An alarm clock bug present in iOS 4.2.1 (and earlier versions) on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch will cause major punctuality issues on the New Year’s day morning. This will happen when the clock strikes midnight, one off alarms will cease to sing out.
The year 2010 has been amazing for both me personally and RedmondPie.com. I on behalf of Redmond Pie team would like to wish our readers all around the world a very Happy New Year.
Redsn0w 0.9.7 beta has been updated today, eliminating the need of externally running usbmuxd process which plagued many Mac OS X users. Everything else remains the same. Bluetooth functionality is still disabled.
According to Hitwise data released today, Facebook was the most visited website in the United States for 2010. Facebook.com took 8.93% of site visits between January and November 2010. Google.com came second at 7.19%, Yahoo! Mail third with 3.52%, Yahoo.com came fourth at 3.30%, and YouTube was at fifth with 2.65%.
Piracy is a major problem for smartphone apps. iPhone and Android applications are regularly cracked and distributed online. And now the first proof-of-concept hack for pirating Windows Phone 7 Marketplace apps has been created. The Windows Phone 7 hack seems particularly nefarious, as it enables the user to download and crack the applications directly from the Marketplace. It is frightening how easy it is for a pirate to crack applications on a Windows Phone 7 device.
Skype app for iOS has received a significant update today which enables video calling from the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G and iPad client to virtually any Skype account in the world. You can now make iPhone to iPhone video calls, as well as iPhone to PC / Mac and vice versa.
We have just been tipped off about the possible name for the next jailbreak by Geohot, called Rubyra1n. The domain Rubyra1n.com was registered by the iPhone hacker named George Hotz (aka geohot) on 27th March 2010.
After playing around with the recent discoveries made by James Whelton, another iPhone developer and hacker Steven Troughton-Smith has found DFU mode in the 6th-gen iPod nano which is similar to the one found in all iPhones and iPod touches.
Developer James Whelton is now back with a complete guide on how to remove apps from the 6th-generation iPod nano, and then add blank spaces by using Springboard hack that he discovered yesterday.
There is a new jailbreak app available in Cydia which allows you to take backups of your iPhone’s springboard theme, which includes: user settings, layout, wallpaper, MobileSubstrate configuration, hidden apps and folders. You can then restore to your favorite saved theme with exact layout and settings in a matter of just seconds
