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(Thanks GeoHot for this snap)

“Patience is virtue” whoever said it, really meant it. Waiting for iPad for more than two months, then receiving an iPad which has been pre-jailbroken surprised me. The iPad was factory sealed and no one would believed this was a used product, to verify that I am the first owner or not, I even checked for smudges and fingerprints on the screen but found none, the iPad booted up and worked for first time without even being connected to any PC/Mac. Confused, puzzled, amazed & worried, I was unable to decode the mystery of my unusual factory sealed iPad.

This is how the story started, then I installed the Apps I had previously purchased and synced it, it ran without any issue, ineptly I opened the Cydia App and suddenly all the old memories I spent with my jailbroken iPhone erupted in my mind. Leaving all that, I spent quite time on Google to find a positive use of this jailbroken thing on my iPad. Eureka!! I got the most awesome reason to get an iPad jailbroken and that was Hackulous.

Using hackulous is like a piece of cake, you can find how to install it by doing a simple Google search or else here is the YouTube link for newbies out there. The video shows that the App downloaded via this process doesn’t have App icons, but that’s no more now. Some Apps may not run, but after you restart your iPad it works well.

The Shadow Part

Some people out there will be quite excited by this hack, but this kind of things leads to the fall of a good and definite AppStore. Sorry developers and other guys who are selling Apps, I only mean that this post will generate some awareness and I don’t want to take away your bread and butter. As it is said after knowing the good part and evil part of a thing, we can start bulding some thing more constructive. Forget the “Patience is Virtue” part, it’s always not good for all.

(Note:- The author doesn’t encourage readers to download Apps via this process, to maintain the harmony and essence of AppStore, do go for the official way)