by Simon Ng on January 18, 2010
For those who have followed the jailbreak guide and use blackra1n (or earlier version of jailbreak tool) to activate an unauthorized SIM card (i.e. Hacktivated) on iPhone OS 3.x, you may experience problem when using Push Notification.
Earlier, we have covered to use PushFix 1.0 to rectify the issue. However, the fix is not a [...]
by Simon Ng on January 16, 2010
Gameandgadgets has released an Aquarium Cydget for your iPhone lockscreen. The Cydget turns the boring iPhone lock screen into a fish tank with five animated fish swimming around.
The Aquarium cydget is available from Cydia Store for US$1. To install it, just launch cydia and search for Aquarium Cydget. Once installed, you can activate by tapping [...]
by Simon Ng on January 13, 2010
For any iPhone user who want to add more than 4 icons in the dock, you can use the Five Icon Dock hack to add one more icon. However, what if you want to put more icons into the dock? How can you go beyond the limit?
A new hack named Infinidock has been released that [...]
by Simon Ng on January 12, 2010
With the release of blackra1n by GeoHot, it seems like we do not expect any new update of jailbreak tools until the debut of iPhone OS 4.0. However, that is not really true.
Some iPhone developers are still working on it. Do you still remember Sn0wbreeze that we have covered several months ago? The team, [...]
by Simon Ng on November 26, 2009
Backgrounder brings the multitasking ability to jailbroken iPhone. It’s a great hack for iPhone and lets you run iPhone app in the background. Aaron Ash, an iPhone developer, has released an interesting app named as Multifl0w that enhances the multitasking interface of backgrounder.
Available via the Rock App, Multifl0w allows you to easily switching between different [...]
by Simon Ng on November 25, 2009
Just 2 weeks after the first iPhone virus was discovered, here comes to the third iPhone virus. And this one is serious.
Unlike the first iPhone virus, which just changes the wallpaper of iPhone lock screen and is supposed to raise the public concern of iPhone security, this Dutch variant targets to steal sensitive information, specifically [...]
by Simon Ng on November 19, 2009
Even with the release of iPhone 3.1.2 OS, Apple does not add any new features or customization for iPhone’s lock screen. What you get for the lock screen are a digital clock, a customizable wallpaper and an “Unlock” slider. That’s it. However, we think we can make a better use of the lock screen.
Jay [...]
by Simon Ng on November 15, 2009
In normal case, your iPhone should work properly after jailbreak. However, in some rare cases, you may encounter some unexpected problems. Other than the YouTube issue after blackra1n jailbreak, here is another problem reported by one of the readers:
“I get to fix the youTube problem. but the Notes app is not working. Everytime I write [...]
by Simon Ng on November 11, 2009
In the previous post, I urged every jailbroken iPhone user to change the root password to avoid any malicious attack via SSH. Yesterday, it’s reported widely in the blogsphere that the world’s first iPhone virus debuts. And this virus targets to infect those unsecured jailbroken iPhones with SSH enabled and which are still using the [...]