Cydia developers have been hard at work bringing their apps, tweaks, themes and other packages up to date with iOS 5, and more are becoming compatible with the new iOS version every day. A compiled list of compatible, partially compatible, incompatible and unknown Cydia packages from what is known right now follows.

The iPhone Dev Team recently released version 0.9.8b1 of its redsn0w tool, which added support for jailbreaking the first iOS 5 beta. Unfortunately for Windows users at the time, the release was for OS X only due to the fact that Apple had only released an iTunes 10.5 beta for Mac users. Now, however, the team has released a Windows version of the tool to accommodate the new Windows release of the beta iTunes version.

Yesterday, Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.6.2 to developers, a release which comes only one week after the previous build was seeded to developers for testing. According to reports, the new build focuses on graphics drivers, trackpad preferences and virtual machine creation, and continues to list that there are no known issues remaining. This information suggests that Apple is finishing up the 10.6.2 update and will release it to users in the near feature.

Guy Kawasaki, the original Apple Evangelist, columnist for Macworld and current tech entrepreneur has some simple advice for Apple on the iPhone: open up the development process. His point is that Apple doesn’t need to exert a huge amount of control over the iPhone app market. The best way to excite developers and users is more »

Apple recently provided download stats for developers on the App Store, but it seems that not all the fruit is ripe in the orchard.

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Today at WWDC, after the iPhone 2.0 demo, they demoed many many apps created using the iPhone SDK.

The first App demoed is by Sega. It’s Super Monkey Ball. Hey, we saw this already. But today they’re showing us the last level. Out of a whopping 100. Super Monkey Ball will be $9.99 at the launch of the App Store.

The second app is by eBay. Easy access to search, at a glance stats for eBay whether you’re a buyer or a seller. By the sound of it, this is basically just a native web-app… Not really sure what the practicality of having a native eBay app is, but Apple likes it. eBay app will be free on the app store at launch.

Great news for those itching to register for the iPhoneDevCamp 2 you are now able to register for this event. Registration for the iPhone developer’s camp began earlier this week. iPhoneDevCamp 2 is not affiliated with Apple, Inc. iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for-profit event. Sponsors for the event include such companies like Adobe Systems, Belkin, VMware Fusion, iLounge, Funambol, Core Cases, The Apple Phone Show, iWipes along with many others.

When the SDK for the iPhone is launched at WWDC, it is going to be exhilarating. Apple has given developers plenty of time to create useful and outstanding apps, and I expect there will be plenty of them. For example, at the keynote, developers had already made Spore and an instant messaging client in only more »

Apple has now opened up its iPhone and iPod Touch developer program to areas outside of the United States. Why does this matter? Now, developers outside of the States can create official, Apple accepted apps that can be published in the App Store that is to come out with the new iPhone software in June. more »

I was disappointed to hear that any functionality related to the iPhone’s music playback is inaccessible by the iPhone SDK. Although the SDK has many possibilities, anything to do with the iPhone music player is prohibited. This means that possible applications for social networks like Last.fm are not possible through the SDK. This is something more »