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[30 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
Save your Apple TV 2G ECID SHSH with Firmware Umbrella

So you got your Apple TV and Jailbreak (Guide to Jailbreak Apple TV with Pwnage Tool) it’s time to save your Apple TV SHSH on file and set your jailbreak future safe. iPhone jailbreakers are more familiar with ECID, SHSH terms. For those who are new in the jailbreaking arena, ECID is a unique chip ID and will be different for every iDevice. When iTunes starts the restore process, they contact Apple servers to generate signatures just for your device. It’s important you get these signatures for your iPad before …

Apple TV »

[30 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]

SSH is one of the handiest tools ever ported for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and now Apple TV.Secure Shell more generally known as SSS  is a network protocol that allows you to establish a remote connection between two or more hosts. This protocol allow us to access the root privileges of your iDevice file system. We may, thus, transfer files and content at will, in any folder. Once you’ve jailbroken your Apple TV , you can access your Apple from a shell on your Mac or with third party …

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[29 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
How to Find and Save Apple TV 2G ECID

ECID or Exclusive Chip ID, is an unique identifier to every iDevice unit. Apple added ECID with iPhone 3GS and onward, the ECID verify and sent signatures to Apple’s servers for re-signing to get a valid SHSH. Doing this Apple has been disallowing downgrades (even via DFU Mode) on newer devices when a new firmware version is released.
ECID security is introduced to prevent us downgrading the firmware of our iDevice. When iTunes starts the process of restoring the firmware, the server asks Apple to create a sort of certificate to …

Apple »

[27 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
Serious Bug Found in iOS 4.1, Update Seems Imminent

You thought you locked your iPhone with a password protection and you are safe? Not really … TUAW.com published a serious iPhone bug in the lock code of iOS 4.1, and seems already settled in the new beta version 4.2 of iOS.

The ruling is that a person could access the phone application on the iPhone, with access to contacts, bookmarks, voice dialing and voice, and follow-up, editing a contact, access our photo library. You can not go further and made the phone remains locked and does not respond or the …

Microsoft »

[26 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
Microsoft Released Messenger for Mac Version 8

After a long wait, Redmond giants finally released the final version of Messenger 8 for Mac. Among the most important innovations of this new version is video, audio chat. It also seems that developer wants to give Messenger for Mac looks similar to Windows version. For example, the aesthetics of the contacts is similar, and the visual theme as well.

Given that they have done the same with Office for Mac 2011, it appears that this is a new Microsoft policy: the search for its software for Windows and Mac have …

Apple »

[25 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
VLC Player for iPhone and iPod touch Available for Download

After carrying the official version iPad, it was clear that the guys from Applidium would develop VLC for iPhone / iPod Touch. Yes it’s available in app store, the application is universal and therefore works on  iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPod generation 3rd, 4th and iPad. The first thing you notice is that the application is very simple and has no choice. Simply drag your videos into iTunes and you’ll see them on your device, you’re done.

Reproduction of content in standard definition is perfect, without mistakes, delays or sync.However, …

Google »

[24 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
Google Chrome for Mac updated to Version 7

Following the agenda of a stable release every six weeks, Google has updated its Chrome browser to version 7 on that channel. Google Chrome build 7.0.517.41 for Mac OS X includes support for Applescript and a new algorithm for parsing HTML 5. According to the developers, Chrome 7 for Mac goes to fix over 100 bugs, making the browser more secure and efficient, and above all reliable. Many users complained about random crashes with version 6.
Google also has been preparing to launch its Chrome Web Store (a store of web …

jailbreak »

[23 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
PwnageTool 4.1.2 Fixes Problems with Leopard and Reboot Loop

iPhone Dev team has updated the pwnage tool to version 4.1.2 to fix problems with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Dev team also fixed another problem causing iPhone in reboot loop and some random problems to create the custom firmware giving an error during the process.

You can download official release here.
You can also follow our guide to Jailbreak iOS 4.1 With Pwnage Tool iPhone 3G 3GS 4 and Guide to Jailbreak Apple TV with Pwnage Tool

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cydia »

[23 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
SpringFlash is Updated to Version 1.3 (Cydia)

SpringFlash by BigBoss is updated to version 1.3, those who don’t know SpringFlash is an application that takes advantage of the iPhone 4 LED Flash to serve as a flashlight. You can set a touch of a button for a bright LED flashlight without hassling with unlocking your iPhone, closing your app, or even turning on your screen.
Changes and improvements:

Fixed issue when the iPhone goes to sleep

You can download it for free on Cydia, tweak is available on BigBoss repo.

Apple TV »

[23 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]
Guide to Install nitoTV on Jailbroken Apple TV

Apple TV second generation got it’s very first jailbroken app called nitoTV. NitoTV is a front end for the popular mplayer media player; however, it also includes additional capabilities to view RSS feeds, weather forecasts, a variety of kexts/frameworks/binaries, perian, mplayer codecs, perform the safe update, play nes, snes, genesis, game gear and gameboy advanced roms and much more.
Right now only Weather app is working on ATV2 but developer promises to bring more functionalities sooner or later.
Requirements :

Jailbroken Apple TV (Guide to Jailbreak Apple TV with Pwnage Tool)
Working Internet …