iPhone Techie

Jay Freeman (a.k.a. Saurik) has updated Cydia with a new ‘Manage Account’ feature that lets you easily view and install packages already purchased.

This is a great addition to Cydia because now, if you restore your firmware (iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch), or purchase a new device – iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can easily install all your Cydia Jailbreak apps and tweaks without having to manually look for them again in Cydia repositories.

You can find the new feature right on the Cydia homescreen. Only packages purchased using Cydia’s payment system will be displayed. If an application uses its own payment system it won’t be visible on the list. Read more…

Apple is busily working to bring the App Store to the Mac and now Saurik has announced that he will be bringing Cydia to the Mac as well.

Last week Jay Freeman also known as Saurik presented at 360|MacDev giving an overview of his upcoming jailbreak store for Mac OS X, Cycript, and Cydia Substrate.

Today Saurik has announced that he has created a new version of MobileSubstrate called ‘CydiaSubstrate’ that runs on both iOS and Mac OS X, ArsTechnica reports.

“Just like you can make all these modifications on the iPhone, you can make these same modifications on the desktop,” Freeman said. “Until now, there has never been a way to easily install modifications to the system or third-party applications, as well as keep them updated.” Read more…

Last week I notified all you guys about the Cydia incompatibility with the new iOS 4.2 firmware from Apple and that it was being worked on by Saurik (Jay Freeman) and other people (chpwn) to get it up to speed and have everything ready for new iOS 4.2 release

According to chpwn and his recent tweet the Cydia is now ready for the new Apple iOS 4.2 firmware, all work has been completed and all we are waiting for is Apple iOS 4.2 Release.

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In the beginning of this week on November 2nd I have written an article about the new iOS 4.2 Jailbreak delay due to Cydia not being ready and / or compatible with the new Operating System / Firmware iOS 4.2.

The main issue was the fact that Cydia is not compatible with the new iOS 4.2 Applications, .deb packages and basically just doesn’t work with the new iOS 4.2 system, period…

So after trying the new iOS 4.2 GM firmware and using the new Redsn0w 0.9.6b2 I was able to jailbreak my iPhone but found our pretty quick that Cydia and a lot of Jailbreaking Apps / .deb packages were completely broken.

Our good friend’s iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd tweet today is giving us a little bit of a hope because he said; both chpwn and saurik are burning the midnight oil to get it working as soon as possible.

Here is a screenshot of the new updated Cydia and looking at this screen it definitely looks like it is in fact being updated. The GUI looks totally different. Read more…

Two of the biggest non-Apple App Stores – Cydia and Rock.app – with one common goal: to provide users with the best apps for jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touches have decided to merge for the best interest of the community.

Saurik (maker of Cydia) has announced that he has acquired Rock Your iPhone, a rival app for installing jailbroken apps.

Now iPhoneTechie can provide you with Cracked .deb files and Apps without ever worrying about the ROCK App ever AGAIN!!!

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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

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…

The Teehan+Lax iPhone home screen concept is about to become a reality thanks to saurik.

Initially the concept will materialize as a lockscreen widget via saurik’s new Cydget framework. Dubbed Element, a beta will hopefully be available by next week. Read more…