China’s iPhone Carrier is Offering In-Store Jailbreaking

Guest Author ∙ August 30, 2010

This is definitely going to make uncle Steve angry. TUAW reports that China Unicom is offering to jailbreak their customers iPhones directly from the very store they sell the devices from.

Apparently the staff will gladly hack the apparent iPhone 3GS devices (the iPhone 4 hasn't been released yet), or cut the SIM card down to fit the micro size on those who have opted to buy an iPhone 4 through alternative outlets. Some stores are even going as far as saying that they will show users how to download 3rd party applications. Wow. 

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How to Get Rid of the iPhone Spotlight Search

Sébastien Page ∙ August 30, 2010

How often do you use the Spotlight search on your iPhone? If you're like me, you never ever use it. Even worse, I get annoyed by it as I often end up on the Spotlight screen while browsing through apps. No more of this!

NoSpot is a new application available in Cydia that will get rid of Spotlight by hiding it from your screen. It's easy, simple, and free!

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Jailbreak App Lets You Use Your iPhone While It’s Syncing With iTunes

Guest Author ∙ Updated June 14, 2018

The jailbreak community is always exciting. There's always a new application in development soon to be released to an unsuspecting public. Today, Synchronicity takes the throne. It allows you to use your iPhone while it's currently synchronizing with iTunes. I'm not sure why Apple disables us by disallowing usage of devices during a sync. Personally, I think Apple should allow this function by default.

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Extend Your iPhone Battery Life With Auto3G

Sébastien Page ∙ August 30, 2010

Auto3G is a new jailbreak application that aims at extending your iPhone battery life by automatically turning off the 3G radio when you lock your iPhone, and automatically turning it back on when you slide to unlock.

This simple app allows you to always have the speed of 3G when you need it, without draining your battery when you're not using it. Auto3G will add a new icon to your springboard from which you can choose the 3G timeout settings.

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Intel Enters Itself Into The iPhone

Guest Author ∙ Updated September 17, 2017

In early August iDB reported that Intel was looking at buying chip manufacturer Infineon Technologies. Last night the 1.4 billion dollar acquisition was solidified according to 9 to 5 Mac.

Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, said the following regarding the purchase:

The acquisition of Infineon’s WLS (Wireless Solutions) business strengthens the second pillar of our computing strategy–Internet connectivity–and enables us to offer a portfolio of products that covers the full range of wireless options from Wi-Fi and 3G to WiMax and LTE (4G)...

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The iPhone App Store Adds “On The Grid” Category & it Looks Like Advertising

Guest Author ∙ August 30, 2010

I must say that I have enjoyed the anticipation that has come with waiting to see which category the App Store will add under their featured apps section. This week I was sorely disappointed by the organization of location-based apps entitled "On The Grid".

It should come as no surprise that Facebook tops the list after adding their take on the service via Places. Foursquare and Gowalla are next on the list that only sports a dozen entries...

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The Ultimate PartyDock Coming to The iPhone

Guest Author ∙ Updated July 24, 2016

TUAW recently unveiled a product design by Griffin that could change the way you think about gaming on the iPhone or iPad. The FCC has released the exciting filing that would allow up to 4 people to simultaneously play in an individual setting. Sounds cool, right?

Griffin will send 4 games along with the PartyDock that will will include party, family and casual styles of entertainment. The games will be available in the App Store and would be designed to be ran specifically with aforementioned platform. Head over to the product site for additional info including development.  

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This Might Be the Coolest iPhone Lockscreen Ever

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated February 26, 2012

I found this awesome lockscreen on Cydia yesterday, with a little help from AtomicMufin on Twitter. It's called TypoPhone 4 and it's basically a lockscreen theme that shows the time and date in large bold letters. It also contains this cool unlock slider. You can download it from Cydia and activate it with Winterboard.

To have it look exactly like the image above, you'll also need to download Lockscreen Clock Hide from Cydia, which like the name suggests, hides the clock on your iPhone.

I think that's an awesome mod and it is without a doubt the coolest iPhone lockscreen I've seen so far. Now this thing just needs a little bit of colors to make it perfect.

What do you guys think? You like it?

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How to Create Free Ringtones for Your iPhone

Guest Author ∙ August 29, 2010

You either love custom ringtones or you invariably loathe them. You can put me down in the latter category. Nevertheless there are many who love hearing a portion of their favorite jam when someone calls, or assigning certain songs that fit the personality of a specific contact in their address book. If you fit into the group that loves custom alerts, you're in luck.

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Try These Sites If You’re Having Issues With JailbreakMe

Guest Author ∙ Updated January 28, 2019

I usually leave it up to Sebastien to provide our loyal readers with the jailbreak information but I'll take the reigns this time. PMP Today has posted a couple of alternative sites for those wishing to jailbreak their iPhone after individuals claimed they were having difficulties performing the hack with JailbreakMe.

If you're among those experiencing troubles with the self titled URL, it is recommended that you try using jailbreakme.com/index.html or accessing the Canadian site of jailbreakme.ca to perform the process. If none of those work for you, you can always try what iDB reader Joe suggested by visiting jailbreakme.com/blob.html from your iPhone.

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Top 10 iPhone News You Missed This Week

Sébastien Page ∙ August 29, 2010

This is a summary of the most popular articles of the blog this week:

Come see our new site design Multifl0w brings awesome multitasking to the iPhone Spice up your iPhone background image with video wallpapers New jailbreak app announces who's calling you Man watches his house getting robbed on his iPhone Angry Birds coming to toys and movies? Apple to hold special event on September 1st There will not be a jailbreak for iPhone iOS 4.0.2 SwitcherPlus brings your iPhone app switcher to the lockscreen Oh no, my Apple Store was robbed!

About new from z iPad Blog:

Drunken banned iPad promo video An iPad case with integrated bluetooth keyboard
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