iPhone Tracker app for Mac: follow your movement on a map

We have written recently on the latest scandal regarding the privacy breach in the iPhone world. As it turned put it seems that your iPhone is tracking your geographical location and is doing so for the last 8 months. All data on your location is being saved ina file named consolidated.db which is located in your iPhone and is synced to your computer whenever you backup your iPhone. This occurrence stared with iOS 4.x but was only recently recovered by some industry experts. It still isn’t clear what is the reason for this tracking and if this is attack on users privacy or simply an bug in the iOS.

iPhone jailbreak apps: virtual Home button with Activator

I have read somewhere that Steve Jobs has a strong animosity towards keyboards on all iOS devices (which is quite obvious) and that there were even plans for complete removal of any hardware keys from the iPhone even the Home button!

Also there were some reports from users of hardware failure of the Home button on their iPhones. So to solve this our hardworking friends in the jailbreak community have provided us with a simple yet very useful tool to achieve this. Perhaps Steve Jobs and his team could learn something from jailbreakers?
Anyway if the Home button on your iPhone stops working and you dont have an Apple store close to repair it or replace it here is what you can do.

Cydia working stable again!

If you have used Cydia recently you have noticed problems with it. It was a big news in the online world that Amazon cloud service failed to deliver the promised 99.99% uptime. And unfortunately Cydia is also hosted on the troubled segment of the Amazon cloud. While many online systems have crashed during this crisis (including Sony play station gaming network) it seems that Cydia is now up and again working well.

During the problem with Amazon services, Cydia users had encountered various difficulties including loss of download packages, unavailability of SHSH options, some apps couldn’t be purchased in Cydia Store and more. Even some already bought and installed apps didn’t work properly and required repeated installation.

iPhone is not tracking anyone!

If you are an iPhone user you have certainly heard about the privacy issues regarding iPhone tracking your location. Now we have heard about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple responding to these accusations.
He shared his refutation of this, as he thinks fake iPhone tracking scandal. He also warns that Apple isn’t tracking anyone but that you should think twice about the tracking problem on Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. Even more, in this email Steve Jobs claims that Android is definitely tracking its users.

How to unlock your iPhone on iOS 4.3.2 via Ultrasn0w (Mac only)

We wrote recently about iPhone Dev Team releasing upgraded PwnageTool for jailbreaking the latest iOS 4.3.2. After this they have also upgraded UltraSn0w so it’s now compatible with this new version of iOS. The latest version of UltraSn0w is now version 1.2.2. If you have been waiting to unlock your iPhone now is the time to use this software unlock. For this unlock to work you need to have the baseband preserved, so be advised not to upgrade with the official firmware through iTunes if you care about the carrier unlock!

Here are simple instructions for unlocking your device with Ultrasn0w 1.2.2.

IMEI unlock for iPhone not available anymore!

We wrote a couple days ago about a new kind of unlocking service which was supposedly able to unlock iPhone remotely without any jailbreak or unlock sim card needed. We have also warned our readers not to hurry to much to use this unlock. Now it seems that the unlock is not any more available.

Iphone tips and tricks: disable Location Services on your iPhone

Since the recent discovery about iPhone tracking and storing users location, many iPhone users were troubled about their privacy and data protection, In order to help you to protect your privacy here is a small tip on disabling Location Services on your device.

While Location Services can come in handy in some situations like for example when you would like to add a geotag to captured images, participate in some game, map navigation and so on you certainly dont need it to run all the time. Today modern world is increasingly connected and sometimes you just wouldn’t like everybody to know your location or movement history. In fact this can easily be done. You can fully disable Location Services or you can choose which apps you trust enough to allow them to use the services. Here is how to do this.

PwnageTool untethered jailbreak for iPhones running iOS 4.3.2 released

Famous iPhone Dev Team has again made effort to keep the latest jailbreak tool updated. They have just released the updated version of PwnageTool which now enables untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad running IOS 4.3.2.So now you have more than one option for jailbreaking your iOS device. You can use either PwnageTool (mac only) or RedSn0w (Mac and PC). There is also possibility to jailbreak with Sn0wbreeze (Windows PC only).

Guide: jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.2 with Sn0wBreeze 2.6

Sn0wbreeze jailbreak tool has just been updated and now you can jailbreak your iPhone if you use a windows PC. As you know PwnageTool was already released few days ago but it works only with Mac computers. Sn0wBreeze is basically PwnageTool for Windows PC. This version of Sn0wbreeze can jailbreak iOS on 4.3.2 firmware version. Similar to previously released RedSn0w jailbreak it uses Stefan Esser’s (also known as i0n1c)exploit for a untethered jailbreak. With upgraded Sn0wbreeze you can cook a custom version of the IPSW firmware file and this will enable you to preserve the baseband version, which is very important if yo need to unlock your device. Note this jailbreak works with iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.

Indie games for iPhone

Indie games have always been part of the counter culture movement and this means they were mostly obscure and not very popular. Honestly speaking when it comes to the iOS world there aren’t many Indie games developers or at least they don’t like to call themselves so. But since most of the iOS apps developers are either individuals or small groups of developers most of them are very similar to indie game developers.