Apple is reported to have signed an exclusive agreement with LiquidMetal Technologies to bring their proprietary IP to Apple 's consumer electronics products.
LiquidMetal is a series of exotic alloy components developed by researchers at CalTech and is often referred to as “bulk metallic glass”. This is due to its atomic structure that makes it glass-like while offering a super-strong yet extremely flexible material that is resistant to corrosion (more…)

Few weeks back, MuscleNerd, member of the
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But it was widely speculated that he will wait for Apple to release iOS 4.1 before releasing the tools. But he has just tweeted that he doesn’t plan to wait for iOS 4.1:
I'm not waiting for 4.1 so I hope everyone has SHSH blobs saved. :p
He has also indicated that he plans to release the Spirit like tool in a few days.
Luckily, iPhone 3G users and iPod Touch 2nd generation (non-MC version) (more…)

baseband to figure out how it to unlock it.
Since one needs to jailbreak the iPhone before unlocking it, some of their followers were wondering why the iPhone Dev team were working on unlocking iPhone 4 rather than a tool to jailbreak it first.
jailbreak for all devices at 4.0 is already handled by upcoming @comex release so, good time for iphone 4 unlock stuff
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However, we doubt Comex will release the
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As always, we’ll let you (more…)

or not and whether your iPhone can be unlocked. If your iPhone cane be unlocked then it also tells you, which tool can be used to unlock the iPhone i.e.
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F0recast also gives you information such as the serial number, baseband version, bootloader version and model number.
user then it will also tell you if you have the bootloader to downgrade the baseband, so that you can unlock it. iPhone 3G who have bootloader 5.8 can downgrade their baseband (more…)

The modus operandi of the software is not particularly new. The software attempts to break through password protection by an elaborate wordlist-based attack. This would mean an incessant trial-and-error method using several dictionary words as well as other commonly used password terms. As
notes, several variations of words are also tried out till the tool is able to crack the password.
While this is no doubt a utility tool for those who lose (more…)

MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team announced on Twitter:
“redsn0w 0.9beta3 results were good, may as well take it out of beta:

http://is.gd/7ppQO

Redsn0w 0.9 supports:
Apple firmware 3.0 and 3.1.2
It will also soon run on the PPC OSX, and Linux platforms.
According to the Dev team, redsn0w is different from Geohot’s popular
It installs Cydia and afc2 without needing separate downloads. Because they're all installed in (more…)

According to Geohot, blackra1n RC2 fixes the following issues:
Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes
He has released the updated version of blackra1n for both Windows and Mac users.
If you had problems jailbreaking your iPhone using blackra1n RC1 then you can try using the new version. If you managed to successfully jailbreak your iPhone using the earlier version then you don’t need to rerun it.
Warning 3g and 3gs unlockers, (more…)

, however it has some limitations:
Its only available for Mac users.
users to upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1 only if they have jailbroken/pwned their iPhones.
So Geohot’s announcement should come as welcome news for iPhone users who had been left out due to these limitations as it looks like his tool will allow users to jailbreak any iPhone (iPhone 2G,
and iPhone 3GS) or iPod Touch (iPod Touch 1g, iPod Touch 2G and iPod Touch 3G) and running any (more…)

Free apps like Howcast provide video tutorials anytime, anywhere.

I’m not the handiest person in the world, which is why I tend to reach for the telephone more often than the toolbox. (The plumber’s on speed-dial.)

It’s not that I don’t want to drill, cut, measure, and fix things myself–it’s that I usually lack the tools and/or know-how.

All together, now: there are apps for that! Here’s a (more…)