Redsn0w 0.9.6rc11 jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 has been released by the iPhone Dev Team. The rc11 update includes minor fixes regarding Settings choices, and also includes the option to enable boot animations.

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc11 will jailbreak the following hardware running 4.3.1: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPad 1, iPod touch 3rd gen, iPod touch 4th gen, and Apple TV 2.

All devices are untethered jailbreaks, and RC11 can be run on top of existing jailbroken hardware if you are looking to add boot animation features. If you choose this, unselect “install Cydia” in order to avoid conflicts.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc11

Available for Mac OS X & Windows:

• Download Now (Mac)
• Download Now (Windows)

The instructions to use redsnow 0.9.6rc11 are the same as past versions, read our guide to jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 with redsn0w if you’d like a walkthrough.

You can follow releases of redsn0w here. Remember, iPad 2 and iPhone 4 CDMA are not compatible with this version of redsn0w, and users who rely on an iPhone carrier unlock such as ultrasn0w should avoid for now.

So you’re still looking for an iPad 2? You’re not alone. The good news is availability of iPad 2 is easing up just a tad, the bad news is you still have to move quick if you want one.

In addition to checking iPad 2 stock and inventory at your local resellers and Apple Stores, try out these links that focus on Target specifically. Just click on the model you want and enter your zip code and it’ll search Targets iPad 2 inventory for all stores within your area.
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You can find some interesting things in iOS apps that you’ve downloaded from the App Store, all you need to do is extract the file from its container and then you’re free to browse around like any other application package.

This works with any iPhone or iPad app, and you’ll obviously need a Mac with OS X and iTunes. Here is how to do the rest and explore what’s inside of an iOS application package.

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You can immediately check or uncheck all songs in an iTunes playlist by holding down the Command key and then clicking on the checkbox next to any song. There is no undo, and it’s universal for everything in the selected playlist, so if you have a carefully curated playlist be careful when you’re using this one.

This nice trick comes from The Graphic Mac as does the animated gif above showing the trick in action.

Why not check out some more iTunes tips?

Information has surfaced that suggests high speed Thunderbolt ports are coming to future iterations of iPhone and iPad. The first is a patent for a hybrid DisplayPort/Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 connector that was found by PatentlyApple. The patent clearly shows a wide pin connector that looks very similar to the existing iOS hardware USB cables, but the connector would include USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and a DisplayPort connectivity. The mention of DisplayPort is significant because Displayport is now the high speed Thunderbolt interface on new MacBook Pro models.

To give further support to this theory is a job opening at Apple for a “Thunderbolt Software Quality Engineer.” The position was discovered by AppleInsider, who suggests Apple is “looking to bring its new Thunderbolt port to new devices beyond the MacBook Pro.” The job posting appears to have been edited on Apple’s site, but earlier versions of it apparently referenced ARM processors, which is the CPU architecture behind the iPhone and iPad.

If you’re wondering how this would affect you, AppleInsider describes the speed of Thunderbolt as “fast enough to transfer a full-length high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds, or to back up an MP3 collection large enough to play nonstop for a full year in just 10 minutes.” In other words, future Mac to iOS device syncing and file transfers could happen nearly instantaneously.

Ultra high speed connectivity sounds great, but there’s also a good chance that you won’t need to sync with a physical cable at all in the near future. A report from the New York Times earlier this year suggested that an upcoming version of MobileMe will be made free and include wireless syncing capabilities for iPhone and iOS hardware. Maybe we’ll see this debut on iPhone 5?

Long before the days of iPhones and App Stores, or even Macs and 3.5″ disks for that matter… Apple software came on 5.25″ floppies and… cassette tapes. Yes, like the same type of cassette tape your first album came on if you were a child of the 80’s or early 90’s.

And here you are looking at such a fine example of a relic from a bygone era, a super retro tape of Lemonade Stand, an extremely simple Apple II game that taught kids the business basics by way of running a lemonade stand. On the Apple II computer of course, though who didn’t run a lemonade stand in their front yard as a child?
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You can start a FaceTime call from any web browser in Mac OS X or iOS with a custom URL structure. Then, if a user or yourself clicks that defined URL, a new FaceTime chat will attempt to initiate automatically to the set Apple ID, email, or phone number. This is a fun little trick that can be useful for offices, intranets, and families in particular, though it obviously has valid use beyond that as well.

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Yesterday we showed you how to setup a basic SSH Config file, and here’s how to make that even more useful: enable tab completion for those SSH aliases.

