JailBreakMe.com updated, hints iPad 2 JailBreak ?

iPhone Dev-Team member, Comex, who is working on iPad 2 jailbreak has once again updated jailbreakme.com which hints towards the release of iPad 2 jailbreak soon. Some weeks ago, Comex updated jailbreakme.com which showed a PDF Exploit which was so called a teaser as said by Comex. This time, the site has been updated with some git commits dating all the way back to August 2010, suggesting that the developer was working on the Jailbreak since a year. Those who don�t know, Comex was the one who Jailbroken the iPad 2 and Apple unexpectedly closed the exploit that was never made public in iOS 4.3.1.

Updated site says big 'It's been far too long' along with git commits. The git commits are basically used to remember what change in the source code was made by whom and when exactly that change was made. Consider git commits to be a log that one can go through to see what changes have been made to a particular code. No specific date or delay has been notified by comex about the jailbreak but we expect it would be released soon.

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Comex said it is a good idea to Save your iPad 2 SHSH Blobs

You might know that Apple is blocking the ability to to restore to previous firmware versions using saved SHSH blobs on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad as iPhone Dev-Team explained on their blog. In the circumstances, Comex has advised iPad 2 users to save SHSH blobs. Here's what comex Tweeted:

If you don;t know what SHSH blobs are and how to save your iPad 2's SHSH blobs, read the guide posted here..

Apple is blocking the ability to save SHSH Blobs

Info: An SHSH Blob is basically what Apple uses to verify the version of iOS you are running. That�s why its is advised to save your SHSH Blobs before upgrading your firmware on your iDevice. If you don't do so, you might not be able to downgrade your idevice to a previous version

According the tweet by iPhone Dev-Team member, MuscleNerd, Apple is making harder to restore devices' firmware to previous versions with saved SHSH blobs. Here's what he tweeted:

Until now we could restore to any previous version on our idevices as long as we have saved SHSH blobs using TinyUmbrella or any other similar tool. But now it seems that Apple is making things harder and harder. iPhone Dev-Team explains this in more details on their blog:

It looks like Apple is about to aggressively combat the �replay attacks� that have until now allowed users to use iTunes to restore to previous firmware versions using saved SHSH blobs.

Those of you who have been jailbreaking for a while have probably heard us periodically warn you to �save your blobs� for each firmware using either Cydia or TinyUmbrella (or even the �copy from /tmp during restore� method for advanced users). Saving your blobs for a given firmware on your specific device allows you to restore *that* device to *that* firmware even after Apple has stopped signing it. That�s all about to change. 

Starting with the iOS5 beta, the role of the �APTicket� is changing � it�s being used much like the �BBTicket� has always been used. The LLB and iBoot stages of the boot sequence are being refined to depend on the authenticity of the APTicket, which is uniquely generated at each and every restore (in other words, it doesn�t depend merely on your ECID and firmware version�it changes every time you restore, based partly on a random number). This APTicket authentication will happen at every boot, not just at restore time. Because only Apple has the crypto keys to properly sign the per-restore APTicket, replayed APTickets are useless. 

This will only affect restores starting at iOS5 and onward, and Apple will be able to flip that switch off and on at will (by opening or closing the APTicket signing window for that firmware, like they do for the BBTicket). geohot�s limera1n exploit occurs before any of this new checking is done, so tethered jailbreaks will still always be possible for devices where limera1n applies. Also, restoring to pre-5.0 firmwares with saved blobs will still be possible (but you�ll soon start to need to use older iTunes versions for that). Note that iTunes ultimately is *not* the component that matters here..it�s the boot sequence on the device starting with the LLB. 

Although it�s always been just �a matter of time� before Apple started doing this (they�ve always done this with the BBTicket), it�s still a significant move on Apple�s part (and it also dovetails with certain technical requirements of their upcoming OTA �delta� updates).

Note: although there may still be ways to combat this, a beta period is really not the time or place to discuss them. We�re just letting you know what Apple has already done in their exisiting beta releases � they�ve stepped up their game!

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.8 Beta 3 Supports iOS 5 beta 2 Jailbreak

Apple released iOS 5 beta 2 for developers yesterday and for those who want to jailbreak it, newer version of Sn0wbreeze 2.8 beta 3 has hit the shelf with added support for jailbreaking iOS 5 beta 2 on Windows.

