On Friday, iOS jailbreak specialist MuscleNerd found a way to jailbreak the new iPad. The above pictures are screenshots of the new iPad running Cydia that he tweeted. He noted that this is just the first step in a process of making a public jailbreak tool, but when he's already figured it out the day the iPad launched, that day certainly can't be too far.
Many people are disappointed that Siri only runs on the iPhone 4S. It's another one of Apple's nasty tricks; just like how they won't let you upgrade devices to the current iOS build if they're too old. Sure, the iPad 3 and the next iPod Touch will both come with Siri, but some of us don't have the patience to wait, or the money to buy a shiny new iDevice. Or both. So don't worry folks; just as you can jailbreak an old iDevice to get the latest iOS build, you can jailbreak any iDevice running iOS 5 to get Siri.
Grant Paul, Steven Troughton-Smith, and Ryan Petich, three well-known iOS hackers, are proud to announce that their new jailbreak, Spire, lets you get Siri on any iDevice running iOS 5. You may know of other jailbreaks that came out prior to this one that could do the same thing. But, the reason why this one is so special is that it is legal. If you're jealous of Siri, all you have to do is go on Cydia now, download the installer, and after you put it on your iDevice you'll just have to download Siri from Apple and then set up a proxy.
Most of the people reading this post right now are probably very familiar with this situation; you ask for something for Christmas, but the person who gets it for you isn't as technology-oriented as you, and they end up buying the wrong thing. This problem has never been more apparent this Christmas, because a lot of people who asked for an Android tablet received a Kindle Fire. And while a Kindle Fire technically does run Android, it's so modified that you can't even tell it's Android, except when you see the selection of apps.
Well, other people noticed this problem as well; hackers. And now, they have figured out a solution to the problem; put Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on your Kindle Fire! Hackers have indeed figured out how to do this, and they even posted a video below:
As you might be able to guess, the Kindle Fire and the Ice Cream Sandwich don't go perfectly together, just as putting an ice cream sandwich over a fire would make it melt. There's a lot of bugs that could ruin your Kindle Fire, and they haven't figured out a way to let the Kindle do audio and video playback. Nevertheless, if the situation I described is exactly what happened to you, I would wait around until the hack is improved, and then you'll have your wish.
