Tis’ the season for Holiday Cheer, and well, Cydia Promotions.

Wi-Fi Sync, developed for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, has had a price slash for the last few days, coming in at $2.99 for the holiday season. Originally $9.99, Wi-Fi Sync is a 3rd party app for Jailbroken users, that allows you to wirelessly sync your iDevice over your Wi-Fi connection with iTunes.

By simply installing the application on your PC, alongside the App available in Cydia, you can forget about the cable and Sync at any time you like. Granted the transfer speeds are a bit slower, it’s well worth it if your not into the traditional method. Especially at this price.

What’s the catch? This promo ends in two days. It was originally expected to end on December 11th, but the developer has pushed the price slash until December 15th, 2010.

What are you waiting for? Head over to cydia and grab Wi-Fi sync now before this deal runs out!

http://getwifisync.com/

The Dev-Team is warning about a potential issue with ultrasn0w for iOS 4.2.1 on iPhones with the 06.15.00 baseband. An increasing number of users with that version of the baseband software are reportedly losing GPS functionality when they unlock their device. The blog post says they are looking for the root cause but haven’t found it yet, and notes that it’s not a problem for all or even most users with that baseband. Still, to be on the safe side, they’re suggesting people should just not expect GPS to work if they want to unlock iPhones with the 06.15.00 baseband using ultrasn0w:

Source: Dev-Team Blog

So you’ve probably heard there is a new version of Cydia, which is included in the recent tethered jailbreak redsn0w release. We’ve been testing it and chatting with chpwn and saurik about the differences in it, and thought we’d get a solid list of changes published.

chpwn did a lot of work on many visual tweaks, and as saurik put it “some of my long term performance plans are ‘hitting pay dirt’, and Cydia is much faster than it was before; that said, it isn’t done yet: there’s one more thing that I think is going to make a huge difference that isn’t even in there yet but should be for the final release.” And that’s the biggest improvement as far as many are concerned – it’s just way faster. Loading the Changes tab in my iPhone 4 is now nearly as quick as the AppStore.

Here’s a list of just some of the improvements:

• reduced loading changes time
• section remapping optimizations
• faster reloading data
• faster, native search
• uses public SDK classes whenever possible
• rewritten, faster web views with zooming support
• changes badge works again
• more stable webviews (no crashes when queueing)
• redesigned settings page
• redesigned stashing page
• faster scrolling of table views
• bug fixes
• ads no longer break the package views until restart
• much better queueing UI
• stabler refreshing bar

iPad improvements:

• - landscape
• - popovesr
• - modal views that cover only a portion of the screen
• - less annoying errors with bad internet connections downloading packages
• - updated section mappings, less typo’d sections

This version of Cydia is included in the recent redsn0w release, but if you’re on an iPhone 4 or other already jailbroken device, you can actually install it straight from your iDevice. The absolute easiest way to do so is make sure you have iFile and Safari Download Manager installed, then visit http://apt.saurik.com/cydia/debs/cyd…honeos-arm.deb from your device. Remember where you download it to, and navigate there with iFile afterwards. Tap the deb it and choose install – done!

Cydia is growing up so fast.

When Mac OS X 10.6.5 was released, support for iOS printing using AirPrint was mysteriously absent. It’s not clear whether the omission was due to technical problems or patent challenges, but with the final Mac OS X 10.6.5, you could only print from iOS 4.2 to a short list of HP printers. Until someone put some effort into re-enabling it, that is.

Developers Steven Troughton-Smith and Patrick McCarron found a way to get AirPrint to work on Mac shared printers by restoring three files from earlier developer builds of 10.6.5 that had been removed or changed in the final release. AirPrint appeared to work reasonably well in the beta, and many observers surmised that it was removed at the last minute due to a patent troll who had asserted they had invented the technology. The re-enabling process isn’t too hard – just a few Terminal commands and deleting and re-adding your printer – but the guys at Netputing figured out how to do it without using the Apple files in question, which could have raised legal issues. They’re distributing it as AirPrint Hacktivator, and once you’ve got it installed on your Mac, your iOS device will think the shared printer is one of the supported HP printers that support AirPrint.

For Windows printers, there’s a similar process for enabling AirPrint as a service under Vista, 7 and XP. If you decide to try and follow Jaxov’s recipe, note that you need to run the command prompt as administrator in order to start the service.

Source: TUAW

redsn0w 0.9.6beta4 was just recently announced, and beta5 is now out giving both Windows and OSX users the ability to flash the iPad 06.15 baseband on iPhone3G or iPhone3GS. (why?).

This release jailbreaks iPhone3G, older iPhone3GS, and non-MC iPod touch 2G. It also assists 3G and 3G[S] users with baseband 05.14 or 05.15 who have been stuck without an unlock upgrade their baseband to 06.15 in order to use the new ultrasn0w which was just released. DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU NEED TO. More on that here.

A much upgraded Cydia is also included in this release, which we’ll be writing a full story on in the morning – a ton of great improvements thanks to saurik and chpwn.