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Review: qTweeter App from Cydia

A new app from Efiko Software called “qTweeter” has just been released into the public Cydia repositories. This is a refreshing, new app, and seems to be built out of several never-before-seen APIs. The app is a background process and functions similar to SBSettings, another jailbreak-only miscellaneous system utility from Cydia. What qTweeter does, is it [...]

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Redsn0w Beta Released to Jailbreak iPod Touch 2G

The Dev Team has released the Redsn0w Beta that allows 2nd-generation iPod touch users to jailbreak their device. Currently the utility runs in the command line only, but the Dev Team says a GUI version is imminent. Read more in their blog post here.

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Jailbreaking Officially Forbidden to iPhone Developers

Apple has just updated its iPhone Developer Agreements to include the following clauses: (e) You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise, create any Application or other program that would disable, hack or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented [...]

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“InstallerApp” App Store Fuses Installer and Cydia

I posted only a little while ago that the “Rock My iPhone” store had just launched and was set to take on Apple’s very own App Store as a fresh new independent competitor. Now, a new service called “InstallerApp” from RIPDev, the team that developed the original “Installer.app” on v1.x iPhones, even before the App Store [...]

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Dev-Team Announces iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak

From the Dev-team: “Are you an iPod Touch 2G owner? Today is a good day for you! The Dev-Team have finally released a patch with the codename “24kPwn” which will allow you to perform an untethered iPod Touch 2G jailbreak. Untethered means your iPod Touch 2G won’t need to be rejailbroken every time you reboot [...]

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“Rock Your iPhone” Alternative App Store Now Live

Rock Your iPhone is the second independent AppStore that has opened in the past month that aims to provide direct competition to Apple’s own App Store. This of course requires the iPhone to be jailbroken, and provides a range of new features such as the well-known IntelliScreen from IntelliBorn. View the sign-in and product page [...]

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Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store

Looks like the jailbroken iPhone app scene is about to get seriously interesting — not only is Cydia is going from package repository to full-fledged app store, a new jailbreaking service called Rock Your Phone is set to launch, and there’s a planned adults-only app store. Details are light on the others, but the Cydia [...]

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