millions of people around the world have taken to local high streets, outlets and shopping malls to buy gifts for family and loved ones. However, in recent times the global economic slow down, coupled together with the low costs provided by on line retailers has seen sales figures in physical shopping outlets decrease dramatically.
On the rare occasion that I go into Cydia these days, I very rarely check the top of the main page to see which SHSH that Saurik’s server has cached for me. At one point it was the first port of call and was almost second nature, having a quick glance to see if any new signatures had been saved on my behalf.
Apple has massively improved iOS of late. Just the recent release of iOS 5 has catapulted the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch operating system to a new level, while simultaneously bringing with it features that owners Android and Windows Phone 7 devices have been enjoying for some time. Proper notifications, anyone?
Redsn0w, the regularly reliable jailbreaking tool for iPhone and iPod touch users, has just been updated to version 0.9.9b9b, and brings with it a couple of handy finishing touches.
Apple's iMessage is touted as the end of SMS, thanks to its integration with the already in-use Messages app and the most important part of the deal - iMessages are completely free. One are where SMS does appear to have the upper hand though is invoked when your iPhone is stolen, or just plain lost.
While we sit here with our iPads and iPhones, it is easy to forget that things were not always this way. We didn't always have the iPhone 4S with its super fast CPU and lightening integration with iOS. In fact, the name 'iOS' is something that only came around relatively recently itself.
