Although not much was promised, some very exciting releases were introduced. Here is a quick summary to see what’s new:

1. Mac OSX Lion
A typical Apple release behavior, this newest release does not really revamp the OS, rather it enhances what it already has. Lion seems to focus mainly on emulating iOS in navigation, multi touch gestures, organization, and UI style. It sports over 250 new features; some of the more prominent ones include fullscreen apps, a multi-tasking feature called Mission Control,and  another organization feature called Launch Pad. But most surprisingly, instead of being priced at $125 dollars, it will only cost $25. And yet, this is not so surprising seeing as it is more of a heavy update rather than a new OS. Either way, it looks like a solid release.

2. iOS 5
The biggest relief here is notifications, they finally added the, very Android like, drop down notification bar and no longer will you be interrupted midgame for a text message. Instead the status bar at the top merely flips to show the notification and allows for continuous concentration on the angry birds game at hand. Apple also introduced News Stand (iBook for magazines and newspapers) as well as a tabbed Safari (as well as offline support). Another new feature called Reminders acts as a nice, calendar integrated to-do list. Photos allow crop and rotate as well as using the volume button for the shutter release. iPhone can now be PC-Free, meaning they work straight out of the box. With software updates via wireless connection and a updated GameCenter as well as wireless data syncing, this update is quite a luxurious one!

3. iCloud
By far the most momentous release of the day, iCloud was introduced by Steve Jobs himself who focused on the “it just works” mantra (potentially ad-nauseum). This new feature is truly awesome and houses a lot of potential for growth. Most all data will be  synced online, completely wireless, encrypted, and extremely fast! The only caveat, a $24 dollar/year price tag. And while this is better than Amazon’s option, we here at iTHs really don’t like paying for our features

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PwnageTool also supports all the other 4.2.1 devices other than iPod touch 2G:

• iPhone3G
• iPhone3GS
• iPhone4
• iPhone4-Verizon
• iPod touch 3G
• iPod touch 4G
• iPad
• AppleTV 2G

Other improvements:iBooks has been fixed to work with books protected by DRM.

• The wifi problem on AppleTV 2G was fixed as well.

Thank you Dev Team!

Official Bittorent Releases:

PwnageTool_4.2.dmg -> PwnageTool_4.2.dmg.6176918.TPB.torrent

SHA1 Sum = af365f5de19d7ee19cbe1c67b2f226996a46b3ac

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Here is a little walkthrough on how to install OpenSSH:

1. Open Cydia and scroll down the main page to where it says “OpenSSH Access How-To.” Tap that option.
2. On that page, click the blue linked text “Open SSH” in the first step. You’ll be presented with the OpenSSH package page. Click the install button in the top right corner, confirm when it’s finished, and return to Cydia.
3. Open the Settings app from your home screen and go into your Wi-Fi settings. Click the little blue arrow next to the Wi-Fi network you’re currently connected to. Make a note of your IP address in the “IP Address” field (it should start with 10 or 192).
4. To connect to your iOS device from your computer, use an SSH-capable application like Terminal on OS X or puTTy on Windows. Type ssh root@YOUR_IP_ADDRESS(replacing YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with your actual IP address). When prompted, enter your password. It’s alpine by default. Once finished, you’re connected! You can also use an SFTP application like Cyberduck to connect as well, but that’ll limit your interactions to pretty much only file transfers.
5. Lastly, you want to change your password. To do this, type the passwd command. You’ll be asked for a new password. Type it (nothing will show up for privacy reasons) and press enter. Type it in again to confirm it. Assuming you type your password correctly, you will be told it was changed successfully.

That’s it! Enjoy SSH’ing with your iOS device.

IMPORTANT:

Make absolutely certain that you alter the password of the mobile account! As mentioned above, by default it is “alpine”, but until the root and the mobile account passwords are changed, your phone is at high risk!

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The Jailbreak works on the iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch 4G!

This is a semi-tethered jailbreak! It is also not that easy so be wary!

