25 years ago we would only dream of owning your own computer. This was only a luxury some could afford and unfortunately most of us could not.

However time have changed, with the help of Steve Jobs, Apple has raised beyond all of their competitors, not only by dominating current product competition but also by creating new markets that competitors have failed to explore.

I could go on and on but a picture says a 1000 words, so i’ll give you a real big picture

A source claiming to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype provided BGR with images containing details about Apple’s highly anticipated third-generation tablet. From the data in the photos, which contain the output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot, we can infer plenty of information about the upcoming iPad 3. For starters, the model numbers are J1 and J2 (iPad3,1 and iPad3,2), and while DigiTimes reported this a few weeks ago, these two models are not different devices, just a single iPad available in two versions — one with Wi-Fi only and one with Wi-Fi and embedded GSM/CDMA/LTE for all carriers. Also included in the photos is, for the first time, confirmation of which processor Apple will be using in the iPad 3: an A6 processor with model number S5L8945X. For reference, the Apple A4 model was S5L8930X and the A5 is S5L8940X. The new processor will also apparently be a quad-core model, making the upcoming iPad 3 the fastest iOS device ever, we have been told. More screenshots are included in our gallery below.

After long nights of work, they got the Corona 1.0-7 untethered patch released in Cydia. This should resolve ALL issues with DRM problems with iBooks. You can download it from Cydia, just search for Corona. It’s recommended that if you are on 5.0.1 and jailbroken that you apply this patch, no matter how you jailbroke your device.

Saurik 1:43PM EST – Jan 31/2012

Corona 1.0-7: @planetbeing put a lot of work into solving iBooks image loading bugs. All users (however jailbroken) on 5.0.1 should install.

Name : Jordan Lawrence

Age : 29

Twitter : iJ0rd8n

Location : UK

About :

Born and raised in the UK, Jordan Lawrence, 29 years of age, has jailbreaking passion flowing through his blood, just like the rest of us. From standard flip phones to industry leading smart phones, he’s been around and seen technology develop over the past 20 years.  His love for the Apple iOS products started right at the beginning, when the Apple 2G was originally introduced. However it wasn’t long until iJ0rd8n then first stumbled into the jailbreak scene. After installing his first few tweaks and discovering the true potential of a Apple iOS product, iJ0rd8n, like many of us got hooked. This was in 2007. Fast forward to 2012, iJ0rd8n, now owns 2 iPads, 2 iPhones and a few iPods, and lets just say his skills and knowledge in jailbreaking / iOS hacking community has improved quiet a bit. We look forward to reading and watching reviews of the many tweaks and apps that get released everyday.

Welcome to the Team iJ0rd8n

I’m pretty sure that these rumors are correct, because as you may remember back in April 2011, an official comment from RIM stated:
” We’re not saying it isn’t coming at some point in the future, but BlackBerry Messenger is definitely not hitting the App Store on April 26th 2011.”

The above comment was made when a hoax rumor circled around the Web.

So…with the above comment made back last year, maybe the time has finally come for Blackberry to release there BBM service to other devices?

What do you think about this?

Is this something that you would use on your Android or iOS device?

Are blackberry running out of ideas on how to grab the market, Why share the ONLY good thing going for them?

iJ0rd8n

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Many of us know GeoHot aka Geroge Hotz from some of the great jailbreak tools that he’s released in the past, from the most famous Limera1n to, blackra1n and purplera1n. Some might remember the whole PlayStation fiasco that happened last year. Geohot was sued by Sony, for hacking their famous PS3. This lead to a lawsuit where all Geo’s equipment was seized along with all this data. The case was settled out of court, at which point Geohot moved his career to Facebook.

So what’s been happening to our famous Jailbreak Hacker since then ? Well sources (Business Insider) say that he’s recently been spotted at Backplane’s ‘hackthon’ developing an app in a recent competition. So is Geohot trying to get back to his roots ? Will we see more of GeoHot’s famous ‘ra1n’ software. I hope so.

Soon as we get some more information we’ll pass it along to you.

Hello dear readers,

I know the wait was long, too much long, but it’s about to end! You’d be able to free your iPhone in some hours.

A tool named Absinthe and developped by the Chronic Dev Team will install the untether on your device. Also the iPhone Dev Team will release a CLI (command line) tool to help diagnose issues and repair things if it goes wrong.

