If you’ve ever held up your iPad and thought, somethings missing.. You’re right, for some unusual reason Apple decided not to include the native iPhone Clock, Stocks, Weather, Compass, Calculator or Voice Memo applications for the iPad. Well once again, the jailbreak community has come to the rescue.

A new jailbreak tweak named ‘Belfry’ has been released into the Cydia store on the default BigBoss repo, and some more great news – it’s totally free of charge. Belfry installs all of the native iPhone applications that come with the iPhone but not the iPad, these include:

Clock, Stocks, Weather, Compass, …

Earlier we posted about the release of Absinthe, a new GUI based jailbreak tool which provides an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. We are pleased to announce the release of Absinthe for Linux.

The Absinthe jailbreak tool works for the following devices and firmwares:

• iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
• iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1

DOWNLOAD:
Absinthe for Linux…

Users who have been using our Windows Absinthe jailbreak tutorial have been reporting that when they click the Absinthe icon they get taken to the greenpois0n page and nothing else happens. For those who are stuck please try our Absinthe VPN fix. This seems to be the same issue Mac users were having yesterday and the VPN fix should do the trick.

If this doesn’t work you can always use the Absinthe CLI method, however this is a bit more difficult than the GUI version and requires basic command prompt knowledge.

All you need to do is go …

UPDATE: We also have a video tutorial available to step you through the process. For the video tutorial, click here.

Well folks, the day has finally arrived that we have all been waiting for! Today the Chronic-Dev team has released the Absinthe untethered jailbreak for A5 devices iPhone4S and iPad2.

DOWNLOAD:
Absinthe 0.3 - (WIN)

Step 1: Open up Absinthe after you have downloaded it from above and connect your iPad2 or iPhone4S via USB to your computer. Click “Jailbreak” to start the process. Your device will then say “Restoring in Progress”. Do not turn off your device …

The Chronic-Dev team has just released the Windows version of Absinthe. This is a GUI tool for Windows users, however it works the same way as the Mac version which was released yesterday.

DOWNLOAD:
Absinthe 0.3 - Win

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Now that iPhone4S users have begun to jailbreak their devices, I am sure the one question on their mind is “what are some great tweaks I can use for Siri?” I just wanted to make a quick post to tell you about my favorite Siri tweaks I have found so far. These tweaks add new features to Siri that would otherwise not be available on a stock iPhone.

OpenSiri

OpenSiri is a great new tweak which has just been submitted as a free app to the BigBoss repo. OpenSiri allows you to open native iPhone applications with voice commands. Right …

For Windows users who know their way around their computer, there is a CLI version of Absinthe that has been released which can be used via command prompt in Windows to jailbreak your iPhone4S or iPad2 right now before the Windows Absinthe GUI applications is released. This tutorial is a bit more advanced than the normal Absinthe tutorial, so please only attempt if you know what you’re doing.

DOWNLOAD:
Absinthe CLI 0.4.3 – WIN

Step 1: Extract the download above to an easy to remember location(C:\ is a good place for it). Connect your device and open CMD.exe …

With yesterday’s release of the Absinthe untethered jailbreak for iPhone4S and iPad2, Windows users were left in the dark. @pimskeks tweeted just a bit ago that the last remaining issues with the Windows version of the now infamous jailbreak tools have been ironed out and that they will be releasing it after a few short tests. Stay tuned and we will let you know as soon as it is available!

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A few of our users have reported that after using the Absinthe untethered jailbreak for iPhone4S or iPad2 they would receive a “Searching…” message and eventually it would lead to “No Signal.” This does not seem to affect all jailbreakers but we have received many reports so far. The fix for this problem is easy enough, simply go into your settings application, go to general>reset>reset all settings

Once your device reboots you will have to redo the initial device setup but after that your network issues should go away. Please reply with any questions or comments!…

Earlier today Pod2G along with members from both the Chronic Dev and iPhone Dev Team released Absinthe. Absinthe is a jailbreak tool that provides an untethered jailbreak for both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

Below is a step by step video guide on jailbreaking your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 using Absinthe.

The Absinthe jailbreak tool works for the following devices and firmwares:

• iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
• iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1

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Some users have been reporting an issue when launching the Absinthe app installed on their device saying it returns an

error establishing a database connection

For users having this issue, iOS hacker PlanetBeing (who was involved with creating Absinthe) outlined a simple fix for this problem. Apparently, all you need to do is go to Settings > Network > VPN > ON.

The VPN connection will most likely give an error and your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 should reboot shortly after. Once it’s rebooted, try launching the Absinthe webclip again.

Feel free to give us some feedback, did this …