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Google looking to take the lead with Music

2012-01-09T16:43:00.001+00:00

How do you bury the competition? By taking one of their strongest services and improving on it. For the past year or so Google has been seeking its answer to the iTunes Store. We’ve heard various rumors, but we’ve also heard that Google has faced significant obstacles from the record companies. Frustrated that the record companies didn’t see things their way, Google went ahead and launched a comprehensive music locker service, Google Music. But now they’re back at the table with record companies, and it appears that they’re on the brink of something even bigger.

The rumors have started to resurface, and now we’re starting to see evidence of their reality. Phandroid links information that contains a screenshot of the Google Music landing page. Option No. 1 comes as no surprise, since it’s the service we’ve all grown to know and love. Option No. 2 confirms at least part of the rumored addition to Google Music: a music store. We don’t yet know which labels Google has on board, so we don’t know the depth of the catalog. But chances are they wouldn’t launch one without the majors on board. And so they’ll have a music selection comparable to the iTunes Store. Only, the rumors don’t stop there.

In addition to buying tracks from Google Music, rumor has it you’ll be able to share those tracks, likely through Google+. There will be an expiration date on them, so it’s not as though you can give your friends free copies of what you’ve purchased. But this still brings back a social element of music that gets lost in the restrictive digital world.

Now lets wait and see if this new idea is a success or a failure.

A big leap forward for iHelp 24/7

2012-01-08T23:30:00.001+00:00

Today iHelp 24/7 has joined hands with the CodeKillar, a blog which specialises in C++, python and javascript programming and web designing.

This partnership will broaden the catergories which each of the blogs cover, which will hopefully appeal to wider ranges of audience's.

I hope that this partnership will benefit us both and enable us to work together on future projects.

Please check out CodeKillar

'Majel' Google's answer to Siri

2012-01-07T23:31:00.002+00:00

Since the release of Apple's voice-activated assistant, there have been countless "Siri-killers", "Siri-like apps" and "We already had Siri" headlines littering the web. However, Google's Android may finally provide a worthy analogue to Apple's attempt at understanding natural language.

Codenamed Majel (may-jell), the new technology promises to interpret your everyday language instead of relying on Voice actions' rigid command syntax.

The product is rumoured to be available in mid 2012 for the later versions of ice cream sandwich.

iPad dropped from the edge of space and surprisingly still working - Video*

2012-01-07T23:08:00.001+00:00

To show the effectiveness of its Extreme Edge case, G-Form decided to drop an iPad from 100,000 feet in the air.

G-Form decided to send up an iPad, wrapped in its Extreme Edge case and tied to a giant balloon, into outerspace, then let it free fall 100,000 feet back to Earth. Let’s face it, smartphone and tablet cases are, for the most part, pretty boring. So we can’t really blame case-makers for coming up with creative ways to show the effectiveness of their product.

Surprisingly , the iPad survives the fall, seemingly unharmed. Luckily for G-Form, the iPad did not land screen down — if it had, we highly doubt this video would have been released to the public, since iPads have been known to crack from far lower heights when the screen hits first.

The video is a much watch:

Untethered jailbreak for ios 5.0.1 released

2012-01-07T23:07:00.002+00:00

The iPhone dev team has announced iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for all Apple A4 based devices like iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G & the iPad 1. This untethered jailbreak is based on the exploit found by @pod2g and involves two separate exploits and a few other “tricks”. The iPhone dev team has used this exploit in both redsn0w 0.9.10 and PwnageTool jailbreaking tools. Important: This exploit is not available on Apple A5 based devices like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. So stay away till @pod2g comes up with an update.

How to Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using redsn0w 0.9.10b1?

The iPhone dev team has provided basic steps on how to get it The untether is for iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4-CDMA, iPad1, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G If you have one of those devices and are not on 5.0.1 yet, update now! The SHSH window is still open for 5.0.1 If you unlock via ultrasn0w or gevey, make sure you only get to 5.0.1 via a custom IPSW! See the guides at places like iClarified.com if you don’t know how. Once you’re at 5.0.1, use the latest redsn0w 0.9.10 to both jailbreak and untether. If you’re already at 5.0.1 with a tethered jailbreak, you have two choices: either run redsn0w 0.9.10 over your current jailbreak (deselect “Install Cydia” if you do that), or install the Cydia package prepared by the chronic devteam. The patches are the same regardless of which you choose. Some of you are using a hybrid 5.0/5.0.1 configuration. If so, do not attempt to install this untether over that setup! You will most likely get into a reboot cycle. Do a sync and fresh restore to 5.0.1 then install the jailbreak + untether. The iPhone dev team explains that the untether jailbreak isn’t available for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 since those devices cannot use Geohot’s limera1n exploit to inject the untether, they require exploits above and beyond those used for this release.

REMEMBER
*The untether is for iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4-CDMA, iPad1, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G*

Downloads: Mac OS X
Windows (run in admin mode)
Windows (if the above don't work)

Look at the Video (by iDownloadblog) below for futher information on how to use the new redsnow for iOS 5 .

Times Square Screens hacked with an iPhone

2011-03-21T21:08:00.002+00:00

"The way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the headphone minijack of an iphone 4 and play back any video clip. you can play it through the ipod feature or through the camera roll. the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that it's being held next to. it doesn't matter what shape or size the hacked screen is because the hack video will simply keep its correct dimensions and the rest of the hacked space will stay black."

"I chose times square for my demo because it has lots of video screens to try it on. it is also one of the most monitored and secured areas in new york city and that made it that much more fun. you can see in my video that the repeater is pretty powerful but the signal is not very stable yet. i'm working on that. i will post a new video later this week explaining how i made this prototype."