Throw this into ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc

# Add Tab-completion for SSH host aliases
complete -o default -o nospace -W "$(/usr/bin/env ruby -ne 'puts $_.split(/[,s]+/)[1..-1].reject{|host| host.match(/*|?/)} if $_.match(/^s*Hosts+/);' < $HOME/.ssh/config)" scp sftp ssh

That should be on one line. Save the file, relaunch the Terminal, and now you can use tab completion with SSH aliases.

Thanks to Doug Schmidt for the submission!

After a bit of use, my MacBook Air 11.6″ started to exhibit a strange behavior, it refused to wake from sleep. I’d open the MacBook Air, hit every key imaginable, and the Mac just stayed asleep, nothing would get it to turn on. If you’re interested in this you’re probably affected too so before I talk a bit about the problem let me show you the fix that worked for me:

Select a Startup Disk in System Preferences!

Yea, that’s it. If you don’t know how to do that, here it is:

• Launch “System Preferences” from the Apple menu
• Click on “Startup Disk”
• Select the startup disk of the OS you are using (in my case, Mac OS X 10.6.7)

Say what? The MacBook Air isn’t booting though, it’s waking from sleep, why would this matter?

I don’t know, but it works. Maybe it’s just an issue with things being loaded from RAM and Mac OS X knowing where to get the data from, I don’t know. Now you might say my situation is unique because My MacBook Air dual boots between Lion and Snow Leopard, but upon looking at some friends Macs I discovered that even in a single boot setup, a startup disk is rarely selected. 99% of the time it’s probably not necessary, and I can’t explain why it is here, but it solved the wake from sleep problem immediately.

Now I’ll talk about the problem a bit and how I arrived at this. In the process of troubleshooting, I discovered a few things. First, I googled around and discovered I wasn’t alone, there’s a large thread on Apple Discussion Boards that has over 350 replies by MacBook Air 11″ owners complaining of the exact same problem. Interesting. Secondly, I discovered the MacBook Air actually is waking from sleep, the display just isn’t turning on. Thanks to the SSD, the machine runs so incredibly quiet that you would have no idea it’s awake, but it is. I discovered this because the Air was still available as a shared device on a local network, anyone could freely connect to it, move files back and forth, etc. After figuring this out I tried to adjust the brightness back and forth and that did nothing. Resetting the SMC worked for a short while, then it started up again. It wasn’t until I was trying to find out if the problem happens in both Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 that I discovered a Startup Disk wasn’t selected, each time I’d select a drive it wouldn’t happen. Thus, my fix was found, and maybe it will help you too.

Oh, and the default disk seems to reset itself when you use option to select a startup drive during boot, so look out for that too.

You can enable video mirroring on the first gen iPad and iPhone 4 by using a pretty simple hack. You’ll need a few things and some patience before you get started, but it’s really not that hard to get this setup and working.

Here are the requirements:

• Apple VGA Adapter or Apple Digital AV Adapter for mirroring
• iOS 4.3.1 installed on the iPad or iPhone
• Jailbroken iPhone or iPad 1: You can use redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 or PwnageTool 4.3. If you aren’t sure what to do, follow our guide to jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 with redsn0w.
• CyberDuck or another SFTP client

Assuming you are now jailbroken, you must SSH into your iPad or iPhone (using the SFTP client) and locate the following directory:
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If you would like to see the folder sizes on the Mac, you can do so easily by enabling a folder size calculation when looking at directories in the List View of Finder in Mac OS X.

What this trick does is show folder sizes on the Mac, calculated in megabytes, kilobytes, or gigabytes, depending on the total storage size taken up of each individual folder found on the Mac. In my opinion this should probably be enabled by default since it is a popular feature, but the standard Mac OS X list view setting is to not display the size of folders and their contents. Alas it’s no big deal, this is easily changed with a preference adjustment.
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If you use SSH even somewhat often, it would benefit you to setup a basic SSH config file. If you’re curious why, would you rather type something like this:

ssh -p 6851 user@servername.domain.com

Or just type:

ssh name

I know what I’d rather do, so let’s get this working. I’m going to use nano editor because it’s user friendly.

Launch the Terminal and type the following:

nano ~/.ssh/config

You’ll probably have a blank config file and that’s fine, so here’s what we’ll add to it:

host shortcutname
HostName server.domain.com
Port 5555
User username


Here’s how this might look:

I keep things indented to make them easier to read but it’s not necessary. Once your server and login info is inputted, hit Control+O to save the file, then Control+X to quit out of nano.

