HiPSTER WAVE

Hear that? More secure than a regular wallet because it has a PIN. Time for less cash to be used and more silicone.

First of all, iOS 5 for your iDevice introduces 220 new features, so it’s totally worth the upgrade. However, if you’re using a 3GS iPhone, iOS 5 will probably run pretty sluggishly on your iPhone. Most iDevices (iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch) will run jailbroken iOS 5 fine).

Second, you should know about a tethered jailbreak: this means you will have to use redsn0w to enter DFU mode and have it “just boot tethered” every time you power cycle your device. In other words, if your iDevice gets turned-off, you will lose all jailbreak features until you reconnect it to a computer and use redsn0w to boot it back into jailbroken mode. This is really kind of a hassle when you’re installing Cydia apps that require you to reboot, but once you’re setup, you can enjoy the benefits of a jailbroken iOS 5 and just respring the device to flush out the memory (RAM not the data stored on the iPhone solid-state drive).

Important Note: iPhone users, if you rely on an unlocked baseband you MUST stay away from iOS 5 update, it will eliminate your unlock as it will upgrade your iPhone baseband to one that can’t be unlocked. The iPhone Dev-team will release Redsn0w 0.9.9b5 to let unlockers able to upgrade to iOS 5 with preserving the unlockable basebands. This has been the deal since the first iPhone jailbreak in October 2009.

Jailbreak iOS 5 – Supported devices :
iPod touch 3G
iPod touch 4G
iPad 1
iPhone3GS
iPhone4 (GSM)
iPhone4 (CDMA)

So far, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are not supported with this jailbreak as they powered with newer hardware (A5-processor) than the above devices.

Required Downloads:

Download Redsn0w 0.9.9b4 for Windows / Mac

Download iOS 5 ipsw firmware [Direct Links - Official from Apple]:

Download iOS 5 iPhone 4S
Download iOS 5 iPhone 4 (GSM)
Download iOS 5 iPhone 4 (Verizon)
Download iOS 5 iPhone 3GS
Download iOS 5 iPad 2 WiFi
Download iOS 5 iPad 2 GSM
Download iOS 5 iPad 2 CDMA
Download iOS 5 iPad
Download iOS 5 iPod touch 3G
Download iOS 5 iPod touch 4G

Download iTunes 10.5 for Windows and Mac

At any rate, once you have the software, it’s pretty easy to jailbreak. Just back-up your device in iTunes first, then hold shift or control (depending on if in Windows or Mac Os X) and browse to the downloaded iOS 5 firmware and perform a restore on the device. Once the restore has finished, go through the new prompts on the phone and select “restore device from previous back-up.” After that, just launch redsn0w, click on “Extras,” manually select the iOS 5 IPSW, then go ahead and jailbreak your iPhone. Questions? Leave a comment or Google it.

Check this out. Stefan Ellerich | Site | Contact, took the time to make their own pseudo MacBook Pro using an iPad, wooden case, marker, velcro, bluetooth keyboard and their cat (as you can see from the image below). Wacky wild stuff.

So, if you never noticed, we like Apple products. Wouldn’t go so far as to say we’re die-hard/purist fans, since we jailbreak every iOS product we own, but Apple makes good stuff. Have you seen the Apple store in a mall lately? That place is non-stop. They’re awesome at marketing and make pretty electronics though. Honestly, Apple is more of a phone/portable electronics maker to us than a computer company, but gadgets are pretty exciting.

At any rate, after owning multiple iPhones / fewer iPads, some of the best cases are made by Speck Products. They make some of the nicest fitted iPhone cases. For instance, we got a Speck PixelSkin HD for free with the iPhone 4 due to “death grip” antenna issues. Pretty sure an executive that headed the design team at Apple got fired over that issue with the antenna. Also, have you heard how Steven Jobs has anger issues and flies off the handle routinely on his employees? He tried to take ninja stars from a Japanese airport once and launched into a freak-out fury when Japanese airport security told him that he couldn’t bring them on his personal jet. Okay, so it’s a little ridiculous that he couldn’t take weapons on his private jet, but you never know with that guy. Don’t trust anyone today.

Post digression: so on top of making good products, Speck now partners with cool companies like Out Of Print and Burton to make sturdy cases with cool designs. For instance, you can check out the Out Of Print cases here and the Burton iPod / iPhone/ iPad cases here. Obviously, Burton is a snowboarding company and we have always been into their design style for boards and snowboarding apparel. If you didn’t know, though, Out Of Print takes classic book covers and prints them onto t-shirts. Simple idea for the latter, but pretty sweet. The Catcher in The Rye is one of our favorite books. They claim that terrorists are drawn to J. D. Salinger and Holden Caufield. Maybe Jobs likes that novel too.