All Downloads can be found at the bottom of the file

Good Luck

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1. Download PwnageTool bundle for your version of iOS device

2. Extract and end up with these two files: CydiaInstaller.bundle and a .bundle file, for this guide, we are using iPhone 4 bundle iPhone3, 1_4.3_8F5148b.bundle. Move all these files to your desktop.

3. Download PwnageTool 4.1.2 and copy it to your desktop. Right click, and then click on “Show Package Contents”

4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/FirmwareBundles/ and paste iPhone3, 1_4.3_8F5148b.bundle file in this location.

5. Now go to Contents/Resources/CustomPackages and here replace the CydiaInstaller.bundle file with the version that you downloaded in Step 1, and then simply close this folder.

6. Download iOS 4.3

7. Start PwnageTool in expert mode and select your device

8. Find your ipsw and select it

9. Select Build

10. Quite PwnageTool

11. Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip, extract the file, and move the folder to your desktop

12. Now open ramdisk_maker.sh file, and edit the paths required in a program like TextEdit, as shown highlighted in this screenshot.

13. Now start Terminal and run the following commands:

cd desktop

cd ramdisk_maker

./ramdisk_maker.sh

14. Follow directions that pop up in terminal:

15. First, create a folder on desktop named My_Ramdisk. Then change the extension of the original iOS 4.3 Beta file from .ipsw to .zip, and then extract this .zip file.

16. Here you will see a file named 038-0408-002.dmg. This is the file we need. Copy this file to My_Ramdisk folder that you created on desktop.

17. Once you have done that, you will notice that Terminal screen will automatically move to the next step.

18. Now go to ramdisk_maker folder that you saved earlier on desktop, here open the fileOptions.plist in a program like TextWrangler (available for free on the Mac App Store). Here change the <integer></integer> value under SystemPartitionSize <key></key> to 1116

19. Now save this Options.plist file and move it to My_Ramdisk folder. At this point, you will once again notice that Terminal will automatically move to complete the process.

20. Once done, you will now notice a new file named final_ramdisk.dmg in My_Ramdiskfolder. Rename this file as 038-0408-002.dmg

21. Now change the extension of the custom iOS 4.3 Beta firmware file that you created earlier from .ipsw to .zip, and then extract this .zip file.

22. Here, replace 038-0408-002.dmg file with the one you created in Step 19 above.

23. Now select all files, and click on “Compress 9 Items” so that it is converts back into .zip file. Now change the extension of this .zip file to .ipsw and you are done making the custom firmware, with fixed ramdisk.

24. Start iTunes, click on your iOS device icon from the sidebar in iTunes. Now press and hold left “alt” (option) button on Mac, or Left “Shift” button if you are on Windows on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” (Not “Update” or “Check for Update”) button in the iTunes and then release this button.

25. This will make iTunes prompt you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3 file. Select the required custom .ipsw file that you created in Step 24 above, and click on “Open”.

26. wait

27. Since it is semi-tethered you will need tetherboot to help here. So download Tetherboot and extract it

28. First, we will need three files from the original iOS 4.3 Beta firmware namely:kernelcache.release.n90, iBEC.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu, and iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu.

Change the extension of the original iOS 4.3 Beta file from .ipsw to .zip, like you did in Step 15 above, and then extract this .zip file.

Now copy kernelcache.release.n90 file, and then copy iBEC.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu, andiBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu files which are found under /Firmware/dfu/.

Move all these three files, and tetheredboot utility to a new folder named “tetheredboot” on the desktop

29. Now to boot your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into tethered mode, connect it with your computer and start it in Recovery Mode by holding Home and Power buttons until the connect to iTunes screen appears on your device.

30.Start Terminal and run the following commands:

sudo sh

enter your administrator password, then:

cd desktop/tetheredboot

./tetheredboot iBSS kernel

31. At some point you will be asked to enter DFU mode

32. Wait

33. Have some food and take a break that was kinda ridiculous! You’re done though so also have some fun!

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Downloads:

Download tetheredboot.zip

Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip.

