Saurik on jailbreaking and legality of it

Recently the tech freedom activists behind Electronic Frontier Foundation asked for help in the fight for keeping jailbreaking a legal act. People from EFF wanted their supporters to leave comments on the website of US Copyright office in support of jailbreaking. The comments section on their website was shut down ten days ago, and following this, Copyright office shared the posted comments online. There were only 700 recorded posts made, but some real big names in the iOS jailbreak world were adding their weight to this fight. One of those important figures from the jailbreak community was the famous Saurik, owner and maintainer of Cydia, the unofficial app store for iOS. Jay Freeman, which is the real name of Saurik, added more than 5 pages of his thoughts and facts on why the jailbreaking is legal and why it needs to stay legal in the future.

iPad 3 image leaked for the first time

We have just seen the image of the next iPad model, which should apparently feature a high quality 8 megapixel camera, among other improvements. This image has been posted on a Chinese Apple portal, even before the device was official announced. This is the first image made available to the public, but according to the image, it is really in line with what was predicted by many analysts in earlier rumors about the device.

Almost like Siri: Cydia app Sara for other iPhone models

One of the most valued advantages of iPhone 4S is certainly it’s Siri voice control app. Since iPhone 4S is now a jailbreak friendly device thanks to hard work from the jailbreak community, many different Siri related tweaks are becoming available. Among them, a number of apps which are Siri like or enable Siri on iOS devices other than iPhone 4S have been released recently. So far the most popular alternative to Siri is being delivered through Spire. But Sara is a tweak which will enable Siri even on older iOS devices. Yes it is true, it will work even on iPhone 3G!

Apple to launch iOS upgrade on March 9 already?

Apple has recently released data on new profiles for different network carriers which apparently reveals the date of the new iOS upgrade. The released files include a hint of the date for releasing iOS 5.1.

According to this data some analysts predict that the upgrade will be available for all iOS devices including iPhone iPad and iPod Touch. The above mentioned profiles are supplied for iPhone operators in several countries including those in Greece, Japan, France, Sweden and others. These profiles will enable network connectivity after each device becomes updated to the new iOS version. The release of the next iOS could also be accompanied with the announcement of the iPad 3 which could be showcased next month already. Here is an image of the data which has uncovered the whole story.

Samsung vs Apple: Super Bowl commercial

Samsung is once more targeting Apple with a new commercial. This time they have used the main event of the season: the Super Bowl. The interesting thing with this video, besides its wannabe funny tone, is that it is completely anti Apple oriented. It once again mocks Apple fan culture, with people standing in line in front of an Apple store before the big game starts.

According to the add, Samsung’s new model “did it again”. A new model with a stylus? That sounds, umm, kind of weird.

iPhone jailbreak tweaks: AnyRing

here is another interesting jailbreak tweak. This time it is all about ringtone customization. While this certainly isn’t something new, and you don’t need to jailbreak to customize your ringtone, it is still easier and more interesting if you do it on a jailbroken device with a tweak just like AnyRing.

iOS users can now use Yahoo portal for app search

Another interesting development just appeared online for all iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users out there. This time it is Yahoo improving things for iOS users worldwide. The famous but lately troubled search engine company, has decided to invest more time into the iOS part of the internet search market segment. This could be deemed as a quite reasonable decision by their management, given the stellar growth of usage of iOS products around the world. If you follow our blog, you will probably know that it was recently announced that Apple is now the biggest computer supplier in the world.

Jailbreak tweaks: Zeppelin

We have seen many cool tweaks for jailbroken iPhones so far, including those which can choose the text with the name of your network carrier into anything you choose. This is already a quite usual thing among users with jailbroken iOS devices. But now there is even a more interesting option available on the market. Zeppelin jailbreak tweak will easily change even the logo of your carrier network. When you download and install this nice little tweak, you will see a whole new panel with a couple of new options in your Settings app. You will be able to chose among any of available logos. We’ll mention just a couple of them just to let you feel how it would look like on your iPhone.

RedSn0w 9.10 beta 5 launched, now with iBooks solution

Another upgrade to the famous jailrbeak app RedSN0w has just been seeded. Developers of this useful tool, the super stars of jailbreaking, iPhone Dev Team have once more updated this application. This time they have solved another troubling issue: iBooks. The issue was created with the help from PlanetBeing, another individual jailbreak developer.

This fix contains a solution for the iBooks, but now it includes the so called DRM options. The solution comes in a form of a software utility named ‘Crazeles’, developed and released by @PlanetBeing. ‘Crazeles’ avoids anti jailbreak scanning, which is executed by the iBooks app. If the scanning is done, a number of your books could become useless. ‘Crazeles’ is working in a similar vein as the ‘Hunny pot’ solution which was developed previously by @Comex.

How to install Installous on iPhone 4S 5.0.1 [jailbreak]

iPhone 4S has only recently been jailbroken for the first time, and we see a sharp rise in the number and availability of different apps, games, tweaks and customizations for this great iOS device. You can jailbreak your iPhone with Absinthe jailbreak from Chronic Dev Team. A new release of RedSn0w should also become available soon, which will work for iOS 5.0.1 and A5 apple devices. After you have successfully jailbroken your device be it iPhone 4S or iPad 2 you can proceed with getting Installous. As you perhaps know, Installous is mostly used for installing unofficially apps, but some people use it for installation of cracked apps. We do certainly do not support nor endorse this practice. App developers are investing some hard work into developing their apps, so please respect this and support people working on your favorite apps. This is easily done if and when you buy their apps in Cydia app store or Apple app store.