Since there are now a lot more Canadians with iPads, as of this weekend, I thought it would be a good idea to go over jailbreaking, and why it might be for you. We may have talked about this already, but I’m sure there are quite a few new visitors to the site, now that the iPad is finally available in Canada.

Let’s start fresh. What is jailbreaking? Jailbreaking … Read More

The iPad 3G has been jailbroken and torn apart in just a matter of days. Now it has been hacked by MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team to send SMS messages. Here’s what he had to say:

This was sent using a raw AT+CMGS command sent to the iPad baseband. That’s because so far, MobileSMS.app from the iPhone doesn’t run properly on the iPad.

This iPad is using … Read More

Yesterday we reported that a new jailbreak tool, by iPhone Dev Team member comex, might be released this Friday, but that is not the case. It has been delayed a bit, but will be released sometime after the iPad 3G is in the wild. As you may, or may not know, the new jailbreak is called “Spirit”, and will provide an untethered jailbreak for all iDevices, including the iPad, … Read More

If you’re not familiar with George Hotz (aka: geohot), you should be! He was the original guy who figured out how to unlock the iPhone. At that time it was a hardware unlock, and geohot had people around the world cracking open their iPhones, so that they could use them on their local carrier.

So, Apple releases the iPad, less than a week ago, and geohot is … Read More

You probably read about the preview of Apple’s iPhone OS 4 from yesterday. There were a tonne of new features previewed, with one of the most important ones being multitasking.

The iPhone OS 4 preview was all fine and dandy until Steve Jobs mentioned it would be arriving in the Fall, instead of the Summer when iPhones would be getting the newest update. What would Apple’s reasoning be … Read More

This morning at Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 event, the company officially introduced  iPhone OS 4.0 for iPad. iPhone OS 3.2 made its debut on the Apple iPad and  now the new tablet computer will receive a 4.0 refresh.

With the debut of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple introduced over 1,500 new API’s and has revealed 100 new features, many of which have been long time wishes of many … Read More

While the iPhone OS 4.0 for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch is widely expected to bring many enhancements such as true application multitasking, the iPad in specific is now being rumored to support printing functions in the next firmware version.

The Apple support pages for iPad’s versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers each indicate that “printing directly from iPad is not currently available”:

Printing directly from iPad is not currently … Read More

Exciting news for the jailbreak community today. Over the weekend, we saw the iPad released and then jailbroken within a 24 hour period. Today, we get the news that Cydia has been ported to the iPad, and is up and running!.

The iPad has been jailbroken with the new “Spirit” jailbreak, developed by @comex. The jailbreak is a good first step, but having Cydia running on the … Read More

Hot off the iPad launch, Apple has announced a media event for the iPhone OS 4.0 for this Thursday April 8, 2010!

Apple has begun sending email invitations to select members of the media inviting them to a sneak peek event for the iPhone OS 4.0. The iPad currently features iPhone OS 3.2.

The invitation showcases a large number “4” shadow spread across a blue background, with the phrase “Get a sneak … Read More

The iPad journey is almost here. Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.2 SDK Gold Master, the final version. It is expected that iPhone and iPod Touch owners will eventually have download access to this latest iPhone OS. The latest download includes the following message:

Apple will provide you any iPad OS software updates that it may release from time to time, up to and including the next major iPad OS software … Read More