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Monday, November 21, 2011

Top Must-Have Widgets For iOS 5 Notification Center

Before the belated introduction of Siri, Notification Center was the main talking point of Apple’s much improved operating system for mobile devices – iOS 5. Although the voice-recognition software is marvelous and all, the improved notification infrastructure has to go down as the prized feature of what is (besides the battery issues) a very well put together update.


The developers have been hard at work updating Cydia tweaks for use with iOS 5, as well as bringing modifications for the brand-new features. The Notification Center has a whole bunch of handy tweaks rendering it even more useful and productive than the stock offering. We’ve covered many of them here at Redmond Pie, and, since it’s the weekend, we’re taking the opportunity to round up the ones we most recommend.
1. QuickMemo
One of the main issues with iOS (and often, mobile operating systems in general), is not necessarily a lack of features, but the time consumed in getting to them. The camera, for example, now has a nice handy button on the lockscreen – meaning you won’t miss the moment as you scramble around looking for the camera icon.
QuickMemo follows a similar motif. Making a quick note can often take a lot longer than it should, since you’ve to source where you’ve put your notes app, and often, once you’ve found it, you’ve forgotten some – if not all – of what you initially wanted to write down. QuickMemo adds a little scratchpad to your Notification Center for incredibly easy access, meaning you’ll never forget those little mental notes again.

For more information and instructions, see here
2. WeeKillBackground
This handy little add-on allows you to quickly and effortlessly kill your backgrounded apps, freeing up that oh-so-precious memory for more important tasks ahead.

It’s rather unfortunate that Apple hasn’t implemented some form of ability to close apps in their bunches. After all, if, like me, you’ve hundreds on your device, you probably don’t enjoy the rigmarole of shutting them down one at a time. Luckily, the jailbreak devs are one step ahead, and you can see more of WeeKillBackground here.
3. FavoriteContacts
Similarly to QuickMemo, it takes a central feature of your device and brings it to the Notification Center for easy access. In the average person’s address book app, there will likely be hundreds of entries, but most are seldom contacted and simply make up numbers.

FavoriteContacts lets you take your most valued (or simply most contacted), and give them pride of place in the Notification Center – making the process of calling or messaging your most frequented contacts a complete doddle.
Very useful, and one that I have personally been using since we first reported on it here.
4. BBSettings
As most jailbreakers would probably vouch, SBSettings is the single most useful tool once the Cupertino handcuffs have been breached. A simple slide across the top brings every key element of connectivity (as well as additional other toggles) all in one place.

Dubbed the ‘Ultimate’ Notification Center tweak, BBSettings brings this to the Notification Center, allowing very easy access to the very important components of your device. For a full overview and download, see here.
One also worth a small mention is WeeSearch. Despite currently having more than its fair share of bugs, it’s a very worthy entrant  to our list. It allows you to quickly search three of the Web’s main sites (Google, YouTube and Wikipedia) right from the convenience of your Notification Center. Unfortunately, it’s currently let down by not having the ability to use spaces in searches, but definitely worth keeping an eye on, since updates can easily amend such issues. For more info, check this post.
It’s certainly a positive move that developers behind Cydia Apps and tweaks have made a beeline for the Notification Center. Being the central component to all of the devices activities, it presents the perfect breeding ground for many useful tweaks – making the whole experience faster, easier, and altogether more productive.
Let’s hope the trend of developing Notification Center-based apps continues to thrive!
In order to install any of the tweaks in today’s round-up, you will need a jailbroken iDevice running iOS 5. All devices barring the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S can be jailbroken tethered using Redsn0w, For jailbreaking iOS 5 tethered using Redsn0w, you can follow our complete step by step guide posted here, or here if you want to use Sn0wbreeze on Windows. Since jailbreak on iOS 5 is currently limited to tethered boot only, you can install ‘SemiTether’ patch (instructions here) from Cydia to make your jailbreak semi-tethered on iOS 5. For those of you on iOS 5.0.1 can follow our instructions posted here on how to jailbreak using Redsn0w orhere using Sn0wbreeze.
Check out our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery to explore more apps for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

source: RMP

About Untethered Jailbreak iOS 5

UNTETHERED JAILBREAK 5.0

Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.0 / 5.1 coming soon. MuscleNerd and others iPhone hackers work every day. But..

