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Quick Jailbreak App: SmartScreen Widgets for Lock Screen

SmartScreen provides widgets for your iPhone lock screen — provided you’re jailbroken, that it. The demo above shows calendar, stocks, and weather, but the developer will be making an SDK available so other apps can get in on the widgety goodness. Conceivably Twitter updates, IMs, to-dos — any information snippet really — could be added.

On [...]

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Quick App: Snapture Camera Enhancers Goes From Jailbreak to App Store

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Snapture [$1.99 on sale - iTunes link], as can be seen by that little price and link notation right there, has gone from a must-have Jailbreak-only app, to a new home in Apple’s very own iTunes App Store.

For those unfamiliar with Snapture, it takes the iPhone camera experience to another level, such as taking photos [...]

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Dev Team Releases PwnageTool 3.1 for Mac OS X

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The Dev Team have updated their blog to let the jailbreakers of the world know how to go about jailbreaking iPhone 3.1. It seems as if Apple has really thrown a monkey wrench into jailbreaking the 3.1 software, however, so sit tight as this may be a bit confusing…

First and foremost they have released the [...]

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Chipotle, Lion Pride, iVillain Theme, Local Concerts, Enigmo 2, Otterbox Defender, iPhone 3.1, iTunes 9 – TiPb Picks of the Week

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Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game.

So [...]

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Dev-Team: Jailbreakers and Unlockers Beware of iPhone 3.1 Update

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Anticipating Apple releasing the iPhone 3.1 update at or following tomorrow’s “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it” special music event, the Dev-Team has posted a reminder:

If you update to Apple�s new software using the normal iTunes process, you will lose your ultrasn0w unlock. In fact you may lose it [...]

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Dev-Team: Snow Leopard Safe for Jailbreak or Unlock

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On Friday, Apple launched their new Mac operating system, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and whenever that happens, Mac iPhone Jailbreakers everyone wonder if, on purpose or by accident (oh, hi DFU bug!) Apple will somehow break the Jailbreak. Well, good news this time around — Snow Leopard looks to be Jailbreak safe according to [...]

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Poll: Is Jailbreak the Answer to App Store Woes?

Is App Store + Jailbreak the answer?(poll)

Yesterday we asked you if Apple should 1) keep on improving the App Store, 2) eliminate the App Store and let people side-load applications from any source, or 3( do both by keeping the App Store but adding side-loading as an option.

As commenter Shallomon pointed out, however, we technically [...]

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GV Mobile Brings Google Voice to iPhone… via Cydia for Jailbreak

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As Jeremy posted earlier, Apple wiped the iTunes App Store clean of all traces of Google Voice, both the official Google version and third party clients like GV Voice. (Rumor has it at the behest of AT&T)

GV Voice, however, didn’t take their removal lying down. Nope, they (meaning developer Sean Kovacs) picked themselves right up, [...]

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Pro Tips: How to Secure Your Jailbroken (or Regular) iPhone Against Hackers

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The Jailbreak and Unlock wizards behind the iPhone DevTeam are off to DEFCON 17, the security/hacking convention that juxtaposes Black Hat 2009, and have provided a set of tips to help those at the conferences (or anywhere really) avoid getting their iPhone hacked into. The tips are really targeted at Jailbroken iPhones, but some cross [...]

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AIM Push Problems – Hacktivated iPhones to Blame?

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Crunchgear is reporting that Till Schadde of Equinux has been noticing some weirdness with his AIM app and push notifications. Namely, Schadde has been seeing his AIM messages go to random recipients. He discovered this by being notified that a message he had sent to his iPhone version of AIM was redirected to a random [...]

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