Naima PS3 Custom Firmware CFW 3.55 / 3.60 Hybrid With PSN Access, Download Now

2011-03-21T21:04:00.001+00:00

Naima is a Spanish hacker, he has successfully released PS3 custom firmware called Naima CFW 3.55 / 60 hybrid. The new custom firmware is a CFW 3.55 with some files taken from the newly 3.60 firmware. More over, it spoofs PS3 console on 3.60 firmware which allows full PSN access for games and applications with preserving jailbreak capabilities of custom firmware 3.55.

Note: It's highly recommended to avoid accessing PSN on your jailbroken PS3 in order to avoid possible bans from Sony.

Download 3.55-60CFW-naima.patch then apply it to official firmware 3.55

Disclaimer Note: This article is only for informational and testing purposes only. Here in iHelp 24/7 we did not create the hack, nor do we endorse or promote the use of it. We are not responsible for any bans that may occur, or the inability to sign-in to PSN. Use it at your own risk only.

Celeste set to Drop on March 22

2011-03-21T21:02:00.002+00:00

Two days ago we reported you about an amazing app which called celeste, which allows you to send and receive files to any other mobile devices via bluetooth. The developer behind Celeste has confirmed that it will be released by March 22nd.

Here’s the description of the jailbreak app:

Celeste brings the long-awaited missing feature to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

Send and receive songs, photos, contacts, and more. Celeste works with any Bluetooth transfer-capable device, and integrates perfectly with your built-in iOS applications.

Just like magic.

Whats New on Cydia 1.1 ?

2011-03-21T21:01:00.000+00:00

Cydia is about to get a major update and will be much more faster than ever. Creator of Cydia, “Saurik Freeman” (aka, “Godfather of Jailbreak”) have posted a long feature list of upcoming Cydia 1.1 application, which will bring new features with improved graphics, faster performance and much more.

Features of Cydia 1.1 Application:

Ability to run and operate Activator, libstatusbar, and SimulatedKeyEvents while Cydia is running
An overall speed improvement, including the “Loading Changes” dialog
Low memory usage
Advanced search mechanism with a new relevancy algorithm
Better management of broken repositories. Broken Repo’s can now be deleted easily.

Here is the full transcript of Saurik about upcoming Cydia 1.1:

Multitasking

“This is simply not possible at this time. I realize everyone wants it, and hell: I want it, too; but everyone saying it is important doesn’t make it possible. The reason Cydia doesn’t have iOS 4 compliant multi-tasking is that, to make the modifications it makes to the system, it runs as “root”, a user that has more permissions on the system than anything else, which means that SpringBoard, a lowly process running as “mobile”, cannot suspend/resume it.

Now, this is something that /can/ be remedied, and is something that I’ve been thinking of how to do for a long time, but all the obvious ways people like to bring up for making Cydia’s GUI run as mobile with only small parts running as root would make Cydia run slower, and speed is something that is primary on everyone’s minds when they are using Cydia. Luckily, there are things I’ve figured out that may make this more reasonably possible, but certainly not for this release.”

Leaving Mobile Substrate On while Cydia is Running

“If you did this you would find your system would suddenly become unusable. I realize that it sounds all nice and fuzzy that Mobile Substrate should modify all applications on the system, including Cydia, but again: Cydia runs as root. Almost all extensions in the ecosystem are NOT designed with this in mind, and when suddenly given root access start destroying the permissions of your configuration files and Media folders, making all normal applications unable to use them.

Therefore, with this release of Cydia, I’ve gone through the “big ticket items”-which seem to come down to Activator (what starts SBSettings), libstatusbar (adds notification items to the status bar), and SimulatedKeyEvents (injection of key events from Veency)-to verify with their developers that they will work correctly in an environment running as root. These extensions (plus WinterBoard, which doesn’t work on root on 4.x but is harmless, and will be fixed in a future release) are what are available from inside of Cydia until Cydia is modified to run as mobile.”

Better Interface and Backup Option

“A backup function actually does not require pushing a new build of Cydia, but it requires time to figure out how to scale the users to support the kind of load Cydia has. Cydia is running with many orders of magnitudes more users than any of its competitors have, which means that a lot of things that people like to think “should be simple, X did it” are actually much harder to implement. I also keep privacy at the forefront of my mind while building features like this, and want to be 100% certain that no one can get access to your installed products list other than you.

As for a “better looking interface”, I try hard to maintain something that competes with Apple’s products. A few things rotted on 4.x (the positions and sizes of some buttons), and the various “black” interfaces (the black bar and the black screen) get mixed reports, but otherwise the main problem users have with Cydia is not Cydia: it is with repositories. Every time I’ve gotten actual feedback “this specific thing is bad”, where that thing isn’t something that Apple themselves do in their iTunes or App Store applications (which should be taken as the “intuitive model”), it is in areas of the interface I simply do not have any control over: the content shown for a package by the repository.”

Confusion With the Term “Changes”

“Maybe I’m crazy, but I always thought of the word “Changes” to be a very non-geeky end-user term for “stuff that changed”. It certainly isn’t a technical term: it was not chosen because of some geeky desire to have the codebase match the UI, nor was it chosen because it had some esoteric meaning in Latin or Greek. It was instead chosen as it was a single word that immediately meant to the largest number of people I talked to exactly what that page did: showed you what changed. Regardless, “New Releases/Updates” certainly won’t fit on a tab label.”

Speed – Much more FASTER

“As with /every/ release of Cydia, Cydia 1.1 is faster than previous releases. In specific, it is faster than 1.0.3366 by a good margin, which itself was faster than 1.0.3222 by an even larger chasm. On this note, however, it is important to note that Cydia is tackling a hard problem: no other application I have seen on the iPhone, from Apple or any third party, is attempting to search index and manage tens of thousands of data items, on the client, in real time, aggregated from user-selected sources.

In contrast, Cydia has some of the fastest technology in existence with regards to handling this data, whether it be custom algorithms (Cydia includes a locale-aware string comparison radix sort, which AFAIK is the fastest sorting algorithm in any iOS application) or special on-disk data structures (new in 1.1 is “Cytore”, a new way to store local metadata on packages that can be loaded nearly instantaneously from flash; for those out there who are technically minded, it is an on-disk memory mapped hashtable, which drastically beats out alternatives people like to try to bring up such as SQLite).”

Loading Time – LESS

“Despite myths to the contrary, the amount of data displayed in the Changes list does not drastically affect how quickly it loads. There /was/ a bug in many versions of Cydia 1.0 that caused there to be at least a little delay related to the number of items on the list, but this bug was already fixed as of 1.0.3366. The cost of the calculation is deciding what entries should be on the list at all (and specifically which ones are actually updates vs. new releases), not displaying them all at once. That said, Cydia 1.0.3366 moves the loading of changes until after you click the tab, which makes it more evidence how much time is being spent on this feature (which itself is, again, faster on 1.1).”

Memory Usage – LOW

“Despite Cydia 1.1 continuing to attempt to juggle tens of thousands of items in memory, thanks to Cytore, it uses much less memory than ever before. Other optimizations have been made, as with every version of Cydia, in order to decrease the memory usage of the app as a whole. Additionally, and in particular, Cydia 1.1 is much more conscientious of memory warnings, and attempts to throw out as much state as possible during these events.

That said, the amount of memory on even reasonably modern devices (anything past the iPhone 3G) available for running applications (not in total, but available after Apple’s system applications get their share), is an order of magnitude greater: whereas on an iPhone 3G you were working with maybe 20MB of available memory, on an iPhone 3G[S] you have 150MB, and an on iPhone 4 you have 400MB available. So, despite Cydia 1.1 actually needing less memory to operate than Cydia 1.0, the pressure on memory is pretty much gone, and will not affect future users thanks to hardware upgrades.”

Advanced Search

“Unfortunately, this device is simply too slow to provide “advanced search capabilities”, and certainly not suggestions, given the constraints of “from user-selected repositories” “in something resembling real time”. That said, Cydia 1.1 has a much better search mechanism, including an integer-arithmetic radix-sorted relevancy algorithm I managed to implement.

What would really be needed to have a truly amazing search experience is to not do searching on the client: to instead handle it on my servers. This is how products like the App Store, Kindle, or Netflix work: it is not at all common for services users are used to to attempt to manage the entire database /on the device/, doing local searching, rather than having the data and computation for that existing in offline-indexed search structures on a massive server in the cloud.

Unfortunately, the reason people use Cydia are varied, and many people are using Cydia with repositories that frankly they shouldn’t be: whether the repository contains software that is dangerous (a niche community with tweaks receiving minimal testing, or using bad practices like on-disk file patching) or downright illegal (there are things you are allowed to do in your country that I cannot in mine), I am certainly not going to be acting as the centralized storage and indexing gateway for people to find and manage this content.

Instead, what keeps people coming back to Cydia is the fact that it acts as the fundamental alternative: that rather going to Apple, with their carefully curated set of centralized experiences, you go to Cydia, “the wild west of software”, where software modifies other software in a kind of reckless abandon that is going to lead to pain even in the best possible scenarios, and in the worst possible worlds is going to lead to things that you will not be able to list on a default repository, and which Cydia may even warn you about installing, but which you should still be able to access and even search for using Cydia’s search mechanisms.”

Error Messages

“Errors from Cydia do not come from Cydia. If you type a URL into Cydia for a broken repository, that repository is going to be low-quality and is going to cause you problems. If it is offline, Cydia is going to tell you it is offline, and if it is malformed Cydia is going to get angry about that. Cydia is simply going to sit there idly while there are a ton of broken and offline repositories in your list: it will tell you all of the errors involved in the hope that you will remove the broken repositories and get on with your life (which is a very apt metaphor, as most third party repositories are very slow, and cause your refresh experience to take a very very very long time).”

“Rate” and “Review” Sections

“We actually tried this, and it was a miserable failure: more time had to be spent moderating the reviews, most of which were misleading, inflammatory, or downright inappropriate, than anyone got value out of this mechanism: it was even worse than on the App Store, which is notorious for bad reviews (people often rate down a package for inane reasons, making the data horribly invalid).

Given these issues, I attempted to put together a vision of how comments and ratings could work in Cydia, and even made a trial implementation (screenshots were even handed out at some points, and I did demos at a few conferences), but when word came up that I was even considering releasing it, I received strong pushback from some of the best developers in the ecosystem–the people you are most likely to want to give mega-good reviews to–that if I continued with that they would give up on the ecosystem, due to the issues from before.

And, to be honest, I am not certain that I would have solved those problems, and given subsequent experiences from alternative products, and looking at how people used the ratings, what people said in the comments, and how things finally got rated, I no longer believe that I would have: I believe the concept of the off-the-shelf “comments and ratings” to be a fundamentally flawed system that inherently leads to abuse.

