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This OS X only guide (Windows guide here) will teach you how to jailbreak various devices using limera1n. Note this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning your device will be able to restart and operate just like an unjailbroken phone.

This guide should be used with the following device/firmware combinations (if you're not sure, here's how to find your iOS firmware version and how to find your iOS device type):

• iPhone 2G | 4.0
• iPhone 2G | 4.0.2
• iPhone 3G | 4.0
• iPhone 3G | 4.0.2
• iPhone 3GS | 4.0
• iPhone 3GS | 4.0.2
• iPad 1

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See what's new with Notification Center widgets in Cydia

In the last day or so, another huge wave of Notification Center tweaks have hit Cydia. Surprisingly enough, there's a lot of variety to what has been released and they are well worth a look into. Here's what we got for this round of "Free Notification Center Widget Round-Up:"

WeeSpaces for Notification Center:


If you've ever used Multifl0w by Aaron Ash or CardSwitcher, you've experienced a whole new way of multitasking on iOS. WeeSpaces attempts at merging that functionality with the Notification Center. With it enabled and installed, you have access to your multitask switcher in the Notification Center, but instead of just icon, it has pictures of what application is which. You simply tap the icon to go into the application. On top of ...

No doubt an homage to HAL 9000, Iris 9000 turns Siri on the 4S to a true whole-room voice control module.

The ominous looking dock—complete with a Hal 9000 red-eye—utilizes a remote that allows owners to activate Siri from across the room. The dock's built-in microphone can pick up commands from up to 50 feet away, and amplifies Siri's responses via the built in speakers.

The dock, ...

DictGoogle will help you educate yourself quickly while you read about things you don't know about.

So what does this tweak do? DictGoogle makes it possible for you to Google anything, from anywhere. It's a very simple, easy to use, and powerful tweak. Best of all? It massages itself into iOS so well that you wouldn't even expect it to not have been made by Apple themselves. It integrates so smoothly into the resources already built into iOS, that anyone could appreciate it.

A light description of the tweak as shown in Cydia can be viewed below:
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Customers of Sprint that bought the iPhone 4S have been reporting insanely slow 3G data speeds since its launch.

Speeds have been extremely slow on the iPhone for users on Sprint. The company claimed that they were perfectly capable of handling the extra traffic before the iPhone 4S launch. As a bonus they opted to keep their unlimited data plan in contrast to Verizon and AT&T. This attracted a lot of people to Sprint, ...

China Mobile could be described as the T-Mobile of the East. Their high-speed network isn't compatible with the iPhone, but that hasn't stopped some 10 million users from using the phone on the network according to Reuters.

China Mobile subscribers using an iPhone can still use slower 2G GSM/EDGE data speeds much like their Western T-Mobile brethren. However, unlike T-Mobile, China Mobile is actively working ...

Use custom alerts and passcode your Messages.app (SMS and iMessage) with LockMessage.

Of all the components that iOS 5 has to offer, most people would agree that the new notification system is one of our favorite new additions. Their non-obtrusive nature makes it so much nicer than the pre-iOS 5 alert boxes that disrupted you constantly. Although the notification system is pretty solid, there are always ways to improve or change the look, feel, and functionality of any component of iOS; thanks to the jailbreak ...

iH8sn0w demos iBooks working on jailbroken iOS 5 device for the first time.

In the first stages of any jailbreak, there tends to be a a few problems here and there. Whether they are major or minor issues, they generally exist early on - it's inevitable. With iOS 5, there are a few issues that come about with redsn0w, sn0wbreeze, and even the newly released Semi-Untether by BigBoss. One such issue that has been a biggie, although I personally ...

For those of you hoping to get a jump on reading through Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, it appears the Kindle Store has the book available a few hours early.

Isaacson based the 658-page biography on over 40 interviews held with Jobs over a two-year period as well as more than 100 interviews with "family, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues." Jobs encouraged ...

Apple released an 80-minute video of the company's Celebrating Steve event held on Apple's Cupertino Campus October 19.

The video is available in its entirety here, and allows Apple fans around the world to share in giant goodbye party Apple threw for Jobs. Current CEO Tim Cook started the event with a speech, which transitioned into musical performances by Cold Play, and Norah Jones. The even also celebrated ...

Sprint is killing some of their unlimited data plans.

Starting in November 2011, Sprint is going to start denting their data users. Ironically enough, though, it's not for smartphones. The caps plan to set limits on people who use Sprint's data network for computers, tablets, mobile hotspots, mobile broadband users, and other things of that nature that use absolutely massive amounts of data. Smartphones, which generally load ...