Monthly Archives: June 2011
Mac OS X Lion Announced – Everything You Need To Know
The final version of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has finally been unveiled. Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing took the stage to announce the release month, July, and went over 10 of the operating system’s “250 new features”.
Features
Mission Control replaces Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces: Exposé, Dashboard and Spaces were introduced in Mac OS X Panther, Tiger and Leopard, respectively. 6 years later, Apple has felt the need to merge those into a single view: Mission Control, which allows users to visualize all their open windows, full screen applications, widgets and spaces. The new view can …
WWDC 2011 – Apple Announces OS X Lion, iOS 5, iCloud [Watch Online]
Apple is currently hosting it’s yearly WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference), the conference is a week long and is currently in it’s second day.
Yesterdays keynote speech brought the announcement of some great new products from Apple. Namely Apple’s latest OS X version, OS X Lion, iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, as well as a new service called iCloud.
A video replay of the keynote can be streamed from Apple’s website. Click here for a link.
For more on these products and other announcements to come from Apple’s WWDC, stay tunned!…
How to Install iOS5 Without a Developer Account and Activate Using a Backdoor
WARNING: iOS5 is still in the beta stages. The method below should only be used by people who absolutely understand what they are doing and the risks involved. There are rumors that once you upgrade to iOS5 beta you will not be able to downgrade back to a jailbreakable firmware until iOS5 is officially released. I updated to 5.0 this morning and downgraded back to 4.3.3 this afternoon with no problem, but please err on the side of caution.
It has only been one day since iOS5 beta 1 was released to Apple developers and already @merterdir has …
iOS5 Features Announced at WWDC
Today, developers will gain access to iOS5 to begin updating applications and to start taking advantage of all the great new features! For the rest of us, we will have to wait until Fall.
Right on schedule, Apple has announced iOS at WWDC today, bringing with it a slew of new features — many of which iPhone users have been pining for for years. First up, notifications are a biggie — gone are the annoying modal dialogs, replaced with something called Notification Center that presents notifications, live stock quotes, and weather by dragging down from the top of the screen …
Secret covered banner at WWDC is causing a stir
Today marks day 1 of WWDC 2011. Apple has already announced that there will be no new hardware announcements today, but that hasn’t stopped people from pondering what could be hiding underneath this giant cloth!
Other banners that are hanging around the convention are uncovered and have already been confirmed by multiple attendees such as a banner for OSX Lion, iCloud and iOS5. So what could they possibly be hiding with this banner? Do you think it is something hardware related such as an iPhone4S, iPhone5 or iPhone Nano? Or do you think it is something software/infrastructure related. We will …
Wrap-Up of Ryan Petrich’s first 4 days of his TweakWeek Jailbreak Initiative
Ryan Petrich, the jailbreak developer who has brought us such tweaks and apps as ActionMenu, LiveClock, RotationInhibitor, OverBoard and DisplayOut is mid-way through his first week of his new jailbreak initiative TweakWeek. This project is a great idea to promote new Cydia tweaks and encourage some of the major developers to think outside the box. We are now 4 days into TweakWeek which began on June 1st with the release of DietBar, a tweak that allows you to modify the navigation bar throughout many iDevice apps by making it smaller.
The premise is that each week, a major developer …
iFaith aka ProjectiF is the first public SHSH dumper
As we speak, @ih8sn0w is demonstrating and explaining his latest project, ProjectiF, which has been revealed to be named iFaith. iFaith is the first program of it’s kind. It is an SHSH dumper which can dump a firmware blob(needed to downgrade firmware) from your currently installed firmware, even if Apple is no longer signing that firmware and you didn’t save your SHSH while it was being signed.
DOWNLOAD:
Download iFaith 1.0 here
Basically, when your device comes from Apple, it comes with a firmware pre-installed. If Apple is no longer signing that firmware, you wouldn’t be able …
