Apple is expected to publicly release iOS 5 in the coming months, bringing an improved notification system, wireless synchronization, and iCloud integration to iOS. If you have an Apple developer account you can install a beta version of iOS 5 right now. In fact, you’ve been able to do that for months. But last night […]
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Premature iPad 2 jailbreak leak could prompt Apple to apply a security patch
Update 7/6/2011: JailbreakMe is now available for public consumption. It looks like Comex managed to finish up work on the project before Apple pushed a security update. Earlier today someone leaked a pre-release version of an upcoming jailbreak utility designed to work on the iPad 2. Users are reporting that it’s a bit buggy — […]
Jailbreak for the iPad 2 leaked a bit early
Update: Comex has officially released JailbreakMe 3.0. You can use it to jailbreak most recent iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad models in a matter of seconds. There are tools available to break virtually every device running iOS, from the iPhone and iPod touch to the Apple TV2. But up until recently there was no way […]
RockPlayer video player for Android now available with DiVX, MKV support
Update: Check out our list of 12 of the best video players for Android RockPlayer is kind of the holy grail of video players for Google Android. It’s an app that can handle virtually any video format you can throw at it — provided the video isn’t wrapped up in DRM copy protection. I took RockPlayer […]
RockPlayer: The best media player for Android (DiVX, Xvid, WMV support)
Most Android devices support a handful of media codecs out of the box, including H.264 and MP4. But there are a ton of formats that aren’t typically supported, including MKV, DiVX, Xvid, and WMV. And RockPlayer can handle them all. The RockPlayer user interface couldn’t be much simpler. When you fire up the app, you’ll […]