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iOS 6 Jailbreak in progress by Planetbeing and Pod2g, iOS 6.1GM Barrier

The drought of Untethered Jailbreak in the Jailbreaking community is going to vanish some time soon. The confirmation of the drought of Jailbreak comes from the well-known iOS Hacker and Developer called Pod2g. The same French iOS Hacker who worked with the dream team to obtain the iOS 5.x.x Jailbreak in past and now he is working with another member of the Dev-Team called Planetbeing to obtain the Jailbreak for iOS 6.x.x. When iOS 6 was released by Apple, it was believed that the Jailbreak is partially impossible because Apple had tightened the security in iOS 6. This was the point at which people said good-bye to the Jailbreak and released all the hope of Jailbreak in dark for iOS 6.

Somehow, very few people were in the hope that the Jailbreak for iOS 6 will later or sooner. However, until today, no one was sure about the arrival of the Jailbreak because the same famous iOS Hacker, Pod2g opened his own company called 2G Lab and tweeted on the twitter that he is not working on the Jailbreak because he has something else in the works. After hearing this statement, all the hopes for the Jailbreak of iOS 6 drowned in water. Staying away from the iOS Hacking field, Pod2g after several months announced that he is working on an App that will be released soon in the AppStore around the globe. At this point, people thought something related to jailbreak might be arriving on the AppStore. That something arriving on the AppStore might be some Tweak or so.

When that something was released, it was not related to any Jailbreak Tweak or related to Jailbreak, it was a completely new thing called PodDJ. PodDJ was the first application made by Pod2g for which he departed from the iOS Hacking scene and never concentrated on the Jailbreak because he was paying full attention on his beautiful app of PodDJ.

After the Application was released around the world of Pod2g, he jumped back into the Jailbreaking scene and found something amazing with Planetbeing. Therefore, today Planetbeing Tweeted on his Twitter account that:

Made some nice progress today with @pod2g. I think I’ll try to reward myself with a nap. :)

— planetbeing (@planetbeing) January 19, 2013

This Tweet from Planetbeing raised the level of excitement and hopes of the people waiting for the iOS 6 Jailbreak. Soon after this exciting Tweet from Planetbeing, Pod2g Tweeted from his Twitter account that:

. @planetbeing oh yeah! 2 new vulnerabilities in a day, chance was with us. But we still miss that initial code execution for a public jb :/

— pod2g (@pod2g) January 19, 2013

Pod2g and Planetbeing are working at full for the public release of the iOS 6 Jailbreak. They only need a code execution for the public Jailbreak release. In order to obtain this, Aaron Ash the iOS Developer seems to be helping these developers. In a Tweet to Pod2g and Planetbeing from Aaron Ash stated:

@pod2g @planetbeing I have some ideas for initial code exec, I couldn’t test everything, but you might be able to (check IRC).

— Aaron Ash (@aaronash) January 19, 2013

The work on the iOS 6 Jailbreak is going at full swing and will be released when the barrier of iOS 6.1 GM will be crossed.

iOS 6.1GM Barrier:

Those of you who are not aware of the fact that iOS 6.1 is around the corner and the Jailbreak team is only waiting for the iOS 6.1 public release by Apple, must know that iOS 6.1 is in its Beta 4 stage that is going to expire in approximately 5-7 days. This means that Apple needs to push out the final GM (Gold Master) version of the iOS 6.1 or must release a new iOS 6.1 Beta for the developers, so they can stay away from the expired beta and continue the testing.

According to our expectations, the new iOS 6.1 GM should arrive on Monday for all iDevices and the final version of iOS 6.1 will follow the public release after 3-4 days of the GM release.

The iOS Hackers are also waiting for this release to happen because they don’t want the exploits to be patched in this upcoming update of iOS 6.1.

January 19, 2013
Google Copies Pranav Mistry’s Invention Called The SixthSense

The emerging tech giant company, Google is planning to patent an invention that was introduced in 2009 by a MIT Student named Pranav Mistry. The name of the invention was The SixSense that was made in 2009 and this invention made headlines in the news channels, on the Internet along with local newspapers. At that time, every one was praising this amazing invention done by Pranav Mistry, the student of MIT’s Media Lab. As far as the invention called The SixthSense is concerned, a wearable device used to connect the data world and real world with each other instantly.

The SixthSense Device consists of a Camera, Color Markers, Projector, and a Mirror. Moreover, the hand gestures are recognized by the device and it provides a projected phone pad on the hands of the user, so they can make calls from it.

Other than these features, the SixthSense offers many more features in which we are not interested now because we have already talked about the technology made by Pranav is going to be patented by Google for its upcoming Project Glasses in near future.

