📅 April 29, 2013

Saurik Gains Root Acces On Google Glass

Just two weeks ago we took a look at a first Google Glass ‘Explorer Edition’ unboxing , and today we receive a report that project Glass has already been jailbroken ( or better yet ‘rooted’ ). The person to gain root access is none other than Saurik, the godfather of iOS jailbreaking and creator of Cydia.

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Just two weeks ago we took a look at a first Google Glass ‘Explorer Edition’ unboxing , and today we receive a report that project Glass has already been jailbroken ( or better yet ‘rooted’ ). The person to gain root access is none other than Saurik, the godfather of iOS jailbreaking and creator of Cydia.

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📅 February 21, 2012

The U.S. Copyright Office Posts 600+ Pro and Anti Jailbreaking Comments

The list of commenters includes consumers, corporations, and high profile names such as Sony, Mozzila, and Saurik. The big absent from this list is Apple.

The EFF’s efforts for keeping jailbreaking legal  are definitely not passing by unnoticed. The U.S. Copyright Office has posted 660+ comments, both for and against extending the exception allowing the “jailbreaking” of smartphones. The EFF is also pushing this year for gaming consoles to join the exception.

The list of commenters includes consumers, corporations, and high profile names such as Sony, Mozzila, and Saurik. The big absent from this list is Apple.

On Friday, February 10, the Copyright Office received approximately 700 comments on the classes of works proposed for exemption from the prohibition on circumvention of technological measure that control access. Links to most of those comments appear below, and links to the remainder should appear by the end of this week (i.e., by Feb. 17, 2011). The Office is also in the process of identifying, for each comment, which proposed class(es) of works is addressed.

Check out the comments here…

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📅 July 11, 2011

iFile Updated To v1.6.0-1 With Full DropBox Support

iFile is a file manager runnning under user root. It allows fast navigation through the iPhone file system. It allows direct viewing of files of various types, e.g. movies, sound, text, HTML, Microsoft types, PDF, ZIP.

New day, new update in Cydia: iFile. iFile is a file manager runnning under user root. It allows fast navigation through the iPhone file system. It allows direct viewing of files of various types, e.g. movies, sound, text, HTML, Microsoft types, PDF, ZIP. For PDF files direct jumping to pages is possible. ZIP packing and unpacking is also supported. Files can be sent as email attachments. Text files and property lists can be edited. Folders and files can be bookmarked. In addition, files can be uploaded and downloaded from iFile’s built-in web server.

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