At the moment there is only a version for Mac. A Windows version should be out before the weekend is over. Greenpois0n.com is getting slammed so be patient or download the Mac version here instead. A working redsn0w version of this jailbreak will be out soon. Absinthe works for

iPhone 4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) & (9A406)
iPad 2: 5.0.1 (9A405)

All is right in the jailbreak world now as an untethered jailbreak exist for every iOS device on 5.0.1 now. Expect iOS 5.1 to be released soon, but don’t update if you want to keep your jailbreak. With the jailbreak now out expect some very cool Cydia tweaks involving Siri to follow shortly!

A Few Tips

1) If you want to carrier unlock your iPhone 4S you have to be on 5.0 not 5.0.1
2) Don’t have a passcode set when jailbreaking
3) If Absinthe crashes, just reboot and try again
4) If Absinthe won’t open you might have to wait for redsn0w
5) When you see “Error Establishing a Database Connection” on your device – that is normal. That is when you goto Settings on your iPhone or iPad and toggle the VPN on.
6) If you use VPN for anything else you must remove it from the list. If you don’t know what VPS is, then you don’t use it so don’t worry about it

AT&T:

- $20/month for 300MB data with a $20 charge for each additional 300MB
- $30/month for 3GB data with a $10 charge for each additional 1GB
- $50/month for 5GB data with mobile hotspot/tethering and a $10 charge for each additional 1GB

Verizon:

- $30/month for 2GB data
- $50/month for 5GB data
- $50/month for 4GB data with mobile hotspot/tethering
- $70/month for 7GB data with mobile hotspot/tethering
- $80/month for 10GB data
- $100/month for 12GB data with mobile hotspot/tethering

Overages on all Verizon plans are $10/GB

Sprint:

- $30/month for unlimited data

So even with the increase, ATT pricing is still slightly better than Verizon. That said, Sprint offers by far the best pricing plan. However, Sprint also has the worst data speeds. The choice is yours and I’m sure all this will change again once LTE iPhones and iPads arrive.

If you haven’t jailbroken on iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 its easy.

1) Plug your device into iTunes and update to 5.0.1
2) Download latest version of redsn0w 0.9.10b1 here
3) Run redsn0w to install Cydia (see video if still unsure how to do this)

If you are using a tethered or semi-tethered jailbreak already you have two options

1) Run redsn0w but uncheck “Install Cydia” or there is a Cydia tweak from the Chronic Dev Team called Corona that will update your jailbreak from tethered to untethered. I don’t recommend using these methods. For the tethered jailbreak to get out of a reboot cycle I (and many like me) had to point redsn0w to iOS 5.0 firmware even though I was running iOS 5.0.1 on my iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4. You will likely get into a reboot loop unless you do a full restore to iOS 5.0.1. Plus, I’m a big believer in doing a full restore every so often just to make your device run smoother anyway.

So there you have it. Untethered jailbreak is here for all on iOS 5 except iPad 2 and iPhone 4S who will have to wait a few more months.

Step 1 – Add this source to Cydia http://repo.insanelyi.com/
If you need guide on how to do this see this post.

Step 2 – Tap the insanelyi source you just added and install iTransmission. Just like adding app from App Store.

Step 3 – Tap and open iTransmission

Step 4 – Tap the + sign in the bottom left and choose URL. Paste the torrent URL you want to download. Wait 15 seconds and your download should start.

That’s it. A few tips. Be sure you paste in the actual torrent url. There are tons of torrent websites. I used btjunkie in the video which has almost everything. Wait about 30 seconds for the download to start. If you want to keep your iPhone from turning off and stopping the download goto Settings – General and set the Auto Lock to Never. I would turn that back to a minute or two once you are done so your iPhone can sleep when you aren’t using it to make your battery last longer. If you are going to download over 3G (I hope you have unlimited data plan) be sure you go into the Settings of iTransmission and turn on Cellular Network. The Settings tab is the one on the bottom right. You can tap the torrent file to find the location of where it downloaded (it should be var/mobile/documents/downloads). Once it’s done downloading use iFile to cut and paste it in whatever app you want to view the file. A guide to using iFile can be found here.

So there you have it. Another simple way to download and view movies and tv shows directly to your iPhone, iPad or iPod. Hope you enjoy.

So Friday October 21, in the afternoon I made my first purchase with the new Cards app. I wanted to see the quality of the card. I took a quick snapshot of my face outside with the iPhone 4S camera and created a card in five minutes. I was really surprised there were only 21 designs to choose from. These fell into six categories (Thank You, Holiday, New Baby, Birthday, Love, and Travel). There should be at least a dozen categories and a thousand designs. People would submit them for free. Why was this hard to do? Also, there is no way to edit the text to choose a different font, color or size? That’s bad. For $2.99 to have it shipped anywhere here in the United States is a pretty good deal. I figured maybe some Halloween cards with the boys in costume would be great. Well, it would have been outstanding except there are no Halloween themes. You could change the Happy Holidays to Happy Halloween, but come on Apple how hard is this? You want to take over Hallmark’s business you need to hire some theme design people.

After you save your design, ordering is a snap. You can choose out of your contacts or if like me you don’t put addresses in your contacts then type the address manually. You enter your Apple ID to pay. It then asks for the CVV (three or four digit number on the back of your credit card) of the credit card on file. If you have a Paypal account setup with your Apple ID you are out of luck. You can’t order unless you add a credit card to your Apple ID, or Apple makes a change.

After ordering Friday afternoon, I get an email stating it would be delivered by Thursday, October 27. The only problem is that it was SHIPPING TO THE WRONG ADDRESS! Lucky for me on Wednesday, October 26 I received the following email,

” To Our Valued Apple Customer:

Thank you for your recent Cards App purchase.

Due to a system issue, you may have received a Shipment Notification email incorrectly stating your Cards App order shipped to your billing address. This issue has been corrected.

Rest assured your order will be delivered to the correct address entered in the Cards App.

Thank you for shopping with Apple.

Sincerely,

Apple Online Store Team”

It didn’t say when it would be delivered this time, but on Thursday, October 26, I thought I should try my old address since it may have gone there. I can’t wait to see how well they handle the Christmas card traffic. Geez.

One interesting feature is if your photo has GPS data, the card can show the name of the place and where the photo was taken. The postage on the envelope is Apple designed. You get a notification on your iPhone (or iPod Touch) the day your card is delivered.

One week after my Cards order it came to the correct address. I never got the notification on my iPhone. While the quality of the envelope was fine, I was shocked at the poor quality of the iPhone 4S photo. I know its only $2.99, but maybe you should just email these cards so the picture actually looks decent.

For now this app needs a major update before I would consider using it. If it doesn’t come I doubt it will exist in a year. Then again Ping still exists for some reason right??