Now you can just type the shorthand to connect to a server, such as ‘ssh osxd’ and the full hostname, port, and username will be included for you.

There are many more possibilities with SSH configs, if you want to check out more options just look at the manual page with “man ssh_config”

Check out some more command line tips while you’re at it.

If you’re trying to access the Mac App Store and you are getting the “Cannot Connect to App Store” error, you can typically resolve the issue with a few simple troubleshooting steps.

This article will walk through some simple solutions to reconnect to the Mac App Store.

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In a recent speech, Steve Wozniak compared tablets and the iPad to TVs, and suggests that the iPad is the culmination of what Steve Jobs has long wanted to create at Apple; a consumer friendly appliance for everyone.

Here are some of the better quotes via MacWorld:

“The tablet is not necessarily for the people in this room,” Wozniak told the audience of enterprise storage engineers. “It’s for the normal people in the world,”

And here’s the quote on Steve Jobs’ long awaited vision of the iPad as a consumer appliance:

“I think Steve Jobs had that intention from the day we started Apple, but it was just hard to get there, because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do … normal consumer appliance things,”

I definitely agree with the idea of an iPad (or tablet) being the perfect PC for a regular user, but it’s obviously much more than that too. Apple touches on this well in their new iPad 2 “We Believe” commercial, and we’re only at the beginning of the platforms life.

You can read the full text at MacWorld.

If you want to quickly backup an entire website through FTP, the absolute easiest way to do this is through the command line using the wget command. In fact, you can backup an entire site (or whatever else is on the entire FTP server) with a single command string.

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Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 is the first untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak that is available for both Mac OS X and Windows. Redsn0w is one of the easier jailbreak tools to use, just follow the instructions and you will be jailbroken in a few minutes.

This guide will perform an untethered jailbreak with iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad, and Apple TV 2. Note that iPad 2 and iPhone 4 CDMA are not supported by this version of redsn0w. If you rely on ultrasn0w for an iPhone unlock, do not use this version of redsn0w.

How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 using Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9

1. Download iOS 4.3.1 IPSW and install it on your iOS device if you haven’t done so already
2. Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 (Windows & Mac OS X versions available)
3. Launch Redsn0w and click on “Browse”
4. Locate the iOS 4.3.1 IPSW file you downloaded in the first step and click “Open”
5. Select “Next”
6. Select the checkbox next to “Install Cydia” and click “Next”
7. Make sure your iOS device is turned off and plugged into your computer and then click on “Next”
8. Follow the on screen instructions to put your iOS device into DFU Mode: Hold down the Power button for 1 second, then continue to hold power while holding the Home button for 10 seconds, then release the power button but continue to hold the Home button for another 15 seconds.
9. Once you are successfully in DFU mode, redsn0w will perform the jailbreak for you so let it do the work. Your iOS device will then restart automatically and you will be jailbroken

If you need to undo the jailbreak for any reason, it’s very simple, just restore your iOS device from within iTunes.

Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 has been released for download, this is the first version of Redsn0w that will perform an untethered jailbreak with iOS 4.3.1. Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 is compatible with iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad, and Apple TV 2, but the iPad 2 is currently not supported.

Download RedSn0w 0.9.6rc9

The latest version of Redsn0w is available for Windows and Mac OS X:

• Download Now (Mac OS X)
• Download Now (Windows)

If you are not sure what to do, you can read our how to guide on jailbreaking iOS 4.3.1 using redsn0w 0.9.6rc9.

If you need to create custom iOS 4.3.1 IPSW, you can use PwnageTool 4.3 instead.

PwnageTool 4.3 has been released, this is the first untethered jailbreak available for iOS 4.3.1 and works for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad, and Apple TV 2. Note that PwnageTool 4.3 will currently not jailbreak iPad 2 or the Verizon iPhone, or any hardware that is not compatible with iOS 4.3.1.

If you’ve been holding out on updating to iOS 4.3.1 in order to jailbreak without a tether, now is your chance. If you rely on the ultrasn0w unlock, be sure to preserve your unlocked baseband and then use ultrasn0w unlock for iPhone 4 & 3GS with iOS 4.3.1.

Download PwnageTool 4.3

PwnageTool 4.3 is currently available for Mac OS X users. These are all direct download links with the exception of the torrent file:

• Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Mirror 3, Mirror 4
• PwnageTool 4.3 Torrent

We’ll update a list of mirrors as they become available.

Finally, here is our guide to jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.1 with PwnageTool 4.3, this allows you to unlock iPhone iOS 4.3.1 with ultrasn0w.