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Motorola’s Droid 2 has finally been rooted! Yes, the developer at XDA forums has come up with a cool method to get the root access of the Droid 2 phones.
Sebastian Krahmer, the developer of Droid 2 root tool, has made it easier for users to run the applications that require superuser permissions. There are lots of applications available on the Android Market that requires rooted phones, and now it would be easier to get hands on such apps.
Apple had released a firmware update, iOS 4.0.2 and iPad OS 3.2.2, to fix the hole exploited by widely popular JailbreakMe 2.0 tool. The latest firmware update does not allow users to jailbreak their iDevices, which means the next jailbreak tool is the only solution to jailbreak the iOS.
The iPhone Dev has been receiving several requests to release a quick tool for iOS 4.0.2 and iPad iOS 3.2.2. Today, they have cleared all the rumors and speculations of their forthcoming tool.
Just few months back, Microsoft had announced the availability of Office 2010 RTM, and surprisingly the leaked images of Office 2014/ Office 15 have started surfacing on the Internet.
Wzor, widely known Russian source, has published two images of Office 15 on their website. The website is claiming that the software depicted in these images is nothing but Office 15 and it could possibly be released in 2014.
The one-click root method has become popular in Android world. The developers are releasing the similar tools that can be used to root the device with less complex steps.
HTC Wildfire users were also waiting for such tool so that they can root the phones. An Android developer at XDA forums has come up with similar tool for HTC Wildfire. This one-click soft root allows users to gain the root access of the device.
Entire world is wondering about India’s $35 tablet. Some so called gadgets gurus have also published their verdicts without getting their hands on the product.
When India’s Human Resource Development minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal, announced the new tablet for such cheap price, nobody really believed that it could also become a reality. Yes, the development has started in full swing and it will hopefully be available in 2011.
After successful release of Comex’s jailbreak tool, most of the users have used the JailbreakMe tool to jailbreak their iDevices. The new technique of jailbreaking is quite impressive and effective, as we don’t need to follow multiple complex steps to complete the process.
However, some users have reported various issues after jailbreaking their devices with JailbreakMe 2.0. So, I’m compiling a list of iOS and jailbreak related problems and their solutions in this post, which might help people resolve few bugs and errors.
Twitter has launched its own Tweet Button service for end users as well as website and blog owners. To add this button, you just have to copy-paste the code given by Twitter team on their website.
If you are using simple WordPress theme, you can use following code to get the Tweet Button for your blog.
Recently, many iPhone unlock users have reported Ultrasn0w battery issues to the Dev team members. Ultrasn0w 1.0-1 was released to unlock the iPhone devices running on iOS 4 and iOS 4.0.1 firmwares.
Now, the iPhone Dev team has released Ultrasn0w 1.1-1, which helps improve the standby battery life of the devices. The new Ultrasn0w 1.1-1 supports all the latest basebands i.e. 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04.
Even though hackers are using new exploits in their jailbreak tools, Apple knows exactly how to patch these loopholes. Now, they have released iOS 4.0.2 and iPad OS 3.2.2 to fix the holes that are used in JailbreakMe tool.
Previously, iPhone Dev team and Comex had warned everyone about this firmware update, which removes jailbreak for iDevices. If you want to keep the jailbreak, please stay away from this update.
The new jailbreak tool for iDevices, JailbreakMe 2.0, has made jailbreaking much simpler than earlier iPhone OS jailbreaks. However, some users are facing issues with their jailbroken devices.
Winterboard, one of the popular apps for themes and lock screens, has suddenly started acting weird for users who have used JailbreakMe on their iPod Touches and iPhones. The issue seems to be related to the new iOS 4/iOS 4.0.1 as Apple has changed lots of things in the new mobile operating system.