GeoHot’s “Meh”

Posted by Allyn on Jul 12, 2010 in News | 11 comments

Meh. The title of GeoHot’s most recent, and long awaited, blog post on the iPhone 4 Jailbreak situation. This blog post has stirred a huge controversy and frankly, I have lost a lot of respect for GeoHot. And it’s not because I feel like he owes us anything. He doesn’t. Lets recall his career.

The guy is a genius, he was the first person to hardware unlock an iPhone. He started a little known blog when he first was donated an iPhone for unlocking testing. His very first post:

Thanks to jpetrie, who donated an iPhone to the cause, I have an iPhone to take apart. I will be posting to this blog as I take it apart and discover things.

After becoming famous and making TV appearances, he finally traded this iPhone for a Car:

I traded it for a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones

Did that seem fair?

“Frash” Brings “Flash” to iOS…For Real! (Updated)

Posted by Allyn on Jul 4, 2010 in News | 9 comments

Developer @comex who brought us the Spirit Jailbreak that we all love has been working hard on bringing you something widely sought after since iPhone’s 2007 debut; native Flash support. This project was code-named “Frash”.

Update: Frash is now available for iPad and has been widely publicized. Support for other devices should come soon. We are still waiting for reports of users’ results, but here is the link to the Engadget article and tutorial. Please let us know if you try this!

Tiny Umbrella Updated to 4.00.49 already!

Posted by Allyn on Jul 1, 2010 in Featured, Guides | 13 comments

Developer @notcom has been hard at work updating Tiny Umbrella to work for every SHSH controlled device. Since iPhone 4 has been released, he has already updated it six times!

Make sure you have the most current version. Right now it is 4.00.49. Ironing out all the kinks, including developing for iPhone 4 (which he doesn’t even own), must be a real challenge.  In his own words commenting on all the updates, notcom says;

Well that was fun…

iOS 4.0.1 Coming Tomorrow? iPhone 4, 3GS and iPT3G Owners Save your 4.0 SHSH files NOW!

Posted by Allyn on Jun 27, 2010 in Apple | 15 comments

There are rumors everywhere about an update to iOS 4 already and a new user-land jailbreak found by @comex for iOS 4.0.

The antenna problem has mounted such an outcry that Apple will release a software “fix” for this apparent hardware issue as soon as tomorrow, Monday, June 28. That means that the next hours are your only chance to get your SHSH on file for future restores to iOS 4.0. If the update kills whatever has just been found, you will never be able to restore back to 4.0, and lose the opportunity to Jailbreak your iPhone 4 if you upgrade.

My Thoughts on iPhone 4.

Posted by Allyn on Jun 24, 2010 in Apple, Reviews, iPhone | 6 comments

Meets Expectations as an Incredible new iDevice…but Fails as a Phone?

My iPhone 4 is totally sweet. The new look and additions to iOS 4 are wonderful. Getting ATT to activate it on my line was a bit of a pain, but it was expected, and the last associate I finally spoke to was a true professional and did the job.