Two days ago the jailbreak for the A5 devices such as the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 was released. I had the pleasure of today testing out “Absinthe” the jailbreak utility on my Sprint iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1 (9A405). Absinthe , which by the way is for Mac only at the moment, was however able to be run on our test workstation running Mac OS X Lion via VMware Workstation. Installation was easy! A simple download of Absinthe (links below) and plug in the iPhone and click “Jailbreak”. A few minutes later it asked me to unlock the screen...
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Apple TV2 and FireCore’s aTV Flash (black)
Bought and Apple TV2 back in December for upstairs in our bedroom and was pretty impressed with it. The ability to watch Netflix, iTunes movies and videos, play iTunes music all from a network connected computer downstairs in the office running iTunes was nice for a little while. Fast forward about two weeks later, we climb into bed and turn the TV on so we can watch a movie that I had imported into iTunes earlier in the day and that’s when we realize that iTunes is NOT running downstairs on the computer. This means we can’t watch the movie...
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