Now, not all rating systems need to be “off-the-shelf”, so something truly innovating and “actually solving the problem” is what I hope to one day provide for Cydia. In the meantime, however, I always do my best to avoid injecting seriously suboptimal tradeoffs into our ecosystem.”

Improved Compatibility Listings

“Cydia has, for a while, contained numerous features that would allow repositories to help with this problem.

a mechanism to specify firmware compatibility on packages (packages can Depends: specific firmware revisions).
the Cydia Store lets vendors block purchases for specific firmwares (any paid product can register its compatibility with its repository, and then I will filter it to users who can use it).
the firmware version is sent as part of the user-agent to the web pages for each product, allowing developers to display their own warnings.
compatibility is even more specially able to be done by feature detection, allowing packages to say “I need voiceover support on a device with a camera running an armv7 CPU and a retina screen”.
In essence, there is very little excuse for packages, repositories, products, or anything else in the Cydia ecosystem to be poorly specified in terms of firmware compatibility. That said, almost no packages in the ecosystem, and even very few products (where one would imagine this to be the most important), have this information included at any of these levels, which is rather disappointing.

So, Cydia 1.1 is not going to attempt to improve on any of these mechanisms, as Cydia 1.0 already has more than enough of them: the real onus is now on the developers and artists of specific items.”

Removal of Dead Content

“I do not have any control over what content is available in Cydia. I mean, I can refuse to personally accept money for it, but I have almost no introspection over things that are either free or sold on the developer’s website. For years I have attempted to get repositories to pull obsolete packages: they refuse. Instead of lobbying me, who agrees with you and is powerless, you need to be sending these complaints to the default repositories: BigBoss, ModMyi, and ZodTTD.”

Install Requirements

(Tags saying if installations of apps/tweaks, etc. need a springboard refresh or if the device needs to reboot)

“While this is often stated, this is simply not how this mechanism works: packages compute whether they need a reboot or reload as they install, allowing packages to make optimizations like “I only need to reboot if the user is using this firmware version and has this other package installed with this setting specified”. In fact, all of my packages that need features like this attempt these optimizations, and often you will not need as many reboots or reloads because of it.

Therefore, specifying this as static tags on a package would increase the number of reboots a user has to perform needlessly. That said, for packages where it is not obvious (extensions are going to require a reload, and MobileSubstrate is going to require a reboot), such as cases of MMS clients that require a reboot, it should certainly be best practice for the developer to put this information on their package information screen. This is even easier for the developer/vendor than modifying the package, and even then is very uncommonly specified: adding the tag therefore won’t even change how often it is reported.”

Repo Management

“With regards to repositories that did not add correctly, as stated by Ryan Petrich, Cydia 1.1 should no longer end up in situations where broken repositories are so unusable that they are also undeletable. That said, many users complain about repositories installed via a package: to delete these repositories you will need to remove the package that represents them.

(Due to some of these complexities, it is Cydia policy going forward that no repositories will be installable from default repositories via packages, and the existing ones under More Sources will be transitioned to a new mechanism for handling these that has been added that will allow more direct, simpler, and safer manipulation of repositories using a soon-to-be-revamped More Sources page.)”

“Thank you all, by the way, for your interest in Cydia: the fact that you care at all about what features are or are not in Cydia 1.1 means a lot to everyone working on the project.”
[via gadgetsdna]

iOS 4.3 for iPhone 3G, 2G, iPod 2G Download

2011-03-21T20:58:00.003+00:00

Now you can install iOS 4.3 for your iPhone 3G/2G, iPod Touch 2G. Some genius minds have brought iOS 4.3 firmware for iPhone 3G/2G and other older iOS based Apple devices.

A group of some killer minds, known “Whited00r“, strange name but with their extraordinary concepts, they have successfully brought the new iOS 4.3 on iPhone 3G and all other devices and they have also released the full download of iOS 4.3 for iPhone 3G, 2G, iPod 1st and 2nd generations.

It’s available now, use the link below to download iOS 4.3 for your iPhone 3G or other devices via Whited00r.

Download Whited00r for iPhone 3G / 2G – iPod Touch 2G

iPhone 5 Prototype Leaked ! Larger Screen

2011-03-21T20:56:00.002+00:00

As noted by Macrumors, that Hardmac posted a promotional image for cases which considered to be produced to fit iPhone 5, you can see that the design refers to little change in the form factor and placement of physical features if we compared with iPhone 4.

iPhone 5 with larger screen

As long ago as early January, photos and video of what was claimed to be the stainless steel antenna band from either a fifth-generation iPhone or a CDMA iPhone 4 surfaced through a parts supplier. While the antenna design and slight shift in the placement of several physical features seen on that part did turn up very soon after in the CDMA iPhone 4, the part in question also contained a SIM-card slot that is not needed or present on the CDMA iPhone 4. Consequently, it seems likely that the part may be a genuine fifth-generation iPhone part using almost the exact same design as the iPhone 4.

Exploit to Jailbreak 4.3 iPad 2

2011-03-21T20:55:00.000+00:00

Just a quick little heads-up, Comex, the well-know iPhone hacker, and the guy behind Spirit and JailbreakMe, has announced some good news for iPad 2 users, as we reported you earlier that Comex was able to jailbreak iPad 2 on iOS 4.3 with his upcoming userland jailbreak (JailbreakMe 3.0), today he confirmed that there's new bootom exploit has been discovered by someone to jailbreak iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.

