Tag : iPhone

How To: Jailbreak iOS 5 Beta 5 Using Redsn0w 0.9.8b5 On iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPad and iPod Touch [GUIDE]

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Earlier this week we reported that an iOS 5 Beta 5 jailbreak may not be possible for now. Well, as it turns out the Dev-Team is (once again) ahead of Apple and have released an updated version of Reds0w that will allow you to jailbreak your iOS device on firmware iOS 5 beta 5.

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Comex Discovers Interesting Bugs In iOS, Fake FaceTime Calls & More!

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Legendary iOS hacker @Comex, the same genius who brought us the first ever iPad 2 jailbreak tool aka JailbreakMe 3.0 and keeps a tremendous track record of releasing other user land jailbreaks e.g Spirit, tweeted a pretty strange link yesterday and asked his followers to visit that link on an iOS device using Mobile Safari. He tweeted the following two links:

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Apple iOS App Store Now Has Over 450,000 Applications

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It’s not been a long time since Apple announced that there are over 425,000 applications in the App Store. In fact, this was last month and today, a month afterwards that number seems to have been increased by 50,000 according to Apps Fire.

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iOS 5 Beta 5 Jailbreak, Can Redsn0w Do Its Magic?

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Just recently, iOS 5 beta 5 was released by Apple for iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPod touch 3G / 4G and iPad / iPad 2 and as always, the big question is raised, can it be jailbroken with any of the existing jailbreak tools? Can redsn0w do its magic once again and jailbreak iOS 5 beta 5 just like the previous releases? Unfortunately the answer to all these questions, at least for now, is NO!

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Apple iCloud VS Windows Live Services VS Google Services

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Remember the good old days of Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, the time we only had a megabyte or two of storage? And then when Google announced Gmail with 1GB of storage, that seemed unbelievable.

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iOS 5 Beta 5 Includes Nuance Speech-To-Text

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We reported yesterday that the fifth beta of iOS 5 was seeded by Apple to developers.

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iOS 5 Beta 6 To Be Released On Wednesday, August 17

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Just yesterday, Apple released iOS 5 beta 5 to the developers as an OTA update with a two weeks gap between the previous beta. However, 9to5Mac claims they mighty have “cracked the OTA update date code” and are suspecting Apple will drop iOS 5 beta 6 on Wednesday, 17th August if “some codes sent their way by a few developers” are to be trusted.

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Download iTunes 10.5 Beta 5, Allows Sync With iOS 5 Beta 5

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Moments ago, Apple released iOS 5 beta 5 to the developers. With it comes iTunes 10.5 beta 5 which like the previous releases, is mandatory for syncing your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with the fifth beta of iOS 5. If you’ve already updated to iOS 5 beta 5 OTA and are getting an error trying to sync with iTunes, all you need to do is download iTunes 10.5 Beta for your Mac or Windows computer and everything will be back to normal!

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Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 To Developers

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Just after two weeks of the last beta, Apple has just released the iOS 5 beta 5 which is now available for download through an Apple developer’s portal. Like the previous iOS 5 beta, you can grab this one via an OTA update if you don’t have your iOS 5 beta 4 jailbroken. To do that, go to Settings > General > Software Update. Otherwise, you’ll need to download the full .IPSW file after logging in to you developer account.

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Clear iOS App Badges Easily With BadgeClear Cydia Tweak

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A nifty little jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store called BadgeClear. As the name implies, it clears up all your unwanted iOS app notification badges with a simple tap. The tweak is pretty easy to use and has no settings to configure. Once installed from Cydia, all you need to do is get into wiggle mode (tap / hold an icon) and tap any badges you want to clear.

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