Download PwnageTool 4.1.2 for Mac

Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip

Download iOS 4.3 Beta

Download iTunes 10.0.1 for Windows and Mac OS X

Download iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3GS and iPod touch 4G / 3G

Download iOS 4.1 for Apple TV 2G

Download iOS 3.2.2 for iPad

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“It was just a product of boredom,” he told Ars. “All the factory-installed stuff was seemingly boring to me, and I had time to kill, so I started playing with it.”

It seems the chip that powers the nano is very similar to the SoC used in the 4th gen iPod Nano and 2G iPod Touch.

Here are the official instructions, it is a bit technical so… be careful:

Well, here are instructions on how to mount the resource partition.

1. Download me please (I’m the 1.0 Nano firmware)

2. Rename: iPod_1.0_36A00403.ipsw to iPod_1.0_36A00403.zip and unzip

3. Download me as well

4. Use terminal to “cd” to the same folder that contains these files and build it using the following command: make -f Makefile

5. Find the file called “Firmware.MSE” in the folder “Pod_1.0_36A00403″ and drag that into the same folder as your built Extract2G file

6. In terminal, while in the same folder go to ./extract2g -A -4 Firmware.MSE

7. Now run this command: “dd if=rsrc.fw of=rsrc.img iseek=2 count=284672

8. This creates a filed called rsrc.img which you can find in finder. Merely click it to mount it.

Have fun!

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While my previous posts have supposed that date to be near the end of February/beginning of March, all signs now point to the announcement being made TOMORROW with the actual release coming near the END OF THE MONTH!

If so, I will definitely be purchasing my Verizon iPhone in the near future and can’t wait to have both good service as well as an awesome platform on which to operate.

My only fear remains that, since it is about time for the iPhone refresh, that my model will be quickly outdated

Another great thing about the iPhone’s release is that Verizon Wireless plans to continue to offer the “unlimited plan”, one which AT&T removed this past year.

sincerely pumped,

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These mods are based on a framework termed “MobileSubstrate” which enables the easy install and implementation of these mods. Mobile substrate allows for things such as Winterboard, SBSettings, and Commcenter. Saurik brings us CydiaSubstrate which enables these mods on both iOS as well as on OSX.

One handy feature that a desktop version of Cydia brings us is a much more connected Jailbreak process. The new Cydia will bypass updates and help jailbreak users stay safe from all sorts of Apple hazards. The entire tethering and syncing process will be revolutionized and bring ease and probably much more popularity to jailbreaking, yay expansion!

UltraSn0w Unlockers – Beware!

Please Stay away from the official 4.2.1 firmware and wait for the ability to create custom 4.2.1 IPSW’s  that will not update you baseband!

iPhone 3G

Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered* Jailbreak.

iPhone 3GS

Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered Jailbreak.

non-MC iPod Touch 2G

Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered Jailbreak.

The Rest

Unfortunately, all of you’re jailbreaks remain tethered* But have no fear, @comex is working hard on making this jailbreak untethered.

The Dev team reminds you to, “please make sure you have your 4.1 SHSH blobs for all your devices. These will be important even for firmware beyond 4.1 (using both comex’s method and our alternative, depending on how each of them turn out.)”

ultrasn0w unlock: After redsn0w is officially released with the new Cydia and kernel patches, we’ll be able to assess the unlock situation.  It’s already looking very promising though, so expect the unlock for the 3G and 3GS to be coming this week.  The i4 unlock is taking more effort though, and no further concrete info is available about that yet.

Download

Remember to update to iTunes 10.1 for the best possible results!
Windows 7 users are also asked to run  Redsn0w in “XP Compatibility” mode for similar “best results”

Mac

PC

* tethered vs untethered Jailbreak –

a tethered jailbreak requires the jailbreak to be re-configured upon every restart of your device while a untethered jailbreak, as follows logically, does not require this and needs only be jailbroken once.

a. Skype – especially helpful for international calls but only helpful if you’re willing to pay a little money monthly

b. Fring – considered the most versatile; works with GTalk, SIP, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Facebook. Has video chat over 3G!

c. Line2 – best option; Unlimited calling/texting in US and Canada; Make your own phone number;  comes with a caveat: is only free for 30 days and costs $10/month after that.

d. google Voice – My personal favorite at no cost except for international calls.