How to install Dreamboard on your iDevices

2011-03-21T20:53:00.000+00:00

Advanced Theming Platform. Take control over SpringBoard! Dreamboard lets you place anything from widgets to apps where ever you want. Theming is no longer limited to just icons, or having to resort to complicated setup themes involving Iconoclasm, SpringJumps, etc.

Dreamboard makes it easy to switch between any theme in just a few seconds. Simply launch, choose and apply! And, Dreamboard eliminates the long wait of having to restart Springboard everytime you make a change. No more resprings! Dreamboard includes a complementary copy of Endroid (HTC theme).

New WinterBoard alternative demo

2011-03-21T20:45:00.000+00:00

If you are searching for WinterBoard alternative, here is a good news for you. A new Cydia tweak which acts as an alternative for WinterBoard. The new tweak called DreamBoard. After you have installed this tweak on your iPhone it will bring advanced theming platform for your iPhone. Using this tweak you can place anything from widgets to apps where ever you want.

This tweak allows you to switch between any theme within few seconds. You don’t need to restart your springboard everytime you make a change. You should note that DreamBoard is not recommended for iPhone 3G, iPod 2G, or iPod 3G 8GB and it is not compatible with iPad. You can watch the video embedded below to see it in action.

DreamBoard is available at Cydia under modmyi repo for free of cost. You will need to have a jailbroken iPhone to install this tweak.

How to use Redsnow jailbreak

2011-02-27T21:18:00.000+00:00

The just released beta version of Redsn0w will enable you to jailbreak (untethered) iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G on iOS 4.2.1.

Here's what you will need to know before proceeding: * iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 4.2.1 * iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with SHSH blobs saved for iOS 4.2 Beta 3. * Mac OS X * Access to iOS 4.2 Beta 3 firmware file. * If you rely on Ultrasn0w unlock, STAY AWAY from this version of Redsn0w. * Currently limited to iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G only.

The best thing about this "backup plan" is that it doesn't require you to restore or re-jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Here's how to do it:

Note: Skip to Step 2 if you have previously jailbroken (tethered) your iOS device on iOS 4.2.1 with Redsn0w.

Step 1: Restore your iOS device to the official iOS 4.2.1 firmware and jailbreak it using Redsn0w

iphone 4 http://bit.ly/e6vPDV
iPhone 3GS http://bit.ly/e9kLCk
iPhone 3G http://bit.ly/hVK21s
iPod touch 2G http://bit.ly/gTfX1B
iPod touch 3G http://bit.ly/eFSleW
iPod touch 4G http://bit.ly/gby7Y2
iPad http://bit.ly/hyLCmX

Step 2: This untethered jailbreak completely relies on SHSH blobs saved for 4.2b3 (iOS 4.2 Beta 3). To check whether you have SHSH blobs saved for iOS 4.2 Beta 3, start Cydia and wait for it to completely load the main page.

Step 3: Download Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 for Mac from link below http://bit.ly/eHnotu
and connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with Mac.

Step 4: Now download usbmuxd from http://bit.ly/eQNPNv
and extract it on your computer. Start Terminal in python-client directory and then run the following commands as shown below. chmod +x tcprelay.py ./tcprelay.py -t 22:2222

Step 5: Start Redsn0w and point it to the official iOS 4.2.1 firmware file.

Step 6: Now click "Next" and select "Jailbreak Monte" option, followed by selecting iOS 4.2 Beta 3 firmware file.

Step 7: Now make sure your device is both OFF and PLUGGED IN to the computer before you click "Next".
At this stage you will be presented with a screen where you will have to quickly hold "Power" button and then while holding the "Power" button, you will now have to hold "Home" button too. Now after few seconds release "Power" button but keep holding "Home" button until installation begins.

Step 8: Sit back and enjoy while Redsn0w will do all the rest for you. Once done, your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch will restart automatically and you will find it fully jailbroken (untethered) on the latest iOS 4.2.1 firmware.

This video will help you !

The best Cydia sources available

2011-02-27T20:39:00.000+00:00

Cydia’s repositories allow the installation of software packages, most of which are available to download at no cost. You can add these sources / repositories / repos yourself and have access to all types of packages to download and install on your iDevice (iphone, iPod Touch, iPad)

I have picked the best Cydia Sources and posted my best picks here. Enjoy them all.

Cydia Sources

SiNfuL iPhone: http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com <—– (awesome)
xSellize: http://cydia.xsellize.com <—– ( awesome)
app.ifonetec.com: http://app.ifonetec.com/cydia/
BigBoss & Planet-iPhones: http://apt.bigboss.us.com/repofiles/cydia/
Hack&Dev;.org: http://iphone.hackndev.org/apt/
iClarified: http://cydia.iclarified.com/
iSpazio: http://ispaziorepo.com/cydia/apt
Free Coder: http://iphone.freecoder.org/apt/
Intelliborn: http://intelliborn.com/cydiav/
iPhone Video Recorder : http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com
iFon Norway: http://c.iFon1.no
ModMyiFone: http://apt.modmyi.com/
Weiphone Source http://app.weiphone.com/cydia/
SaladSoft: http://nickplee.com/cydiasource/
Ste Packaging: http://repo.smxy.org/cydia/apt/
Steffwiz: http://apt.steffwiz.com/
Telesphoreo Tangelo: http://apt.saurik.com/
urbanfanatics.com: http://urbanfanatics.com/cydia/
WeHo: http://weho.ru/iphone/
iAcces: http://www.iacces.com/apt/
ZodTTD: http://www.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/
Hackulo.us: http://cydia.hackulo.us
Vwallpapers: http://i.danstaface.net/deb/
iphone.org.hk: http://www.iphone.org.hk/apt/
XSellize Normal: http://xsellize.com/cydia/ (no vip)
XSellize VIP: http://xsellize.com/cydia/usuario-password (Must Donate)
Niklas Schroder: http://apt.paperclipsandscrambledeggs.com
lHackers.nl: http://apt.hackers.nl/
RichCreations: http://www.richcreations.com/iphone/apt/
Zuijlen: http://zuijlen.eu
Bloc Apple en Catalá: http://apple.blocks.cat/repo/
comcute&gecko;: http://gecko.pri.ee/cydia/
iFoneguide.nl: http://cydia.ifoneguide.nl/
iPhones-notes.de Repo: http://apt.iphone-storage.de/
iPhone-patch: http://mspasov.com/
iphonehe.com: http://iphonehe.com/iphone/
iphoneIslam: http://apps.iphoneislam.com/
iPhonemmod.br: http://cydia.iphonemod.com.br/
iPuhelin.com: http://ipuhelin.com/cydia/
i-Apps: http://cydia.i-apps.pl/
SOS iPhone: http://cy.sosiphone.com/
Macbury: http://macbury.jogger.pl/files/
MyApple: http://cydia.myapple.pl/
CZ&SK;: http://csid.tym.cz/repo/
yellowsn0w: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
iBlueToothProject: http://ibluetoothproject.com/cydia
iSoftRu: http://isoftru.ru/repo/
David Ashman: http://david.ashman.com/apt/
A-steroids: http://a-esteroids.com/cydia/
AppleNewsFR: http://apple-news.fr/repo/
TouchMania: http://cydia.touch-mania.com/
EasyWakeup: http://easywakeup.net/rep/
hkvls.dyndns.com: http://hkvls.dyndns.com/downloads/debian
Sleepers: http://repo.sleepers.com/cydia
Ranbee: http://ranbee.com/repo/
PwnCenter: http://apt.pwncenter.com/
Redwolfberry: http://redwolfberry.com/rupertgee/cydia/
Darvens Repository: http://apt.guardiansofchaos.com/
IngiliZanahtari: http://apt.ingilizanahtari.com/
iPhone-patch (Bulgarian): http://mc2.iphoneall.org/
4PP13 Team Repository: http://apt.123locker.com
iPhone.ir Repo : http://ir-iphone.ir/cydia/
iRom gba/Apps: http://iromrepo.com/Cydia/gba/
iRom Genesis Roms: http://iromrepo.com/Cydia/genesis/
iRom SNES Roms: http://iromrepo.com/Cydia/snes
Howett: http://howett.net/cydia
Clubiphone: http://www.clubifone.org/repo

What to do after jailbreaking your iDevice

2011-02-27T20:31:00.000+00:00

This is just a little list of things to do once you have jailbroken your i. Please note this is a very small list just to get your feet wet after you figure out what you want to do to your i there is endless possibilties.

1. Install Cydia, icy or Rock (With Spirit this step can be skipped as it is installed in the JB process.)
2. After you have installed cydia open it let it load and restart then open it back up and search for winterboard. Winterboard is an application that allows you to customize your iphone, eg. themes, wallpapers, sounds images and all that jazz
3. once you have that taken care of It is time to ad sources to cydia, here is how:
1.open cydia go to Manage (at the bottom)
2. Got to sources and click Edit (on the top right)
3. Then click add a blue box will appear with a search bar then type these in exactly as they appear.

http://cydia.hackulo.us/ (you can omit the http:// part b/c it will appear in the search box automatically)
http://repo.beyouriphone.com/
http://cydia.xsellize.com/
http://apt.123locker.com/
http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com/
http://cy.sosiphone.com/

With these sources added you can now add w/e you want from them as long as it is compatible with your device.
Some recommendations would be: (search for these in cydia)

Installous (from the hackulo.us repo, You need to get this to get/install all apps of the free appstore)
BossPaper(Like winterboard this allows customization of your device.)
Five icon dock ( with ios4 this will cause unstable system it is not recommended)
ibluetooth or ibluenova ( unlocks the bluetooth in your device, letting you transfer files through bluetooth.)
iSpazio Dockflow (there is one for iphone and one for itouch get the right one)
NES 3 (5.99 from saurik or free from xsellize but it is worth the 5.99 and it is good to support the guy who makes cydia possible.)
Nes ROMs Package 1
OpenSSH ( you will need this along with an ssh client (winscp for windows or cyberduck for mac) for your computer to install third party apps) if you need help with this, youtube it or ask me I will be glad to help.

4. Now that all that is out of the way you can get some 3rd party .ipa's (applications) and put them on your phone. Note the ihelp24/7 blog or its affiliates do not condone the use of "cracked apps" Please refrain from asking about them here.

Here is a great site for those. http://apptrackr.org/ once you find an app you want on this website download it (click on the app and find the download area) once it is on your computer you can ssh it into your ipod/iphone. Make sure you put it in this directory. private/var/mobile/Library/Downloads or private/var/mobile/documents/installous/downloads. You can do this on your device using installous but it takes hella long time to download the app if your wifi is slow.

If you have any questions let me know, this should be more than enough to get you started. and if there is anything you want to do with your jailbreak just ask me or google it, most likely it will be on there.

i will be giving you, all the possible sources in cydia in my next post .........

