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Be careful respringing that iOS 6.1 jailbroken device too many times in a row. According to iOS hacker and developer Ryan Petrich, every time you respring that iOS 6.1 device, a lot of temporary files are created that waste a ton of space. Reboots won’t do the same thing, but resprings are easier and more convenient than reboots, so many of us do that more often than reboot.

If you want to keep respringing your iOS 6.1 device without ...

With talk of Apple's 2nd generation iPad mini heating up in the early weeks of 2013, a growing number of industry sources, market watchers, and tech analysts believe that a spring refresh is looking more and more likely to happen.


When the moment of truth arrives, it appears a safe bet that an improved display will be one of the cornerstones of the next-generation iPad mini. In fact, ...

It's a small but still significant milestone for Apple. On Monday, StatCounter confirmed that Apple "dislodged" Nokia in January for the first time as the most popular mobile vendor in terms of global internet usage.

The independent website analytics company, however, also noted that Apple wasn't alone in its historic leapfrog past Nokia. Samsung also came along for the ride, climbing ahead of Nokia worldwide to take ...

{last updated March 12th, 2013}

This Windows, OS X, and Linux guide will teach you how to jailbreak various devices using evasi0n. The current version of evasi0n is 1.5.3. Note this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning you can reboot your phone just like you normally would.

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 3GS | 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.2
• iPhone 4 | 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.2
• iPhone 4S | 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2
• iPhone 5 | 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.2
• iPod touch 4G | 6.0, 6.0.1,

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A very popular lock screen animation tweak called Unfold by iOS developer Jonas Gessnser has been updated to version 2.1 with full support for iOS 6. This is excellent, considering that the iOS 6 untethered jailbreak called evasi0n is expected to be released by noon on Monday (today).

With unfold, the slider text is changed to “fold to unlock” with an arrow to the left of it, and when you drag, your lock screen will actually ...

Since the untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, called evasi0n, is just on the horizon of being released this Monday afternoon, the developer of the brand new LockInfo 5 jailbreak tweak has started a sale. If you’ve been trying to pick between LockInfo 5 and IntelliScreenX 6, this new price sure is a deal-breaker – $3.99 (was $7.99) and you can even take advantage of a free trial!

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The evad3rs have announced that the evasi0n untethered iOS 6 jailbreak will be released on Monday, so what better way for developers to prepare than to get their jailbreak tweaks prepared for users to download? Highly popular toggle platform SBSettings has been updated to version 6.0 Sunday, adding complete compatibility with iOS 6.

The main problem with SBSettings before this ...

Just following the evad3rs’ announcement that evasi0n, the world’s first untethered iOS 6 jailbreak, would be released on Monday, the evad3rs have updated the evasi0n.com Web site so that the status reads 91% completion. The tool has entered the final testing stages, and primary testing has concluded. According to the Web site, and the evad3rs, the next step is releasing the tool.

The evasi0n iOS 6 untethered ...

Everyone has been waiting for the evad3rs to update the evasi0n Web site with the evasi0n iOS 6 jailbreak tool on Sunday, however according to a recent Tweet from the evad3rs hacker team, it will be Monday, not Sunday, that will be fun-day. (It still rhymes!)

The official countdown for the evasi0n iOS 6 untethered jailbreak has begun, and the tool will be released on Monday. The untethered jailbreak ...

iOS hacker and developer chpwn, the creator of Zephyr and the Infiniapps, has just launched a new free jailbreak tweak in the Cydia Store today called %hook’s law. The tweak adds a springy animation to all of the animations in iOS, such as the animation of opening applications, navigation animations, and the animation of unlocking your iOS device, so everything will feel more bouncy.

As shown above, you can insert your own values ...

Springtomize 2, a popular jailbreak application for deep customization of the SpringBoard for iOS 5, has now been extended with support for iOS 6. Springtomize 2 comes with many different categories of customization and can keep you from having to install multiple different jailbreak tweaks to get the same job done. It’s really a super tweak.

Unlike the upgrade from iOS 4 to iOS 5, where Springtomize 2 became a different package from the original ...