Sn0wbreeze 2.8 beta 3 release notes:

Now jailbreaks iOS 5 (beta 2)
Intended for developers ONLY!
Does not Hacktivate or add afc2 in this release to prevent piracy.
iPhone 3GS old bootrom users have an untethered boot.
Now only 15MB :)
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Supported Devices:
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iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) [UNTETHERED]
iPhone 3GS (new bootrom) [TETHERED]
iPhone 4 GSM [TETHERED]
iPhone 4 CDMA [TETHERED]
iPod Touch 3G [TETHERED]
iPod Touch 4 [TETHERED]
iPad 1G [TETHERED]

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.8 Beta 3 

Make your iPad 2 invisible with 'Invisibility' app

Here comes an amazing magical application for iPad 2. Not really, but it does amaze you and others around you. This app 'Invisibility' makes use of the iPad 2's camera and the built in gyroscope to create the illusion of invisibility, although it looks more like transparency. When the app is launched, all the user would have to do is �paint� the screen with his/her fingers, and the results would be mimicking the background of wherever your iPad is placed. When you move your iPad 2 around, the gyroscope helps keep the perspective of the background, displayed on your iPad 2 screen, consistent with the actual physical background. Check out some videos of this app after the jump.

This app is available on Apple Store for $0.99. Not too much for this wonderful app for your iPad 2.

Skype coming to iPad soon with Video Chat Confirmed

After a leaked video revealed an upcoming Skype iPad app with video chat, an executive for the company has confirmed the software is indeed coming soon and will take advantage of the cameras on the iPad 2. Skype hasn't officially announced the release date of the app yet but the video of the app has been leaked on YouTube that shows Skype running on iPad:

TAUW had an interview with Skype VP of customer and Product Design Rick Osterloh which confirms that Skype for iPAd is under developement. Osterloh said:

The iPhone version of Skype burst out of the gate quickly, with a big launch and "a userbase that doubled in just a month's time." And he said the iPad version should "have a similar success," especially since it's basically the same in functionality: chatting, audio and video calling, and all of the other standard actions you can expect from Skype.

We'll let you know as soon as we see the app hits the App Store. Seems like its not far away.

A Chinese Girl Offers Her Virginity for An iPhone 4

We all know that Apple products are lovable, cool, stylish, modish and everyone wants to have those shiny beautiful products. But on the other hand they are expansive as well. According to reports, People in China are doing some crazy acts to get Apple products. Some weeks ago, we came to know that a Chinese Boy sold out his kidney for $3400 to get an iPad 2. And today a shocking news has hit the web that a Chinese girl is offering her virginity for an iPhone 4. 

Biznewschina reported that a female jiulinghou, referring to those born during the 90�s, tweeted on Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) that it is her �dream to own a iPhone4 but her father won�t let her get one.� She then decided to sleep with someone in exchange for the mobile device.

The girl has posted a picture of herself along with other basic personal information saying she is willing to �sell� her virginity to anyone that buys her a iPhone 4.� Some people are cursing her for this act and some are thinking that someone is using here account and playing a prank. So what do you think? iPhone 4 or her virginity? 

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iPhone 5 Jailbreak To Be Demonstrated Live by p0sixninja at MyGreatFest

MyGreatFest is the first ever iOS jailbreaking event which is to be held on September the 17th, 2011 in London. This event will be featuring some famous iPhone hackers and developers including developer of 'Cydia' Saurik, developer of GreenPois0n, Joshua Hill also known as p0sixninja on Twitter, @pod2g, Elias Limneos, creator of several iOS tweaks such as FoldersInFolders; and the developers of iDroidProject, which aims to bring Android and Linux to iOS devices.

iPhone jailbreaking community is indeed taking interest in jailbreaking new upcoming Apple Devices as one of the lead jailbreak developers, Joshua Hill [p0sixninja] has said that he will demonstrate the iPhone 5 jailbreak live at MyGreatFest  event on 17th September in London. You can have a look at the MyGreatFest Schedule here.

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iPhone 5 to have dual LED display?

According to the report from Digitimes, next generation iPhone i,e iPhone 5, will feature a dual LED display. Dual LED display would allow better image quality with more brighter and sharp images. Below is the comparison image between single and dual LED display with Nokia phones by Zomgitscj.

Single LED [left] - Dual LED [Right]

Recent market rumors have indicated that Apple's iPhone 5 is likely to come with a dual-LED flash with Taiwan-based LED packaging firms Everlight Electronics, Edison Opto and Lite-On Technology being pinpointed as potential suppliers. All related companies have denied they are involved in the production of dual-LED flashes.

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T-Shirt made by Orange That Can Charge Your iPhone [Video]

Orange has made a T-Shirt that can charge your iPhone. The T-shirt contains sensors that convert sound of surrounding environment into electrical energy and charges the iPhone. People can put their iPhone inside their shirt's pocket and recharge the phone while they enjoy music or are out of their homes.

The Sound Charge uses an existing technology in a revolutionary way; by reversing the use of a product called Piezoelectric film within a specially designed t-shirt, allowing people to charge their mobile phones whilst enjoying their favourite act at Glastonbury.

Let's see how this innovative invention really works. Here's a video that explains the phenomena: 

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Mozilla Firefox 5 now available for download

Mozilla Firefox 5 is now available for download just three months after the release of Firefox 4. Firefox 5 almost looks like Firefox 4 because rather than making a whole new look, Mozilla has added better support for web standards, fixed some bugs and some performance issues. See the list of changes in Firefox 5.

Mozilla Firefox 5 is faster than Firefox 4 with some great enhancements. You can download Firefox 5 from Official Mozilla site or just navigate to Help>>About Firefox.

Turn your iPad 2 into Notebook with ClamCase

Have you ever wished your iPad 2 was more likely a notebook? Well, if you did, your wish has come true as ClamCase(for $149) will turn your iPad 2 into a Notebook. The ClamCase is a clever little product which basically makes an iPad 2 look and feel a bit more like a netbook by acting as a stand, case, and Bluetooth keyboard accessory.

This product was previously available for first generation iPad for $150 and now it has finally arrived for iPad 2. This is the perfect way to add a keyboard and hinge to your iPad 2! 

As the keyboard is concerned, the ClamCase for iPad 2 features wireless connectivity via Bluetoothwith Easy Sync, a proprietary standard that connects the keyboard automatically once you wake up the iPad. The battery is said to last up to 100 days in standby, but no figures are given for the number of typing hours you�ll be able to pull off without having to recharge it. you can buy this at ClamCase official website.

Teen hacking suspect arrested in U.K, LulzSec denies he's a member

A man who is 19 years old was arrested Today in London on suspicion of taking part in Web attacks against businesses and government agencies with LulzSec. After he got arrested by the U.K.'s Metropolitan Police, the hacker group LulzSec posted a tweet on it's twitter account that clearly declares that the arrested mas was not a member of their group.

Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?

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JailbreakMe 3.0 Won't Jailbreak iOS 5 On iPad 2

There is a bad news for users who are using iOS 5 beta on their iPad 2. Comex has just confirmed via Twitter that JailbreakMe 3.0 will not jailbreak iOS 5 on iPad 2. It is only set to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 till 4.3.3 on iPad 2. Here's what comex answered to a user who asked him about the supported iOS versions via Tweet

Yesterday we reported that Comex is working on reducing jailbreak installation time using JailbreakMe 3.0. This new procedure will drastically reduce the time it takes for the jailbreak. Reportedly, JailbreakMe 3.0 will also work on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G, 4G, iPad 1 and of course, the iPad 2.

So it is advised that iPad 2 users who have upgraded to iOS 5 beta 1 should downgrade their devices to previous versions. It seems that iPad 2 jailbreak is not too far now. Stay tuned.

iPad 2 Jailbreak Update! Comex Working On Reducing Jailbreak Installation

Hey iPad 2 jailbreak seekers! There's a new update on iPad 2 jailbreak from Comex. Three days ago, Comex said via twitter said that iPad 2 jailbreak is almost ready. Now he has posted a long tweet that explains how he has made some changes that will greatly reduce the time it will take to jailbreak iPad 2. Here's what he tweeted:

On Sunday 19th June 2011, @comex said:

If you don't know, the stashing approach jailbreaks have been using for years-- Cydia's "Reorganizing Filesystem"-- involves moving some large directories from the small / partition into the large /var partition, then creating symlinks from the original to the new location. This both ensures that any additional stuff put in those directories by packages will end up in the /var partition, and frees up space on the / partition for files created outside of those directories. However, the process has some issues, like taking forever to do when you jailbreak (I am a bit fanatical about speed), pretty much requiring the jailbreak to reboot the system to ensure there aren't any running applications pointing to the old files (ditto about speed, I want a jailbreak to not even require a respring, as in star, but since star used stashing, some obscure things could cause issues before a reboot), and seriously confusing the sandbox code in the kernel (because each application has a sandbox with a list of allowed filenames, but after the symlink has moved files, the filenames no longer match), requiring that code to be patched (it needs to be patched anyway these days because tweaks have to run under the sandboxes of the applications they're hooking, but depend on accessing various directories; but it still feels good to get rid of a kludge).

