How to jailbreak iPhone or iPad on iOS 5.0.1

More than two months has passed since the famous jailbreak developer, Pod2g publicly announced his discovery of a bug which could provide a working, untethered jailbreak for devices on iOS 5.x. And now we finally have a functioning, untethered jailbreak solution at our disposal, thanks to Pod2g but also to Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team which were quick to implement the solution.

iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch launched!

And finally after many weeks of patient work by jailbreak developers and long waiting for iOS users, jailbreak which was created by Pod2g is now officially launched. This jailbreak works for iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G and 4G and for the original iPad tablet.

Only a couple of days ago, Pod2g has forwarded his jailbreak solution to both iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team. Both groups have immediately added the jailbreak to their respective tools which in case of iPhone Dev Team is RedSn0w and PwnageTool. Chronic Dev Team has made the jailbreak available in a Cydia package.

Jailbreak tweak: how to forward your text messages to your email

If this is what you need by some chance, here is to solve the problem.

iForward is a great Cydia jailbreak tweak which will redirect your SMS messages to your email. There are different reasons you would want to do something like this. Perhaps it is your privacy you want to protect? If so, iForward could be an ideal solution for your needs. You can fetch this jailbreak tweak from Cydia app store. Of course, before you can get it and use it, you need to jailbreak your device with RedSn0w, Sn0wbreeze or some other jailbreak tool for iOS devices. This app was developed and launched by Ryan Conigliaro, who made it compatible with both iOS 4.x and iOS 5. Any configuration setting you need to adjust, can be done inside the standard iOS settings app. Afterwards, all new SMS will be efficiently delivered to your email inbox. Nice, isn’t it?

Tizi uses iPhone for voice based iPad remote control

There are some great apps and products out there begging for your attention, but from time to time we see some really cool apps which stand apart from the rest of of the crowd. Such is the case with Tizi and Tizi app for iOS. Tizi is a German product which enables over the air streaming of content from device to device kind of similar to what Slingbox offers.

Apple releases iTunes Match introduction video

Cupertino has made available a brand new homepage for the new iTunes Match service. This new Apple website contains a wide with a short walk trough on this new, cloud based service.

This is how iTunes Match functions.

Apple offers traditional Christmas giveaways in United Kingdom

As every year Apple is offering their traditional Christmas offerings which will last for next twelve days. At the time being, this is intended for iOS users in UK only. If you have an iPhone or iPad and you are located in UK you can now enjoy in a great selection of music videos, apps and books for free. Every download you get will be available only one full day. After 24 hours it wont be available until you purchase it. Apple has made available a special Christmas Giveaway tool which will help you to control your downloaded stuff and access it easier while you are on the run. If you are not a proud owner of iPhone or iPad, don’t sweat it. Apple is making the same offer available to desktop computer users as well.

Cydia saves SHSH blobs for your iPhone iOS 5.0.1

Your favorite jailbreak app and jailbreak app store, Cydia made and maintained by Saurik aka Jay Freeman has introduces some nice new features. Most important for iPhone and iPad users is probably the ability to save SHSH blobs. SHSH blobs are immensely important for jailbreakers, since SHSH blobs are needed if you ever want to restore your device to some previous IOS version. This is especially useful for jailbreaking as older iOS versions are usually much easier to jailbreak as the tool are already available. This is the reason Apple does not want to you to get back on previous versions of the firmware.

Merry Christmas to iPhone jailbreakers!

Once more, its the time of the year when you are bound to spend some quality time with your families and friends and as always, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Or if you do not celebrate Christmas we wish you simply happy holidays! Do not spend your time, or too much of your time anyway grieving for small time problems which after all are an essential part of life. If you are a reader of our blog on iPhones and jailbreaking we want to thank you. We certainly appreciate all the attention and comments coming from our readers. The reason we write this blog, is to provide our users with as many relevant and on spot information’s on iOS devices and jailbreaks as possible, but at the same time not becoming boring and remaining focused.

Apple probably unsuccessful in getting sales ban for Samsung’s modified Galaxy Tab tablet

Apple has slim chances to win injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy tablet in Germany, according to a statement made by a judge in Dusseldorf. The same court has earlier this year blocked Samsung from selling the tablet on the German market. The reason for this decision was the alleged similarity between Galaxy Tab and Apple’s iPad tablet. Later on, Samsung complied with the judge and slightly tweaked their tablet. These small changes helped Samsung to avoid the troublesome ban.

iFaith 1.4.1 launched by iH8Sn0w

iH8Sn0w has again released another upgrade for his iFaith tool. iFaith helps iPhone users to save their iOS 5 devices SHSH blobs, which makes it possible to downgrade the device, if the need ever arise. Usually, downgrading helps users with jailbreaking or unlocking their devices. This is the reason Apple is opposing iOS downgrading as much as possible, and why jailbreak developers and users love to have an option to downgrade the firmware.