3. Getting Constant Wifi
Using the iPod at home usually poses little problem (that is, if you have wifi). The problem is, of course, going out of the house. One solution is the Verizon MiFi, Sprint Overdrive.                          This will only save you money if you were to chose AT&T’s unlimited plan (which is now actually changing).
Here is a cool graph describing how the financials will work out.

The battery Issue: the iPod will of course be fine all day, but the Mifi will not. The solution to this is the car charger for the hotspot Mifi.

4. If you jailbroke your iPod Touch, you can use Siphone SIP/VoiP, installed via Cydia. This is the best and most customizable route.

Ultimate pros/cons:

Pros

• You save a ton of money over paying for an iPhone (or any newer smartphone, really), whether you get a 3G data plan or not.
• Dropped calls are about as frequent as they are on an iPhone.
• Headset features work exactly the same as they do on the iPhone, so the experience feels very similar.
• The high-end iPod touch offers twice the storage as the high-end iPhone (64GB vs. 32GB).
• The iPod touch, bereft of a 3G radio, gets better battery life.
• If you get a cellular data hotspot (like the Verizon MiFi), you can keep your iPod touch in your pocket while placing the MiFi elsewhere for a better signal.
• A lack of cellular reception in your home is completely irrelevant since you can place your calls over Wi-Fi.

Cons

• Despite being pretty close, phone features are not quite as seamless on the iPod touch as they are on the iPhone.
• Dropped calls are not as obvious as they are on an iPhone, so it’s not very easy to tell when you’ve lost someone without looking at the screen (bad for the car).
• The iPod touch isn’t built with the intention you’ll use it as a phone, so you need to purchase a headset for it to really shine.
• The iPod touch doesn’t provide a GPS, so you will need to purchase an external GPS unit at an addition cost if you want to use it as a navigation device in your car (although you could try relying on Wi-Fi signal triangulation).
• The iPod touch’s camera isn’t nearly as good as the iPhone 4′s.
• If you want to make calls using a cellular data hotspot (like the Verizon MiFi), you have to carry around two devices.
• If you use a cellular data hotspot, its battery life is pretty poor (only up to four hours). While you can get an extended battery for your hotspot that’ll last the day, it’ll cost you around $100.

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But…

ULTRASN0W UNLOCKERS BEWARE!! ULTRASN0W UNLOCKERS BEWARE!! The biggest mistake you can make (and it is a big one!) is lettings iTunes restore to the official IPSW — you’ll lose the unlock and won’t be able to go back!  You must use Option-Restore, not just the Restore button by itself.  Then navigate to your custom IPSW — not to the stock one!  If you accidentally started a restore to the official IPSW, unplug your iPhone immediately before the restore gets to the “Updating Firmware” step!

This exploit works untethered on these devices at firmware 4.1:

• AppleTV 2G
• iPad (firmware 3.2.2)
• iPod touch 4G
• iPod touch 3G
• iPhone4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 3G

So, what does PwnageTool do:

IT allows you to restore a custom made IPSW file. Ex) you can restore to a pre-jailbroken firmware while still keeping your current baseband. For iPhone 3G users, one can also get their own boot and recovery logos as well as multitasking and battery charge percentage.

PwnageTool’s main advantage to ramdisk-based methods (limera1n, greenpois0n, redsn0w) is for unlockers — those that need to keep their current baseband and preserve their ultrasn0w unlock.  But in this new age of both bootrom- and userland-based exploits, it’s an excellent platform for continuing the jailbreak through all future firmwares.

Here is the official Torrent:

PwnageTool 4.1.2 Torrent  - PwnageTool_4.1.2.dmg.5904259.TPB.torrent

SHA1 Sum = 1c0d5ea45464e336fcb38c644dc125c3a16b5493

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