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.
Great news for those of a jailbroken persuasion, as it seems iFile will be getting Dropbox integration for uploading and downloading files according to a tweet from the app's developers.
If you're a fan of third party iOS web browsers and are tired of manually opening links to avoid using Safari, then you're in luck. Now there is a free jailbreak tweak that allows you to change the default web browser in iOS.
Well that took longer than any of us really expected. Mark today in your calendars folks, for this is the day iOS saw its first key logger to be released onto Cydia.
While no much easier than the 30 or 40 step processes of yesteryear, jailbreaking is still a little daunting for the layman. With so many different tools, for different operating systems and based on different versions of iOS, the jailbreak scene can be a veritable minefield for people who aren't particularly tech-savvy. This is where college student Kevin Lee comes in.
Since the day jailbreaking has been legalized in US, things haven't really changed much. Legalization did provide the jailbreakers and those with jaibroken phones a reason to exuberate but that's pretty much the only thing they have gotten.
When Apple announced its all-powerful iPad 2 in March, one of the marquee features was the ability to mirror your iPad 2's screen to a HD monitor or TV using one of Apple's display adapters. If only we could do the same on our trusty iPad 1s.
PS3 hacking is a big deal these days. Everyone at it. Well, maybe not everyone but it seems to be growing in popularity with each passing day and Sony has helped it grow by removing the Linux install option from its PS3 software. Now hackers are working on giving users the option of choosing what OS they wish to boot into when they switch their PS3s on - dual-booting to coin an old PC phrase.
Two interesting little jailbreak tidbits to come out of hacker MuscleNerd's Twitter account today with news of an untethered 4.3.1 jailbreak as well as his thoughts on rumors of a spy in the jailbreak camp.