Frash Will Allow You to Install Flash on iPad

2011-02-26T21:37:00.000+00:00

Apple themselves have stated that they will never add support for Adobe Flash Player on the ipad or any of it’s other mobile devices. If you were one of the many people upset by this, then you should be happy by what you will read here. A hacker named comex has managed to run Flash on the iPad, and is working on making it available to other iPad users. The Flash installer is named “Frash” 5GBE99275V6D.
Frash is currently in beta. The developer of this program plans on releasing Frash as soon as he manages to get it to be more stable. As of right now Flash can run most Flash programs natively on the iPad. A video of Flash Player on iPad in action can be seen here.

Great applications available on cydia

2011-02-26T19:59:00.000+00:00

Here is a list of some applications that are currently available on Cydia. Please feel free to add any other app in the comments.
Administration
IOKit Tools – ioalloccount, ioclasscount, ioreg
iPatcher – removes the brick mode from iPhone
Kernal Extension Tools – tools that work with kernal extensions
Isof – shows what files programs have open
Sudo – temporarily assume root priviledges
top – at-a-glance process watching tool
Archiving
cpio – predecessor to tar that is used by RPM
DMG2IMG – converts compressed dmgs to HFS+
fastjar – faster native alternative to Java’s Jar
libarchive – backend library for working with tar files
rzip – the best compression algorithm
unrar – de-compress files in rar format
7-zip (POSIX) – claims to be a good compressor
Data Storage
cvs – the original popular revision control
Git – fast content-addressable filesystem
Subversion – modern version control system
Development
APR – platform abstraction library from apache
APR-util – data structures and utilites for Apache APR
Assuan – GnuPG’s inter-process communication
Bison – GNU parser generator derived from Yacc
Bootstrap Commands – Mach interface and stub generator
Class Dump – reverse engineer Objective-C headers
Csu – library loading and support stubs
Darwin CC Tools – linker and assembler for the iPhone
developer-cmds – ctags, error, hexdump, rpcgen, unifdef
Flex – GNU lexer derived from Lex
glib – basic object management used by Gnome
GNU C Compiler – a native c compiler _on_ the phone
GNU Multiple Precision – (Big) Arithmetic Library
GNU Portable Threads – portable threading library used by X
Google Data API’s – GData client library (Objective-C)
indent – automatically prettifies a C program
iPhone 2.0 Toolchain – Full *compatibilty toolchain with one click! Use this to compile your 1.1.x apps for 2.0 with some limitations. BigBoss’ headers for 1.1.1 from working Cygwin toolchain. Also depends on all other necessary packages. Copies to /var/include and symlinks /usr/local/include to /var/include if possible. Also links gcc to arm-apple-darwin-gcc.
libffi – dynamic generation of function calls
libgpod – ipod data access library
libsigc++ – callback framework for C++
LibVNCServer – backend library for VNC servers
Link Indenty Editor – pseudo-codesign Mach-O files
Make – dependency-based build environments
Patch – merge a difference onto a file
XML Parser Toolkit – Stream-oriented XML parser written in C
Games
Macman – an outstanding Pacman knock-off with a nice twist!
NES – NES Emulator for iPhone
quake4iphone – Includes shareware Quake files. Retail files highly recommended. Visit zodttd.com for more info.
ScummVM – is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.
Java
Classpath – open source implementation of Jave
iPhone/Jave – example application (with source) in Java
JamVM – Small, intricate, fast Java interpreter
Java SQLite – JNI bindings and JDBC driver for SQLite
Jikes – native faster alternative to Java’s javac
JocStrap – Java/Objective-C connection library
Rhino – Java implementation of Java Script
UICaboodle – iPhone-specific JocStrap extensions
Localization
BrFix – Brazilian Regional Fixes
RuFix – Russian Regional Fixes
Slovak Language Replacement
Multimedia
FAAC – open source library for MPEG-4 AAC
FAAD – open sournce library for MPEG-4 AAC
Festival-Lite – embedded text-to-speech library
LAME – open source (lgpl) mp3 encoder
Ogg – open multimedia container format
png – library for manipulating PNG files
SwapTunes – Allows you to Sync with multiple iTunes libraries.
TIFF – Tagged Image File Format library
Vorbis – Open audio compression format
x264 – open source implementation of x264

you might think that this is nothing, but 3/4 of apps comes from repo/sources including the free appstore clone = Installous

sources & repos in next post .......

What Are the Risks of Jailbreaking?

2011-02-26T19:31:00.000+00:00

Now, although jailbreaking has become increasingly easier, there are still very complicated risks that go with it. If you have a newer iPod Touch or iPhone 3GS, or if you plan on unlocking your new device, remember what I am about to tell you…
An underground group of programmers known as the Dev Team, for the most part, spearheads all this jailbreak technology more or less without Apple’s permission. Think of the Dev Team as the LA SWAT team with huge awesome guns trying to get into a barricaded building, which is the jailbroken iPhone software.
Every time they find a way in, Apple comes along and puts another barricade up with a software update that closes the entrance they had. Then they have to find another way in. They are currently working on jailbreaks for 3GS and iPod Touch software version 3.1.3, so if you upgrade to the newest version of the firmware, you will lose the ability to jailbreak at this time.
So it’s just a best practice to check the latest firmware version jailbroken (see the Dev Team blog) versus your own (go to Settings > General > Status). Aside from the above mentioned risks, there’s always the chance of your iPhone “bricking” or getting stuck in a non working state.
Several times during jailbreaks, mine would be stuck in phone purgatory for hours. Take just a few moments to browse any iPhone forum with jailbreaking topics and you’re sure to find several comments along the lines of “help! I tried to jailbreak my iPhone and now it’s been stuck on the Apple logo for hours, help!” or “Please help me, after jailbreaking my iPhone my GPS won’t work.”
So things definitely can go wrong, but generally it’s user error. Usually plugging in your iPhone to your computer, starting iTunes, and holding power for 5 seconds, power and menu button for 10 seconds, and then just menu for 20 seconds, tells iTunes your phones fried and it will do a fresh install of your most recent iPhone software.

