Chronic Dev Team works on a new strategic approach for jailbreak development. Now they decided to ask for help from any willing iOSe user. All you have to do is to simply enable sending crash reports from your device, which could potentially help developers to solve the security puzzle which could then lead to a new, untethered jailbreak for IOS devices.
After the initial rumors that Chronic Dev Team has developed a reliable jailbreak for iOS 5, members of the group revealed that Apple has already closed a number of previously discovered security holes, even before they made the final iOS version available to the public. So apparently they were a little bit too optimistic because Apple didn’t fail like in previous cases to plug the security holes between beta releases and the official version of iOS 5.
If they are to find a new jailbreak solution in the nearby future, jailbreak devs will need some help from average iOS users. To make this real, Chronic Dev Team has just developed a tool which will gather crash reports from users devices and send them to the team for further analysis. The same tool will change your iTunes app so it wont send the same crash reports to Apple. All data gathered in this way will be stored on a web server controlled by the Chronic Dev Team. This procedure could boost the efforts of Chronic Dev Team and enable them to quickly and efficiently discover possible weaknesses which could be utilized for the next jailbreak. This tool should be released very soon, probably in a couple of days. So stay tuned to our blog and we will notify you as soon as we have any news on this interesting story. We certainly hope they will have success with this project. After all we all need the jailbreak, doesn’t we?
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Apple has launched the latest version of iTunes, version 10.5. This upgrade was necessary as it supports new iOS 5 and the new iCloud service of the Cupertino, California company. If you want to upgrade to iOS 5 you will need first to update your iTunes.
Here is what iTunes now offers to users:
- iTuness now supports the cloud. All your data can be stored in the iCloud and therefore becomes accessible from all iOS devices. When you purchase some song or video, it becomes available to any of your iOS devices, or to your computer. You can also get all of your previous purchases, basically your content becomes device independent, when you byu it once you can use your book, song or movie on any of your devices.
- Users can also sync their iPhones or iPads with iOS 5
- Wireless syncing. When your device connects to the same wireless network with your iTunes, it will automatically sync it.
- iTunes is now compatible with the iCloud and of course with iOS 5.
- iMatch service which enables iOS users to match their songs to Apple’s databases containing more than 20 million songs. This will make the songs accessible to any iOS device of the user. iMatch will be available only for US residents at the time being. Future expansion is expected soon.
To upgrade iTunes please start the software and you will be prompted to upgrade. Alternatively, you can download latest iTunes from Apple‘s servers.
Please keep in mind: if you plan to install iOS 5 you need to upgrade iTunes first.
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Apple has made its latest upgrade of the beta version of iOS 5 available for certified developers. IOS 5 beta vs 5 is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. One of interesting features this iOS offers is the over the air upgrading of iOS. To check it out open your Settings app, choose General and tap on Software Updates.
Apple’s engineers have notified users to backup and completely delete all data and settings on the device which will be upgraded. To do so go again to Settings app, General, Reset and choose to Erase Also please note: OTA (over the air) upgrades can be initiated only on devices running on iOS 5 b3 and later.
Before you begin you should sync your device using the iTunes 10.5 b 4 or alternatively you could also use iCloud backup services. After you upgrade your iPhone you can proceed by restoring with the latest version of iTunes 10.5 b 5.
Interestingly there have been reports of users upgrading without deleting data on their iPhones. It could be that Apple for some unknown reason wants you to virginize your device before the upgrade, but as always its best to follow advices if you are not an expert. Let us know did you upgrade your iPhone and how did it went for you!
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According to the latest rumors coming from the Cupertino, California based company we will in the near future see a new, improved version of iTunes software. iTunes 11 should bring a mayor change in the UI area as well as improved cloud integration. If we can can conclude anything from the past and being aware of Apple‘s amazing designing capabilities, we can expect new iTunes to become even more fabulous and intuitive.
Being clean and simple is one of the hallmarks of all Apple designs. And since the cloud is the latest buzz in the online technology world and according to rumors on mayor companies working on their own cloud services, Apple will want to offer much higher integration in their own cloud, dubbed iCloud. So instead of iTunes being an app for browsing through apps and other data, it will integrate the Store into the app itself, just like some other apps are doing right now, like Spotify for example.
It could also be that the cloud backups will become a reality with this version of iTunes 11. So if you decide you need to backup your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad tablet, the same backup will be stored on your computer as well as in the cloud. This also means that your app data will get saved in the cloud, so if you reach a particular level in some cool game, that data will get synced to the cloud and afterwards into your own iTunes database.
This rumor isn’t confirmed, and as always should be taken with a grain of salt, but it does seem plausible, since Apple is continuously increasing its efforts to offer much more through their own iCloud services.
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According to report from some reputable sources App’e iTunes App Store has available more than half a million apps. To achieve this Cupertino California company has involved more than 85.500 independent developers and the price of paid apps was $ 3.50. Also a significant portion of the apps available in the App Store are available as free downloads. Around 38% of all available apps are free apps.
Here are the most popular app categories according to number of downloaded apps:
- Games 16%
- Books 13%
- Entertainment 11%
- Education 9%
- Lifestyle 6%
- Utilities 5%
Most downloaded iOS app on the list is certainly Rovio’s hit: Angry Birds. This fabulous game is on the top of the list for 274 days. Those statistics are not yet officially confirmed by Apple or other relevant market analysts. More on this data will be hear probably on the upcoming WWDC which starts soon on June 6th. So far quite impressive results by the App Store, aren’t they?
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iPhone 4 together with iTunes App Store have made their way to the famous list of world records. Iphone 4 was declared to be the fastest selling handheld gaming console while iTunes App Store became the most popular app sellling platform. Those two records have officially being added to the Guinness list of records Gaming edition for year 2011. Guinness also has published an trivia app for iOS.
Some other records from iOS world have also reached the Guinness list. Among those are some of the best games for Apple iOS including:
- Angry Birds which became the top paid app worldwide with more than 6 million copies sold.
- Plants vs. Zombies hit the list as the fastest selling iPhone game with more than 310,000 purchases of the game
- Tap Tap Revenge by Disney was declared as top iPhone gaming series with more than 14 million downloads so far
What do you think about this? Another proof on superiority of iPhone over Android devices? Did you get some of the games mentioned?
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Apple has upgraded the iTunes to version 10.2 and this has stirred some rumours about Apple planing measures about jailbroken iPhones.
They have upgraded iTunes in addition to the forthcoming iOS version 4.3 and the new iPad 2. But since Apple always improves in order to make things harder for the jailbreak community, some iPhone jailbreak developers have doubts that Apple could use iTunes to block jailbroken iPhones. Because of this some users don’t want to upgrade their iTunes version at all.
While iPhone users with jailbreak have Cydia as free version of App Store, iTunes is still the only software used for the firmware upgrade, backup, maintenance and almost everything else.
This has prompted developers in the famous Dev Team to work on the development of an alternative to iTunes software which will be tailored to suit users with the jailbreak and unlock on their iPhones.
One of the main members of the Dev Team which is also known as @posixninja, and is one of the main people behind iPhone jailbreaks said in a twitter message, that the Dev Team is working on their alternative iTunes software.
In his tweet to an iPhone jailbreak user he said that they are busy working on this project and that it wont be available for at least next 6 months.
So this project is still in the beginning phase. And in order to accomplish this they will need to solve some complicated issues. This new alternative to iTunes should have similar options like the official version of iTunes including app management, iDevice sync option, media player etc. It should also be able to upgrade and downgrade firmware versions similar to Pwnage tools.
Lets hope they will develop this as soon as possible.
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