You will have to excuse the recent lack of posts. I have been in the process of packing up and moving all my domains to their new host, Site5. This has been a particularly arguious journey, as I have been with my old host for nearly a decade. Many of my sites were custom, undocumented and needed to be moved by hand. This post is itself a test of my syndication.
Category: hardware
Playing with Nintendo’s unreleased new portable!
The 3-D camera is great in low light and the augmented reality is amazing! I might have to get one of these. oh, it plays games too!
iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak released at Hack in The Box Conference! Untethered with iPad 3 Support!
The Dream Team did it again! With Absinthe 2.0.1 2.0.4, Chronic Dev & iPhone Dev Team have piled amazing exploits into a very easy tool. Official Press Release. Get your download here. Wish i was in Amsterdam with all of you having a blast. Thanks for all your work. I missed you Cydia, VLC, SBSettings, now if only i had Safari downloader!
My New iPad has left China!
It might even get here on launch day! Despite my late order, How cool is that. I love tracking boxes as they circle the globe.
Absinthe makes my iPhone 4s go down smooth!
The long wait is finally over. Due to the diligent efforts of EVERYBODY in the scene, (@pod2g, @planetbeing, @saurik, @pimskeks, @p0sixninja, @MuscleNerd, and @xvolks) we can finally jailbreak our A5 devices. iPhone 4s and iPad 2 are now jailbroken and untethered with the latest and most complex jailbreak to date. Works with iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. Representing hundreds if not thousands of man hours (it even takes forever to run). Enjoy! i included a donate link at the bottom if you wish to buy them a beer.
Download Absinthe from Chronic:
http://greenpois0n.com
or Dev-Team Tools here: (currently CLI only)
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
Donate to the combined effort. (despite paypal)
Battery vs Hackery!
The battery problems fixed in apple’s latest iOS update (5.0.1) are a very strong temptation. However, I fear it may delay my inevitable jailbreak. I also imagine that this example of a delta update might even aid the dev team and others working to free our phones of tyranny. Ideally I would like to see a jailbreak able to download and patch the update before installing. Thus maintaining the jailbreak through the update. am I dreaming?
siri wrote this post
When I got my new iPhone, Siri didn’t work at first but now it does. I think that some limit was reached with the number of people trying to use this awesome new feature at the same time. Apple servers must been overloaded. all in all I’m quite impressed with the new phone, however I do miss all my hacks and tweaks. it is my hope that a new jailbreak comes out soon. I hope the dev team is just waiting for everyone to get their devices so they can publish jailbreaks there are you sitting on. this phone has the same boot ROM as the iPad 2.
Day ruined by KVM switch.
After ridiculous amounts of trouble all over my new office network. i devoted the day to fixing it. Turns out that most of my problems were caused by a simple KVM. I temporarily replaced it with actual screens/keyboards/mice. Solved all my mysterious problems. hazah! Now if only i can get my drive failures resolved.
JailbreakMe.com is back! This time iPad 2 can play!
Despite numerous problems and unrelenting deadlines @comex has come through yet again with another fantastic jailbreak! When an unfinished beta of the latest iPad2 jailbreak was leaked, we all new that the window for this exploit was rapidly closing. Apple simply cannot allow userland exploits to exist (for obvious reasons). I am delighted that all the iPhone-dev guys got their act together and released. What are you waiting for JailbreakMe.com.
My software drive crashed!
i lost all my iOS backups as well as hundreds of gigs of other software backups. Doh! Some things are just too big to back up, but too important to fail. Attempting recovery, but it sounds like a servo malfunction, so i am most likely doomed.