What Are the Benefits of Jailbreaking?

2011-02-26T19:27:00.000+00:00

Up until recently, if you wanted to shoot video with your iPhone, you had to jailbreak and download an app called Cycorder from Cydia that would let you shoot and save video, because your iphone out of box couldn’t do it. Same with cut/copy/paste, MMS, all only available if you had jailbroken your iPhone.
Your probably wondering well then what in the heck do I need to do it for now? Well I jailbreak mine so I can have the application Backgrounder from Cydia, it allows you to multitask and do things like listen to Pandora while writing emails, something you can’t do with your run-of-the-mill iPhone and ipod Touch.
I also have Apps like Winterboard from Cydia that allow me to customize my home screen, change the look of my lock screen, and change the overall theme of my iPhone. I can make my iPhone look completely different than the way it does when you open the box for the first time. So much to the point where people will ask me what kind of phone.

Wonder if you can jailbreak your device ?

2011-02-25T12:57:00.001+00:00

This jailbreak list should help you. Find your device and your firmware and find out which jailbreak software that should work for you.
If the firmwares you are on are not there ,i suggest to update your device.

All of these jailbreaks have a Windows and Mac versions.

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.2.1

Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1 with GreenPois0n (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 4 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 with GreenPois0n (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.2.1 with GreenPois0n (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 3G with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.2.1 with RedSn0w

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.1

Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 with GreenPois0n (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 with LimeRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 with GreenPois0n (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 with LimeRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.1 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.1 with PwnageTool

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.0.2

Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.0.2 with LimeRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 4.0.2 with LimeRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.0.2 with RedSn0w

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.0.1

Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.0.1 with JailbreakMe
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.0.1 with JailbreakMe
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.0.1 with JailbreakMe

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4

Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.0 with JailbreakMe
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4.0 with JailbreakMe
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4.0 with JailbreakMe
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 4 with PwnageTool

Jailbreak iPad 3.2.1

Jailberak iPad 3.2.1 with JailbreakMe

Jailbreak iPad 3.2

Jailbreak iPad with Spirit

Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 with Spirit (recommended)
Jailbrak iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 with PwnageTool (upgrading from 3.1.2)
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.3 with Spirit (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.3 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.3 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.3 with Spirit (recommended)
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.3 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.3 with PwnageTool

Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC2
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC3
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.2 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.2 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC2
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC3
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.2 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.2 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC2
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n RC3

Jailbreak iPhone 3.1

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1 with PwnageTool for Mac OS X
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1 on Windows
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.1 with PwnageTool for Mac OS X
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1 with BlackRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.1 with PwnageTool for Mac OS X

Jailbreak iPhone 3.0.1

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.0.1 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.0.1 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.0.1 with RedSn0w

Firmware 3.0 Jailbreak

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.0 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.0 with PurpleRa1n
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.0 with PwnageTool for Mac
Jailbreak iPhone 3G 3.0 with RedSn0w for PC and Mac
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.0 with PwnageTool
Jailbreak iPhone 2G 3.0 with RedSn0w
Jailbreak iPod Touch 2G with RedSn0w

How to work jailbreakme.com

2011-02-25T10:31:00.000+00:00

Step by step jailbreaking online on safari - jailbreakme.com
A Jailbreak's main benefit is that you can get all the apps from appstore ,as well as themes, widgets, tweeks and many more to customise your iphone the way you want for free. A friend of mine described the benefits Its just about customizing were Apple left off. There's alot more out there than what Cydia and installer will have loaded, depends on what sources you have installed.Some of the big things are the ability to theme your iphone by changing icons, backgrounds, sounds, etc. Little touches here and there.
If you like customizing and basically screwing with electronics, jailbreaking will make you happy.

What are tethered and untethered jailbreaks ?

2011-02-24T12:43:00.000+00:00

A tethered jailbreak requires that the device be connected to a computer each time it needs to be booted into a jailbroken state. An untethered jailbreak allows the device to be powered off and rebooted without affecting the jailbreak, i.e., without requiring that it be reconnected to a computer. When iOS updates are released, software to perform tethered jailbreaks is often released before untethered jailbreaking software becomes available.

Jailbreaking led to the cat and mouse game in America between the hackers and Apple. Finally Apple lost the battle as jailbreaking was made legal in America.

iHelp24/7

2011-02-24T12:33:00.000+00:00

I started this blog to help people who owns Apple device's such as and ipod/ipod touch, iphone and ipad.

My blogs little motto is "unleash your device".

What do i mean by this?
It means freeing your iDevice from the limitations imposed on it by Apple.

In tec term is known as jailbreaking or iOS jailbreaking, which is a process that allows devices running Apple's iOS operating system (such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and recently Apple TV) to gain full access (root access) to unlock all features of the operating system, thereby removing limitations imposed by Apple.
Once jailbroken, iOS users are able to download additional applications, extensions and themes that are unavailable through the official Apple App Store, via installers such as Cydia(free version of Appstore :P ). A jailbroken iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS can still use the App Store and iTunes and other normal functions, such as making telephone calls. Jailbreaking is similar to rooting an Android device.

In a nut shell, basically getting all items on Appstore for free aswell as customising your device to do what ever you like and whenever you like for free...