With unionfs (which was saurik's idea originally), new files are created in the /var partition, and merged with files in the corresponding directories in the / partition, so no files need to be moved, no descriptors are invalidated, and I think the sandbox code won't notice what happened. It also opens the door for upgrading the base operating system without destroying the jailbreak files (although maybe iOS 5 delta updates will already allow this? I haven't looked at them yet).I've wanted to do this since literally a year ago (that's the date of the nullfs checkin, since I was dumb and thought I wanted that instead of unionfs), but I never got around to making it work properly.So, I just hope that I can get rid of the crashes my meddling with unionfs's code have introduced, and fix it for the iPad 2 (my dumped copies of iPad 2 kernels do not include symbols; I wrote a small BinDiff-like tool to copy over symbols from a kernel for another device, but it's not perfect) and that there aren't any performance issues.

Also, Chronic Dev team ave update on iPad 2 jailbreak yesterday. Now we really expect iPad 2 jailbreak using JailbreakMe 3.0 soon. Stay tuned and don;t lose hope ;)

Apple Releases New iPad 2 Advertisement �Now�

Apple has released new iPad 2 advertisement that is titled as 'Now'. This ad demonstrates that iPad is now changing the way people do everything, from watching a newspaper to looking at the stars.

The ad says:

Now, we can watch a newspaper..listen to a magazine... curl up with a movie.. and see a phone call. Now we can take a classroom anywhere.. hold an entire bookstore and touch the stars because now, there�s this.

Here's the New iPad 2 Advertisement �Now�, taken from the Apple's official YouTube channel.

JOYSTICK-IT brings a physical joystick for your iPad

JOYSTICK-IT is a new physical joystick for your iPad by which you can easily play your touch screen games on your iPad or Android based tablets. The JOYSTICK-IT is invented and designed by ThinkGeek which is made up of solid milled-aluminum and laser etched crosshair design on top of stick with thumb traction.

All you need to do is load your game of choice and place the JOYSTICK-IT over the virtual joystick and it will stick to the glass. You can then use it in place of the on-screen joystick and hopefully rack up some new high scores and achievements.

You can buy this gadget at ThinkGeek for $24.99. If you plan to buy twin pack, you can get it at $39.99. Below is the video that will show you how JOYSTICK-IT works. 

Chronic Dev Team says they are Still Working On iPad 2 Jailbreak

Those who are planning to jailbreak their iPad 2's using Chronic Dev�s GreenPois0n can be assured that a solution will be coming eventually, at least according a tweet posted by p0sixninja who is one of the developers that assured users that the team is still working on an iPad 2 jailbreak.

There is no specific date being notified that when jailbreak would hit the web but the tweet shows that they are still working on the jailbreak and asks users to be patient. There have been a bunch of news coming that iPad 2 jailbreak is coming soon but no exact words on the jailbreak have been heard yet. What else users can do but to wait? Stay tuned for the updates.

Download Justin Bieber: Never Say Never theme for Windows 7

Microsoft has released a theme for Windows 7 entitled as 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never'. I guess you all know who Justin Bieber is. His music is popular all over the world especially in teens. He has got tons of fans and millions of views on his videos on YouTube. Also, he has got more haters than his fans around the world. Well, if you want to know more about him, go to Wikipedia. Let's get to the theme. Microsoft says:

Follow Justin Bieber on his inspirational journey from street performer in the small town of Stratford, Ontario, to Internet phenomenon and global superstar with images from his 3-D concert film in this free Windows 7 theme.

Click here to download Justin Bieber Never Say Never theme for Microsoft Windows 7. When the file is downloaded successfully, just open it and theme will be installed automatically.

iPad for $1.2 Million - World's most expensive iPad with 300 carat diamonds

Camael Diamonds has again come up with an amazing lavishness product that is a diamond encrusted iPad. It costs �750,000 ($1.2 million) which is most expensive iPad in the world and is ornamented with 1kg 18 carat gold and 300 carat flawless diamonds. The home button and backside features black diamonds.

The collection also features customized iPhones, Blackberrys, iPods, car key fobs as well as iPads, which is the most exquisite of the lot. Also, each product is independently inspected and certified by a leading accredited jeweler.