The feature that inspired the engineers at Google of Pranav is no other than the most amazing feature of Phone Pad. Google is planning to work on the same Phone Pad that was demoed by Pranav at TED in 2009. This feature of the Phone Pad will allow users to place the Dial Pad on their hands or any where on the wall or solid place where they can easily connect to the call.

The report of copying the idea of Pranav by Google comes from patentlyapple. According to the website, Google engineers were very impressed from the Technology that Pranav made and they are looking forward to make this technology of Phone Pad more efficient to implement this technology in the upcoming Project Glass by Google.

Apparently the engineers at Google were so inspired by Mistry’s invention that they decided to copy it and modifying it for their future Project Glass product that’s due to arrive sometime in the mystical future.

This is something shameful act by Google because they don’t even know how to copy one’s work. At least they should have changed the diagram of the patent and made it more better rather than copying the same idea of the student.

Video of Pranav Mistry’s Invention The SixthSense:

January 19, 2013
Installous App Ruling the AppStore for Just $2.99 – Inside Story

At the start of 2013, the most famous App that came after Jailbreaking was taken offline called INSTALLOUS by HACKULOUS. This Application of INSTALLOUS used to help people in downloading cracked paid Applications from its own website maintained by Hackulous Staff. It was one of the most downloaded and used Application by the iPhone/iPod/iPad users all around the world. Every one who used to jailbreak would download this Application at first by adding the repo of INSTALLOUS. Even after being the most downloaded Application around the world, it came to an end on December 31, 2012 when the makers of INSTALLOUS announced that they are going to turn on the kill switch for this Application to put piracy to an end.

Soon after the kill switch of INSTALLOUS was turned on, the program stopped working and showed an error stating that it is out of date. This step to stop piracy from the Jailbreak world might have sadden many hearts, but on the same time, it opened an opportunity for App Developers to play with those saddened hearts with the same name, but with different UI and Features.

People searching for the INSTALLOUS Application on Google landed on this Application of the same name as of Installous and with somewhat similar design on the AppStore purchased it for $2.99 because it seemed a bit similar to INSTALLous, the piracy App. After buying and using the Application of INSTALLOUS, people started to complain about it because it never allowed piracy and was very different from the Jailbreak version of INSTALLOUS.

Whereas, the Application of Installous present in the AppStore clearly states that it is an App related to puzzle in which you need to combine the gears of some color that explode them and you win the game.

It’s a great app for your device – Installous!

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In this puzzle you need to combine gears of the same color That explode them and won the points! With each level you need to get more and more scores! But there are the bonuses, Which helps you to get more score! Good luck!

The name and background of the App is similar to the pirate jailbreak App INSTALLOUS. The design mainly drags people into misleading and making them pay off a huge amount of $2.99 that is not worth it to pay for this simple Application.

In order to make our readers aware of the fact about this Application and to provide more details about this Application, we downloaded INSTALLOUS Application from the AppStore to reveal the inside story about it that what is really inside in this Application.

Inside Story of Installous Application on the AppStore:

The inside story of Installous Application available on the AppStore for purchase at $2.99 is very amazing. The name might sound interesting before the purchase, but when you have done the purchase and downloaded the Application, you will for sure burst out because the name of the Application is not INSTALLOUS in real time.

The name of the Application INSTALLOUS is Gears in real-time. Upon downloading the Application from the AppStore, we found out that the name of INSTALLOUS was used for fun and to grab hot cash. When we downloaded the Application, it came with the name of Gears, which means the real name of the application is Gears and not Installous. Hence, the advertisement done on the AppStore is purely misleading and fake.

After paying the amount of $2.99, all you get is a useless game of puzzle that is not even worth a $0.01. We believe this App should be available free or not even free. The main aim of this post was to inform you about the inside story of this fake App and why it is priced at $2.99 and not below. Other than this, beware of the fake Apps arriving on the AppStore with the name of Jailbreak Tweaks or so at a high price. These Apps are approved to deceive the customers to get some hot cash from them.

January 18, 2013
How to Identify Fake Factory Unlock Scammers/Websites for iPhone

We all are aware of the fact that there is no official Unlock for the iPhone by the Dev-Team or some one related to them haven’t yet announced the unlock for the iPhone. The unlock drought started back in 2009 when Apple released a new iOS update of iOS 4.x.x and amazingly it updated the baseband of the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 on that iOS. When this initial update of iOS 4.x.x rolled out, many of the users were not aware of the fact that they will be locked on to this iOS 4.x.x because it has a new baseband and there is no unlock for this baseband. Unlock was available for preceding baseband, 1.59.00 for the iPhone 4, 5.13.04 for the iPhone 3GS and below.

At that time, it was highly anticipated that the Dev-Team would work hard for unlock and will provide the users with unlock some time eventually. While waiting for the official unlock to debut from the Dev-Team, Apple didn’t waited for unlock to arrive, indeed the tech giant started to roll different iOS 4.x.x updates for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. When Apple released iOS 4.2.1 for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 4, the support for future iOS version for the iPhone 3G were dropped by Apple. Still people were dreaming about unlock to arrive via Dev-Team.

