Quasar lets you Run Multiple Apps In Separate Windows Simultaneously On iPad

The Quasar Cydia tweak for iPad allows the user to open, position and resize multiple windows. Literally any app can be opened up and used in a floating window, or made fullscreen at the touch of a button. There are options to rotate the windows in case you want to change their orientation and you can configure the options for this tweak from the Settings menu.

Quaser is only available for jailbroken iPads running iOS 5 or higher and can be downloaded from the BigBoss repo on Cydia.

Shazam Player For iPad

Shazam Player is now available for the iPad from the app store.

The Shazam Player app gives you the ability to see streaming lyrics, watch YouTube videos, and read reviews of your favorite tracks and artists. Furthermore, the Shazam Player works with your existing iTunes playlists, but also lets you create new playlists on the fly.

Other features include:

Enhanced Retina support for the new iPad
Fun visualization for non-LyricPlay tracks
Bring your music to life with LyricPlay™. See streaming lyrics in time to the music – you’ll always have the words to your favorite songs with you.
Share the soundtrack of your day on Facebook and Twitter.
Watch YouTube videos and concert clips.
Find tour dates for the bands and artists you’re into.
Manage your music – see your iTunes playlists and create new playlists on the fly.
Select your favorite tracks and hide ones you don’t want to hear.
Add to your music – buy new tracks on iTunes from within the app.
View music by artist/album/title and use the Track Tray to see all the great Shazam features available for each song.
Top tracks – a changing list of LyricPlay tracks – buy them straight from the app if you don’t already own them.
Identify new music you’re hearing by instantly launching the Shazam App.

Winterboard update available on Cydia

Winterboard is the main app used on most jailbroken idevices to customise the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad and it  has been updated to 0.9.3904. 

The update includes the following changes:

5.x: Solve SpringBoard Scroll Lag (only with “SummerBoard Mode” off)
Default SummerBoard Mode to Off
4+5: TimeStyle, PerPage, IconAlpha
4+5: WinterBoard.app Respring Fix
5.x: Last Ditch kill -KILL Respring
4+5: HTML Wallpaper Multi-Touch
2+3: Fixed SpringBoard Crashes
Corrected Order of UISound StackUse Fallback/* to Wildcard Theme

iPad 2 downgraded from iOS 5.1 to iOS 5.0.1

iH8sn0w the developer of Sn0wbreeze has uncovered a loophole in Apple's apticket system allowing him to downgrade his iPad 2 from 5.1 down to 5.0.1 and he said it works on all A5 devices.

I would expect you need the SHSH blobs from iOS 5.0.1 so be sure to save them if you can.

At present there is no word on a public release or ETA.

Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2

The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 has been released after months of hard work by pod2g and the rest of the jailbreak community.




p0sixninja said "Windows version of Absinthe is coming as soon as Nikias gets home and rolls up the build"

The iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak is compatible with the following:

iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1
iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1
As previously noted, there will be three jailbreak tools released that are all capable of jailbreaking the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. They are as follows:

 
Absinthe
A traditional graphical user interface jailbreak tool. Read More.

Dev Team CLI
A command line inteface that’s great for troubleshooting. 

RedSn0w
The Dev Team’s traditional graphical user inteferface used for jailbreaking. This will be released sometime later after the CLI.


A huge thanks is owed to pod2g, p0sixninja, MuscleNerd, planetbeing, Saurik, and no-doubt countless others.

Download for Mac

Absinthe-mac-0.1.2-2.zip


Download for Windows

Absinthe-Windows

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untether to be released real soon

Looks like we will see an untethered jailbreak for the 4S and iPad2 within hours according to pod2g who updated his blog earlier today.

Here is what he said:

Hello dear readers,

I know the wait was long, too much long, but it's about to end! You'd be able to free your iPhone in some hours.

A tool named Absinthe and developped by the Chronic Dev Team will install the untether on your device. Also the iPhone Dev Team will release a CLI (command line) tool to help diagnose issues and repair things if it goes wrong.

This is a little scary I know, but the chance you break something is really small, since we made lots of tests to verify the process on different devices. But it is the first time we use the backup / restore functions of iTunes to install software, and there are maybe things we are not aware of.

As you already know, different security researchers put a lot of energy to work out the different issues we had to install the untether on new devices.

Thus, a unified PayPal account was opened so that everyone who worked on the A5 exploits will receive a fair split of your contributions. Here is the link : contribute
As usual, contributions are not needed but are appreciated by developpers. By the way, thank you very much again for everyone who already participated. This is real nice.

Here is the complete list of Absinthe supported devices :

• iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
• iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1

Corona iBooks fix

pod2g updated his blog regarding a corona iBooks fix, here is what he said:

"@xvolks worked to include @comex sandbox patches into the Corona GIT.

Expect a Corona update soon in Cydia that'll fix iBooks and other softwares having sandbox issues.

I'll update the blog when this is released."

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak update

Pod2g has shared some more information on the hopefully soon to be released iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak in a blog post.

Here is what he had to say in his blog

How could pod2g have an untethered 4S and dev teams still haven't released tools to achieve this at home?

The exploit I used to inject the untethering files to the 4S relies on having a developer account, and can't be released publicly.

It's the same reason why @MuscleNerd has an iPad 2 tethered jailbreak but couldn't distribute it.

So, we need to find a distributable exploit to remount the system partition read/write and to set Corona files at the correct places.

Why A4 version of Corona was easier to release?

Because a tethered jailbreak is a good way to install Corona!

Why don't you do a tethered jailbreak then?

A tethered jailbreak also relies on an exploitable vulnerability that we still haven't found yet!

pod2g, release this stuff quick, [your insult here], I've waited enough now.

If I could, I would!