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Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy [App Store]


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Published Feb. 2, 2009 at 3:54 p.m.
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Crackulous, a program for pirating apps from the iPhone App Store, was just released. Great for cheapskates, terrible for independent developers trying to make a living ... You'll need to jailbreak your phone to get in on the fun, obviously, but the entire process seems relatively simple if you're looking to get on board ... However, since many of these apps will need to phone home, they'll be letting Apple and the app makers know exactly who you are and what dirty deeds you're committing,

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Preliminary tethered jailbreak now available for iPod touch 2G


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Published Feb. 1, 2009 at 8:45 p.m.
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About two weeks ago, the iPhone Dev Team started dropping hints about redsn0w, which is the project focused on jailbreaking the iPod touch 2G. Yesterday, the first unsupported tethered jailbreak, dubbed "Red Snow Lite" was released to the public ... Before you attempt to jailbreak your shiny iPod touch 2G, be aware of the caveats and potential device hazards. As the README quite explicitly states, this exploit is unsupported and requires tethering the device to your computer to jailbreak. What

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The Week in iPhone Apps: Place Your Bets [IPhone Apps]


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Published Jan. 30, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
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This Sunday, your phone can help you gamble. It can also let you become a carjacker for one brief moment, and bring you closer to the lovely Ben Gibbard. To the Store ... Payback: It's no Chinatown Wars, but Payback is a solid GTA-clone for the iPhone. Lots of guns, lots of driving, and really, really solid graphically. I prefer my iPhone games more on the play-for-2-minutes puzzle side, but Payback has a neat auto-save feature that lets you pick up right where you left off once your sandwich is

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iPhone 2.2.1 Pwnage Jailbreak Is Here [Iphone Jailbreak]


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Published Jan. 30, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
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The Dev Team just released the Pwnage app, which jailbreaks 2.2.1 iPhones on Macs. If you're ever going to SIM unlock your phone in the future (use it on another network), use this, not QuickPwn ... For people with 10.5.6, you're going to have to re-enable DFU mode in order to run Jailbreak. The Dev Team blog has instructions on how to do that, but after you're done, you should disable DFU mode by running the steps backwards, as we documented here. It may screw up your machine if you don't.

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iPhone 2.2.1 QuickPwn Jailbreak For Windows Now Available [Apple]


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Published Jan. 29, 2009 at 5:46 p.m.
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As expected, it didn't take long for the QuickPwn team to jailbreak the iPhone 2.2.1 firmware. QuickPwn is available now for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. [QuickPwn via Lifehacker] ...

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Bluetooth transfers come to jailbroken iPhones


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Published Jan. 28, 2009 at 3:49 a.m.
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No, no -- Bluetooth transfers haven't come to the iPhone natively (um, Apple, are you taking this hint to heart?), but for those courageous enough to jailbreak their handset, you can enjoy the same spoils enjoyed by RAZR owners. It seems the final release has yet to be made public (it's coming to the iSpazio Repository in short order), but if you're ready to get your hopes up, a demonstration video is just after the break ... [Via Boy Genius Report] ... Continue reading Bluetooth transfers come

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Warning: Jailbreaking iPhones Using Unibody MacBooks Can Bite You Later [Jailbreak Fiasco]


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Published Jan. 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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This weekend, I learned the hard way that trying to jailbreak an iPhone 3G using a Late 2008 MacBook Pro running 10.5.6 can totally freeze up the machine later on. Here are the specifics: ... Short version: Be careful when you run any "DFU fix" Automator scripts on your unibody (Late 2008) MacBook or MacBook Pro, and if you already have, do not upgrade to QuickTime 7.6 until you've repaired the alterations that the script made to your system ... In this post, we outlined how to re-enable

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Warning: Jailbreaking iPhones Using 10.5.6 MacBooks Can Bite You Later [Jailbreak Fiasco]


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Published Jan. 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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This weekend, I learned the hard way that trying to jailbreak an iPhone 3G using a MacBook running 10.5.6 can totally freeze up the machine later on. Here are the specifics: UPDATED ...

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Warning: 10.5.6 MacBooks May Freeze After Jailbreaking iPhone 3G [Jailbreak Fiasco]


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Published Jan. 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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This weekend, I learned the hard way that trying to jailbreak an iPhone 3G using a MacBook running 10.5.6 can totally freeze up the machine later on. Here are the specifics: UPDATED ...

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How to Get Emoji iPhone Emoticons For Free Without Jailbreaking [Iphone Emoji]


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Published Jan. 23, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
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Jailbreak iPhone users have been able to get Emoji, the Japanese emoticons, on their phones for a while now, but you can now get it even without jailbreaking—albeit a slightly gimped version ... Japanese site iPodTouchLab found out that if you import a specially formatted vcard.vcf address book file with the proper Emojis already inside, you'll be able to type out Emojis a chunk at a time, and delete the ones you don't want. It's a gimpy way of doing it, but it's free. Instructions from

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