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Earlier this year Geohot had mentioned about a hardware solution, a kind of dongle for solving the tethered jailbreak issue. Now we have this dongle ready not from geohot but from a geek called Mribreakit!! from http://www.myboyfriendisageek.com
Now for people asking what exactly the issue with tethered jailbreak?? Its a jailbreak which holds good for just [...]

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Many of us forced to upgrade firmware because new apps are not supported on current firmware version. Updating firmware also increases the chance of locking iPhone.All this has been taken care through Firmware 3.1.3 app. This app lets you to change the firmware version from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3.

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We told you its coming, and its finally here. iPhone so far only supported limited number of icons on one page and supports vertical scrolling only but now you can add as many icons on page and scroll vertically. All this is possible through Infiniboard.

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OS 3.x brought many cool features on iPhone one of’em was Push Notifications. Push Notifications works great on iPhone’s whose OS is not modified or not jailbroken that means non-legit carriers could not see any push notifications from any of their push enabled apps. But Thanx to anathema the developer of Push Doctor tweak [...]

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Apple has restricted many things in iPhone one of them was Disabling WIFI as soon as screen is locked to prevent battery. I’m not against it but there are times when you download a large file from cydia using WiFi and your screen gets locked, you lose the WiFi and download stops, this is [...]

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There are times when you don’t want  Safari or other apps like iPod / Notes to rotate automatically. It frustrates a lot when the screen orientation is changed to landscape while on lying on a bed even id we don’t want the screen to rotate. Since apple doesn’t provides any way to control this, [...]

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iPhone’s shake feature is now not only limited to its iPod app to Shuffle songs. Yes you heard right,  Now you can launch any app that is installed on your iPhone just by shaking. If you’ve any favorite app that you use it every now and then and you dont want to flip pages to launch that [...]

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Battery Boost is a simple app giving recommendations on how one can use the iPhone / iTouch to the optimum by conserving the battery in right areas.
Increase your battery life with increase in game play, increase in video playback, increase in audio playback, increase in talk time and increase in net browsing time. There [...]

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I was just checking iH8sn0w’s website and there I found useful utility for jailbreakers by name f0recast.  f0recast is a tool for Windows that will check your iPods and iPhones to determine whether it is tethered, or unlock-able (iPhone Only). It is just a real simple app for users who are confused about their device being [...]

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Veency is remote tool that allows your iPhone to be accessed remotely from PC/MAC, All you need to install VNC client on your PC/MAC/Linux. For those who are not aware of VNC here is a short description:
Virtual Network Computing, VNC for short, is a remote control software which allows you to control your computer [...]

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There is good news for iPhone 3G users who accidentally updated to OS 3.1.3 and lost their blacksn0w/ultransn0w unlock. As we already know that OS 3.1.3 updates baseband to version 05.12.01 and  at this moment this version of baseband is locked. But iPhone 3G users can downgrade their baseband from 05.12.01 to 4.26.08 with the [...]

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Creating your theme is quite easy all you need to take care of few things. You need few tools like Adobe photoshop to design your icons, resizing images. iPhoneBrowser (download here) to put your designed themes back to iPhone.

Every theme has basic folder architecture and these folder contains images and few script files. I’ve uploaded a [...]

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There are times when you are not near to your Phone maybe you are in different room watching movie or doing some work on your PC/MAC and at the same time you don’t want to miss the SMS, Call, Email that you get. Now thats possible, you can get SMS, Call, Email and Push [...]

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Shortly after Apple outed the new firmware version 3.1.3, the dev team has several updates that makes life a little easier for us. While the previous redsn0w v0.9.2 works for iPhone 2G (jailbreak+unlock), iPhone 3G (jailbreak only) & iPod touch 1G (jailbreak); a slightly modified version that is now available for download works for older [...]

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Pimp your iTunes with iTunes skins

by Abhishek on February 2, 2010

in Tips/Tricks

iTunes interface is quite dull and lifeless although 9.x series brought some smoothness to it. If you are bored with your iTunes interface looking for a change, then you can try iTunes skins.
You can download skins from here. These skins will completely change your iTunes look and the good news is that these skins are fully [...]

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We had the beta before, and here comes the final update to redsn0w that works for all iPhone’s (2G/3G/3GS) and iPod touch (1G/2G/3G). While this update works with the latest firmware version 3.1.2, if you have the latest build you would still be restricted to a tethered solution. Good part: no custom IPSWs are involved

Redsn0w [...]

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Last year when iPhone OS 3.0 released, it enabled iPhone users to use Bluetooth and stereo headsets with A2DP and but not fully ARCP protocols. We took a look at the Motorola S9 Stereo Bluetooth Headset for iPhone 3.0 previously and now looks at the Motorola MOTOROKR S9 HD and has found it offers great [...]

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How to enable bQWERTY keyboard

by Abhishek on January 14, 2010

in Cydia, Tips/Tricks, Troubleshooting

bQWERTY keyboard works with iKeyEx, if iKeyEx is not installed, bQWERTY will install it. Once installed you’ve to enable it from iKeyx.
Enabling bQWERTY keyboard is quite complicated.
Just follow the below steps and screenshots to enable it:

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Many of us don’t like to use Internet Explorer, mostly these days everyone is either on Google Chrome or on Firefox. There are times when we wanted to sync our bookmarks that are on PC to iPhone, Currently Apple only supports syncing bookmarks with Internet Explorer for Windows users, which sucks. I always wanted my [...]

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myTunes is a real cool app for the iPhone. I would rather call it a tweak as it doesnt have any icon. The app gives you the access to the songs and videos stored on your iPhone/iPod Touch through its folder at the path ‘private/var/mobile/media/myTunes’. You can access these paths via ssh into iPhone/iPod touch [...]

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Blackra1n is the simplest and the fastest tool to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone. I use it everytime I have to restore my good old Apple iPhone 2G.  However recently while unlocking / jailbreaking a friends iPhone 2G I came across a weird issue. When I run Blackrain the iPhone reboots to a blank screen. [...]

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iPhone allows you to restrict the usage of various features on the device. You can ban the usage of camera, youtube or installing of apps with just a finger swipe. Just head to Settings>General – Restrictions and you will see the control panel to edit these options. So before handing your iPhone to kids or [...]

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Yes now there is an app for that. Apple has been over protective of the iPhone and particularly bluetooth isn’t of much use except for AD2P audio or the games / apps that use it. However now BTstack Keyboard is live on cydia costing $5 for this amazing feel of typing on your iPhone using [...]

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After upgrading to OS 3.1.2, and doing a blackra1n jailbreak, you might’ve noticed that when you plug your iPhone/ITouch to use iPhoneBrowser, IPhoneBrowser opens and even it shows file browser but not in detail, I mean you cant access system files like var, Library and so on.And at the bottom of iPhoneBrowser window displays a [...]

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Many of you were wondering about iPhone/iTouch’s iPod does not has a sleep option, Even I was wondering too, But somehow I found the sleep option, which will automatically put iPod in a sleep mode.

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