Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers – Updated

**** Updated 1/15/12 **** Most of you are coming into this post with the latest 5.0.1 jailbreak because it broke your iBooks app just like the 4.2.1 jailbreak in 2011. Thankfully, there’s a fix for you too. Just today, @saurik put out an update to Corona in Cydia. Version 1.0-4 is the latest edition of Corona and it’s supposed to fix your iBooks issues. Try that and you should be good to go. I just recently updated my iPhone to 4.2.1 thanks to the greenpois0n jailbreak. Yes, I jailbreak… and I’m proud of it. There are many benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone like SBSettings, Activator, Infinifolders, etc. The real reason I jailbreak: because I can. I wouldn’t consider myself a rebel but I do like having the opportunity to install whatever I’d like onto my iPhone. Jailbreaking has received negative feedback from Apple since it gained popularity in 2007. They claim it voids the device’s warranty but anyone can easily restore the device to factory state via iTunes. Up until this point, the game has always been cat and mouse. Hackers exploit code, Apple fixes said code. Today marks a new realization for me as a jailbreaker: Apple deliberately crippled [...]

Dev Team releases a new and improved Pwnage Tool

The new Pwnage Tool came out this morning right before Apple’s Live event. Obviously, we didn’t have time to cover it… and we won’t be able to cover it fully until we jailbreak our iPhone 4 and Apple TV here at the office. But, we’ll go ahead and get you the pertinent information so you know what you’re getting into. In addition to the slew of already existing iOS devices, the Apple TV is now hackable via the Jailbreak from Pwnage Tool. At this point, it’s not a feature-rich jailbreak. There’s only some command line interaction, but other things will most certainly come soon. This will open up the doors to us running third-party unofficial software that could play Hulu, maybe packages for the individual network streams, so on and so forth. We’ll always count on the Dev Team to be there and do exactly what we’re hoping Apple would do. We’ll probably see an official App Store for the Apple TV soon, but not soon enough. Thanks, Dev Team! All of the other obligatory information: don’t mess with this stuff unless you know what you’re doing. The Dev Team tries their best to make it so easy that anyone [...]

Cocoa Touch Apps on Twitter

We don’t always have time to write out a full-fledged CTA review, but we still want to keep our readers in the loop with all things Cocoa Touch… In an effort to still squeeze a little blogging into our already jam-packed lives, we’ll be doing updates via twitter. We’ve been on twitter for over a month now, but haven’t actually set it up to push live updates to the site until now. iPhone OS 3.0 appears to be working out pretty well – news did come out today about a vulnerability in the SMS program that allows a hacker to enable such things as GPS location, the microphone and other creepy stuff… It appears as though Apple already has a fix in the works… will probably roll out that as well as some hot new features in 3.1 So far you can expect new voice control compatibility with bluetooth connections… finally voice-dailing for people who have expensive cars. (Not me) If you edit a video you took with your 3GS – it won’t kill whatever you cut… it offers to create a new version… Other things of note in 3.1 – the phone vibrates when moving icons… ummm, I’m actually [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 Unlocked and Jailbroken

Quick update here – Not much to it, but if you jailbreak, you’ll like it. Go to blog.iphone-dev.com and download Redsn0w. You have to manually update to 3.0 via iTunes at this point, but if you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of jailbreak apps, just a couple themes that are easy to reapply. After updating to 3.0 – just run Redsn0w on your PC or mac, it’ll do the whole jailbreak thing for you. After jailbreaking, add http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com to your repositories in either Cydia or ICY, sorry ICY – but we still prefer Cydia. Then search for ultrasn0w in the packages and install it. Reboot. You’re now unlocked and jailbroken. I’m selling my 3G to get a 3GS… I’ll let you know what it’s like once I have it. P.S. This will get your phone running on OS 3.0 – but you will have to redo everything in your jailbreak… wait for the dev team to send out an update on that process if you don’t want to lose your hard work. CTA is not responsible for any damage you do to your phone… sure we can fix it for you, but we’re not always cheap. ;)

A quick guide to QuickPwn

Considering that we’re going to be talking about jailbreak apps coming up soon, we thought that it would be a good idea to explain the jailbreak process in extreme haste. A good majority of our posts will be to-the-point and news-related so that we can continue our daily lives while keeping the site up and running. We will, however, provide our old-school style reviews when we get the chance. Continue reading for more information about QuickPwn and jailbreaking your device…

Pwnage Tool & QuickPwn Now 2.1 Compatible (Updated!)

***Update*** Looks like the windows version of quickpwn is out. We did it on our brand new iPhone 3G 16 GB… all we can say is nice! Worked like a charm. Let us know your results in the comments! P.S. Anyone who has news about Customize.app — please share. ***End Update*** Remember what we said about iTunes 8 would need a patch to allow pwange? Well, it seems that we — The Dev Team as well — were wrong but thankfully! iTunes 8 no longer requires a hack to install the custom ipsw that you create with the Pwnage Tool. You can now use the newest versions of QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool to their full capacities with iPhone Software 2.1 — note to early adopters: it is still NOT available for iPod Touch 2nd generation. All iPhones and 1st generation iPod Touches can be pwned. Click here for the full release from the Dev Team. The downloads are available via Torrent infrastructure for now. If you don’t know how to use torrents, just hold off for a bit, they’ll have direct links on their website soon. 

Dev Team Vs. Apple : Fight!

Before you get your panties in a wad… if your device is already pwned, it will continue to function normally and will work totally fine with iTunes 8. If you haven’t pwned your iPod Touch or iPhone yet but are looking into it, then you have some more work to do. It seems as though Apple is still battling the Dev Team’s antics at least somewhat: iTunes 8 no longer allows you to restore an unpwned device with custom firmware, your device must first be pwned or iTunes 8 must be modified. Read more after the jump…

QuickPwn: Dev-Team Provides Easier Pwnage (Updated Again)

Just hours before Apple released the latest version of mobile device firmware, The iPhone Dev-Team released a completely new application called QuickPwn. Earlier today, they developed a very basic and rough, though functional, version of the software available — believe it or not — only for Windows as of now (There is a basic GUI version available now). Their intention was to improve the feelings in the Jailbreak Community so that not every release is Mac-only right away. Read more about the app itself after the break…