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 […]
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CardSwitcher 2.0 brings webOS style app switching to iOS 5
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 […]
Nearly a million iPad 2, iPhone 4S devices jailbroken this weekend
This weekend the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team released tools to jailbreak the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. And it turns out an awful lot of people were waiting to do just that. Just three days after the jailbreak utilities were first released, the iPhone Dev Team reports that nearly […]
Now you can jailbreak an iPad 2, iPhone 4S on Windows too
A day after the first tools for jailbreaking an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S were released for Mac users, the iPhone Dev Team has updated their utility to work with Windows. The process is a bit more involved since it relies on a command-line utility that walks you through the process one step at a […]
Jailbreak the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S with Absinthe
Chronic Dev Team has released a utility that can jailbreak the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. It’s the first jailbreak utility available for devices with Apple’s dual-core A5 processor. Up until now all jailbreaking tools only worked on phones or tablets with the A4 processor or earlier chips. The new tool is called GreenPois0n Absinthe […]