UPDATE 20 November, 2011

MuscleNerd: Remember that unlock reported by Apple “news” blogs last week? Please read the (newly added) fine print. (It doesn’t work for any longer than seconds on the other models either. It’s a normal part of the new activation method, not a bug). Adding insult to injury, here’s money grab @xoicos and @mc1791 were about to make on their 5-second unlock. It’s money grab……
UPDATE: 15, November 2011
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Pod2g claimed that the discovered bug won’t jailbreak iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, instead, it will only convert iOS 5 tethered jailbreak into untethered one. iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak was discovered by the iPhone Dev Team few weeks ago.
UPDATE: 15 November, 2011



UPDATE: 10 November, 2011

Note about 5.0.1 : don’t update if you plan on jbking : the bug Charlie MILLER found can simplify exploits dramatically and will be closed.
UPDATE: 7 November, 2011

iPhone Hacker wrote this message:
“Hey jailbreaking friends, I’ve found a bug that can untether iOS 5. Don’t expect a release soon, but I’m gonna work hard in it.”
UPDATE: 4 November, 2011
If you have iPhone 3GS with old bootrom – you will be possible to make untethered jailbreak iOS 5.0
UPDATE: 30, October 2011:
Big update to semitethered jailbreak today. v0.9.1 incorporates Saurik’s new mobile substrate. Thanks to Saurik, we are entirely rid of all the daemon patching – this means there’s no more daemon patching or restarting. Most the semi-tether work is now done by mobile substrate.
It says that the new untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad coming soon. Jailbreaking is hard work.
UPDATE: 28 October
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Official screenshots from iPhone hacker MuscleNerd. Cool.
UPDATE: 26 October, 2011:
Jailbreak iPhone 4S release time not confirmed yet. All the above three groups that involved in jailbreak iPhone 4S didn’t give official word on the release date. It will consume some time to perform tests and modification to be released free of issues and holes. Anyway we will keep you updated with this.
UPDATE: 21 October, 2011 (2):
Q to @MuscleNerd: fastra1n is a fake, isn’t it ?
A from @MuscleNerd: Yes, fastra1n is fake (and frankly at this point, anything new that uses “1″ or “0″ in its name is fake too)
UPDATE: 21 October, 2011:
MuscleNerd: We’re in part of JB cycle where scammers entice you with iOS5 “untethered JBs” for $$. Please ignore them. We’ll tell you if any are true.
UPDATE: 19 October, 2011:
iPhone user: More time need to be spent on an untethered jailbreak.
MuscleNerd: Please keep in mind this is a hobby, not a business :) But I do hear you…
..Cool. “But I do hear you…”. It’s good news.
..Wow. “this is a hobby, not a business”
GD to MuscleNerd: We are waiting from you good news, do not rush.

via GD

SIRI CYDIA APP – MOST AWAITED CYDIA APP

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So you have your iPhone 4, 3GS and you can install thousands of apps from AppStore. What’s all this commotion about jailbreaking? Why would you need to jailbreak? What does it offer?

Why Not Appstore:
Simply put, Apple’s rules for AppStore are way too limiting. The apps listed in the sections below are not possible to be in AppStore since they break one or more of Apple’s rules. These rules keep control of the iPhone platform in Apple’s control. Some of these rules include: patching system files such as SpringBoard, allowing apps to run in the background, running apps out of the “sandbox”, and simply doing things Apple decided that they don’t want you to do often for reasons to their benefit, not yours (such as tethering).
But most awaited Cydia App is CYDIA SIRI APP. Why?
Apple released new excellent voice service SIRI. SIRI the intelligent assistant that helps you get things done. All you have to do is ask. But. SIRI INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT working only on iPhone 4S. But. A lot of people have iPhone 4, 3GS or iPod touch.
And now we think – Siri alternative app for iPad 2, iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS coming soon. 60000000 iDevices waiting this Big community – big money. SIRI APP – The intelligent assistant App.. SIRI APP in CYDIA STORE is real.
SIRI APP in CYDIA STORE allows you to search on various subjects including conversions, art, literature, history, and biology. You can ask it “What is a Jailbreak ?” and it will reply with a paragraph from Wikipedia focusing on our finned friends.

Hacker Creates Siri Proxy Server To Easily Add New Functionality (VIDEO)

You must have seen the news about that Applidium could crack down Siri’s security protocol so
that you can run it on any non-iPhone 4S device, even Android devices.
The hack also allows developers to develop their own apps and include
Siri inside it.

So,
thanks to Applidium hack, a hacker today created a proxy server
for Siri and named it Siri Proxy. He says that the idea behind the proxy
server is to make it easy for developers to add limitless functionality
to Siri.
The hacker, known as plamoni on Twitter, released the
source code of the Siri Proxy along with the instructions to set it up
on the popular social coding site GitHub.
Moreover,
he demonstrated a plugin he created with custom handles that allows him
to control his thermostat from his iPhone. Commands such as ”What’s the
status of the thermostat?”, “Set the thermostat to 68 degrees”, or even
“What’s the inside temperature?” are showed in the video


Interestingly, this hack doesn’t require jailbroken device:
I’m the creator of this particular hack, and I can assure you, it doesn’t require the iPhone to be jailbroken. My iPhone 4S is not jailbroken. The only action I needed to take on my iPhone was to install my fake Root CA. Which you can do without jailbreaking. Everything else is done outside of the phone, so it requires no jailbreaking or code to be placed on the phone itself.
The hacker mentioned that this won’t allow you to get Siri on other devices. It just allows you to add your own functions to Siri.