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MacBook All the MacBooks were updated, and are ready for shipping today! A new MacBook was introduced with a retina display, and is roughly as thick as a finger. All Apple software like OS X Lion, iPhoto, and Safari has been updated to take advantage of the new retina display. Adobe Photoshop will soon take [...]

The Chronic Dev Team still hasn’t failed to impress us with Absinthe, which was updated to version 2.0.4 on May 30th to bring support to the iPad 2,4. The last version of Absinthe, version 2.0.2, brought support for the iPhone 4 GSM running iOS 5.1.1 (9B208), which Apple released on March 26th, without an explanation as [...]

A new build of iOS 5.1.1 was released (9B208), possibly fixing a bug that only affected the iPhone 4 GSM. After updating, I immediately noticed an increase in battery life, which was poor in the last build. Since the latest build is now supported by Absinthe, it is recommended you update i Also, Absinthe was updated [...]

The wait is finally over for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1! Absinthe 2.0 has arrived, allowing us to jailbreak these devices running ONLY iOS 5.1.1 iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad (3rd Gen) iPad 2 iPad 1 iPod touch 3G/4G Apple TV (2nd Gen) As this is being written, the Greenpois0n server is [...]

iOS 5.1.1 has been released today, mostly containing minor bug fixes. The update is available via iOS 5′s built-in OTA update, with a download size roughly around 50MB (If you have any issues with OTA Update stalling or hanging, read this). This new version of iOS addresses these issues:   Improves reliability of using HDR option for [...]

Every iOS developer is on the edge of their seat, waiting for WWDC 2012. For those of you who don’t know what WWDC is; WWDC is Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference, where new products, both software and hardware, are revealed to the public. For a developer this is the highlight of their year. The question [...]

As WWDC draws nearer, the anticipation for iOS 6, and perhaps the iPhone 5, is slowly growing. The topic of iOS 6 has just began to surface on forums and blogs, and seems to grow increasingly popular as the days go by. Here is a list of some of the things we would love to see [...]