Apple unleashes iOS 5, a major brain transplant for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad




Great news from Cupertino, California: The wait is finally over. After nearly four months of extensive public testing, bug squashing, teeth gnashing and under-the-hood tweaking, Apple today released the final consumer version of iOS 5, a major and most ambitious upgrade to its mobile operating system yet.

Note: iOS 5 may not be available for some users yet as usually these things take a while to propagate thoughout all regional iTunes stores. iOS 5 is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, third- and fourth-generation iPod touch, as well as both iPad 1 and iPad 2. However, some features are resource-intensive and thus only available on recent devices. Note that Siri, an intelligent personal assistant users can converse with, remains exclusive to iPhone 4S for the time being.



Preceding the iOS 5 roll out, Apple earlier this morning posted Find My Friends and AirPort Utility apps, enabled iCloud accounts for everyone, flipped the switch on the Newsstand Store and rolled out music re-downloading service dubbed iTunes in the Cloud in the U.K., Canada, Australia and other international markets. The iOS 5 software is available as a free firmware update in desktop iTunes. Just connect your device to a Mac or PC and follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes.



Due to iOS 5 installation being a major brain transplant, you’re strongly recommended to back up all your devices in iTunes before proceeding. In addition, you should copy your device backups and keep them safe, per instructions after the break. Also worth mentioning, the iTunes Terms and Conditions have been updated this morning, related to iTunes Match terms and collection of certain information from your iTunes library. The iTunes Match service is due for public consumption end of October. It is also rumored to go worldwide should Apple secure necessary licenses from record labels.

Now, onto iOS 5. As you know, iOS 5 has over 200 new features plus a handful of biggies.



Take iMessage, Apple’s proprietary messaging protocol for instant messaging with other iOS 5 devices free of charge. iMessage bypasses carrier’s costly text or MMS messages (requires data connection though) and delights with the typing indicator, read receipts and the ability to exchange photos, videos, contacts or locations. For a more in-depth overview, check out 9to5Mac’s exhaustive iMessage guide.

Another big feature is the Notification Center which brings all those annoying notifications from app into a tidy panel accessed with a pull-down gesture. Twitter integration and support for other social accounts make sharing in iOS 5 more secure and uniform across apps. Other noteworthy goodies include wireless device sync with your computer or iCloud, all-new Reminders and Newsstand apps, new Camera features and a whole bunch of other improvements and little tweaks evident throughout the system. If you’re interested in everything iOS 5 has to offer, TiPB has a monster walkthrough.

Now, before you apply that firmware update…



As a rule of thumb, you’re advised to perform a full backup of your iOS device in iTunes to restore to in case something goes wrong. Simply connect your device to a computer, launch iTunes 10.5, right click the device in the Devices pane and click the Back Up option.

After you’ve backed up all your iOS devices in iTunes, quit the program and perform a Time Machine backup of your system. Alternatively, copy the backup folder to a safe location, such as an external hard drive or a USB thumb drive. iTunes places the backup files in the following places:

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

We’d recommend starting from scratch and getting rid of your “old” app data, settings and other baggage which could degrade the experience. Setting your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad as a new device will especially make your life easier if you intend on cutting the cord and syncing with iCloud, iTunes be damned. Beware, though: Setting up a new device (as opposed to restoring from the latest backup) means losing all your text messages, missed calls list, device settings, as well as documents and settings from both built-in and third-party apps – literally, all data iTunes stores in a backup file each time you sync your device.


And here are your direct download links for the iOS 5 firmware:

• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4 GSM
• iPad
• iPad 2
• iPad 2,2
• iPod touch third-generation
• iPod touch fourth-generation
• Apple TV second-generation (iOS 4.4)

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Koliko vidim ovi zvanicni iOS 5 fajlovi nose oznaku 9A334 sto znaci da su isti kao oni za iOS 5 GM

Ja sam se taman bio naostrio da instaliram ovu oficijelnu verziju kad ono nema potrebe posto sam iOS 5 GM ubacio jos pre nekoliko dana

Koliko sam razumeo GM ima rok trajanja tako da bolje da stavis finalnu verziju.

Ne, iTunes 10.5 beta koji sam koristio da ubacim GM je imao rok trajanja i njega sam prekjuce apdejtovao na zvanicnu 10.5 verziju, odmah kada je izasla.

A za iOS 5 sam nasao potvrdu i na nekoliko mesta na netu da je potpuno isti kao GM (build 9A334) tako da nema potrebe da ponovo mucim telefon

Jedan lep video tutorial za one koji nemaju sim-free ajfon, a zele da urade apdejt na iOS 5. Jailbreak je tethered za sada, a kada/ako bude izasao untethered, to ce biti objavljeno u ovoj temi:

A Smart Cover Can Be Used to Break Into Your iPad


A new iOS security flaw has been discovered that lets anyone with a smart cover break into your iPad, reports 9to5Mac.

What the flaw allows:
The person who unlocks your iPad 2 will not have complete access to your iPad, but will be able to gain entrance to whatever you locked your iPad 2 on. If your iPad 2 went to sleep in Mail, Safari, Messages, Contacts, or Maps, you can imagine the sorts of personal information that can be viewed on your iPad.

If your iPad was on the home screen when you locked it, someone trying to break in can only control media and see what applications you have installed.

Steps to Recreate:
1) Lock a password protected iPad 2
2) Hold down power button until iPad 2 reaches turn off slider
3) Close Smart Cover
4) Open Smart Cover
5) Click cancel on the bottom of the screen

To get around this bug you can disable Smart Cover unlocking from the Settings:General menu. Hopefully Apple resolves it soon.




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Android aplikacije na iPad-u:

BigBoss Releases Semitethered Jailbreak for iOS 5


BigBoss has announced the release of Semitethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5.

As you may know, iOS5 currently has a tethered jailbreak. This means that after you have jailbroken and installed most stuff you care about, you go to reboot your device, and it will no longer boot. You will be either stuck at apple logo forever, or you will get to itunes restore screen. When this happens, you have to hook up to your computer and use redsn0w "just boot" feature which gets you rebooted successfully again.

To get us through this period, I have worked on a semi-tethered solution. The semi-tethered jailbreak will allow you to reboot on the road, but with limited functionality. It is enough that you are no longer stranded, and you can use your phone, text, and many other features. This is just until you get home and can use redsn0w again to "just boot tethered". Once you do that, you're back to fully functional state.

Below is a list of what can be done with a semi-tethered jailbreak. Remember this is only if your phone accidentally powers off and you don't have access to RedSn0w to boot tethered.

1) Can use phone, sms (text messages)
2) Can use every other stock app on iphone.
3) Cannot use mobile safari
4) Can use other appstore web browsers such as atomic web browser
5) Cannot use mail app. You could install a gmail app from appstore or such instead.
6) You cannot use any jailbreak tweak, app, cydia until you boot tethered.
7) While in the semitether booted state, you should not add a jailbreak ios5 notification such as sbsettings to notifications during this state or your device will be stuck in a respring loop until you get home to "boot tethered".

Clearly this is far better than being stuck at the Apple logo until you can reach a computer. You can find instructions on how to perform the Semitether jailbreak here.




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Apple je kupio 3D-mapping kompaniju koja se zove C3 Technologies pa cemo valjda u dogledno vreme videti te nove mape na iOS uredjajima: