Give your iPhone’s wallpaper a subtle blur with BlurryPaper

Whether you’re the type of person who enjoys detailed landscapes as your iPhone’s wallpaper, or you simply favor something subtle that gives your Home screen’s app icons the spotlight, there’s probably something out there for you.

But for those who demand a stronger sense of wallpaper customization, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called BlurryPaper by iOS developer Ziph0n lets you apply custom blurs to your wallpaper to generate some particularly stunning visual effects.

Make your pwned iPhone’s battery indicator sexier with Bazzi 2

If you’re lucky enough to sport a jailbroken iPhone X-style handset, be it an iPhone X, XR, or XS, then you might be interested in giving the standard Status Bar battery icon an upgrade.

Bazzi 2 is a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Blake Boxberger that permits two different types of battery-centric Status Bar customization, including integral battery icon displays and notch-based battery displays:

HDR nature photography wallpapers for iPhone 11

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Every Sunday, we add a new collection to our Wallpapers of the Week collection. This curated gallery has covered a myriad of genres over the years, but a perennial favorite category is nature photography. In today's photography wallpaper pack, the cool greens and high dynamic range colors of different plants will make your screens pop. If you are carrying a new iPhone 11 Pro in Midnight Green, these images will jump off the screen thanks to the OLED screen and the natural green color will accentuate your device.

Cover your iPhone with Totallee’s ultra-strong tempered glass screen protector [sponsor]

Cover your glass! Protect your investment with this edge-to-edge screen protector from Totallee. That’s right, the maker of our favorite ultra-slim, branding-free cases offers premium protection for your iPhone’s display as well. They’re tempered glass protectors, meaning they are easy to install, extremely durable and look and feel a lot like your iPhone's actual screen.

CoolStar to shift focus away from A12(X) in favor of new checkm8 exploit

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The recent launch of the checkm8 bootrom exploit for A5-A11 devices certainly piqued the interest of many, and perhaps a lot more than some people would like.

Electra Team lead developer CoolStar took to Discord over the weekend to announce that he would be shifting focus away from A12(X) jailbreak development on iOS 12.1.3 and later and more toward experimenting with and developing around the checkm8 exploit:

Axi0mX showcases verbose boot on iPhone X with iOS 13.1.1 via checkm8

The tides of the jailbreak community forever changed for the better on Friday when hacker and security researcher @axi0mX released checkm8, the first publicly-released bootrom exploit for iOS-powered devices since the iPhone 4 in 2010. Captivatingly, checkm8 works on a significant number of handsets ranging from the antiquated iPhone 4s to the not-so-old iPhone X.

Checkm8 is, in and of itself, an exploit. That said, it’s not a jailbreak, but rather a powerful tool that jailbreak developers could use to devise a USB-based tethered or semi-tethered jailbreak tool for A5-A11 devices. Given how recently checkm8 was released, it should come as no surprise to anyone that public jailbreak tools don’t yet utilize the exploit, but that hasn’t stopped some talented hackers from flexing their l33t dexterities:

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: ChargingBubbles, Peekable, Vigor 2, and more

Many people just got their shiny new iPhone 11, 11 Pro, or 11 Pro Max in hand this past week, but for those sticking with jailbreakable handsets following the launch of the new checkm8 bootrom exploit, this post is for you.

In this roundup, we'll discuss all the latest jailbreak tweaks to be released from Monday, September 23rd to Sunday, September 29th. As always, we'll kick things off by talking about our favorites first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.

DEVONagent is a smart search assistant that’s better than Google

As anyone who has written a college essay knows, research is a skill in and of itself. Research makes the difference between a winning essay or presentation and one that falls flat. But finding the best sources and keeping track of them all can be an exhausting job. It's easy to become overwhelmed by lists and browser tabs and lose hours trying to find the right information.

Retro review: Infinity Blade

Do you remember when Epic Games actually made epic games? No, I'm not talking about Fortnite, I'm talking about an objectively good game: Infinity Blade. This game took the world by storm when it first came out in 2010 and it was the first game on iOS to use the Unreal Engine.

This game made over $1.6 million in its first week and $23 million by the end of 2011. Epic Games knows how to make high-grossing games, I'll give them that. Due to its success, it got two sequels and even got two novellas. Now, the game is just a memory that's almost forgotten. I'm saying almost because we're bringing back for today's retro review.