iBooks fix for jailbroken iOS 5

Famous jailbreak developer @H8sn0w shows iBooks working on iPhone running iOS 5.
Whenever Apple releases a new iOS version and jailbreak developers respond with a new jailbreak solution things tend to be not fully compatible and 100% working at the beginning. There are always some small issues appearing along some minor bugs which are so to say almost inevitable in such circumstances. Even big names such as Apple, Google and Microsoft have bugs and glitches appearing in their products, so it’s not a wonder such things happen to a group of highly skilled enthusiast in the jailbreak community.

Color Keyboard, new jailbreak tweak for iPhone on iOS 5

Most important thing you get from jailbreaking your iPhone is the availability of personal customization for your iOS device, be it an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. As there are really large numbers of tweaks and apps available in Cydia app store you can adjust and customize almost any possible function or appearance of your iphone. Some tweaks are geared to changing how things look like, like Winterboard for example, while other like SBSettings play with iOS functionality, therefore upgrading it significantly. If you like to change the appearance on your iPhone user interface here is a small tweak which will help you to do just that.

WinterBoard updated to be compatible with iOS 5

WinterBoard has just being upgraded by Saurik, aka Jay Freeman who happens to be one of the key members of the jailbreak community and developer and maintainer of Cydia app store. If you get WinterBoard you can enjoy in various themes for your iOS. Its popularity stems from the fact that it offers an easy way for creative graphic artist to add their themes into the iOS thus allowing a large number of themes to be used on iPhones. Users can even install a number of themes by simply arranging them in preferred order. WinterBoard is created so it can allow users to use their favourite themes even from older SummerBoard themes which can be imported without any prior modifications. Please note that WinterBoard is much more powerful than SummerBoard. It will even allow any .artwork file to be imported and used without changing its content in a easy way directly form the theme folder.

RedSn0w 0.9.9b6 jailbreak for Windows PC launched!

We wrote recently about the new RedSn0w jailbreak for iOS 5 for iPhone iPad and iPod Touch. The jailbreak was available only for Mac computers as it contans some new capabilities earlier available only with PwnageTools, which is Mac only app. Now iPhone Dev Team has released the Windows PC version of RedSn0w enabling PC owners to enjoy the same capabilities for easy jailbreaking of their iOS devices. This is a mayor upgrade for RedSn0w and it offer some nice new features. It also offers a solution for the location services on iPhone 3GS for users which have upgraded their devices to iPad baseband 06.15.00 because of the carrier unlock.

JailbreakMe safe again!

If you are following latest news in the jailbreak world you will known that lately there were some issues related to the JailbreakMe.com website. It domain name was sold to an untrustworthy company and jailbreak community has issued warnings about possible malware threats coming from the website. Now the domain name was retaken by the jailbreak community. Moreover the domain is now under control of Jay Freeman aka @Saurik, the founder of Cydia app store and one of the most prominent members of the jailbreak community. So if you need to jailbreak your device and your iPhone or iPad runs on iOS 4.3.3 you can go to JailbreakMe and jailbreak your device without worries about potential threats.

Jailbreak apps: SBSettings upgraded to support iOS 5 beta

SBSettings is being upgraded and will offer many new interesting options to jailbreak users. iPhone owners which have already jumped to iOS 5 beta will be able to test the beta version of SBSettings.

Here are some of interesting new features coming with new version of SBSettings:

• Notification center customization
• Customize toggles in notification or windows sections
• Currently available toggles and themes in SBSettings are supported.
• User defined notification center options: with or without button rows, extra text, dock, toggles or any other combination of these options. Notification screen is small and SBSettings allows you to choose which elements are best and most needed.

Domain ownership changed, JailbreakMe.com not safe anymore!

Well known jailbreak solution and one of the easiest available out there, JailbreakMe had its domain JailbreakMe.com sold out to an owner which is not really trusted by the jailbreak community and therefore it became not safe for use anymore. Instead of this domain jailbreak developers will from now on use JailbreaksMe.com
This news was announced by MuscleNerd who released these informations to the jailbreak public via his Twitter stream.
Original owner of this famous domain, which was only “borrowed“ to Comex, is an iOS app development company. They have now decided to sell the domain to a not reliable owner making it completely unsuitable for use.

How to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad on iOS 5 GM version

Apple has just recently seeded the last test version of iOS 5 and we are quite happy to report that this iOS version can already be jailbroken with redSn0w jailbreak software. To remind you: this iOS update is officially available only for licensed Apple developers, but other people can play a little bit with this iOS if they are willing to risk their data by simply googling for this firmware version.

Apple seeds iOS 5 “gold master”

Apple has just released the so called “gold master” edition of iOS 5 beta. This means that this is almost the latest testing version of iOS 5 before it gets released to the public. The final version of iOS 5 should be available to iPhone and iPad users on October 12th if everything goes smoothly and no mayor issue or bug is being discovered. If you are by chance a licensed iPhone developer you can download this iOS firmware from Apple’s website right now. IOS 5 is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 bot iPad versions, and iPod Touch 3G and 4G.

iPhone jailbreak tweaks: Spy Photo

Did you ever want to take a photo of a friend in some funny situation without them noticing you are taking a picture? If your answer is yes here is your chance. You can do exactly that with this interesting new tweak for jailbroken iPhones. Spy Photo is a tweak which is available in Cydia only. With Spy Photo you can make a photo without anyone noticing what you are up to, by doing your predefined Activator movement. It will take only a moemnt to take your photo, and no sound or flash will reveal what you have done. All in all if you want to take images without being busted, Spy Phone is the right tool for this task.