On every release of a new iOS, the Dev-Team used to warn the users that don’t update because they wont be able to unlock their iPhone because they are looking for unlock hole and will make the release of unlock ASAP they find the solution. This ASAP took them about 3 years and yet no solution for the unlock has been found by them.

However, when Apple started to roll out iOS 4.x.x updates for the iPhone with the updating of the baseband, a company called ApplenBerry (GEVEY) jumped into the market claiming that the iPhone unlock on 2.10.02 and future basebands can be done and they showed some proof for the unlock. At first, it was believed to be counterfeit, but upon using it, unlock was proved to working fine and it was given a green signal by the Dev-Team member Sheriff Hashim for the GO. At this time, people switched their faith from the official unlock to this hardware unlock by GEVEY.

Even before the hardware Unlock could arrive for the iPhone Un-Unlockable basebands, there was one mysterious thing roaming on the Internet and is roaming on the Internet freely scamming million of iPhone users in the name of Factory Unlock. Indeed this swindle of Factory Unlock for the iPhone is still roaming on the Internet and millions of iPhone users depending on the Unlock are scammed because of Unlock drought.

Before we proceed on with the complete details and practical experiences with these fake unlock websites and scammers, kindly wear some protective (just kidding) because you can be one of the users who might have got scammed via these websites or scammers regarding the unlock.

How to Identify Fake Factory Unlock Scammers/Websites for iPhone

We will start the topic by pointing out our practical encounter with one of the fake unlock websites and a proposal sent to us by the fake factory unlock website that we rejected. We will start with the old experience that happened with us due to unlock drought.

First Case:

Remembering the era of Unlock drought and having an iPhone 3GS in hand, some one contacted us that he is getting unlock for the iPhone 3GS on iOS 4.1 Baseband 5.14.03 for some bucks online. Indeed, the person had paid for unlock and emailed us the files that he got in return to unlock the iPhone 3GS on this un-lockable baseband.

When we downloaded the files and looked into the .zip file, the amazing thing was that we didn’t found any thing new. Everything included in the file was free and nothing was new. The files included in the .zip were the Redsn0w versions, Blackra1n, and few more things with a small guide on how to Jailbreak the iPhone and install Ultrasn0w after the Jailbreak. At that time, these things were new to an iPhone user, but were not worthy enough to pay for the free software’s.

The original E-Mail from the sender is as follows:

Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:11:08 +0200
Subject: Notifica acquisto sblocco iPhone – SOFTWARE IPHONE
To:

From:

ENGLISH – ITALIANO – FRANCAIS

ENGLISH

Dear Customer,

thanks for your purchase.
You can download the software directly from this link:

English: www.serviceok.net/sbloccoing.rar

French: www.serviceok.net/sbloccofra.rar

Italian: www.serviceok.net/sbloccoita.rar

Follow the directions contained in the guide to unlock your iPhone, using the correct software for your model.
If you need assistance, please contact us directly by clicking the button on our website, we will try to answer your question within 48 hours.
Sincerely
www.serviceok.net

The amazing thing about this E-Mail is that the links are working at full and they aren’t expired. The download links works fine and the files included in the above download links are sent by the website which claimed to unlock the iPhone. You can download the files as a sample and see them at your own risk. We have pasted the links of the direct download files because we want the world to see what things do these fake unlock scammers provide for money.

Second Case:

Now coming towards an offer that we got from an unknown website scammer to partnership with them and to become their affiliate based on 60:40 ratio, we rejected the offer. At this point, many of you might think that the offer was good and we are dumb ass that we rejected the offer. We will come to this after you have gone through the E-Mail sent to us by the advertiser:

Comments: We would like a partnership where you receive 60% of all revenue. Our banners perform better than adsense or buy sell ads.

Try us out for a week and let us know the stats. We are willing to make changes to your homepage also if you desire to improve conversions.

We are quickly becoming the leader in our niche of Jailbreak Unlock customer support. We want to stand out

from competitors by offering a legitimate, honest, satisfactory service by providing detailed, easy to understand,

constantly updated tutorials and responsive24/7 customer support.

Here is some more information about the program.

The conversion performance is great once the potential customer comes over to

our landing page

(http://www.jailbreakunlock.org/jailbreak-01.html). Largely, it

depends on how the traffic is sent over. Text links work very well

and have up to a 12% conversion rate. Banners get lots of clicks, but

perform lower on the conversion rate. Ultimately though, our

program performs much better than AdSense (when tested side by side in

the exact same location).

1. An average affiliate should make about 1-3 sales per day which is about

$20.00 to $60.00 per day or $600.00 to $1,800.00 per month. Our top

affiliate is doing $30,000 per month.

