Jailbreaking

Mobile

IOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak: The Wait’s Almost Over

12:37AM December 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Jailbreaking your iPhone is a glorious process that opens your phone to a brave new world of features and apps. But with iOS 5, the process has only worked with your phone tethered (or semi-tethered) to your computer. Until right now. More »


Mobile

The iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken

4:30PM October 30, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

It’s not going to help your battery life issues, but if you want to break free of Apple’s checks and balances that prevent you from running any old app on your new phone, you’ll be happy to hear that the iPhone Dev-Team is already demonstrating a preliminary jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. More »


Software

Ultrasn0w iOS Unlocking Tool Now Works With Version 4.2.1 (3G/3GS Only)

5:30AM November 29, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Ultrasn0w, the iPhone Dev Team’s iOS unlocking tool, was broken recently by Apple’s “aggressive compiler optimization.” Whatever. It works again, sort of, but only for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The iPhone 4 uses a different baseband so that version will have to wait. [iPhone Dev Team via BGR] More »


Software

Plex Media Centre On A Jailbroken AppleTV Looks Delicious

12:20AM November 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16479085&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":283.333,"ratio":0.566666666667,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Plex, an especially handsome piece of media centre software, has been shoehorned onto jailbroken AppleTVs. It’s still in early development, but man if this isn’t the most beautiful way to stream all those files of yours to your TV screen. More »


Gaming

Using Your Jailbroken PS3 Online Will Send The Sony Cops Your Way

7:41AM August 24, 2010 | Brian Barrett

As tempting as it might be to jailbreak your PS3, you really probably definitely shouldn’t. Because when you do, Sony can detect the software ID the jailbreak program uses, and ban your PS3 remotely. According to a PS3 Hacks posting: More »


Software

Dev Team Cracks iPhone 3.1.2, Jailbreaks Even Previously Unbroken iPhones

2:32PM October 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The Dev Team has struck again, negating the security work of the iPhone 3.1.2 update. Looks like it’ll work even if you’ve never jailbroken your phone before (though soon-to-be-released hardware may not?). Pwnage can be attained here. [Thanks, SE!] More »


Software

PlayStation Emulation Comes To Palm Pre, Runs Faster Than On IPhone

12:45PM July 1, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Software

IPhone 3GS’s Upgraded Hardware Means Console Emulators No Longer Suck

9:18PM June 25, 2009 | John Herrman

Console emulators were one of the first orders of business when the jailbreak scene took off two years ago, but they’ve always been plagued by stuttering framerates—especially the more ambitious ones. The iPhone 3GS fixes this, gloriously. More »