Cydget Released

Saurik has released Cydget, an iPhone framework for lockscreen widgets. 
Cydget provides a comprehensive replacement for WinterBoard Lock Widgets, allow developers and web designers to take control of the lock screen using either native code or HTML with JavaScript and Cycript, allowing flexible access to Objective-C. 
Like WinterBoard Themes, Cydgets are configured using a reorderable list. Go [...]

UltraSn0w Update

The iPhone Dev-Team has issued an update to the UltraSn0w unlock which fixes the disappearing carrier name issue. 
UltraSn0w .92 was posted by MuscleNerd and uses an extra 10 lines of code to fix the carrier name. It is available on the normal repo666.ultrasn0w.com Cydia repository. 
Remember to use UltraSn0w you must be on the 04.26.08 baseband. 
The [...]

Blacksn0w Released (Early)

Geohot has released his BlackSn0w unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.
“blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.”
You can find instructions on [...]

MMS/Tethering Hacks For iPhone 2G, 3G & 3GS

ActivateMMS2G brought MMS for 2Gs running 3.0 but was unable to be installed on subsequent iPhone OS releases (3.0.1, 3.1, 3.1.2). Hopefully Native MMS iPhone 2G from the iFoneGuide repository will bring this feature back to iPhone 2G owners. This along withTethering Patch 3G & Tethering Patch 3GS are Cydia versions of CommCenter hacks released by the [...]

iPhoneVM. Boost iPhone Free RAM

Install this. 
http://cscomputing.org/downloads/iPhoneVM.deb
iPhoneVM.deb 
How to: 
1. Copy file to /var/root 
2. Open Terminal 
3. Login to root 
“login root alpine” 
4. Type the command “dpkg -i iPhoneVM.deb” 
5. REBOOT, very important.

Also you can download iPhoneVM via the Be Your iPhone repo (http://repo.beyouriphone.com) in Cydia.

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GeoHot Is A Busy Guy

GeoHot has added an entry to TheiPhoneWiki explaining how his purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak works.
Below you can read the step by step description of what the exploit does…
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* purplera1n sends the enter recovery commands using iTunesMobileDevice
* once in recovery(iBoot), it sends the IBoot Environment Variable Overflow exploit
* the exploit adds a “geohot” command to the [...]

ActivateMMS2G Brings MMS To iPhone (2G)s

Released today via Cydia. Though I’ve tried it personally with no results. So far its pretty successful at bringing the MMS interface to a 2G iPhone in the Messages & Photos apps. Maybe its a local issue…
Update
After playing around with it a little more & some luck I was able to get it to [...]

Sleepers.net Announces Kryptes

Sleepers.net has announced Kryptes, an alternative package handler to Cydia for jailbroken iPhones.
Kryptes is a new, lightweight, package handler that was designed with the end user in mind. We are very excited to announce its release and hope the community appreciates all the hard work that we have put into this. We do understand [...]