November 2008
7 posts
Linux, here we come!
This week’s funday is today! Devteam member planetbeing has done a phenomenal job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available on the iPhone and first-gen iPods.
The official announcement is here. Video, downloads, and instructions….all included.
(P.S. Feel free to digg this to help get the word out!)
Update: Geek...
Cat and Mouse
We already know that Woz is an advocate of Pwnage but here is a recent interview with him from the BBC’s Click Online show, the interviewer is Cambridge Computer Science graduate Spencer Kelly.
Some interesting information :-
02:50 Spencer: “What do you make of the iPhone hacks where you can unlock your iPhone and start downloading apps that don’t come from the...
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The man from DelMonte - He say Yes!
GOLDEN RULE: If you have a 3G iPhone and want potential soft unlock in the near future do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.
Read item 1 again and again.
At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the latest versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn.
These are suitable for the recent 2.2 release.
Please read all...
Sir, step away from the keyboard.
So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future.
If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a...
The silicon chip inside her head...
This ability we now have to spawn background tasks means we are one step closer to the 3G soft unlock. We have a clear path to follow, and “all” that remains is the implementation.
A quick summary of the key 3G-unlock-related achievements we’ve made so far:
Unsigned code execution on 3G baseband
Reverting 01.45 baseband to previous versions
Patching of static text (the...
Unmasking
Masks and fun stuff!
We’ve had a total 39,317 downloads of the PwnApple mask in the last 7 days.
Photos of people wearing the masks were submitted and seem to come from all over the world, these certainly made us chuckle! Judging by the comments most of you guys enjoyed the photos. Three or four of the photos submitted couldn’t be shown to the public as they were, erm, not quite...
Fundays!
We’ve made a printable facemask that is available for you to download here. We’d love to see photos of you guys wearing these, we’ll publish the best ones, so send them over to blog@iphone-dev.com - 23:16 CET: 5831 mask downloads
A few of the submitted photos:-