2. We sell 3 packages. Standard support for

Jailbreaking or Unlocking your iDevice ($29.95) upgraded, ($39.90). The last is an

upgraded package that includes standard support plus 1000s of

wallpapers, unlimited iDevices, and downloadable apps

(http://www.jailbreakunlock.org/public/application-gold-extras/)

($49.90). About 33% of the customers get the upgraded package.

3. As an affiliate, you get 60% of each sale generated.

4. We have full real time tracking, plus we can send the conversions

to you via email in real time.

5. Payment is by paypal. Net 30 to account for any returns.

We would like you to try us out for a week and see how things go. Of

course, we will pay you for any sales that get generated and you will

have complete real-time tracking plus emailed conversions.

The offer sent to us by E-Mail was jaw-dropping offer, no doubt in that. After examining the website, we found something unusual and not worthy enough to go with them because the services that the website is offering are free of cost and the factory unlock cost for the iPhone’s is variable depending on the carrier. The prices are not fixed as mentioned/shown on this website.

Other than this, the website is offering unlock for the iPad’s and iPod’s, where as these things doesn’t require any unlock. The iPad GSM models are unlocked by Apple. The website doesn’t mention iPhone’s on the front page, indeed it says to Unlock the Phones rather than the iPhone series.

Conclusion:

Not “Every thing that glitters is Gold.”

Following the above phrase, we rejected the offer from the website regarding the advertisement because we never wanted to deceive our beloved readers just for some handsome money. Other than this, we were fully aware of the fact that the website providing unlock for money along with Jailbreak are fake and one shouldn’t rely on them. The increasing trend of this practice motivated us to come up with a detailed post regarding this issue.

According to our experience, the website providing you with Jailbreak and Unlock for money are purely fake because Jailbreak software’s are free for life. On the other hand, the Factory Unlock (permanent Unlock) for the iPhone costs money these days and is done by reliable sources. The sources doing Factory Unlock will never sell Jailbreak Tools or Jailbreak methods because Jailbreak tools and Jailbreak Methods are free for life.

Any website claiming to Unlock your iPhone and providing you Jailbreak Tool for some amount of money is fake. The website will provide you with the methods on how to install ultrasn0w and unlock the iPhone that is not in works any more.

Do let us know about how did this post helped you and saved you being scammed. If you find this post interesting, don’t forget to share with your loved ones and spread the word, so the world can get aware of these scammers regarding the iPhone Unlock.

January 18, 2013
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12D54) Released to Developers by Apple

The process of internal testing of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Beta made some progress later today when Apple released another Beta build of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12D54) later today. This new build of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12D54) was released after the preceding build of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12D50) earlier this month. This new OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (12D54) doesn’t bring something new or got no issues fixed because there were no known issues in the preceding builds.

The main area to focus on this build is the same as it was in preceding builds. Apple has asked the developers to focus mainly on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari along with Wi-Fi.

January 17, 2013
Sony Xperia Yuga Specs and Images Leaked Ahead of Official Unveiling

Few hours before the official announcement of Xperia Z (Yuga) by Sony the Japanese manufacturer, the official images and confirmed specification of the handset were leaked. As we know that C.E.S has took an initiative and today on January 8, 2013, it is the turn of Sony to take the stage to announce something extra ordinary is coming. This extra ordinary was teased by Sony just three days before prior to the official announcement. We told you about the extra ordinary coming the day before with two different speculated models. The first speculated model was Xperia Z (Yuga) and the other one was Xperia ZL (Odin).

Out of these two different models with two different codenames, the Xperia Z (Yuga) model is confirmed for the unveiling on January 8, 2013 at C.E.S by Sony. The confirmation report of Xperia Z (Yuga) comes from a French blog called nowhereelse, who claims to have obtained some official images of Xperia Z (Yuga) from Latter21 ahead of official launch.

Other than the images, Latter21 has also confirmed the specifications of the upcoming Sony Xperai Z (Yuga). The specifications are:

Touch Screen Mobile

BRAVIA Engine 2

5 inches with a resolution of 1920 × 1080px

processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro oven-core clocked at 1.5Ghz

2GB RAM

optical camera with Exmor RS 13Mpx

32GB of internal storage, micro-SD slot

micro-USB port and headphone jack

Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 overlay adorned with a UXP

Sony Xperia Z (Yuga) Images Gallery:

Sony Xperia Z (yuga)

Sony Xperia Z

Sony Xperia Z Sideways

After seeing the above-mentioned specs, it looks like Sony is going to strike back with killer specs and will give a great competition to its existing competitors by introducing Sony Xperia Z. All we need to do is just wait for few hours in order to see the release date of this smart phone by Sony and to see hands on this amazing machinery.

January 8, 2013