The people from RipDev Team working on caterpillar found a hidden feature in iPhone. This feature allows you to take screenshots which are then saved in the camera roll. The best part being “Support for taking a screenshot of iPod, Youtube, locked home screen” … This makes it the first time we could achieve it the Apple way! It just requires to patch some variables in the SpringBoard file. To watch the hack in action -

Add http://repository.ripdev.com/ to your installer sources.
Install the package Apple Screenshot Enabler from RipDev Category.

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iPhone has been released in Austria by T-Mobile Austria with a price tag of 399 Euros for 8GB and 499 Euros for 16GB. Tariff Plans Information can be found here. Followed by the Austrian release iphone has also been released in Ireland by O2 Ireland with the same price tags. Unlike O2 UK, the tariff plans of O2 Ireland do not include visual voice mail, free Wi- fi and even an Unlimited Data Plan. More Information regarding the O2 Ireland tariff plans can be found here

Once iNdependence v 1.4b5 was released with 1.1.4 support, I went ahead and updated the iPhone (16GB 1.1.3 OTB unlocked using iJailbreak)from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4 via iTunes which gave me an error. I repeated the same and the update went fine and now I have version 1.1.4 installed on the iPhone.
I then fired iNdependence trying to jailbreak/activate my iPhone. I hit the Activate button and it didn’t respond in a timely fashion showing me the Jailbreak screen. I then hit the Jailbreak tab to Jailbreak the iPhone which gave me …

Update : A much faster easier solution for Mac users can be found here. Windows users may resort to ZiPhoneGUI.
I am back after spending 4 hours on the entire process (which includes some hits and misses! Which means, you no longer have to figure out the right steps/combinations!!). Now the process is trimmed down to much lesser time and the best part being : No command line hackery!
All you need is an iPhone (OTB 1.1.2/1.1.3 BL 4.6), Mac (preferable) / Windows, Firmware files (1.1.2, 1.1.3 ipsws), courage to try this …

There is/was something in the air and yeah only for that brief moment! Steve Jobs was pretty excited and he thought the world is excited and yeah – we all are for that ultra thin MacBook but hey, lets get out of the air thingy and analyze the spectacularly engineered MBA. Too thin a manila envelope can conceal it! Hey, do we really have to compromise for such an anorexic MacBook which lacks Optical Drive/User Replaceable Hard Drive/Battery/RAM? 5 day wait for replacing a battery? Such are the hard facts …

A proof of concept showing how Apple iPhone can lead the bunch :
Apple buys installer.app for $1 million, we all donate a dollar each to cough up a million dollars to make the deal (Installer.app team shares the revenue with other iPhone native-app developers).
Come on, Apple created the best phone ever – alright but could Apple have at least imagined that an app like installer.app can be used to push applications on to the iPhone Linux style? Apple is learning already, how would they ever know about a …

Unlocking the iPhones – Who are the real losers? AT&T/Cingular or Apple? Both!!

It cannot get any easier. All we need is activating the iPhone using INdependence for Mac or iDemocracy for Windows and then proceed towards hacking and unlocking the iPhone!!
Once you activate your iPhone using INdependence, proceed to Online Jailbreak/Installer.app. We did not unlock the iPhone yet. Now, type in the following URL in your Mobile Safari http://iphone.blurgle.ca/repo. There you go. You have activated, hacked and unlocked your iPhone with the fewest hassles ever Now stop spending $5o on unlockers and donate few dollars to the iPhone dev …

A very small review of iPhone Component cable. Firstly, I got it shipped in less than 1.5 days from China (probably bcos’ of time differences!). I ordered Mighty Mouse at the same time and I recieved after 4 days from California!!
My first complaint with the AV Cable – The smooth end points (plugs). They suck. I had a tough time unplugging them. Just imagine if you have to remove and insert all 5 cables (3 Video, 2 Audio). Yeah, they showed the same smooth plugs in ads but I never …

Yeah, you heard it right!! No more command line hacking or INdependence usage if you want to jailbreak your iPhone. AppSnapp is a mobile-safari tool which lets you Jailbreak your iPhone / iPod Touch and even installs the installer.app application! They even patch the Tiff Exploit which Apple couldn’t yet close! Here you go – Jailbreakme.com (I tested it myself, no bricking or any issues with this first ever online hacking utility for the iPhone!) . What next after you Jailbreak using this technique? You get the dashing …