LogeMeIn‘s mobile apps for iOS and Android let you login to a remote computer to run applications, access files, and perform other functions that can make your smartphone or tablet feel like a full-fledged computer. But at $30, LogMeIn is kind of expensive for a mobile app.

Now the company has released a free version of its iOS app that offers basic remote desktop functionality.

You can use the free app to login to a Mac or PC using the free app to run programs. For instance you can view documents stored on your PC or surf the web in a full version of Firefox or Internet Explorer from your mobile device.

What you can’t do is stream video, transfer photos or other files from your remote PC to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, or use the remote printing function.

For those features you can pay for an in-app subscription update to LogMeIn Pro which costs $40 per year. Or you can make a one-time payment of $100 for the LogMeIn Ignition app.

This new freemium model is similar to the way LogMeIn’s web-based service works. You can install the LogMeIn client on any desktop computer you want to remote control for free and login from any supported web browser for free. But if you want advanced capabilities you need to pay.

via Lifehacker

Update 12/27/2011: It’s now possible to perform an untethered jailbreak on iPhone 3S, iPhone 4, iPad 1, or 3rd or 4th generation iPod touch. We’ve put together a step-by-step guide. 

The iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of the popular redsn0w utility for jailbreaking an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Redsn0w 0.9.9b9b adds native support for iOS 5.0.1, which means that you can jailbreak most devices without manually pointing the tool toward an older IPSW.

The latest tool also includes a number of other updates including a fix that allows you to use Apple iBooks on a jailbroken device running iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1.

Users with an iPhone 3GS and old bootroms can also now create custom IPSW files without blobs.

There are still two things you need to know before you try to use redsn0w 0.9.9b9b though:

1. The utility still doesn’t support the iPhone 4S or iPad 2.
2. This is still a tethered jailbreak, which means that if you ever need to reboot your device you’ll lose most functionality until you connect to a computer with a USB cable and run redsn0w again.

Hacker pod2g is still working on the first untethered jailbreak tools for iOS 5.0 and up and those tools should be available to the public soon. Until now, redsn0w 0.9.9b9b is probably a jailbreaker’s best friend.

Jailbreaking an iOS device allows users to access files and settings that would otherwise be unavailable. This lets you install apps that aren’t available in the App Store, change the boot logo, and make other changes.

Unfortunately you may also lose some functionality if you jailbreak. For instance you can’t download over-the-air operating system updates from Apple on a jailbroken device, and the latest jailbreak utility seems to cause problems with the Skype app for iOS.

Redsn0w 0.9.9b9b is available for Mac or Windows.

Every day dozens of new games are released for mobile phones and tablets — but every now and again you don’t want a new game. What you want is to relive a truly great classic game that you first played on a Playstation or computer.

Recently two of those classic games found their way to iOS and Android.

The first is Sonic CD, a Sonic the Hedgehog title from the 90s. Originally developed for the Sega CD, the game has since been ported to the Plyastation 2, GameCube, and PC. Now it’s available for $1.99 in the Android Market and iTunes App Store.

Next up we’ve got Grand Theft Auto III – a title that changed the way many people think about video games on a number of levels. GTA III was released for the PS2 in 2001 as a game that let you solve missions by driving, fighting, and problem solving in Liberty City, a fictional place that’s detailed enough to be a character in the story.

The game also pushed the boundaries of violent and sexual conduct in a mainstream video game.

Now GTA III  is available for $4.99 from the App Store and Android Market.

Apple has released a new beta of iOS 5.1. The latest software fixes some bug form the last beta, but iOS 5.1 beta 2 also has one major improvement: Users can now delete individual pictures from Photo Stream.

Apple Photo Stream is an optional service which allows you to have photos taken with your device’s camera automatically uploaded to the iCloud service and synchronized across your devices. Now if you don’t want a particular photo you snap on your iPhone to show up on your iPad, you can delete it.

If you have a developer account you can download iOS 5.1 beta 2 from developer.apple.com.

