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5Jul/100

Installous and AppSync – Jailbroken Must Haves

If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, Installous and AppSync are a couple apps that you absolutely must have. Why? Installous is like your App Store on your device. Use it to download cracked apps directly to your phone. No more having to download ipa files onto your computer and then syncing to iTunes. [...]

29Jun/100

Jailbreaking the iPad

First Stop, Saving your SHSH blobs You will need this to downgrade and re-jailbreak your iPad in case you accidentally upgrade to a new firmware Download the latest version of Firmware Umbrella here If you have Windows, you will download the latest version of AutoSHSH instead. (I have a Mac so the instructions will be for Firmware Umbrella [...]

29Jun/100

The iPad is coming.. the iPad is coming…

Very exciting.. my iPad just arrived last night. It’s like Christmas in June – gotta love it. I can’t wait to get my grimy hands all over it and test this puppy out. My initial reaction is very good. It’s sturdy and seems to be zippy. Works well over my wifi network at home (no [...]

14Jun/100

Finding the Right Hosting Service

For a really long time, I was hosting my site at home and using no-ip to manage the DNS and MX entries of my domain. For the most part this was ok. I was not too wild about their customer service and was disappointed that I could only send emails through web client and not [...]

13Jun/100

Jailbreak and Install iOS4 using PwnageTool

If you submit apps to Apple, there is now a checkbox that asks if you’ve tested your app against iOS4 in iTunes Connect. Today, I had upgrade my phone to iOS4 to do some testing so I figured why not try out some of these jailbreak instructions at the same time. For the most part [...]