• Absinthe: The Untethered Jailbreak Solution for A5 iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Released

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    The jailbreak community just released an untethered jailbreak solution for A5-powered devices, iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.0.1. In a blog post, the French hacker Pod2g revealed the name of the tool as Absinthe.

    Absinthe

    Absinthe

    Now, the hacker p0sixninja tweeted that the tool is ready and the updated greenpois0n tool is now available for download. This means that iPad 2 and iPhone 4S owners can finally jailbreak their device without the need to tether it to a computer after a reboot.

    Download the new Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe tool from here for Mac

  • Apple Announces iBooks Author Mac App, iBooks 2.0 and iTunes U iOS Apps

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    iTunes U

    iTunes U

    Update: Apple has posted their Education Media Event stream online. The link below

    At its education event in New York, Apple has just announced and released the iTunes U App for iPhone and iPad. The new app that lets teachers manage their iTunes U course and gives students access to all the course materials done by their teachers in a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when the teacher sends a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information.

    iBooks Author

    iBooks Author

    Apple has also announced and released iBooks Author, a new Mac app for authoring books. iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.

    Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author.

    iBooks 2

    iBooks 2

    Apple has also announced and released iBooks 2 update . The next evolution of eBooks for the iPad push the limits even further. The app will support textbooks developed by iBooks Author multitouch gestures to move throughout an iBook which can be full of “rich, engaging interactive experiences” — even featuring 3D models so a student can see, for example, inside a cell. In the demo iBook, switching the iPad to portrait re-orientated the content so that the student could focus on reading the text. That way, books can have two completely different experiences, simply by re-orientating the iPad.

    Watch Apple Education Media Event stream online

    Watch Apple Education Media Event stream online

    Apple has posted their Education Media Event stream online. Watch the full stream here or get it on iTunes.

  • Apple to Announce “GarageBand For eBooks” During Educational Event This Thursday

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    Apple Education Event

    Apple Education Event

    Apple has managed an upcoming event on this Thursday, January 19th. In which the giant company will reveal its latest plans in digital textbooks through the iBookstore. Some speculated Apple will make the digital books publishing more attractive to authors — think “GarageBand for eBooks.”

    Apple is said to be working with major publishers since June. McGraw-Hill is one of them. According to The Wall Street Journal:

    McGraw-Hill Cos., Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are among the education-publishing companies most likely affected by an Apple textbook announcement. The companies have experimented with interactive approaches, such as allowing students to take quizzes as they read and hear audio for foreign-language study, but many digital textbooks have looked a lot like their physical counterparts.

    McGraw-Hill has been working with Apple on its announcement since June, a person familiar with the matter said. It wasn’t known whether Pearson and Houghton Mifflin also would participate.

    According to Ars Technica’s, Apple will unveil “GarageBand for eBooks” on January 19th.

    At the same time, however, authoring standards-compliant e-books (despite some promises to the contrary) is not as simple as running a Word document of a manuscript through a filter. The current state of software tools continues to frustrate authors and publishers alike, with several authors telling Ars that they wish Apple or some other vendor would make a simple app that makes the process as easy as creating a song in GarageBand.

    Our sources say Apple will announce such a tool on Thursday.

    Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he wanted to revolutionize textbooks and make them digital and interactive. We are about to see that vision come true.

  • Cut the Rope is Now Available to Play on your Web Browser

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    Cut-the-Rope

    Cut The Rope

    The popular mobile game, Cut the Rope is now available to play on your web browser. All you have to do is access the Cut the Rope website with an HTML5 web browser, Chrome, Firefox, IE9 etc. The game translated pretty well from a touchscreen to a mouse-based.

    Want to try it out yourself? Head over to the Cut the Rope website now to give it a shot.