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Spotify Finally Coming to the US

Guest Author ∙ July 7, 2011

Spotify, the popular music streaming service, has been available in some European countries since 2008, gathering new members every day. Now it looks like it's time for them to take the plunge and start offering their services in the US, too. If you navigate to their website, you can sign up by entering your email, and you will be notified as soon as they open for business.

With over 10 million registered users, 1 million of which are paying members, Spotify is one of the best services of its kind. What makes it so special is the fact that you can access it via a browser, or download the dedicated apps for iOS or Mac OS X. These apps have a gorgeous design and if you’re daring enough, they could even replace iTunes and the iPod app...

iPad Camera Connection Kit Not Working After JailbreakMe 3.0

Guest Author ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Today, a lot of people on Twitter were reaching out to Comex because, after using JailbreakMe 3.0, their Camera Connection Kit for their iPad no longer worked. Comex addressed this issue by saying "Okay, there is a known issue with the Camera Connection Kit and JailbreakMe.".

A minute later he also said "...It makes me feel bad to ignore peoples' emails, but last night I was sort of flooded with them." About 5 hours later, Comex also tweeted that the reason it didn't work is because he broke "Invalid Checksum"...

TinyUmbrella Updated for iOS 5 Beta 2

Guest Author ∙ July 6, 2011

Just a heads up for you guys, notcom has announced his latest update to TinyUmbrella - now supporting iOS 5 Beta 2.

TinyUmbrella is widely used by many, predominantly in the jailbreak community to save their SHSH blobs. To put it simply, if you don't save your SHSH and Apple stops signing for that particular firmware, you won't be able to restore your iPhone to older firmware versions through iTunes...

Jailbreak Tweak Activator Updated

Guest Author ∙ July 6, 2011

Ryan Petrich has updated the popular jailbreak tweak Activator.

Activator lets you assign activation gestures to any application. A common example of this is swiping the status bar left or right to bring up SBSettings. It can be highly customized and best of all, it's free. Chances are if you already have some common well known jailbreak tweaks installed, Activator will already be on your device.

Next time you open up Cydia, Activator's 1.5.5 update will be waiting for you...

Verizon Wireless Will Drop Unlimited Data Plans on Thursday

Guest Author ∙ July 5, 2011

As smartphones become increasingly popular and we enter an age in which everyone has Internet access in the palm of their hand, unlimited data plans are becoming obsolete. Carriers are no longer happy to give us all the data we so desire.

Verizon Wireless will be the next carrier to drop its unlimited data plans, and on Thursday, July 7, new customers will have to sign up for one of four tiered plans.

A Verizon spokesperson confirmed the move to FierceNews today and confirmed the new prices, which happen to make AT&T look like a better choice for some...

Can Nokia and Microsoft Overthrow Apple Together?

Guest Author ∙ Updated November 30, 2016

"How many of you use an iPhone or an Android device?"

When Stephen Elop asked this question, just a few raised their hands. "That upsets me -he continued- not because some of you are using iPhones, but because only a small number of people are using iPhones. I'd rather people have the intellectual curiosity to understand what we're up against."

Stephen Elop is a canadian executive who is now in charge of Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones. They sell millions of phones per day, but the models they sell are low cost devices, sold for the most part in developing countries. In the past few years, Nokia's share of the smartphone market plummeted form 49% to 25% due to the overwhelming growth of both Android and the iPhone.

Now, at Nokia, they are facing the worst crisis they've ever dealt with. They lost 75% of their market value and will be forced to let a lot of their best engineers go...

Google+ iPhone App Submitted to the App Store, Awaiting Approval

Guest Author ∙ Updated April 2, 2018

Everyone's been Buzzing [pardon my pun] about Google's latest social product, Google+. Many people have been a fan of it - at least the ones who got invited, that is - but us iPhone users had to wait just a bit to get our hands on an official Google+ app. Google initially made the app Android only (naturally), with iPhone users having to use a mobile web client that worked rather well.

Today, however, Google employee Erica Joy posted on her Google+ page: "For my iPhone using friends: the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval."

iOS 4.3.4 to Block Gevey SIM?

Guest Author ∙ July 4, 2011

iOS 4.3.4 is expected to be released soon because of the JailbreakMe 3.0 leak, and a lot of people are wondering if this will block the Gevey SIM from working. As we have posted previously, Apple has blocked the use of the Gevey SIM unlock in iOS 5 Beta 2.

This block also comes after Apple released an unlocked iPhone 4 in the U.S. for use on any carrier (mostly T-Mobile)...

AirServer Streams Content to Your iDevices

Guest Author ∙ July 3, 2011

AirServer is a new jailbreak app available in Cydia that allows you to stream content from your computer to your iOS devices, and from one iOS device to another. To be able to use this app at its full potential you will need a Mac with iTunes 10.2 or newer and an iPhone or iPad with firmware 4.2.1 or newer. All the mentioned devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Once you’ve purchased and installed your copy from Cydia (no respring required) on your iPhone and/or iPad you can start streaming content right away...

iFaith v1.1 Released

Guest Author ∙ July 2, 2011

iFaith, the SHSH dumping tool, has received an update and is now available to the public for download.

Up until iFaith came out, if you wanted to restore your device to a previous iOS firmware, the only way to do it was to save the current firmware's SHSH blob using tools such as @notcom's TinyUmbrella or Cydia's 'Make my life easier' function which automatically saved your SHSH blobs to Cydia's server.

If you didn't save the SHSH blob and Apple stopped signing for that iOS then you would not be able to downgrade, as iTunes would stop the process from being completed during the 'Verifying firmware' phase of the restore.

The unique thing with iFaith is that, regardless of what firmware your device is running, iFaith will extract the SHSH blob directly from the device. That way, you'll to be able to restore back to that same firmware in the future, even if Apple is not signing that firmware...

Celeste Bluetooth File Sharing App Updated

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 18, 2019

CocoaNuts, the developers behind popular Cydia tweaks such as Yourtube 2 and MarkRead, have after what has felt like an eternity, finally updated their latest bluetooth file sharing app Celeste to v1.0- 73.

Celeste was met with bitter reception after its initial release with a plethora of bugs found by users who had purchased it at its limited time launch price of $7.99. Although initial releases are expected to have bugs and faults, Celeste was in no shape to be released. It also didn't help that at the time, its dependency tweak ActionMenu was not updated for iOS 4.3 and wasn't reportedly playing nice with Celeste. It was broken.

Initial Twitter updates from the developers appeared promising but with its last update on Celeste's status on the 10th of April many users were left in the dark as to Celeste's future other than the promise that the tweak would be fixed "…very, very soon".

An update was finally pushed out of no where on June 13th, with no announcement of its release on the @CelesteSupport and @CocoaNuts Twitter feeds...

Apple Part of Consortium That Buys 6,000 Nortel Patents for $4.5 Billion

Guest Author ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Nortel just sold a shed-load of its patents at auction for a whopping $4.5 billion. The winning bidder? A consortium of six tech companies that includes Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM and Sony.

There were 6,000 patents and patent applications sold in total, according to the press release, spanning wireless, wireless 4G, data networking, optical, voice, internet, service provider, semiconductors, and more...