Archive for September 15th, 2008

Jamesisbored published a guide, that shows how to block ads, that show up in Safari browser during web surfing.

MobileSafari has one major drawback. Up until now, there was no way to block ads. Ads increase the load time of a webpage, and especially on EDGE cause the internet to crawl. Blocking them will give you a lot of extra speed. This is one of the simplest hacks available for your iPhone. You will need to be Jailbroken and have the 2.0 Update, or later.

1. Connect to your iPhone through SSH, iPhoneBrowser, or some other tool.
2. Navigate to /etc/.
3. Now download this replacement hosts file. Replace iPhone's file with this one.
4. Restart your iPhone!

This hack has been tested and confirmed to be working on the iPhone 2.1 Update.

WinPwn developer posted a note, that the new version of WinPwn will be soon. That is all, not much details. New version will probably support new firmware version 2.1.

According to reports in the toucharcade.com and macrumors.com comments

List of Apps affected by the 2.1 software update beside number of forum reports: (in order of reports)

> 20 reports

Last.fm: (no audio) Developer aware, v2.0 update in transit

Zen Pinball: (no graphics white screen) Developer aware, v2.1 update in transit with improved frame rate, responsiveness, and graphics

Toybot Diaries: (corrupted sound effects) Developer aware, v1.2 update in transit

10 or more reports

Alli's Jigsaw:(cannot select new image) Developer aware, update in transit

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