Tony Fadell (otherwise known as the real creator of the iPod) has left Apple for greener pastures. Many believed that Steve Jobs was the mind behind the iPod but in truth Tony brought the idea and design for the most popular personal music device in history to the world and helped change the face of Apple. It has been widely reported that Fadell introduced his MP3 player design to the Apple team in 2001.
I reported this as a rumor months ago but now can report that the popular do nothing game Line Rider is officially coming to the iPhone. For those who don’t know, Line Rider has enjoyed a healthy cult following since its introduction to the web several years ago. In its original form the instructions are simple, just draw a line vertically from top left to bottom right, hit the play button and watch a little guy try to ride a sled down your line and fall off the end.
Once again the Dev Team has pulled through with some very important updates to both the Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn. Their latest comes in the form of PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. You can download it here.
Also, QuickPwn Release Candidate 3 has been released. Supposed to be fixed in this release is the issue for 64-bit Windows users and the new version is supposed to work for all Windows versions. Download QuickPwn RC3 here.
If you’ve been having a problem with jailbreaking, these releases should address your issues and as always, as much as we love the dev team we cannot guarantee that they will work properly. Please understand that you will use these programs at your own risk.
When the iPhone 3G and the App Store were released it was not long before some people began questioning whether it was still necessary to jailbreak the phone. The new firmware and App Store now allows users access to Apple’s huge library of applications but the question we ask is why would you not want to jailbreak your iPhone? (more…)
ifonenation members are reporting that they received a text message from AT&T about their 3G iPhones. The message, they report, reminds users to upgrade to iPhone software 2.0.2.
A reported email from Steve Jobs pointed to an acknowledged an ongoing issue that has been reported by many iPhone users that result in 3rd App store applications repeatedly crashing:
Many report the iPhone 2.0 firmware suddenly failing to load non-default apps regardless of their nature, briefly loading them before abruptly jumping back to the home screen.
Not glued to the iPhone dev team’s blog? Oh, you are? Oh well, for the rest of you about an hour ago they announced that a GUI version of their latest Windows release, QuickPwn, is ready for you to download. We’ll have some instructions on this very quickly. In the meantime the following is the post from the dev team:
NOTE to jailbreakers: It is not clear at this time what effect this update will have on your jailbreak but it is assumed that it will return your iPhone to it’s previous, unjailbroken, state. Proceed with caution or even better, wait until the DevTeam makes an announcement as to whether their PwnageTool software is compatable with the new update.
We reported earlier that it was in beta testing but today Apple has released the 2.0.2 firmware for the iPhone. As usual, Apple gives us the cryptic explanation of the contents of the update as “Bug Fixes”. While many pray that the update will fix the much blogged about 3G connectivity issues, no confirmation on a fix has been made yet. Steve Jobs is said to have become personally involved with the connectivity problems promising that a software patch will be available “soon” to address the issue. (more…)
We reported earlier that one major GPS company has already been working on getting it’s software ported to the iPhone, and now accorcing to a story at MSNBC. TomTom has gone on the record saying that its iPhone software “looks good and works well”.
Yesterday Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch onto the App Store. They are calling it MobileChat and claim that it allows you to connect to multiple IM services at once, including:
Apple is sure keeping guys like the iPhone devteam and their associates as well as all who jailbreak their popular device on their toes. iPhone app developers are reporting that they recieved an email on a new beta version of the iPhone OS. The beta, iPhone OS 2.1 beta 3 is ready for download by developers now and come with the usual cryptic and short description by Apple: (more…)
Last night we got the PwnageTool 2.0.2, today we get WinPwn 2.0.0.4. Both built with support for firmware version 2.0.1 for the iPhone. As with the PwnageTool, the operation of the new version of WinPwn is the same as previous versions however, this release will only support the newest firmware version. If you need help operating WinPwn you are welcome to join in our discussion here.
Update: It finally has been released. Refresh your screen.
After hours of confusion (and outright anger on the part of some) the DevTeam tells us that a previously unknown bug was found that caused them to delay the release of PwnageTool 2.0.2 once again. They had the following to say:
Some iPhone users report another bug after upgrading to iPhone 2.0.1 firmware. After performing the upgrade and rebooting, they say that they are then completely unable to actually use the device. Moniker9 told us that his update was followed by nothing but a black screen with the Apple logo in the center (The same that usually is shown after a reboot but M9 reports that it hung indefinately). (more…)
The DevTeam announced that their PwnageTool 2.0.2 will be released at some point today. This article contains information that you really need to know about the new PwnageTool. The following is a guide to some information that you will need to read before PwnageTool 2.0.2 is released.
