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Since the jailbreak for iOS 5 is still tethered, I wanted to find out if my iPhone 3GS had the old bootrom version or the new one. The old version will allow you to have an untethered jailbreak, which means you will NOT have to hook up your iPhone to your computer to keep the [...]

For you unlockers and jailbreakers, today the Dev Team has just released a version of UltraSnow that is compatible with iOS 5! So you can now unlock iOS 5 and use it with any provider. Check out the new features in iOS 5 here. Just know that no new basebands are supported. The update only [...]

A client friend of mine just sent me an email telling me about a killer free offer that a very well known and widely used online storage service is offering. Box.net is an online storage service that, according to Box, is used by 73% of the Fortune 500 companies. Impressive. Well, they just launched their [...]

Apple has just released the latest version of their operating system for their iOS devices…iOS 5, and it’s now available for download! If you have an iPhone 3GS or 4, or a 3rd or 4th generation iPod, or either of the iPads, hook it up to your computer, open iTunes, click on your iOS device [...]

Ok, so 2 days ago, a friend of mine had her iPhone 4 stolen. She was in a Starbucks, got up from her table to leave, threw out her empty coffee cup, walked outside about 20 feet, and quickly realized that she forgot her iPhone. She looked in through the window at the table where [...]

If you have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch and you bought some apps via Cydia that you forgot to backup before you upgraded to the latest version of iOS, then have no fear. Your Cydia purchases are intact! All you have to do after you jailbreak your iOS device again is log into Cydia, download and [...]

If you are looking at buying a used iPhone or you just want to know how to tell the difference between an iPhone 3G and a 3GS, then this is how you do it.

My jailbroken and unlocked iPhone 3GS suddenly started acting weird yesterday. I thought my iOS got corrupted somehow, or it was time for me to upgrade to the latest iOS (currently running 4.0.1; been too busy to upgrade). But I did some research and found that one of the causes was a bad charger. Now [...]

Do you have Gmail configured on your iPhone or iPod Touch, but you don’t get instant notification of your email like a Blackberry does? Do you want to know why? Then watch the video below, because not only do I explain why, but I walk you through the process, step by step, of how to [...]

I just read Steve Pavlina’s blog post on overclocking your audio learning. It was a brilliant blog post about how you can listen to and comprehend any audio program very easily at double the speed. I found this very intriguing because I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and would love to double the amount [...]

There was a PDF exploit in Safari in iOS 4 on the iPhone, which is how comex and other members of the iPhone Dev Team were able to jailbreak it. But Apple quickly found out about it, and released a patch for it. However, this patch (iOS 4.0.2 or iOS 4.1) will cause you to [...]

Have you ever been in the situation where you want to send someone a text message, but don’t have a cell phone on hand? Well here’s how to do it, easily:

Is your iPhone no longer saving your photos? Do you think you lost them forever? I thought the same thing. But it’s not true. It IS saving them, just not in the same location. At least that was the case for me. Here’s what I did to get my pics and vids back.

OK. Here’s an iPhone tip for you. This should work for all iPhones. It’s a tip that will help you to play your videos for a LOT longer time period before the battery dies…up to 3 to 4 TIMES longer! Crazy, huh? What’s the secret? How do you do it? Easy…

I don’t what it is about my iPhone these days. Maybe my iPhone knows that I’m thinking about getting the iPhone 4G when it comes out. Doesn’t it know that I’ll find a good home for it? Anyway, a day or two ago, I got the white screen of death. The whole screen was white [...]

I had posted a fix to an issue that I was having with my iPhone 3GS (it was randomly shutting off) that I thought I had taken care of, however, just this morning, when the battery had about 70% power, it just died, and I couldn’t revive it.. The last app that I was using [...]

Recently, my iPhone 3GS kept on shutting off out of the blue, and did so on a pretty regular basis. However, I only let this happen for a day or so before I took action, did research, and fixed it. I can not let anything happen to my beloved iPhone. It’s in integral part of [...]

I just had this happen to me. I was in the gym, and for some reason, the volume all of sudden went down to zero. I tried different apps, but no matter what I did, when I ramped up the volume, it just went right back to zero. It was an easy fix…

I just found out how to make any self-hosted WordPress blog iPhone compatible. Now of course, you can view any website on the internet, but I’m talking about a format that is especially made for the iPhone, so that your blog is very easy to navigate when using the iPhone, and you don’t have to [...]

I just came across a blog post that gives a blog by blow review of 6 of the most popular GPS navigation apps for the iPhone. You know, the apps that give you turn by turn directions on how to get to your destination. While reading it, I found out about a free GPS navigation [...]

You’ll enjoy this one, because it’s super easy. No more having to email your iPhone pics and videos to yourself to enjoy them on your computer. All you have to do is the following:

With the iPhone OS 2.0 and up, you can easily take a screenshot of your iPhone screen without downloading an app. Here’s how: