RedSn0w jailbreak to undergo a mayor upgrade

Dev Team is preparing a significant upgrade for RedSn0w jailbreaking tool. MuslceNerd who often speaks for iPhone Dev Team said that one of the new features will be that users wont need to manually select the iOS firmware file, another great feature will be the possibility to easily save the always important SHSH blobs with Cydia. New RedSn0w should be seeded before next Monday.

RedSn0w will be able to automatically get the requested files from Apple’s servers, and even better, it will store necessary files on your computer so you wont need to download it every time you need them. This doesn’t include iOS beta version as you will need to get them manually.

Free Music Downloader for iOS

A less known app development company has just released an interesting app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This time it is an app which is used for downloading free online content. It can download different type of files such as music files, videos and audio books from various websites. One of the main features of this app is a powerful music player which runs smoothly in the background and a video player for watching video files.

Jailbreak presentation by Stefan Esser

Stefan Esser who is in the iOS jailbreak world much better known as I0n1c is one of the biggest names in jailbreaking world. He is the one who has solely developed untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 and one of the people we can thank for the first iPad 2 jailbreak. This presentation was created by I0n1c himself and made for Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas.

Jailbreak tweaks for iPhone: QuitUnexpectedly

Quality of iOS as a operative system for mobile devices is well known and is one of the prime reasons of Apple being so successful. Apps which you download to your device from App Store tend to be rigorously checked and in most cases are stable and reliable but problems do appear, even on Apple devices. This happens especially when you try to run more than one app at the same time with multitasking. If some of your apps crash on you, you will need some way to clean the mess this creates. For this you’ll need some tool and this jailbreak tweak is exactly what could solve this kind of issues.

Facebook releases upgraded version of their iOS app

Facebook has again upgraded their own Facebook app for Apple’s iOS mobile devices. This new upgrade has introduced a lot of new features like tagging of images, sharing links and a complete redesign of the “Wall” option for Groups and Profiles.

With this app you will connect far easier with your contacts and share what is new and trendy with you friends. You can use you iPhone or iPod Touch to enjoy in Facebook chat, browse your friends photo galleries or upload your own images whenever you capture them. Facebook has finally upgraded the privacy controls for status upgrades so you can choose the group which will see your posts.

iOS 5 beta seven launched, developers only

Apple is fast, real fast. Only a week after the release of iOS 5 beta 6 we already have an upgraded version of iOS 5, the beta 7 version. Just how many betas will Apple release this times? It seems that they wont hesitate to sacrifice any effort in order to provide the best possible system for iOS users. And that is exactly why Apple rules the mobile computing world ever since the first wave of iPhone smartphones was released.

As always other elements will be upgraded to in order to synchronize the whole iOS system. If you are an approved iOS developer you can now download the upgraded SDK.

Useful Jailbreak tweaks: Icon Commands

Here is a great tweak fro you if you have a jailbroken iOS device. Icon Commands which you can get from Cydia is a freshly developed Cydia tweak created by a developer known under his professional nickname FrozenSun. This tweak enables you to prescribe particular actions to taps on your Springboard.

You can perform special actions depending on how many times you tap on some icon. So if you decide to tap two times on some particular icon and the delete option will appear. There are default actions for this tweak and they include: AppInfo, delete, jiggling, hide etc. Icon Commands can be configured in your Settings app and it allows further customization, or if you are an developer you can develop your own plugins for the tweak!

Patch up existing SSL vulnerabilities on your iPhone or iPad

Here is another useful tweak for your jailbroken iPhone or iPad. As always jailbreak app developers are working around the clock to provide jailbreakers with useful and important Cydia apps and tweaks. This time developer known under his nickname jan0 has released an security patch for a known security hole in the SSL layer for iOS. The tweak is called iSSLFix and it patches issues with iOS firmware bellow iOS 4.3.5.

iSHSHit Cydia app upgraded to support latest iOS 4.3.4 (GSM) and iOS 4.2.9 (CDMA)

iSHSHit is an Cydia jailbreak app which enables you to save your devices SHSH blobs. It has been upgraded to support the latest iOS 4.3.4 and iOS 4.2.9. What is the function of iSHSHit? It will save the SHSH blobs to your device or somewhere else where you will store it and use it if you ever need to downgrade or upgrade your device firmware.

Apple stops signing iOS 4.3.3

Apple has just stopped signing iOS 4.3.3 and you wont be able to upgrade not restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to iOS 4.3.3. Apple has swiftly closed the importunity for restoring to this iOS version and you wont be able to restore your device to this firmware unless you have saved your devices SHSH blobs with TinyUmbrella or some other tool.