iPhone tweaks: TouchPose

Here is another small, yet potentially quite useful tweak for your iPhone. We are sure this isn’t a tweak which will be widely popular, but for a specific group of users like app developers and serious Youtube video editors, it could prove itself as a quite handy tool. The point of TouchPose is that it shows the exact place you have touched first on your screen. Which is a nice thing to work, with if you need to demonstrate some app or cool new iOS game on your iPhone.

Wi-Fi issues with the new iPad

Did you have Wi-fi connectivity issues with your new iPad tablet? If the answer is yes, you just one more among a growing number of iPad users with such a problem. According to numerous reports, many new iPad users have complained at Apple Stores and in Apple’s online support forums. It seems that Apple is vigorously investigating the whole Wi-Fi issue, which is confirmed by a leaked internal document which requires Apple Store employees to send problematic devices to Apple for further examination and replacement.

Third of American high school students using iPhone

Here is another interesting research showing how much popular iPhone really is in US, especially among the younger population. Gene Munster of Apple, has released a research paper revealing Apple’s findings about widespread use of iPhone in US schools. The research is based on a 6 month long survey among high school teenagers, where more than 5000 students were asked about their preferences and choices when it comes to smartphones.

Best App repositories to add

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone and make the best use of the jailbreak you will need to learn a bit about Cydia repositories. Repositories are servers accessible online, offering a large number of iOS apps and tweaks for iPhone users. Besides apps and tweaks these repos also offer other useful stuff like ringtones, wallpapers and much more. Here is the top five list of the best repositories you can use to improve your iPhone or iPad.

Here is why you should jailbreak your iPhone!

We are really hard line proponents of iPhone unlocking and jailbreaking at our blog. And time after time, we give our best to explain on how and why you should consider to jailbreak and then unlock your device. To put it in simplest way: it’s a safe, simple and very useful thing to do. From time to time we tend to write about other things too, like iOS games and interesting apps which aren’t directly related to jailbreaking, but our main focus remains on benefits of jailbreaking and the cool things you can do and enjoy only after you jailbreak your iPhone or your iPad tablet.

Jailbreak iOS 5.1 with Sn0wBreeze for iPhone 4 and iphone 3GS [Windows only]

Here is how to jailbreak your iPhone running on latest iOS 5.1 if you are a Windows PC user. This jailbreak is a tethered jailbreak and will work only on A4 devices. This means that if you have an iPhone 4S or any other iPad than the old, original iPad, you are out of luck. iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad users can follow the instructions bellow.

1. Download latest version of Sn0wBreeze here. If you happen to use the Windows Vista or Windows 7, run the software in compatibility mode and as the administrator. To do so simply right click on the Sn0wBreeze icon and choose the appropriate options.

iPhone 4S activation error – how to fix it [AT&T]

Whenever you want to activate your iPhone, it will have to connect to servers of your official network carrier, which in this case means the ubiquitous AT&T network. And when a large number of users tries to do the same thing at the same time, it can quickly overwhelm their activation servers, which is the problem many new iPhone 4S users have experienced recently. The message that keeps popping up was: ‘Could not activate the iPhone’. The note further explains the problem and points to the solution: you had a problem connecting with your new device to their servers, so you should try it again later.

iPhone 5 Release date this summer

Apple is working around the clock, even after they have recently released the iPad 3. According to the rumor mill, Apple plans to finally launch the iPhone 5 this summer, most probably at the beginning of June. We are sure this will push Apple’s already high stocks to rise, even more than they did immediately after new iPad’s release. So far, no reliable informations are available on the possible next version of iOS, the iOS 6, but historically, Apple always released a new iOS version with each major hardware product. Sources inside Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner, Foxconn, claim that they are in a hiring frenzy, as the release date and predicted sales of iPhone 5 will demand a huge rise in their assembling capacities.

XRY easily cracks iPhone passcode

You think you have protected the data on your iPhone with the passcode? Think again. It appears that it is incredibly easy for the police to get all of your data from your iPhone. And when we say all we mean it. They cn get everything you ever put on your device including, images, videos, apps, location, instant messages (like you Skype conversations), bookmarks, SMS. Do you get the picture?

iPhone tweaks: send or receive files with iMessages

For some reason iMessages was until now, mostly used for sharing images and videos. But as always in the iOS world, some iOS app developers aren’t really too happy with such artificial limitations. So Ryan Petrich, a famous iOS developer, in collaboration with another dev, Nikos Lykousas, has just released another interesting jailbreak tweak. This tweak, which in fact consists of two tweaks, and thus named Tweak Duo, enables iPhone users to send and receive files within iMessages system. The tweaks components, named ReceiveAny is free of cost, but the its counterpart, SendAny, will cost you $1.99. You can download these tweaks from the BigBoss repo.