iPhone Techie

As you all know, yesterday Apple has released the new 4.0.2 Firmwares for iPhones and iPod Touch Devices and the new 3.2.2 Firmware for iPads to block / patch the PDF exploit that was use by comex for the JailbreakMe.com userland jailbreak.

Since this “PDF” exploit is highly vulnerable, Apple recommended everyone to update to this new firmwares for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices in order to secure all iOS based devices. Of course by doing so you will lose your Jailbreak and Unlock after the iDevice is updated to the new firmware.

The iPhone Dev-Team has released the PDF Patch to fix the iOS vulnerability used by comex’s jailbreak. Read more…

Saurik discusses The History of Jailbreaking in an exclusive interview for Make It Work Radio, which aired Saturday July 24, 2010.

He also talks about the upcoming @comex jailbreak. You can watch two videos of the interview below… Read more…

Jay Freeman, also better known as Saurik, was interviewed by “Make it Work” where he talked about the iPhone 4 jailbreak and Cydia

See video below

Last week, Comex, the developer behind the Spirit jailbreak, gave us a preview of Frash, which is nothing less but Flash for Android ported to the iPad.

Today it seems someone released a .deb of Frash, and while Comex is not opposed to it, you’ve got to understand it’s just an alpha version. Read more…

Saurik has uploaded a new version of APT that has an optimized cache generator and greatly improves Cydia performance. This APT update which has significantly improved slow, and painful loading times in Cydia. Read more…

Many of you asked me through emails and comments about my iPhone, what Apps, Games, Utilities, etc. I have on my device and what are the most “MUST HAVE” items you need to have / install after you Jailbreak your iPhone or iTouch.

Well, here is a list of my personal MUST HAVE’s and short explanation / overview of each item.

NOTE: Some of these items are strictly for iPhones but there are  lot of MUST HAVEs for iPod iTouches as well so don’t stop reading if you are a proud owner of an Apple iPod iTouch Device. Read more…

If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, then you might have noticed Cydia crashing for you since the last few days or so.

This happens if you have ZodTTD repository installed in Cydia. Follow the simple step by step guide posted below to fix your iPhone or iPod touch without having to restore your device. You will be using SSH method to fix this problem. Read more…

Have you Jailbroken and Unlocked your Device? iPhone or iTouch and now don’t know what to do with the Cydia Application, How to Install IPA Files, DEB Files and Activate Features such as Tethering? This book will show you all the things you need to know step by step with very detailed illustrated tutorials. Read more…

If you have gotten the most annoying “Error:Database Encountered a section with no Package:header” error while trying to open Cydia you’re at the right place because we have a fix for you… Read more…

Saurik the creator of a very popular installer Cydia has released an application called Cydget, an iPhone framework for lockscreen widgets.

Cydget provides a comprehensive replacement for WinterBoard Lock Widgets, allow developers and web designers to take control of the lock screen using either native code or HTML with JavaScript and Cycript, allowing flexible access to Objective-C. Read more…