I had a different sort of Apple event experience today. When these events roll around, I’m usually at home munching on some food with my teeth and watching the event with my MacBook. This time around I was in Chinatown finishing up some errands and rushing back home in a cab to see the event. Then I remembered that Apple was streaming the whole thing live to Macs and iOS devices, and — to my surprise — it worked beautifully. I watched about 20 minutes of the keynote while on the street or in a cab, and the quality was quite amazing.
Then there were all of the goodies that Steve announced:
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This is the lovely screen I saw a good nine or ten times yesterday afternoon. I had tried clearing my Safari cache, checking back every 15 minutes, killing and restarting Safari in the multitasking bar, and making a little Steve Jobs voodoo doll out of a bar of soap. None of that stuff worked, and all I saw was Safari crashing to the home screen right after the words “Sit tight.” appeared on screen.
Then my best pal texted me and suggested that I restore the iPhone, and that turned out to be the key. I had previously jailbroken using PwnageTool, and something about that process apparently interfered with JailbreakMe.com (despite the fact that I was back on stock 4.0.1).
So if your Safari Mobile has been crashing when trying to use Jailbreakme.com (or the mirror at Jailbreakme.Modmyi.com), restore your iPhone through iTunes, jailbreak your device through the website, and then sync all of your content back to your phone. That’s what worked for me.
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chpwn isn’t just the developer of InfiniBoard, InfiniDock, and InfiniFolder — he’s also a dispenser of sage Cydiatic advice.
One of the most annoying things about perusing Cydia for apps is scrolling past the 10 billion themes, ringtones, and wallpapers, and, before yesterday, I had no idea anything could be done about them. Then I saw one of chpwn’s tweets, which suggested that users head to the Sections tab and tap on the Edit button to selectively hide all of the things you don’t want to see. I then proceeded to hide about 50 sections worth of crap and threw an impromptu five-second dance party where I was standing.
I’m still waiting on chpwn’s tweet about how to hide similar crap in the App Store, though.
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A huge thanks to commenter Muero for this information. He corrected the mistake I had made in my original sarcastic post about how the dictionary feature of iBooks simply didn’t work in Canada. Apparently, it has nothing to do with how many maple leaves are on your flag, but, rather, what language an eBook is set to. I had to go all the way back into Stanza on my Mac, set the of my eBook to English, and re-import the file into iBooks via iTunes to get the option to download the iBooks dictionary. After a 20 second download I was good to go and was defining words left and right like nobody’s business (Business: biz-nis -noun; none of yours.)
This is opposed to the process in an app like Stanza, where you can look up a word regardless of the language metatags (tested by throwing the same no-lanugage eBook into Stanza).
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Dropbox can now export files to iPhone apps that support them (wow, vague much, Thomas?). This mean that you can tap on a PDF in Dropbox, bring up the context menu (bottom right), and then export said PDF to Stanza or iBooks (does that clear things up?!). The iPhone is really starting to feel like a smartphone in all of the best senses of the word.
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[Update: I have now also used PwnageTool 4.01 to fix iBooks (which just didn't work properly if you used PwnageTool 4.0 to jailbreak) and have added my instructions near the bottom of the post.]
Early yesterday morning MacStories released an excellent preliminary jailbreak guide which used a modified version of PwnageTool to jailbreak iOS 4. It was very useful, but it used quite a few terms I didn’t quite understand, so I decided to try my hand at a different iOS 4 jailbreak guide.
I started this whole process off on the official iOS 4 release on my iPhone 3GS and although I am going to outline all the steps I took after the jump. Here are the necessary links and info for the guide (make sure to unzip files the files to your desktop or a special folder so you have everything in one place):
- a Mac — that’s what I used, and PwnageTool is Mac-only for now
- SHSH blobs for 3.1.2 on Cydia servers to downgrade your firmware
- iOS 3.1.2 and 4.0 .ipsw files for iPhone 3GS
- RedSn0w 0.9.4 to help you jailbreak 3.1.2 (Spirit won’t work for this)
- PwnageTool 4.01 to help you create a custom jailbroken 4.0 .ipsw (firmware restore file)
- an iPhone 3GS with the “old” bootrom (iBoot: 359.3)
- iRecovery to help you downgrade to 3.1.2
If any of those terms confuse you, don’t worry. I’ve tried to explain and provide links to the guides I used after the jump. This is not a carrier unlock guide, but you should be alright if you need one, now that ultrasn0w 0.93 has been updated for every baseband from iOS 3.0 to iOS 4.0.
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