Apple is known to be at the cutting edge of technology across all of its product verticals. Because it was built that way, built by a geek who also happened to be an excellent salesman. A salesman who would want his customers to keep coming back to him. Even for the items they have already purchased form him, they are required to come to him for updates at a frequency decided by him. For pretty much 15 years, we have been using and abusing iTunes for its good and not…
iOS users have always been jealous of the customizability of Android platform. Why shouldn’t they be, Android users get to set Live wallpapers, scrolling backgrounds, custom launchers, and custom OS too. Well, you can now get Android’s LiveWallpaper and Scrolling desktop background wallpapers on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad using a Jailbreak tweak called LiveWallpaper. LiveWallpaper app isn’t the first on iOS to support this. We’ve seen apps like GoDesk & LivePapers. But there are multiple reasons why those apps are just not optimal for everyone. On the contrary, Live Wallpaper…
iOS 6.1.3 is out and it comes with lots of bug fixes and open issues. If you’re Jailbroken Untethered on iOS 6.1.2, we recommend you shouldn’t update to iOS 6.1.3 just yet. Apple has closed the exploit in iOS 6.1.x that let Evasi0n achieve untethered jailbreak on iPhone 4, 4s, iPhone 5 and iPad 4. Who should upgrade to iOS 6.1.3: Any A4 device- iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4th gen - you can achieve Tethered Jailbreak Sorry, no jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3 on iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad…
The wait is over, Jailbreak for iOS 6, iOS 6.1 is finally here and its Untethered! Team evad3r had been working hard on the release and it finally appears after a lot of waiting. Team Evad3rs was formed with elite members of jailbreak community: Nikias Bassen (Pimskeks), Planetbeing (David Wang), France-based Pod2g (Cyril) and MuscleNerd. The team had been working together for a while in order to make an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6 for post-A5 devices, including the iPhone 5, the iPad mini and the latest-generation iPad. The tool…
Whatever begins must have an end. The Piracy giant Hackulous’s App Store called Installous is gone forever. We are very sad to announce that Hackulous is shutting down. After many years, our community has become stagnant and our forums are a bit of a ghost town. It has become difficult to keep them online and well-moderated, despite the devotion of our staff. We’re incredibly thankful for the support we’ve had over the years and hope that new, greater communities blossom out of our absence. With lots of love, Hackulous Team…
Swype redefined input methods on modern smartphones with their state of the art swiping gesture based keyboard. Swipe over the characters of the word without lifting your finger, and it predicts the word. Swype made its first appearance on Android, and later TouchPal, SwiftKey and Android 4.2 Jellybean keyboard took the lead. However on iOS, users still lack a porper Swype-like keyboard, but thats about to change with TouchPal. After using TouchPal for while on our iPhone, we believe TouchPal is the “first usable” swype gesture keyboard for iPhone, iPod…
Apple has a bad record of supporting the older generation devices with new iOS updates. The original iPhone, and iPod Touch had been deprived of all of the features that been in iOS 5, iOS 6 and available on latest devices. If you own one of these iPhones, iPod Touch, Whited00r is your only hope. Whited00r provides custom firmwares for older iPhone, iPod Touch with the latest fucntionality and apps from latest iOS. Since iOS firmware is proprietary, its impossible to port it to other legacy devices. But what can…
Cydia apps often open-up the possibilities for iOS users by letting them achieve, which are otherwise a far dream for Apple iOS devices. Jailbreaking is a bliss for iPhone and iPad users. Cool Jailbreaking tweaks come almost every day, but keeping a track of all of them is impossible, that’s why we try to bring them to our reader’s notice. How often did you wish you had easier and more accessible control over Display Brightness in iPhone, iPod Touch? iPad users have brithness adjustment available in the multitasking bar, but…
Stock iPhone Camera app is cool and fast, however, if you’re looking for features, you always have to look elsewhere. Look no beyond the Camera app, thanks to CameraTweak jailbreak tweak, it adds various tweaks like Time-lapse counter photography and focus-Exposure switch adjustment. Time-lapse essential for setting framerate of video recording. The great thing about CameraTweak is that the new features are available at your disposal without losing the benefits of stock app. The key point to note here is that these tweaks don’t slow down the app at all.…
With iOS 6 Maps leading to Apocalypse, everyone started looking for better alternatives. Of course, nothing beats Google Maps, and that’s why users switched to browser based maps. However, when you want to find directions, launching browser is the last thing would want to do. So the recommended practice is to create a shortcut for the Webapp. However, there are caveats with this method. App doesn’t run fullscreen. Still there is a lot of browser chrome. App icon doesn’t feel right. So in order to get immersive experience for Google Maps on…
Dev-Team has released a new version of Redsn0w that gives you Tethered Jailbreak on A4 devices on iOS 6 final. In order to continue, make sure you’re fully backed-up. Although redsn0w does no harm to your data, but its worth spending few minutes safeguarding your data. This Jailbreak is for A4 iOS devices: iPhone 4 on iOS 6 iPhone 3GS on iOS 6 iPod Touch 4th gen on iOS 6. Few facts This a tethered jailbreak, you will have to tethered boot everytime. iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad 3 (New…
Why should only Jailbreakers have all the fun? Apps and modifications are making their way to unmodified iOS devices, and noobs can now rejoice. A new app allows Non-jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch devices to add weather and stocks widgets in Notification Center. Speed U, like NC widgets on Jailbroken phones, makes it possible to pin shortcuts for calling or texting anyone, launching an app, toggles like Wifi, GPS, Flashlight and more. Speed U actually provides notifications that are persistent in your Notification Center, and this makes them look like…
Apple announced 3D Maps in iOS 6, however, they decided to deprive iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G of the feature. iOS 6 maps are sure interesting, they do have number of pros or cons over previous Google Maps. On one side they lose lots of features and crowdsourcing data, but they do gain on turn-by-turn navigation, a feature popular on Android’s Google Maps. However, 3D Maps can still be enabled on iOS 6 for all previous iOS devices, thanks to developers and hackers. Turn-by-turn navigation is still…
At WWDC 2012, Apple would announce the next iteration of the mobile OS for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch: iOS 6. iOS 6 will continue to improve the iOS experience just like iOS 5 where we saw more love for Social networking and multitasking gestures. WWDC will be held in San Francisco on June 11th where the company would be facelifting the native apps with couple of improvements. LEts go over the new features in iOS 6 one by one. 1. New 3D Maps: Apple will ditch Google Maps in favor…
iOS 5.1.1 firmware on iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Apple’s iOS 5.1.1 has now been Jailbroken Untethered after a long span of hard work by Pod2g and Chronic Dev Team. The Untethered Jailbreak for iOs 5.1.1 is compatible with: iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad (3rd gen) iPad 2 iPad 1 iPod touch 3G iPod touch 4G Apple TV 2G Chronic dev team’s Absinthe tool was among the first ones to Jailbreak iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 (on iOS 5.x). Absinthe is very easy to use and…
