Here are few simple solutions to fix "Unable to recognize specified IPSW" error while jailbreaking Apple iOS using popular "redsn0w" jailbreaking utility from iPhone Dev Team.

As expected untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 from Chronic Dev Team is now available for download, Greenpois0n RC5 for Mac OS X got released few days ago and today we have Windows version as well letting users untether their jailbreaks.

Apple iPhone 4 is now available on both Verizon and AT&T, to get things started Verizon started ad-war on AT&T and now AT&T has replied. Both videos availability after the jump, enjoy.

Chronic Dev Team has finally achieved success in developing an untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 and the same is scheduled to be pushed for end-users via greenpois0n update soon. A demo video is posted by the team as a proof as posted after the jump.

While there is not much information available about the next-generation Apple iPad 2 the tablet is rumored to be releasing officially in February, 2011, the rumor-mill is once again hot after leak of the following video allegedly showing Apple iPad 2 which is said to be leaked from CES 2011 via an Chinese iPad accessory supplier.

Full-video after the jump.

VLC Media Player has been trusted by millions on PC, Linux and Mac platforms as being one of the most easy to use, no-frills multimedia player. Well-known for it's ability to play almost any multimedia format, the player made it's debut to Apple iOS platform recently but has now been pulled down from iTunes Store as it's Terms and Conditions don’t allow users to install any hosted app on more than five devices which is against the GNU license VLC’s code is supplied under.

Thankfully VLC Media Player For iOS application is still available via Cydia and as an independent install for advanced users, download links available after the jump.

Recently Apple imposed minimum baseband restrictions on iOS restores, popular Windows jail-breaking utility Sn0wbreeze will soon be featuring a new option ‘Baseband Preservation Mode’ in the upcoming v 2.2 release - which basically allows users to upgrade to newer iOS versions preserving their basebands but not jail-breaking as in the usual case.

iPhone Dev Team is once again in the news for posting a much-awaited update to their redsn0w iOS jail-breaking utility, the latest redsn0w 0.9.7 Beta 2 release is strictly for testers fulfilling the promised untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 4.2.1.

While there are lots of advantages of jailbreaking your Apple iPhone/iPod/iPad, it also has disadvantages like an voided Apple warranty and introduction of some security loopholes. A new tool Antid0te is about to be released promising better security for jailbroken phones, what Antid0te will do is to add Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to your iPhone. Which in simpler terms mean that iOS program libraries, the dynamic linker, the program stack and some selected binaries will be loaded at different (random) addresses in memory making the process of exploitation a lot harder.

If you are one of the unlucky few who rely on an carrier-unlock for iPhone 3G and accidentally updated to iOS 4.1 upgrading your baseband (modem) to v 05.14.02 which is not unlockable, here is a method to let you upgrade your baseband to one of iPad 06.15.00 which is fortunately still vulnerable and will allow us to unlock using ultrasn0w.

In this comprehensive step-by-step illustrated guide we will walk-trough the complete process of jail-breaking and unlocking an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.1 having modem version 05.14.02.