Archive for October, 2007
iPhone 101: Will jailbreak unlock my iPhone?
Filed under: iPhone, iPhone 101
You’ve heard about the one-touch jailbreak exploit. You think it’s something you might want to try, but then you worry: what about iBricks? Will the jailbreak unlock my phone? Fear not. Jailbreaking reassigns the root of the iPhone’s file tree. It in no way affects your iPhone’s telephony functions or baseband/modem [...]
iPhone 101: You’ve got iPhone or iPod touch jailbreak! What next?
Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone, iPhone 101
You’ve run the TIFF exploit jailbreak and your iPhone or iPod touch now has Installer.app on your main page. So now what? Here are some tips and ideas for you.
Add Community Sources. Most third party applications are found under Community Sources in Installer.app. Until you add this [...]
iPhone or Newton?
Filed under: Hacks, iPhone
Many readers of TUAW have probably only bought Apple gear with the monochromatic Apple logo we have all come to know and love, but Apple’s original (ok, second) logo was a little more colorful. Those of us who have been around the Mac for awhile have a warm place in our hearts [...]
Confirmed: Jailbreak/AppSnapp fixes TIFF Exploit hole in iPhone Safari
Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, Security, iPhone
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Jailbreak_hackers_FIX_iPhone_s_Mobile_Safari_TIFF_exploit_hole’;
For everyone worried about malicious TIFF exploits, you might want to take a few seconds and re-read those jailbreak features listed on the AppSnapp page. See number 6? Not only does the team jailbreak your phone, add Installer.app and fix YouTube, [...]
Get the Force with iChat’s Star Wars hologram effect for iChat and PhotoBooth
New Leopard users who want more bang for their buck may want to try activating one of the missing features that should have made it into the final version of Leopard: the Star Warshologram effect for iChat and PhotoBooth. We’re not sure why these effects were cut our from the final version in the first [...]
Easy jailbreak on the iPhone, iPod Touch
If you enjoy your iPhone and iPod Touch but you wish you could install third-party applications in them, there’s an easy way to do so now. A group of hackers have come up with an easy way to jailbreak these Apple units and it really works.
Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch allows you full [...]
iPhone Hacks: Running out of Application space on your iPhone or touch?
Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone
Both the iPhone and the iPod touch include relatively limited space on the OS partition (the part of your iPhone’s memory that stores the operating system and associated files). It’s where Apple, by default, adds its factory-installed Applications but you can save space by installing your Apps on the [...]
AppSnapp fixes Safari TIFF exploit in iPhone
Those worried about the Safari TIFF exploit found in the Apple iPhone can rest easier thanks to an unexpected source: the AppSnap iPhone hacking application.
Apart from jailbreaking the iPhone and getting it ready for third-party applications, AppSnap also fixes Apple’s TIFF bug. This is also the exact same exploit used by AppSnap to jailbreak the [...]
