by Simon Ng on August 17, 2010
Internet tethering allows you to use the iPhone as a modem and share the Internet connection with laptop. It’s a great feature come with iPhone. However, for certain reasons, not every carrier supports the tethering feature. If your carrier does not support tethering for iPhone, that’s another good reason for jailbreaking.
Recently, cirdan and sbingner have [...]
by Simon Ng on August 4, 2010
After the debut of JailbreakMe, iPhone Dev team has released an updated version of ultrasn0w to unlock iPhone 4.
With ultrasn0w, you can free your iPhone to use with any carrier. The latest version of ultrasn0w supports carrier unlock for iPhone 4 with baseband 01.59.00, as well as, 3G and 3GS riding on baseband 04.26.08, 05.11.07, [...]
by Simon Ng on July 27, 2010
The multitasking feature is the most notable feature in iOS 4. If you’re owner of iPhone 4/3GS, you can enjoy this feature after the OS upgrade. However, due to the limited memory and slower CPU on iPhone 3G, multitasking is intentionally disabled by Apple.
But this shouldn’t limit iPhone jailbreaker from using it. With jailbroken [...]
by Simon Ng on July 15, 2010
A couple months ago, I wrote a tutorial article that showed you how to view PDF file on iBooks app. In brief, it requires you to convert PDF file into ePub format before you can sync and view the PDF on iBooks.
With the release of iBooks 1.1 and iTunes 9.2, my guide becomes obsolete. [...]
by Simon Ng on July 9, 2010
With the arrival of iPhone 4, you may consider selling your existing iPhone and upgrade to the new one. Whether you plan to sell your old iPhone on eBay or through a store, make sure you completely erase all data on your device.
Basically, there are two ways to wipe the data on iPhone and reset [...]
by Simon Ng on June 4, 2010
Shortly after I posted the demo video of Taikono Tatsujin, a great Japanese game for both iPhone and iPad, I received a number of questions in my email box:
Is the game free?
How can I download it? The game is only available in Japan App Store.
Any way to register an iTunes account for Japan App [...]
by Simon Ng on May 9, 2010
After publishing the post of “Untethered Jailbreak Guide for iPhone 3.1.3 Using Spirit“, some users mentioned in the comment that they encountered the following error while using Spirit to jailbreak their iPhones:
Spirit Requires iTunes 9 to Function. Please install a correct version of iTunes then run Spirit again.
What’s interesting is that the users already installed [...]
by Simon Ng on May 6, 2010
The Spirit jailbreak tool is simply awesome. It’s fast, super easy and offers untethered jailbreak for all iPhones. On top of that, it even brings the first jailbreak solution to the iPad.
For those who are new to jailbreaking, you probably wonder why you need to jailbreak. As you may know, the App Store is [...]
by Simon Ng on February 11, 2010
Every time you upgrade a jailbroken iPhone to a new version of firmware (or iPhone OS), as you know, it is required to go through the whole jailbreak process again. That means, all your iPhone applications and Cydia applications are completely removed. For iPhone applications, you can back them up by syncing via iTunes. But [...]