This book a reference guide to finding the best apps on the iPad.Prices in this book may not be updated; promotions occur every day, and publishers are constantly adjusting prices. It is as accurate as possible.This book is by no means complete; it currently has only five categories, but I’m working on expanding it to include all categories in the App store. There are over 1,500 apps in the iPad app store—it is my intention to get as me as possible quality ones in this book. This first edition includes over 200 in from the Books, Weather, Travel, Entertainment, and Games category.For the most part, “Lite” apps are not included; whenever possible, I have tried to indicate if a free demo of the app is available.This book isn’t a review guide, and I do not weigh in my opinions of any of the apps—it’s simply a guide to what apps are out there, so you don’t have to spend hours in iTunes looking them over yourself.The word giant in this title is a little misl (more…)

While Apple boasts thousands of apps for the iPad, and when we say thousands we are talking over 150,000, there are some that many of us will never use. For instance, they have the Table of Elements, now unless you are in college or maybe even High School, or a chemist or some sort of scientist who else would need it?

The iPad does have tons of apps that most of us would use or at least try though, everything from leisurely to educational and even business apps.  They are working on additional apps though, so it will be interesting to find out what they come up with, as if over 150,000 apps aren’t enough! Read More

It’s a common fact and all iPad users know that now they can easily jailbreak their iPad, but apart from that it’s very important to save your iPad SHSH files with Saurik’s server in order to protect and save the jailbreak-ability of your iPad.

It has become very simple and easy to save SHSH files, through FirmwareUmbrella, which is easily available.

The procedure is very much same as of iphone/iPod Touch. You just need to get the ECID of your devises. Run your Firmware Umbrella (Mac/Windows), then enter ECID, then select your device version, and then choose Saurik-Cydia from drop down, then submit it.

Click the image below to download firmware umbrella

**Umbrella**

1. Make sure your etc hosts file does not have an entry for gs.apple.com. If you don’t understand what I am talking about,
go google “etc hosts” and your operating system. There are many resources to help you in that regard.

2. Run Umbrella app (on a mac) or umbrella.exe or umbrella64.exe (if you have a 64bit java install) or simply java -jar umbrella.jar from within
the directory you unzipped fw-umbrella-semaphore.zip

3. Enter the ecid of your device (go google how to find your ecid – later versions of umbrella will find it for you)

4. Select your device + version combination.

5. Select the repository (server) that holds the shsh information you want to obtain.
5.1. Saurik – Cydia is what you choose if you want to request your shsh blob FROM apple and have it SAVE on Cydia.
5.2. Apple – select this repo if you just want to see what apple will give you.
5.3 localhost – select this if you are really bored and happen to be running TinyTSS. (Yes TinyTSS will spit out whatever it has loaded)

6. Keep the file safe. The file will be in the current directory (ie the directory you unzipped fw-umbrella-semaphore.zip)

NOTE: If you’re running on a mac move the Umbrella app OUT of the .dmg file preferrably onto your desktop and then run it.

**TinyTSS**

TinyTSS will load your shsh blob and serve it up to iTunes when they try to “Verify the restore”.

Options:

-f – file or directory – The shsh file to load OR the saved directory you copied when you saved your 3.0 or 3.0.1 restore files.
-m – enable forced mode – If the shsh blobs you saved are not complete (meaning you have less than the required 20 shsh’s) this option
will force TinyTSS to keep going without throwing an exception. The only exception to this is
if you don’t have your iBSS. Without that you’re screwed anyway.
-q – enable quick mode – If you turn on this switch, TinyTSS will not start the service on port 80. If -f points to a directory,
TinyTSS will try to reconstitute the shsh files and quit.

To get iTunes to use TinyTSS – Simply add:

127.0.0.1 gs.apple.com

to your etc hosts file. Make sure there are no other entries for gs.apple.com. Once you do this, run TinyTSS, verify it came
up correctly and then open iTunes and restore to whatever version ipsw you have shsh blobs for.

Read this article:
Get Your iPad SHSH files Using Firmware Umbrella [How-To]

The long-awaited sequel to the 1112 phenomenon is finally available on the App Store!

Louis has arrived in New York in a rather mysterious way…
Help him discover why he has ended up in New York and follow his adventure promising unexpected developments and encounters.
1112 episode 02 is full of surprises and offers hours of amazing gameplay!

NEW FEATURES:

- All new advanced graphical design and artistic direction
- 25 new larger than life environments
- 14 new characters
- Various puzzles, each with a specific gameplay
- An incredibly responsive Multi-Touch user interface
- Original score
- Elaborate interactive narrative
- Totally redesigned game engine

Note: you do not have to own 1112 episode 01 to play episode 02, simply check the summary at the beginning of episode 02 to set the scene of 1112.

* Category: Games
* Released: Apr 29, 2010
* Version: 1.0.0
* 1.0.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
* 91.8 MB
* Languages: English, French
* Seller: Agharta Studio
* © Agharta Studio

Rated 12+ for the following:

* Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
* Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
* Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
* Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Read this article:
1112 episode 2 finally available in the App Store!

Comex has announced that tomorrow he will be releasing his Spirit jailbreak for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

wahoofan5: @comex so when’s it coming out? At least give a month please
comex: @wahoofan5 Friday.

This jailbreak is a userland exploit which will provide an untethered jailbreak for all current devices. We will be posting tutorials on how to perform the jailbreak as soon as it becomes available.

Stay tuned.

*Update: iHackint0sh reports that chpwn believes comex is very optimistic and he doesn’t see Friday as being possible. [Thanks Jim]

chpwn: comex is very optimistic.
chpwn: I don’t see a friday release possible.
chpwn: but who knows :p
[source: iclarified]

*UPDATED* 4/30/2010 – its confirmed by comex that tomorrow 5/1 is the actual release of spirit!

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Spirit Jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, iPod to be Released Tomorrow *UPDATED*