While the jailbreak loving world has been waiting patiently for the next iOS jailbreak, and have their eyes firmly fixed on any updated regarding it from Pod2g, the iPhone Dev Team have been hard at work as usual implementing additional features and updates to their popular Redsn0w jailbreak tool. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

Cydia has accumulated an increasing number of keylogging apps and tweaks which, while could obviously be used for unscrupulous, malicious purposes, could also have everyday, more home-friendly uses. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

For those jailbroken iOS users who are regular downloaders of files through torrent sites, you will no doubt remember that the tried and tested method of downloading these files was through the iTransmission tweak in Cydia that was developed by Mike Chen. Unfortunately, as is so often the way with Cydia based packages, as time progressed, work on the popular tweak came to a halt leaving users with no real alternative.

For some reason I have given up on the thought completely why Apple made the decision to include Notification Center in iOS 5 on the iPad without the addition of the native Weather and Stocks widgets. This decision obviously came on the back of the fact that the iPad doesn't ship with the stock Weather and Stocks apps like the iPhone and iPod touch, but it is still a cause for concern for a lot of people who use those apps on a daily basis

Jailbreaking an iOS device brings a number of well documented advantages to the table. It includes things such as gaining full control over software installations on the device, as well as being able to easily manipulate app file names and strings to change the default behavior, look and feel of how the whole thing works. On the whole, the additional control that jailbreaking gives users can only be a good thing, but with that being said, there are certain pitfalls to be wary of

I know this is said often enough, but Cydia - along with the dedicated, talented community behind it - really does allow an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to truly reach its full potential. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

With smartphones such as the iPhone, and mobile devices like the iPad becoming more and more expensive, it stands to reason that consumers will want to look after their gadgets as much as humanely possible. We can all take the standard precautions such as covering our devices with protective cases, in the hope that it prevents any knocks or scratches, having device insurance so that if it does get lost or stolen; at least we know we can get some financial compensation for it. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

Most of us, to varying degrees, use social networks on a day-to-day basis, and thus, Apple's Twitter integration into iOS 5 was a move met welcomely by iOS fans far and wide. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

Over the last few years, Cydia has gone from strength to strength to become a very formidable alternative to the official App Store experience that Apple provides on their iOS devices. The official repositories that power Cydia is literally packed to the rafters with packages, tweaks and extensions that have been released for users of jailbroken Apple devices. It may not seem like it on the face of things, but Cydia is actually extremely similar to Apple's store in the fact that packages are regularly updated and require users to physically download the new version of the software to the...

When Apple announced iOS 5.1 to the public last month, some hoped Siri for iPad would be somewhere on the list. Unfortunately, the fruit company only implemented Voice Dictation, which, although better than nothing, left the Siri hunters to continue using the alternatives available. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com