State of Jailbreak: Untethered iOS 5.0 & 5.0.1

In this episode of State of Jailbreak I go over the new untethered jailbreak pod2g has found for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, iPad 1 and iPad 2. This new untethered jailbreak will be available for devices on iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1 and should be available soon.

Musclenerd also announced that there will be a new redsn0w update that will allow you to use saved SHSH blobs from TinyUmbrella. I highly recommend backing up SHSH blobs on any device you have on iOS 5.0.1 to be ready for when the untethered jailbreak is released.

The tweak of the week is LockScreen Multitasking. LockScreen Multitasking allows you to activate the Multitasking bar on jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch and iPad from the lockscreen and is available free in Cydia.

Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand

http://www.ted.com What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown Review

In this video I review Batman: Arkham City Lockdown for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. I show the gameplay, graphics, controls as well as additional features like the Batman Begins and Animated Series Batman suits, Arkham City comics along with unlockable characters like Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Arkham City Lockdown is a based on the Unreal Engine 3 and features very similar gameplay to Infinity Blade 2 with a heavy emphasis on swiping on the touchscreen to execute combos. Arkham City Lockdown is a pure fighting game and features 16 levels with boss fights including Two-Face, Joker, Deathstroke and Solomon Grundy.

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown is available in the App Store for $5.99 on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery — healing without cuts

http://www.ted.com Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, surgeon Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

Gaming with Google Chrome

Kroll: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/efjdaaaepgacfpadimoljoefkmnnkpkm

Realm of the Mad God: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhjfmaldpppkmjjgkmadddbanpabfflp

Crysis 2 on Gaikai: http://www.gaikai.com/

In this video I show gaming with Google Chrome. Unlike before browsers are no longer relegated to only play Flash games on Facebook but instead there are legitimate games you can play using only Chrome. Kroll is a good example of a solid extension to install, Realm of the Mad God is a fun Flash based MMO and Crysis 2 is a fantastic example of cloud based gaming using Gaikai.

Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

http://www.ted.com Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature’s most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level — then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate