Forget about boring Winterboard, static backgrounds; with the introduction of new vWallpaper for 4.0 consisting of high quality HD video wallpapers available for all devices, unfortunately other than the iPad. To obtain vWallpaper for your iDevice, add the source: http://i.danstaface.net/deb/ Once you have added the source, search for ‘vWallpaper’ in Cydia and two options with that name should appear. Choose the package that...

You’d be hard pushed these days to find a cell phone network that can’t remotely delete apps from the smart phones they provide for, but Apple are taking it one step further. From what we can gather from the patent Apple have filed, is that in conjunction with identifying certain activities such as whether it is being or has been Jailbroken, proposals such as audiovisual sensors and even heart beat sensors to tell if...

Great news if your a jailbreaker. The Library of Congress has added new rules in the DMCA that allow (among other things) you to legally jailbreak or root your device. This is great news as while it never has exactly been illegal jailbreaking/rooting has always been in a bit of a legal grey area. The official explanation of the new rules: Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where...

Jay Freeman aka saurik recently did an interview with Make It Work discussing the history of jailbreaking as well giving some insight into the current state of jailbreak. Interesting nuggets include the story of how George Hotz aka geohot unlocked the iPhone 2G (although he didn’t mention how geohot later traded the world’s first unlocked iPhone 2G for a Nissan 350Z) along with the stories of how he himself got into the...

Good news if you’ve been waiting for a simple jailbreak for iOS 4.0: comex has just said that he is going to be going ahead with Spirit for iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1 instead of waiting for 4.1. Spirit will be able to jailbreak the iPod touch 2G MB and MC models, the iPod touch 3G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS new and old bootrom as well as the iPhone 4 once it is released and it very likely will be just as simple to use as the original Spirit. Stay...

In this video I talk about the current State of Jailbreak. Apple has just released iOS 4.0.1 for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. It is a very small change from 4.0 as it only consists of the updated signal bars nevertheless as always you will lose your jailbreak if you update so I recommend holding off for now. iOS 3.2.1 for the iPad also was released today. It contains a fix for the Wi-Fi issues as well as some general bug fixes...