If you are an RSS addict and you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, Reeder is a must-have. It syncs Google Reader and present it in such a beautiful way that makes reading so much easier, peaceful background, beautiful fonts, exquisite white space position, and easy operations.
For Mac users, they are lucky to get a Reeder for OSX, but there’s no Reeder for Windows. We introduced you an add-on on Firefox, called PureReader, which mimicks Reeder’s user-interface and things were good for a couple of month. Until last week Google pushed its new design of Google Reader, and everything is broken in PureReader.
Switching back to Google Reader’s original Web UI hurts my eyes so badly that I stopped reading RSS for a week. With 3000+ feeds stacking up, I’m almost desperate enough to spent $999 on a Macbook Air plus another $9.99 for Reeder.
Then came this Reeder for Chrome out of the blue, which is an add-on for Chrome that installs a theme close to the original Reeder for OSX, and it’s free. What a relief! Check it out!
If you’re a frequent Google Reader user or an RSS reader in general, you know how reading (or just scanning through) hundreds of pieces of news every day can be stressful (but addicting), on iOS, luckily we have Reeder, absolutely the best in function, speed and GUI design.
As a Mac user, you can purchase Reeder for Mac, but PC and Linux users are not left in the dark: if you use Firefox, try Pure Reader for Firefox, it’s a resign of Google Reader’s default UI, and once installed, you get a pretty interface with larger and prettier fonts, larger white space, smaller other things less important and less ads. I’m not sure if it’s related to Reeder, as the UI are quite close.
iOS 4.3 is finally officially released, plenty of new features. However, if you’re relying on jailbreaking and/or unlocking, once again, please hold your horses until the official jailbreaking and unlocking tools are released, hopefully soon.
Among the new features, my favourite is personal hotspot, which works like a router to allow your and your friends’ phones, iPads/tablets and laptops to go online in the wild, if your iPhone/iPad has a 3G data plan.
So why would somebody buy an iPad with 3G, if he / she already has an iPhone with 3G plan? But hey, people are rich.
Yes, it’s finally here. iPhone Dev Team has just released redsn0w 0.9.7 that can jailbreak your iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 4,iPod touch 4G and iPad.
Before, there was only tethered jailbreak tools, which requires you to connect your iOS device to a computer and do the jailbreaking procedures each and every time when you reboot your iOS device, which is not convenient at all.
With untethered jailbreaking, you only have to do the jailbreaking once and for all.
It’s still a beta, and works only the MacOSX version is available right now.
And we have to warn you iPhone users: if you rely on unlocking, please don’t hurry to upgrade to iOS 4.2.1 just yet. Please wait for PwnageTool or ultrasn0w to be released, hopefully soon.
I have been using GoodReader to read text novels for a long time, but I do not particularly like iPhone’s system fonts for reading, so I want to add some extra fonts to iPhone’s font library and use it in any app that can utilize iPhone’s system fonts.
After hours of digging in Google and various forums, a solution has been found and here’s how you can add your preferred fonts to iPhone, tested on iPhone 4 iOS 4.1.
The Dev Team released ultrasn0w 1.2 that unlocks all iPhone 3G/3GS. If your iPhone has a baseband later than 05.13.04, It requires your iPhone to recycle an older but higher baseband, 06.15.00, from iPad. The catch is that you will never be able to downgrade, which also voids your warranty. This does not work on iPhone 4, so iPhone 4 users have to wait a little longer.
The Dev Team found an exploit hole on iPad firmware 3.2.2 with baseband 06.15.00; since iPhone 3G/3GS uses “the exact same baseband chip” as iPad, this exploit will work on iPhone 3G/3GS, if the iPhone is using baseband 06.15.00.
It’s blizzard how Apple simply gave up fixing the wide-open PDF security exploit for iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G users, fortunately for them, the jailbreak community will soon release a PDF patch in Cydia to fix what Apple won’t fix for iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G users.
They’re still doing tests before going public, so stay tuned for the release.
Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhones and iOS 3.2.2 for iPads, patching the PDF security exploit, which also blocks browser-based jailbreaking by visiting JailbreakMe.com. For iPhone 3GS and 4G users, if you are relying on jailbreaking and carrier unlocking, stay away from this update until jailbreaking tools are released.
Fortunately for iPhone 3G users, you can still jailbreak iOS 4.0.2 using redsn0w by pointing to the older iOS 4.0 firmware ipsw file, here’s how.
There is no way in near future that Apple will officially allow Flash on its iPhones, iPads or iPod Touch, but that doesn’t stop 3rd-party programmers from trying it. Comex released Frash for iPhone so now you can play Flash if your iPhone 4 is jailbroken.
Here’s how. (more…)
Okay these guys are leet: since jailbreaking can be done at web-based JailbreakMe.com, and since Apple Store exhibits all its iphones, ipads, ipod touch with internet connection, you can actually jailbreak them right inside Apple stores, like what Zac did in his video. Check it out, it’s fun.
Update
Another guy jailbreaks iPads in Apple store, and added a little bit Andriod favor to most of the iPads in there. Check it out after the break.
