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Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad Over the Weekend

People sure do love jailbreaking their iOS devices. In fact, after Friday’s launch of the Absinthe A5 tool, jailbreaking iOS 5 on A5-powered devices was almost as popular as the iPhone 4S itself when it first launched.

Nearly 1 million people jailbroke their iPhone 4S or iPad 2 between Friday and Monday, according a blog post from the Chronic-Dev Team, who took the lead in developing the untethered solution for jailbreaking iOS 5 on Apple’s newest gadgets.

News of Friday’s launch of Absinthe A5 temporarily crashed the greenpois0n site, as it evidently gave hundreds of thousands of users a fun weekend mini-project. The initial tool was only released for Mac OS X, but a Windows version quickly followed over the weekend.

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iBooks Author: New iPhone app is ‘most advanced and fun ebook tool’

A new iPhone app has been described by Apple as the best ebook authouring tool ever created.

Everyone has a book in them – the problem is getting it published.
But now aspiring writers can turn their dusty manuscripts into online novels for free, thanks to an app released by Apple yesterday.

The iBooks Author app was described by Apple marketing boss Peter Schiller as ‘the most advanced, most powerful, yet most fun ebook authoring tool ever created’.

It allows users to drag a word file into the programme, which automatically lays it out with the appropriate chapters and headings.

Users can choose from a range of layouts and can also add photo albums and film footage.

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