Category Archives: iOS 5
Redns0w 0.9.10b5c: Untethered iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreak Updated to Fix Crashing Issue. Download now!
iPhone Dev team has released an updated version of Redns0w – Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c to fix some bugs.
Please note that Redsn0w and Corona iOS 5.0.1 Untether jailbreak supports iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch 4G, iPod touch 3G and Absinthe jailbreak and the Redsn0w CLI tool supports iPhone 4S and iPad 2. So this update is not meant for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users.
AppCartel offers new crowdfunding opportunity for developers
There’s a lot more to building a business with your app idea than simply building the app.
Having seen great apps wither on the vine due to bad marketing or poor planning, it’s nice to see fresh efforts among developers who aim to enable great apps to find their market. AppCartel is a crowdfunding effort to pool resources for developers, allowing them access to a promotional team and other resources, plus money to build and launch their apps.
Track Your Cellular Data Usage On iPhone With WeeTrackData For iOS 5 Notification Center
There is no doubt about the fact that the current trend for Cydia tweaks is all about modifying the new Notification Center and giving additional functionality to the Siri digital assistant software.
Since the release of iOS 5 in October of last year, the Cydia store has been inundated with modifications and tweaks which add widgets, settings and even an animated Nyan cat to the Notification Center screen, but in all honesty there are only a handful which are any good.
iPhone Bug Allows FaceTime Calls Even With Passcode Lock
A bug in iOS 5.0.1 can let a rogue person, in possession of your passcode protected iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S with voice dialing deactivated, make FaceTime calls and view certain fields of your contacts from the lock screen.
The hack, which was discovered by Canadian tech writer Ade Barkah, exploits the Emergency Dialer accessible via the lockscreen to accomplish this task.
You could reproduce this bug on your passcode protected iPhone with voice dialing disabled following these steps:
Security Bug In iOS 5.0.1 Allows Anyone To Access Address Book Even If Protected By A Passcode
It seems that the iPhone owning and application using world has been going a little bit loopy over the last few days thanks to the revelations that popular journal application Path has been liberating entire address books of data and uploading it to their servers in the form of a plist file without asking for the user’s permission.
The company CEO David Morin quickly responded to the outrage by claiming that the name, telephone numbers and email addresses of the user’s address book are captured to help users find friends and family who are using the Path application, but the bottom line is; that the contacts data doesn’t actually belong to the user and therefore they don’t even have permission to upload it should it ever be requested.
Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March
According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year.
Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is supposedly coming at the same time.
Although the source may sound somewhat suspicious — a Chinese tech site that claims to have inside information from an Apple engineer working on Siri — this information does align with Apple’s own promise to increase Siri’s linguistic acumen in 2012.