The good news is that Apple is continuing to fix bugs and offer new and enhanced features. The bad news is that as iOS 5.1 nears release hackers are just starting to prepare a method for performing an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1.

There’s a good chance that means one of two things:

1. Apple may fix the exploit used by the latest jailbreak tools so that iOS 5.1 cannot be jailbroken the same way as iOS 5.0.1 and earlier.
2. If Apple hasn’t fixed the exploit yet, jailbreak developers may want to wait until after iOS 5.1 is available to the public to make it tougher for Apple to patch the security hole before launch.

So either we’ll only have a viable untethered jailbreak for a very brief period… or we’ll have to wait a little longer for it to hit the streets.

via 9to5mac

Just a few days after iOS hacker pod2g announced that he’d performed an untethered jailbreak on a device running iOS 5.0, he’s managed to jailbreak an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.

That means that if you’re planning to jailbreak you iPhone or iPod touch once the tools are released, it’s safe to update to iOS 5.0.1 now.

There are a few caveats. If you plan to carrier unlock your phone, you’ll still want to backup your SHSH blobs first. The exploit pod2g is using has also only been tested on older iOS devices. It probably won’t work on an iPhone 4S or iPad 2.

Pod2g hasn’t announced when he’ll release the tools for jailbreaking iOS 5.0.1 to the public.

Right now the only way to jailbreak a device running iOS 5.0 or newer is to perform a tethered jailbreak. That means that you need to connect your device to a computer with a USB cable and run some software on the PC to jailbreak the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. If you need to reboot your mobile device you’ll need to connect it to a computer and run the software again, otherwise most features will be inaccessible.

An untethered jailbreak removes this restriction. Once you jailbreak your device you can reboot it at any time without losing your jailbreak or the ability to use your mobile device — at least until you upgrade to iOS 5.0.2 or whatever the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system turns out to be.

Hackers have been jailbreaking iOS 5.0 since it was still in beta. But up until now only a tethered jailbreak was available. That means that anyone can jailbreak an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to access hidden files and settings and install apps that aren’t available in the App Store. But if you need to reboot your device it will be pretty much unusable until you connect it to a computer with a USB cable and run the jailbreak utility again.

Now iOS hacker pod2g has posted a video showing a jailbroken iPod running iOS 5.0 — and in the video he reboots the device successfully.

In other words, he’s figured out how to perform an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.

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Chrono Trigger has arrived for the iPhone and iPod Touch, bringing one of the most popular epic role playing games to iOS.

The game was originally released for the Super Nintendo in 1995. The iOS version features optimized graphics for the Retina display and touch controls. For example, in a battle, you can employ a the “slide and tap” control cut through enemies and select your targets.

Other exclusives include over 50 personnel combo attacks and two areas from the Nintendo DS version of the game: The Dimensional Vortex and the Lost Sanctum.

Created by Square Enix, the makers of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, the game naturally centers around its storyline. Chrono, the main character, must go back in time “through the dimensions” to find his friend Marle after an accident occurs with a new invention. As a result, Chrono travels through both the past and the future, an even encounters the end of time.

Chrono Trigger is available in the App Store for $9.99. If that seems a bit pricey for an iOS game, consider the words of a recent commenter on iTunes: “Not only did it revolutionized the RPG genre, it raised the bar so high it hasn’t been beaten since!”

via Reddit

OnLive is a service that lets you play video games by streaming them over the internet. We’re not talking about dinky Flash-based games here though. We’re talking about console-quality games that you’d normally need a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 to play.

The company offers a box that you can connect to your TV to turn it into a game console, as well as a wireless remote control. This week the company launched new apps for iOS and Android that also turn your phone or tablet into a portable console-quality gaming system.

OnLive has been showing off the service since this summer, but now the company’s mobile apps are finally available for download from the App Store or the Android Market.

I took the service for a spin on my NOOK Tablet, and there’s a lot to like. The selection of games may not be all-inclusive, but it’s pretty good. And the games felt snappy and responsive even though I was basically using the tablet to control a game running on a remote server.
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