How to backup game data on jailbroken iPhone

There are many great games available to all you iPhone gamers out there. Almost all of them will have different levels you can get scores, earn new points and you wouldn’t certainly like to lose all this data when you restore your iPhone.

If you have do a jailbreak on your iPhone its very important to always back up your data. This is important for everybody in fact, no matter if you have a jailbroken iPhone or a freshly updated iPhone. Backup your data now so you wont have to worry later.

Apple iPad 2

The release of the second version Apple’s best selling product the iPad is being scheduled for March 2nd in San Francisco. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF is the usual place where they introduce their products and make ground breaking announcements.
The invitations for the press are already out.

Unlock for iPhone 4 close?

The new iPhone iOS is just around the corner and this makes all people who need to unlock and jailbreak their devices eager wondering how soon will the jailbreak and unlock follow. As we learned until now the jailbreaks were quite fast, but this has not to be so. For example, for quite some time no unlock has been made for iPhone 4 with the new baseband 02.10.04 and 03.10.01.

A tweet from a iPhone jailbreak developer Sherif Hashim seems to confirm that the solution for this is quite close.

How To Zoom On The iPhone

You know what most people like about the iPhone?

It is the clean and great looking UI that neatly stacks everything, smoothly glides over things and does things the easiest possible way.

Well, most of the times. But if you are amongst those people who think that the icons are too darn small to read, have no worries. The iOS has pretty good accessibility features built right in to it and one of them is the Zoom feature that can be activated and then used with multi touch gestures.

Running a marathon with iPhones and iPad

Computer geeks are not really sport oriented but this is not necessary true for all geeks. Could you imagine running a marathon equipped with iPhones, iPads, Android smartphones and tweeting while running? Well here is a example of somebody doing just that.
Joseph Tame, a runner and a geek from Hertfordshire, UK has equiped himself with no less than fpur iPhones, one iPad and two Android smartphones.

His intention is to capture live video, weather conditions for the runners, stream of his GPS locations and even heart rate during the complete race. His purpose for this marathon is to promote a charity foundation which helps children with cancer in Japan. He has streamed the live video stream of his run on his website tm2011.com

iPhone custom boot logo

Did you ever want to change your boot logo for your jailbroken iPhone on firmware 4.2.1?
Here is how you can achieve this with the new version of Greenpois0n jailbreak.

First method

First you will have to jailbreak your iPhonewith Greenpois0n RC5 and install Cydia
Tap Cydia and in the search box search for Apple Boot logo. You can find it in Mod Myi repo
Download the software package and choose to install it on your iPhone. You will need to reboot to finish the process.
Tap Settings on your springboard and now you can change the boot logo according to your preferences. You need to reboot for the change to take place.

Unlock for iPhone 4 close?

Famous jailbreak developer Georg Hotz better known in the jailbreak world as Geohot denies that he has the unlock for iPhone 4 4.2.1 with baseband 03.10.01 and 02.10.04
He has confirmed this in his blog at geohotgotsued.blogspot.com
In an answer to his readers he said that he would wish to have the unlock, but the BB vulnerabilities have been closed by Apple, and because of this he is still using an iPhone 3GS instead.
There are also some rumours about a new unlock solution developed by him for the iPhone 4
Geohot is currently under pressure by Sony for jailbreaking their Play Station 3 gaming console. They are suing him for the jailbreak and alleged piracy. George has pointed that he seriously wants to be the first one hacking the upcoming Android based Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.
Geohot is also working on the jailbreak for Windows 7 smartphones.
On the other side the famous group known as iPhone Dev team has announced the new unlock solution for iPhone 4 with the baseband 03.10.01 and 02.10.04
They say this new unlock will be available shortly after Apple releases the new iOS version for iPhone, the iOS 4.3.
We can’t wait to get the new unlock and jailbreak from Geohot and Dev team. What about you? Do you need to unlock your iPhone 4?

iPhone games: Tiny wings

In the iPhone games world it seems that the simpler the game is the better it becomes.

Perhaps the game developing philosophy should change accordingly. There is a limit what an iOS device can achieve regarding gaming, but to master those limits and embrace them is where pure geniality starts. This is where Tiny wings is brilliant. This small app which you can get for $0.99 can’t become simpler yet more addictive and enjoyable. You manage the game with a simple touch. In the game you will enjoy in a great water coloured look, inspiring music and clever yet simple game story.

iPad as a skype phone

Skype is a fantastic VOIP software well known in desktop computing world. It works on Windows and Mac OS. There is also Skype version for iPhones available in the iTunes app store. We can use this version of Skype for turning our iPad into a telephone. In fact you are limited only with your imagination what you can do with your iPad. So lets see necessary steps for turning your iPad into a funny looking telephone. You do not need to jailbreak your iPad to get this app.

Steps for installing Skype on iPad

Wireless hotspot for iPhone 4.3

Recently launched Verizon iPhone 4 has a great new ability. It can work as a wireless hotspot connecting your other wireless devices (computers,gaming platforms etc.) to the Internet. With this you can connect another five to your carrier 3G network, just like a packet sized hand held router.

This was a smart marketing move by Verizon which tries to gain it’s ground against highly popular AT&T iPhone. But now it seems that AT&T is preparing a counter move, as we heard that AT&T wants to enable users with the future 4.3 firmware to have this same capability available. In fact AT&T has started providing this possibility for other smartphones since Febryary 13 fees for this plan are same as for tethering which is $20 monthly.