Patch TIFF exploit in Safari, iPod touch, iPhone

Once you’ve used the TIFF exploit to Jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone it’s a bad idea to leave your browser open to the fairly serious vulnerability, luckily someone has created a patch and it’s dead simple to install.

Save battery-life by turning off SSH on the iPod touch, iPhone

After Jailbreaking your iPod touch or iPhone you’ll have an SSH server running, necessary when first installing new applications, but once you’re done it continues to run in the background, even when not in use and can significantly drain your battery. But there is a solution, Services.app, a community application that lets you disable certain services including SSH.

touchFree – GUI iPod touch 1-click Jailbreak for Windows with Summerboard

This guide is outdated, please visit the QuickPWN website for the easiest jailbreak to date for both iPod Touch and iPhone.

An even easier to use GUI version of planetbeing’s 1-click iPod touch Jailbreak application has been released depreciating most of my previous guide. The new version requires fewer reboots and installs the alpha version of Summerboard

Remove dropbear SSH from iPod touch, iPhone

This guide is for people who have jailbroken their iPod touch or iPhone, installed Installer.app, installed OpenSSH from Installer.app and no longer need the depreciated dropbear SSH server. Running 2 servers that do the exact same thing ridiculous waste of system resources. Uninstalling dropbear is quick and easy and here’s how you do it.

A better Tap Tap Revolution icon

Tap Tap Revolution is a game for the iPod touch and the iPhone, available though Installer.app, that’s sort of like Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers, only, it lets you use your own music. The problem? The default icon looks like something from 1998. So I, modest as I am, created a replacement icon for it.

touchFree: iPod touch 1-click jailbreak for Windows (Guide)

A mere few hours ago a hacker named planetbeing released a 1-click jailbreak for the iPod touch under Windows, the Jailbreak is based on Niacin’s TIFF exploit and his own guide but without relying on SSH.

iPod touch Browser Limitations

I’ve been playing with the iPod touch pretty heavily for a couple of days now and I’ve noticed that the browser has some slight and understandable limitations on the way webpages are run in parallel, the limitation being that they aren’t. Or at least not when one of the pages has a lot of images on it, in that case it closes the heavy webpage out and lets you view your other page and then reloads it when you switch back.

FreeBSD Log: Setting up a Samba Server

This article was updated on May 23rd, 2007 to follow a stricter set of best practices.

A Samba server is a Windows shared folder server that allows you to share a directory on your FreeBSD server with your networked Windows computers. For this guide I’m only going to show you how to set it up and make a publicly accessible folder because frankly I don’t understand how to do some of the more advanced user creation and management.

FreeBSD Log: Changing Your Shell in FreeBSD (Unix)

Ok, so you’re just logged in and you’re already tired of sh, I would be to. Good thing it’s pretty easy to switch to bash, which we installed during the original FreeBSD installation. To change the shell we’re going to use the built in chsh (Change Shell) program as root.