Apple may be taking their fight against jailbreaking to a new level, banning the AppleID of hackers who have played key roles in the efforts of the jailbreaking community. Sherif Hashim and iH8sn0w, who individuals who recently found exploits for jailbreaking, are both saying that they can no longer access the App Store, and trying [...]

Attention jailbreakers: We’ve just received word from BigBoss that Apple stopped signing iPhone OS 3.1.2 restore packages today, making it impossible to restore to 3.1.2 without a workaround. This only affects the iPhone 3GS, the third-gen iPod touch, and late-model, second-gen iPod touches; other iPhone OS devices do not use signed restore packages.
So what does [...]

InterActiveWeather is the first and only customizable weather theme for iPhone. InterActiveWeather allows you to have the animated weather in LockScreen of your iPhone and iPod Touch. This is a really nice graphic and functional changes that, among other things, can be completely customized according to your preferences. All you need is a jailbroken iPhone [...]

Boy Genius scored a sneak peak of a Google Voice client, GV Mobile 2.0, which will be available in the near future on Cydia to anyone with a jailbroken iPhone. GV Mobile is an application which allows your iPhone to use all of the features that comes with Google Voice and was actually in the [...]

Here are 30 excellent reasons to jailbreak your iPhone:
1) It’s risk-free. Worst case scenario, you can restore your iPhone to factory settings
2) Install third-party applications with Cydia
3) Get MMS with SwirlyMMS
4) Add custom notification sounds and ringtones for free
5) Use a free turn by turn GPS with xGPS
6) Get video recording for your iPhone 2G [...]

Running Backgrounder on your Jailbroken iPhone and looking for a little UI magic for your task switching? Check out MultiFl0w, free to try and $5 to buy, it’s not free like Kirikae but it’s fun.
Jailbreak: MultiFl0w Task Manager for Backgrounder-enabled iPhones

blackra1n is the latest, simplest Jailbreak tool from iPhone hacker George Hotz (Geohot) and supports all modern iPhone and iPod touch devices running the latest 3.1.2 firmware. blacksn0w is the associated Unlock utility. (Jailbreaking lets you run software not approved by Apple, like background tasks, Google Voice apps, etc. Unlocking lets you use your iPhone [...]

For iPhone Jailbreakers using SSH to access their devices — without changing the default password — getting Rickrolled by a worm may be annoying (no worse than getting held for ransom by a hacker) but it’s a sign that far more insidious and malicious attacks are possible — so change those passwords now!
Back to the [...]

George Hotz, aka geohot, posted on his Twitter account that he has found an exploit to unlock any iPhone that contains the 05.11.77 radio baseband found in the 3.1.2 iPhone software. This new unlock tool, blacksn0w, will be released to the public on November 4th and yes, it does contain hackivation!
Something else that everyone should [...]

iPhone hacker, geohot, has released blackra1n RC2 for your enjoyment. It corrects a few small bugs from the first release and can be downloaded here.
•Fixed 3G issues
•Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes
•Fixed icy issues
•Both Windows and Mac
•If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun
So nothing earth shattering but it [...]

Coming back with another post in the ‘apps that make me willing to jailbreak’ series I am going to highlight HomeScreen 2.0. Yup, for those following along, this app is another that deals with the lock screen and makes it more useful.
This app does stray a little from my preferred path in that I am [...]

George Hotz, the man who brought you the jailbreak tool purplera1n, has once again impressed us all and this time it’s an all iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak only solution, blackra1n. Mac users need not apply as blackra1n is currently a Windows only application.

The Dev Team have updated their blog to let the jailbreakers of the world know how to go about jailbreaking iPhone 3.1. It seems as if Apple has really thrown a monkey wrench into jailbreaking the 3.1 software, however, so sit tight as this may be a bit confusing…
First and foremost they have released the [...]

Don’t sweat with the new iPhone 3.01 software update on your jail broken phone, you can re-use Redsn0w v.08 that was released last month. The iPhone Dev Team noted on their blog that “You can re-use redsn0w v0.8 we released a few weeks ago to jailbreak today’s 3.0.1 update. Just let iTunes update or [...]

Unlock Solutions releases new iPhone Unlock for 3G and 3GS iphones running 3.0, 3.01, and 3.1 firmware versions. This comes as the 3.1 beta version for the iphone just came out to the public as an optional download, while the 3.0.1 firmware version was just released from apple to fix many bugs that were in [...]