A group of hackers figured out how to jailbreak the 3rd generation iPad the day it was released, although the tools haven’t yet been released to the public. But that was a tethered jailbreak, which means you would have had to connect your iPad to a computer and run the software again every time you wanted to reboot it. Now it looks like an untethered jailbreak… Read more »

Over the past few years Read it Later has offered tools let users bookmark web pages temporarily and read them later on a PC or mobile device. Now the company’s launching a new version and changing the name to “Pocket.” The idea is that when you find an article, website, or video you don’t have time to read right now, you can put it in… Read more »

Adobe has released new version of its Adobe Reader app for Android, iOS, and desktop operating systems today. The biggest change for mobile users is that you can now write on PDF files on an Android or iOS phone or tablet. Adobe Reader 10.2 includes a new Ink Signature Tool that lets you add hand-drawn signatures to any document. You can also connect to Adobe… Read more »

Bluefire Reader is the latest eBook app for iOS to receive an update for the new iPad’s retina display. That means text should look sharper when using an iPad with a 2048 x 1536 pixel display, but support for higher resolution screens is just one of the changes in Bluefire 1.7. The new app also supports external hyperlinks in eBooks in ePUB and PDF formats…. Read more »

Air Display is an iOS app that lets you use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a secondary display for a Mac. This week the developer added support for the new iPad’s Retina display, which means that you can use Apple’s new tablet as a 2048 x 1536 pixel Mac screen. You’ll need OS X 10.6 Lion or later in order to take full… Read more »

The Apple TV is a small $99 box that you can stick by your TV and connect to your home internet network to stream internet video, music, and other content to your TV. But if you’d like to do even more with the Apple TV, you can jailbreak it. The folks at Firecore have just released tools to jailbreak the latest version of the Apple… Read more »

Apple added limited support for multitasking to its mobile devices way back with the launch of iOS 4.0. But if you’re not a fan of switching between apps by opening a dock and swiping between icons, there’s another way. CardSwitcher is an app for jailbroken iOS devices that lets you view actual previews of currently running apps. Instead of looking at icons representing games, apps,… Read more »

The developers of the popular Mac email client Sparrow recently launched an iPhone version, and it’s attracted a lot of attention for three reasons: It’s easy to use; offers features missing from the default iOS Mail app; and it doesn’t support push email. That last point isn’t the developers’ fault. Apple rejected the method for push notifications that Sparrow was using, so the only choice… Read more »

Just hours after the new third-generation iPad hit the streets, it’s been jailbroken. Hacker Musclenerd has posted a few pictures on Twitter showing the new iPad running the Cydia Store for jailbroken devices and a terminal app. Neither of those apps will run on an iOS device unless it’s been jailbroken. Meanwhile, iOS hacker i0n1c says he’s performed an untethered jailbreak on his new iPad…. Read more »

As the new iPad hits the streets, hackers are already working on methods to jailbreak Apple’s latest tablet. Jailbreaking allows you to access files and settings that are normally hidden, which is something you have to do if you want to install apps that aren’t available in the App Store — especially apps that dramatically change the behavior of your phone or tablet. You probably… Read more »