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Five Good Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone Now

by Noel on December 28, 2009 · 0 comments

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It's almost 2010 and you still haven't jailbroken your iPhone?  Good for you.  Well, not really.  Even with the dismissed warranty, losing Apple restrictions can help you gain these awesome features that could make losing your handset's chains worthwhile.

1. Multitasking

First, an app called Backgrounder will let you run programs in the background, allowing you to do multiple things at a time (like listen to internet radio while surfing the web and reading your mails).  Combine it with a task switcher (either Kirikae or the paid Multifl0w) and you can easily work from one app to another, all while they run at the exact same time.

2. Downloads

Like to download torrents when you're on the road?  Do it on your jailbroken iPhone. A simple Safari plug-in will add a full-featured download manager for your device, allowing you to look after your torrents (and other downloads) the same way you work with them on your PC.  Want to download YouTube videos?  Not a problem either with YourTube.

3. Lockscreen apps

Wish the iPhone's lockscreen can do more than just lock the device?  On your jailbroken iPhone, it can.  Apps like LockInfo and IntelliScreen provide a boatload of functionalities in that state, including accessing your calls, messages, calendar and numerous other information.  With Cydgets coming too, it's about to get even better.

4. TV out

Screw Apple TV out restrictions in jailbroken mode with the TVOut app (for portrait mode) and Landscape TV Out, which lets you enable the capability on all apps.

5. Unrestricted 3G

Tons of software in the App Store restrict 3G (in order to kowtow to Apple rules).  With the Unrestrictor, that goes away.  All apps that bar 3G (e.g. Skype) suddenly get it.  That 10MB download file limit?  It no longer exists.  Heck, even your streaming YouTube videos look better unrestricted.

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George Hotz Breaks Rank, Releases iPhone 3GS Jailbreak

by Noel on July 5, 2009 · 4 comments

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The iPhone Dev Team, who were behind most of the key iPhone 3G and iPod Touch unlocking tools in the past, have had their iPhone 3GS Jailbreak ready for several days (or weeks?) now, but have held off unleashing it until Apple releases the official OS 3.1 software. The reasoning makes sense - releasing it now might allow Apple to patch it along with the impending update.

George Hotz, the first person to originally unlock the first iPhone, has broken rank and released the tool into the wild anyway. "That isn't how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes," Hotz wrote on his blog, adding that "It isn't worth waiting because you might have the 'last' hole in the iPhone. What last hole... this isn't golf."

The jailbreak tool is called "purplera1n" and can now be downloaded from George's website. If you're looking to jailbreak your brand-new 3GS, simply grab a copy of "purplera1n" on a Windows PC (only Windows Vista and below are supported - no Macs). After you get the necessary applications, install iTunes, run "purplera1n" and run Freeze (which will install Cydia), in that exact order. Simply reboot afterwards and you should be good to go.

Once jailbroken (and with the Cydia installer in tow), the old "ultrasn0w" app can be used to unlock the phone from its mobile carrier. As always, proceed at your own risk.

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