Create Your Own Cydia Apps And Tweaks With iOSOpenDev

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One of the most common reasons why people  jailbreak their iOS devices is to customize it with jailbreak tweaks that can perform amazing things when it comes to improving the functionality of your device and also increasing the overall user experience. A number of Cydia tweaks have been provided in the Cydia marketplace by Devs, both paid and free that help do this.

But there is however no better pleasure then creating a good idea for a jailbreak tweak and even making it yourself so as to have a very personalized customization experience on the jailbroken iOS device.

A free tool called iOSOpenDev was recently released for developers. Those with basic programming knowledge can use Xcode templates for creating jailbreak-style apps and tweaks that can [...]

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Cydia App “MyAssistant” Brings Plethora Of Enhancements To Siri

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Apple’s A5 chip serving iPhone 4s and iPad 2 received its first public jailbreak not too long ago and we’ve already seen several tweaks that expand Siri’s capabilities. SiriToggles allows you to open apps and change system settings, while AssistantExtensions offers a plug-in architecture allowing developers to extend Siri functionality (command and GUI snippets). This week we were given yet another fun Siri tweak in Cydia, and it just may be the best one yet.

MyAssistant is a 99 cent app in the BigBoss repo that adds a ton of customization to the virtual assistant. The biggest feature here may be the integration with Activator, the app that lets you pick an activation method for just about any task. When combined with Activator, Siri can [...]

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How To Jailbreak Your iOS Device Using Absinthe (Mac OS X)

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This guide is for Mac only and will teach you how to jailbreak various iOS devices using the newly released tool, Absinthe. The current version of Absinthe is 0.3. It should be noted that this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning that you will be able to reboot your phone just like you normally would at any time.

This guide should be used with the following device/firmware combinations:

iPhone 4S | 5.0 (9A334) iPhone 4S | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPhone 4S | “other” 5.0.1 (9A406) iPad2 (CDMA) | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPad2 (GSM) | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPad2 (Wi-Fi) | 5.0.1 (9A405)

It should also be noted that the team that put this jailbreak together included both Saurik and MuscleNerd, both of which are core members of the iPhone [...]

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How To Jailbreak Your iOS Device Using Absinthe (Windows)

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This guide is for Windows only and will teach you how to jailbreak various iOS devices using the newly released tool, Absinthe. The current version of Absinthe is 0.3. It should be noted that this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning that you will be able to reboot your phone just like you normally would at any time.

This guide should be used with the following device/firmware combinations:

iPhone 4S | 5.0 (9A334) iPhone 4S | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPhone 4S | “other” 5.0.1 (9A406) iPad2 (CDMA) | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPad2 (GSM) | 5.0.1 (9A405) iPad2 (Wi-Fi) | 5.0.1 (9A405)

It should also be noted that the team that put this jailbreak together included both Saurik and MuscleNerd, both of which are core members of the [...]

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The Chronic Dev Team Releases C-Dev Reporter to Help Discover iOS 5 Vulnerabilities

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The Chronic Dev Team has recently published a blog post titled “Weapons of Mass Exploitation” where they provide an update on the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. It was more of a call to action, asking the jailbreak community to help send in device crash reports via a tool they released called the C-Dev Reporter. The crash reports would help the Chronic Dev Team discover a vulnerability in iOS, which they could use to help release a jailbreak.

In the past, the Chronic Dev Team released GreenPois0n, which was a popular jailbreak tool for iOS 4.2.1. A few months back, they announced that they had discovered 5 new vulnerabilities in the iOS 5 beta and recently a bug in iOS 5 that could possibly [...]

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TinyUmbrella v5.01.00 Released – Save iOS 5.0.1 SHSH Blobs

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Even for those of you who aren’t jailbreakers,  TinyUmbrella is a great little app that allows you to save your iPhone, iPod touch or iPads SHSH blob files locally. Some of you may be wondering what SHSH blobs are and what the purpose of saving them might be. It is quite simple, if you have your blob files stored locally, you can downgrade your iDevice to an earlier version of iOS; useful if your iPhone gets hit with a bug in the latest version of iOS, or an app you can’t live without stops working.

If you are running iOS 5.0.1, you might want to head on by TinyUmbrella’s official website and grab the latest version: it’s been updated to save the latest version’s [...]

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Downgrade iOS 5.0.1 To iOS 5.0 With Saved SHSH

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Apple recently released iOS 5.0.1 and the jailbreak community has been advised to not upgrade. Pod2g recently found an exploit that may help to provide an untethered jailbreak and this exploit is patched on iOS 5.0.1. If you like many are seeking to use an untethered jailbreak, it would be wise to stay on iOS 5.0 because thats where the untethered jailbreak will be. For those of you who accidentally upgraded or unknowingly upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 you may be wondering how to downgrade back to iOS 5.0. In this case, you may downgrade if you have an SHSH previously saved. To do so, follow the procedure outlined below:

Required Files and Software Latest version of TinyUmbrella (Mac) (Windows) Redsn0w 0.9.9b8 (Mac) [...]

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