The iPhone dev-team’s blog post :

Those of you with jailbroken iPhone3G and ipt2G devices may now have noticed Cydia starting to save your SHSH blobs too, just like it does for iPhone3GS, ipt3G and later devices. That’s because starting with 4.0, Apple started putting a “soft” SHSH blob check in the firmware. The SHSH blob check is very real in the sense that if iTunes can’t get your blobs (because the Apple signing window has closed), the iTunes restore will error out. But it’s “soft” in the sense that those devices can always use redsn0w or PwnageTool to get past the error (the bootroms themselves for those devices don’t require blobs to be in the firmware files, unlike the newer bootroms).

Furthermore, since the 3.x IPSWs for these devices don’t enforce it, you can always restore to 3.x IPSWs outside of any signing windows.

So, Cydia is doing this to allow you to continue to use iTunes to restore to 4.x on iPhone3G and ipt2g outside of Apple’s signing window without needing to use redsn0w or PwnageTool to get around Apple’s annoying new restriction.

For example, you will now be able to expand pictures by double-tapping them. Also, Audio and Video are now fully supported. As for PDFs, these should now load considerably faster.

It’s available right now in the App Store.

[via Macstories]

Here is the full press release:

CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2010—Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

Beginning this Friday, customers can purchase all models of iPad through Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

Pricing & Availability
All iPad models will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23.

iPad is currently available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for 16GB, $599 (US) for 32GB, and $699 (US) for 64GB for iPad Wi-Fi models and $629 (US) for 16GB, $729 (US) for 32GB and $829 (US) for 64GB for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G models. iPad will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

The bandages are being sold in packs of six for $4.99. Each Antenna-aid is a different color so you can color-coordinate.

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GAME CENTER

iOS 4.1 marks the return of Game Center to the iPhone. Now with a more “gamey” look, it will allow you to make your iDevice gaming a bit more social, just like with Open Feint. Interestingly, it packs a whole bunch of VoIP APIs that should allow you to chat live over voice with your friends.

Camera App

The buttons in the camera app now reposition themselves when you switch to landscape mode.

Parental Controls Tweaks

You can now prevent your kids from using FaceTime and Game Center multiplayer games. Yet, you can’t block the front facing camera alltogether…

Bluetooth AVRCP Support

Your bluetooth accessories and car (if so equipped) can now take full control of your iPhone’s music. That is play, pause, skip and so on.

FaceTime Favorites

You can now add FaceTime links to your contacts directly in the favorites tab.

New Archive Icon for your Gmail account

A nice little tweak that will make the UI a bit clearer.

Others

• Spellcheck off switch
• High-res home icons for all apps
• Game Center push notifications
• New signal bars
• Faster Camera app
• Improved performance on the iPhone 3G

Here’s the description of the App:

Get up and go and have everything waiting for you on your iPhone: Your Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs, just as you had left them on your desktop computer. Firefox Home is secure from end-to-end so your data is always safe. And, of course, it’s free.

Download Firefox Home for iPhone and iPod Touch [iTunes Link]

ALERT !! iOS 3.2.1 Patches Spirit Jailbreak. !

Here’s the new features:

• Improved WiFi connectivity
• fixed an issue that could prevent copy and paste of single-page PDF attachments in Mail
• Addressed an issue that could cause video playback to freeze
• improved reliability of video-out when using iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter
• Added Bing as an option for Safari’s search field

Apple has just released iOS 4.0.1, a free update which sports the long-awaited signal strength fix for the iPhone 3G and later.

According to Apple this update:

“Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display.”

It also extends the lower three bar lengths like yesterday’s iOS 4.1 beta.

Jailbreaks and Unlockers, please stay away from this update until further announcement.

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