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GreenPois0n RC6.1 Brings an Untethered Jailbreak to all iDevices (Doesn’t require 4.2b3 SHSH!) released! GUIDE AND PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS INCLUDED!

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A new day, A new jailbreak has just arrived!  The Chronic Dev Team has just been released GreenPois0n RC5 to the public to bring an untethered jailbreak for all iDevices.  Unlike RedSn0w 0.9.7, this does not require 4.2b3 SHSH files to be saved on Cydia.  If you just got your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch for Christmas and want [...]

A very simple and sleek iPad home screen setup

What you’re looking at is a screenshot of my iPad with its new home screen setup. Of course, I’m jailbroken, so I get a lot of cool extra goodies. Full information after the break.

Jailbreak ALL iDevices (UNTETHERED) with redsn0w 0.9.7b1 for iOS 4.2.1 – READ FIRST!

Earlier today, the iPhone Dev-Team released the first beta of redsn0w 0.9.7 (for Mac OS X). This new beta will allow users to run an untethered jailbreak on ALL iOS devices running iOS 4.2.1. If you don’t know what untethered means, please click here to understand the difference between tethered and untethered. How-to and downloads [...]

Enable the Usage menu on iPad and iPod Touch

Apple, for whatever reason, decided that the iPod Touch and iPad shouldn’t get the Usage menu in Settings>General. This is something that’s only available to iPhone users (of course, a jailbreak says otherwise). The Usage menu is useful because it gives you some nifty battery life information. This post will tell you how to easily [...]

Fix the gsc.wildcat error with FullForce for iPad in Cydia

Many iPad users are having problems with installing FullForce onto their devices in Cydia, where they’ll get some sort of “gsc.wildcat” dependency error. Luckily, I was able to figure out how to get around this (my iPad’s running iOS 4.2.1, jailbroken of course), as I haven’t been able to find any sort of fix online. This fix [...]

Transfer contacts from Address Book for Mac to Windows Phone 7

If you’ve been disappointed by the lack of synchronization options for Windows Phone 7, you’re in luck, at least in terms of contacts. If you’re on a Mac and use Address Book to store all of your contacts, exporting them and importing them (via the Windows Phone website) is somewhat of a pain, as you [...]

[How-To] Enable AirPrint on 10.6.5 in 1-click

Apple, oddly enough, removed AirPrint from 10.6.5 at the last minute. Nobody knows why, but if you want it back, you can easily “hacktivate” AirPrint with this simple and free tool.

Make Your Own Custom Short URL

You may have seen people using a custom short URL before.  It’s typically their company or screen name, and usually ends in a two-letter  domain (such as .me,  .co, .us).  For example, the New York Times has nyti.ms and Gizmodo has gizmo.do.  I was really interested in having my own, so I did some research.

Best iPhone lockscreen – Weather Elements v4

What you’re looking at is a very beautiful lockscreen mod called “Weather Elements v4″. It has retina display graphics as well as some really nice animations. It requires WinterBoard and uses HTML.