It looks like Apple is getting a bit more serious with the back and forth antics between it and the jailbreak community.
The latest casualty in the hacking war is iBooks, or more accurately, people that use iBooks.
Basically Apple has implemented anti-jailbreak measures in iBooks, and I have to admit, it's kind of sneaky the way they pulled it off.
How'd they do it? Check inside for the video evidence...
I have to be honest with you; I never thought I'd ever need a jailbreak tweak like Keep Text New.
SMS Messages aren't exactly like email, where you derive benefits from unread messages; or are they?
I guess there's only one way to find out. Against my better judgment, I went ahead and took the plunge and purchased Keep Text New...
I don't believe there's one feature on the iPhone that angers me as much as auto correct. It's always misinterpreting what I'm trying to type, usually with ridiculous results.
Auto correct on the iPhone will turn a phrase like "Let's go have lunch" into "Keep on step eagle." I know, that makes no sense whatsoever, and that's my point.
Fortunately for us, the jailbreak community has had enough of this utter nonsense as well, as evident by the release of ManualCorrect...
It's happened to all of us, we're in a store, we see something, or some piece of information that we'd like to use later, and so we take a picture of it with our phone.
That's okay and all, but the problem starts to appear when you have more random note-taking pictures than actual pictures that you plan on keeping in your Camera Roll.
I know I've found myself having to perform a search and rescue mission for my real pictures amongst the massive amounts of random litter on plenty of occasions, maybe you suffer from this syndrome as well?
That's why a jailbreak app like QuickSnap seemed so appealing to me; it's described as "simple photo taking without saving." Does it live up to its claims?
I've always believed that the iPhone's most frustrating issues surrounded around composing long messages or filling out exceptionally long forms. Not only is the auto correct particularly troublesome, but I find myself from time to time typing uppercase letters when I meant to type lowercase, and lowercase letters when I meant to type upper case.
It's a particularly frustrating affair culminated by the fact that Apple has decided to keep uppercase letters on their keyboard's keys regardless of your actual case. That's where a tweak like ShowCase comes in handy...
Giddy about how many customers AT&T will lose now that an alternative carrier is available in the US? You're not alone.
Mobile Ad Firm, Chitika, has established a live tracker that tracks the number of Verizon iPhone's that currently access its ad network via cellular signal.
Right now, that total stands at 3.6%, which likely means that there are a little over one million Verizon iPhone's currently in use...
Talk about something that would hurt iTunes' bottom line, and many hearts, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Reeling after the App Store rejection of their eBook Reader app, a Sony executive has hinted that the company's catalogue of music could have a limited shelf life on iTunes.
As you can probably imagine, Sony's music catalogue goes waaaay back, and includes some of the most popular recording artists in music history; think Beyonce, Bob Dylan (a Jobs favorite), etc.
Would they really dare to take on Apple in this manner?
It's hard to believe, but it was almost a month ago when Steve Jobs announced he was taking a leave of absence from Apple due to undisclosed medical issues.
What has he been doing? Does this spell doom for the next iPad and iPhone release dates?
These were some of questions that everyone was anxious to know; exactly how would Steve's leave impact Apple's ability to maintain their status quo?
Well if a recent Wall Street Journal report is anything to go by, the impact has been minimal, if any. That's because throughout his leave, Steve Jobs has been maintaining his storied work ethic...
It seems like at least once a month we report a story about the iPhone's security problems, and this latest security revelation is a bit shocking.
Researchers from the German Fraunhofer Institute Secure Information Technology have discovered a way to crack iPhone passwords via jailbreaking in about 6 minutes.
We don't mean your iPhone's dinky 4-digit passcode either; we mean everything stored in your keychain; email, VPN, Wi-Fi, the list goes on...
New details have surfaced about AT&T's upcoming changes to their voice plans, including detailed eligibility requirements.
In a report yesterday, we informed you about the new 'Mobile to Any Mobile' plan that AT&T has rolled out this morning.
Boy Genius Report has acquired an official AT&T memo detailing the requirements that customers must meet in order to be eligible for the new voice feature...
So, today is officially V-day, a.k.a. Verizon day. To celebrate, everyone's invited, and I do mean, everyone.
Walmart is the latest retailer to get their grubby hands on the Verizon iPhone 4 at launch, making it apparent that Apple wants to move the iPhone 4 into commodity status.
Not that the iPhone 4 was some rare luxury device to begin with or anything, but c'mon, it's Walmart...
If the story sounds familiar, that's because it is. You want to be able to use your iPhone while synching with iTunes, so what do you do?
You jailbreak your iPhone, and install one of two tweaks: Synchronicity or FreeSync. Both tweaks do a good job at allowing you chug away at your iPhonely duties while syncing with iTunes, and both are similarly priced.
With that in mind, which jailbreak tweak should you go with? We've already covered Synchronicity -- a tweak that made it into our Top 10 Jailbreak Apps for 2010 list -- so lets look at the flipside of the coin with FreeSync...