This is a little scary I know, but the chance you break something is really small, since we made lots of tests to verify the process on different devices. But it is the first time we use the backup / restore functions of iTunes to install software, and there are maybe things we are not aware of.

As you already know, different security researchers put a log of energy to work out the different issues we had to install the untether on new devices.

Thus, a unified PayPal account was opened so that everyone who worked on the A5 exploits will receive a fair split of your contributions. Here is the link : contribute
As usual, contributions are not needed but are appreciated by developpers. By the way, thank you very much again for everyone who already participated. This is real nice.

Here is the complete list of Absinthe supported devices :

• iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
• iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1

Ever since the December release of @pod2g’s “corona” untether for iOS 5.x on A4 and earlier devices, all eyes have been on the attempts to extend it to the A5 devices: the iPhone4S and iPad2.  Due to the combined efforts of @pod2g and members of the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team, we’re nearly ready for a general release!  All technical hurdles dealing with the underlying technique have been overcome, and it’s now all about making the jailbreak as bug free as possible.

On his blog, @pod2g playfully nicknamed the combined effort a “dream team”.  It’s an ironic name, because the past few weeks have left everyone involved with very little sleep and the opportunity to dream But we’re now near the final stages of testing the public version of the jailbreak.  Please allow time to clean up any remaining bugs in the jailbreak clients.

Jailbreak programs:

To be as flexible as possible, the A5 version of the corona jailbreak will take multiple forms:

Chronic Dev have incorporated the overall flow into a GUI that runs on your Mac or PC.  The goal is for the GUI to be enough for most cases.
iPhone Dev have also incorporated the exact same flow into an alternative command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through individual steps of the jailbreak manually, to both help the user and help improve the overall flow.  Although the CLI will also allow the user to perform the entire jailbreak from beginning to end, we anticipate it will be more useful in debugging the occasional errors.  The CLI currently has over 20 individual options (in addition to the single “jailbreak” option) that should be useful during debug after the GUI release.
Once all the bugs in the flow are worked out, we’ll also incorporate it into the redsn0w GUI (but still leave the CLI freely available too).  In order to maximize the chances of the jailbreak working for everyone, the redsn0w GUI will use native Apple iTunes libraries — this technique is slightly different than how the Chronic Dev GUI handles communications, and should provide nice combined coverage for all the odd computer configurations out there.
Paypal Contributions:

Because there were so many different people and teams involved in the A5 corona release, we all felt the most equitable approach to any Paypal contributions should involve a single shared account.  If you do feel the desire to contribute to the “dream team” Paypal account, it will be distributed to the members according to internally agreed-upon proportions  The same link will be on both the Chronic Dev and iPhone Dev versions of the GUI.  This method seemed like the fairest to everyone involved!

Firmware:

The supported firmware versions will be:

iPhone4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
iPad2: 5.0.1 (9A405)
iPhone4S owners looking to maximize their chances of achieving an eventual software-based carrier unlock should be staying at 5.0.  Everyone else should be at 5.0.1.  If you’re an iPhone4S owner who already updated to 5.0.1, it’s too late to go back down to 5.0, but if you’re on 9A406 it is possible to downgrade the BB by going to the 9A405 version of 5.0.1 while the window is still open.

Support:

The overall flow used by the GUI and CLI to inject the A5 corona jailbreak has never been done before, and there may be unforeseen problems once it’s released to the public.  It’s very important for you to sync your data, photos, and music before attempting any version of this jailbreak.  We’ll be watching the comments section below for signs of any widespread problems, but please be aware that you jailbreak at your own risk!

When:

As mentioned at the start of this post: when testing has shown most of the bugs have been fixed!

Still no release date as it still has a few lose ends that need to be addressed before it can be released to the public.

Hopefully we’ll see something surface in the next could of days as many of us have been waiting for the 4S jailbreak since the release date half a year ago.

The iPhone 4S is the only device that has yet to see a public jailbreak. But that will soon change.

Check out the video below.

My friend @DHowett made a video of an untethered 4S iPhone 4,1 running iOS 5.0.1 some days ago.

@DHowett is a famous iOS developer and a member of the Chronic Dev Team.

Only a few to wait now.

Alot of people are however reporting problems with iTunes not finding the firmware for the iPhone 4S, well there is a simple fix

All you have to do is download the firmware from our firmware page, then click shift(windows) or option(osx) and select the firmware manually then it will update.