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purplera1n Now Made for Mac OSX!

Nazaroth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:48:02 +0000

Mac users can now jailbreak their iPhone 3GS using the new and improved version of purplera1n made specifically for OSX! In only a few days time GeoHot went from no hack, to hacked, to vista compatible, to OSX compatible! Thanks GeoHot and keep up the great work!

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You asked for it, and we delivered. I’m not a mac coder, so AriX and westbaer stepped up to do it. Check out AriX’s blog here. Download link on purplera1n.com, and thank AriX and westbaer next time you see them!

Also, some more payload stability improvements were made, and the windows version…

Let It ra1n!

Nazaroth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:52:36 +0000

GeoHot has just released the first jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS! To download it you can head over to the website purplera1n.com. Unfortuneatly it is only available for Windows but he states that he will work on a Mac version as soon as he can. Below is a letter from GeoHot.

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Yes, this is what you’ve all been waiting for. A jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS. And it’s awesome. To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware. Connect your iPhone…

iPhone Port of the Leopard Feature “Stacks”

G33kz0r — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:11:25 +0000

One iPhone developer looking to expand the capabilities of the iPhone’s home screen has demonstrated to AppleInsider a working proof-of-concept that implements the Stacks features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard into the iPhone’s Springboard application.

Appropriately dubbed “Stack,” the project was conceived back in the early days of iPhone hacks through a basic implementation of Mac OS X Leopard’s ‘Stacks’ feature that allows iPhone users to keep a quick-launch list of their applications in their handset’s dock. It was written by Irish developer Steven Troughton-Smith.

“The first iPhone OS device released in Ireland was the original iPod touch, which,…

Dev-Team Announces Status of iPhone 3GS Jailbreak.

Nazaroth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:15:56 +0000

The Dev-Team posted on their site yesterday the current status of the iPhone 3GS Jailbreak. In short they state that while a jailbreak currently already exists, they won’t be releasing it quite yet. They still need to figure out a few things and perfect the method of jailbreak before they release the final version. They also state that it’s best if it is not released at this time due to the relatively small number of people that have gotten their new devices as of today. Expect the final version to be released in the somewhat near future, but probably…

Admob iPhone Study Results.

G33kz0r — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:28:36 +0000

In a May 2009 Mobile Metrics report that was recently released, mobile advertising firm AdMob revealed that the iPhone and iPod touch now account for 69% of the U.S. smartphone traffic on its ad network. The figure is up from 59% in April and 50% in March. Worldwide, the iPhone and iPod touch now account for 49% of smartphone ad requests.

In a separate report issued earlier this week, AdMob disclosed that 44% of iPhone ad requests through its network on Saturday, June 20th came from devices running iPhone OS 3.0, demonstrating significant adoption of the new operating system.

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iPhone 3GS Availability Stats.

G33kz0r — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:34:45 +0000

Apple has posted an online database to allow potential iPhone 3GS customers in the U.S. to check stock levels for the various models at Apple Retail Stores. Availability is updated at least hourly. Apple deployed similar tools for both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G, although these previous versions only updated nightly with stock levels for opening the following day.

Apple’s database is currently showing solid availability, with nearly 90% of Apple’s over 200 stores having stock of all four models. Only five stores are completely sold out of all models at the moment.

YouTube’s Mobile Uploads Soared By 400%

G33kz0r — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:37:22 +0000

Google announced today that daily YouTube uploads from mobile devices have increased 400% since the release of the iPhone 3GS last Friday. The iPhone 3GS includes the ability to record video and provides for easy uploading directly to YouTube from within the Camera Roll section of the Photos application.

YouTube also notes, however, that the spike generated by the release of the iPhone 3GS is also the acceleration of a trend that has seen the upload rate grow by 1700% over the past six months.

This growth represents three things coming together: new video-enabled phones on the market, improvements…

iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Is In the Works!

Nazaroth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:44:10 +0000

12 hours ago the Dev-Team announced that the use of the 24Kpwn exploit, that was originally made for iPod Touch 2G, can in fact be used on the iPhone 3GS! This is great news for anyone who can’t wait to jailbreak/unlock their iPhone 3GS!

What does this mean? Well all in all it means that the current redsn0w tool used for the iPod Touch 2G can also be modified slightly to be used for the 3GS.

The Dev-Team also stated that ultrasn0w will be useable on the iPhone 3GS without any modification whatsoever so as soon as it…

ultrasn0w Has Been Released!

Nazaroth — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:01:58 +0000

Ultrasn0w was set to come out last Friday but it was pushed back until today. Now the Dev-Team has finally released it in all its glory so those who are on foreign carriers can use the 3.0 software as well.

Here is how to install ultrasn0w:

Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
Run Cydia or Icy
Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or Icy. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”! If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or…

New Benchmarks Put iPhone 3G S In the Lead!

Nazaroth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:57:53 +0000

Only moments after the iPhone 3G S was released yesterday, Anand Lal Shimpi decided that instead of playing with his iPhone he was going to run some benchmark tests on it. You will be excited as to what he found out!

Anand Lal Shimpi started off by stating the “secret” hardware makeup of the iPhone 3G S that had been released by T-Mobile some time ago. Further went on to state that due to the faster CPU and new CPU architecture the iPhone 3G S had a 54% faster webpage render time than the old iPhone 3G. Not only…