Wallpapers of Grogu, the Child also known as Baby Yoda

Everyone's favorite child actor finally had his name revealed on The Mandalorian. By meeting another fellow Jedi, Ahsoka Tano, in a recent episode, the character previously only known as "the Child" shared his name in conversation. Grogu was officially known as "the Child" but most commonly known in pop culture as "baby Yoda," given his species matches that of the original trilogy Jedi Master. Celebrating the little Jedi, these Grogu wallpapers are simply, the best.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Ekip, Grounded, Snoverlay 2, & more…

Now that the Odyssey jailbreak tool supports up to iOS & iPadOS 13.7 on all compatible devices, more avid jailbreakers have access to the perks of a seemingly endless cache of jailbreak tweaks and extensions that can be used to make their handset more unique.

In this roundup, we’ll discuss the latest jailbreak tweak releases from Monday, November 30th to Sunday, December 6th. As always, we’ll start things off with a brief overview of our favorite releases and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest and other important jailbreak news tidbits afterward.

Put your notched iPhone’s Tab Bar on a diet with Home Slice

If you’ve owned any of Apple’s notched iPhones, be it the tried-and-true iPhone X, the shiny new iPhone 12 Pro, or a device residing somewhere between the two aforementioned handsets, then you likely know first-hand just how much real estate iOS wastes in the Tab Bar region of the display.

Fortunately for anyone who might be jailbroken, there’s a way to reclaim all of those wasted pixels, and it exists in the form of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Home Slice by iOS developer biD3V.

NitoTV open-sources ‘vpnd’ project, enabling VPNs to run on jailbroken Apple TVs

About a month ago, Guardian Firewall VPN founder and CEO Will Strafach, a former member of the Chronic Dev Team, shared a particularly exciting announcement in that nitoTV (now going by @freenitoTV on Twitter) had gotten VPN connections working on the Apple TV platform for the very first time; albeit with a jailbreak.

The aforementioned jaw-dropping feat demanded tons of complicated hackery, but after lots of research, development, testing, and refinement, the project, officially dubbed “vpnd,” is now available for jailbreakers who might want to try their hand at configuring a VPN connection on their own Apple TV.

Jailbreakers can get festive with Snoverlay 2, which adds animated snowflakes to any interface

The most wonderful time of the year is rapidly approaching once more, and lots of families will be turning to festivities as a means of drowning out the absolute horrors that 2020 brought to families all over the globe.

If you’re one of the millions who will be celebrating the holidays this year, then why stop at household decorations and holiday baking when you can trick out your iPhone or iPad too? Apart from setting a festive wallpaper, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Snoverlay 2 by iOS developer Ryan Nair can make animated snowflakes rain over the top of every interface you view on your handset.