Posted on April 27, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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With Google Glass being released to developers only days ago, it was only a matter of time before someone rooted it. I bet you wouldn’t have guessed it would have been Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik however. Speaking to Forbes, Freeman said “It took me two hours while I was having dinner with friends [...]
Posted on April 9, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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For all of you who saved SHSH blobs for iOS 6.0 to 6.1.2 through Cydia, you will be disappointed to hear that Saurik has took to his blog to explain that they will not be usable. This means those of you who were hoping to downgrade at some point using the TSS data Cydia saves [...]
Whenever a prominent figure in the Jailbreaking community develops a Cydia tweak, it is usually a big deal. Today none other than Saurik, the creator of Cydia, has made a new Cydia tweak and it is definitely worth checking out. Saurik’s new Cydia tweak is called Cyueue and it essentially modifies the Music application to add a [...]
Posted on March 4, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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If you want inside scoops on what is going on in the Jailbreaking community or want to get answers from some of the head guys in the Jailbreaking community like Jay Freeman (aka Saurik) then Reddit seems to be the place to go. Recently, we stumbled upon an interesting Reddit thread from a user who [...]
Posted on February 8, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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The Evasi0n Jailbreak is quickly shaping up to be the most popular Jailbreak ever, in fact, according Jay Freeman (Saurik) it actually already is. Since Evasi0n’s release on Monday morning nearly 7 million iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners have Jailbroken their devices, which makes Evasi0n the fastest-adopted Jailbreak software of all time. Freeman has said [...]
Yesterday we told you that the Evasi0n iOS 6.x Untethered Jailbreak was downloaded 100,000 times within the first 10 minutes! According to a recent article by Forbes, who received a statement from Jay Freeman (AKA Saurik), in the first 6 hours the Jailbreak was used over 800,000 times. By Tuesday the count had skyrocket to 1.7 [...]
Originally, the Cydia servers enabling you to download packages and sources were down, due to enormous use of them following the recent untethered jailbreak. According to Saurik Cydia should work fine for users now, but I’m sure there will be exceptions among the general public. Saurik cited that the reason for the sudden server break-down, [...]
Posted on January 29, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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It seems that with every major untethered Jailbreak Cydia’s servers, as well as many other big repositories will be extremely sluggish or in some cases go offline due to the mass influx of traffic. As such, a general rule of thumb used to be Jailbreak your device and then wait a couple days before you [...]
Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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One of the most iconic names in Jailbreaking has to be Jay Freeman, known by most as Saurik (his Twitter handle). Over the years as Jailbreaking has grown, Freeman has become somewhat of an underground celebrity. Considering he has over 300,000 Twitter followers and is responsible for the software that millions of people use around [...]
TechCrunch decided today that they would catch up on all the recent Jailbreak related rumors and publish a big article essentially summing up the state of the iOS 6 Untethered Jailbreak. Although no new information was revealed in this article, TechCrunch did manage to get some interesting statistics on the number and types of devices [...]