RecBoot is a great tool for Mac OS X that allows you to easily enter and exit iPhone recovery mode without manually holding down any of the buttons. Using the app is extraordinarily simple, you just connect your iOS device to your Mac, launch RecBoot, and click on either “Exit Recovery” or “Enter Recovery” to … Read More

Verizon will begin to offer a CDMA compatible iPad that connects directly to their wireless network, according to Bloomberg. Verizon already sells the iPad, but it’s only offered in the WiFi version which is then bundled with a separate wireless access point. The word of a direct CDMA iPad is somewhat buried in the news … Read More

The Verizon iPhone will be available for everyone to order on February 10th, but existing Verizon customers will get the chance to pre-order the device on February 3rd. As expected, the models offered will be the 16GB iPhone 4 for $199 and the 32GB iPhone 4 for $299, both requiring a two year contract, this … Read More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that when Verizon announces the iPhone tomorrow, they will include an unlimited data plan as one of the service options: Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest wireless carrier, is confident enough in its network that it will offer unlimited data-use plans when it starts selling the iPhone around the end … Read More

Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 is now available to download as the sixth beta in the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak public test program. This release fixes bugs that prevented Skype from functioning properly. The Dev Team notes that Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 can be run on top of existing 0.9.7b5 jailbreaks, and if you’re only looking to repair Skype functionality … Read More

Update: Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 is now available and includes Skype support, it can be installed over beta 5. Redsn0w 0.9.7b5 is now available to download, this is the fifth release in the redsn0w untethered jailbreak beta test. This release is somewhat significant in that it resolves several major bugs in the prior version, most notably Bluetooth … Read More

Sometimes things go wrong and you need to put your iPhone into Recovery Mode to restore it and get it working again. It turns out that Recovery Mode is what your iPhone goes into when you are doing a standard iOS upgrade or restore anyway, but you may want to put your iPhone into recovery … Read More

Mac OS X 10.6.6 and the Mac App Store was just released and it will be a particularly popular software. If you have trouble getting the new Mac OS X release an App Store from Software Update, or if you’d rather use a combo updater, or just download the file for multiple machine installations, you … Read More

The Mac App Store has been released as part of the Mac OS X 10.6.6 System Update. The release notes are brief, and although the 10.6.6 update includes a few security and bug fixes, the majority of the release is geared to support the Mac App Store. The Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update is recommended … Read More

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 has been released for download for Mac and Windows. The redsn0w 0.9.6rc series aims to provide a ‘one-click’ tethered boot option to ease the burden of having a tethered jailbreak until the untethered jailbreak of redsn0w 0.9.7 is finalized. This is achieved by passing arguments to the redsn0w application through an editable script … Read More

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 is now available to download for Mac and Windows, it offers an easier “one-click” boot option for those using the tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. By utilizing the command line, Redsn0w 0.9.6rc7 lets you pass arguments directly to the app including the location of the reference IPSW file, this can then be saved … Read More

Update: Redsn0w 0.9.7b5 download is now available, this new version adds Bluetooth support. Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 is now available to download, marking the fourth beta release of the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak. This version is significant in that it no longer requires the use of the usbmux command line tool, making the jailbreak process less complicated. … Read More

Update 2: Redsn0w 0.9.7b5 has just been released and it fixes the Bluetooth issues. Update: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 download is now available, it is recommended to use that instead. The Dev Team has just released another public beta version of the untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. Redsn0w 0.9.7b3 aims to resolve some of the bugs from the … Read More

Update 2: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 download is now available and no longer requires usbmux to jailbreak. Update: redsn0w 0.9.7b3 has been released and provides further stability, it is recommended to use the latest beta version. Redsn0w 0.9.7b2 has just been released into the public redsn0w untethered jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 beta test program. The latest beta resolves … Read More

Update 3: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 is now available and no longer requires usbmux to initiate the jailbreak. Update 2: redsn0w 0.9.7b3 download is now available and provides further stability. Update: A newer and more stable Redsn0w 0.9.7b2 has just been released, it is recommended for beta testers to use that version instead. The latest version of … Read More

The iPhone Dev Team is looking for beta testers to try out the new untethered redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. Requirements for the beta program are as follows: You will need a Mac Your iPhone must not be unlocked or need the ultrasn0w unlock for iOS 4.2.1 You have a copy of iOS 4.2b3 IPSW … Read More

Setting your Mac up to print to a Windows print server with Active Directory is pretty straight forward, but it’s really annoying that your network credentials aren’t stored which causes the login popup screen to display. Looking for a solution to this, I came across a post at TheAppleBlog, and the author had the exact … Read More

The popular iPhone web browser SkyFire is now available for iPad, this means that iPad owners can now watch Flash video directly on the device by using the Safari alternative. How the SkyFire Flash player works is kind of interesting, on a page with Flash you tap on a video icon in the corner of … Read More