Instant Jailbreak for iPod touch, iPhone ANY OS, Windows or OSX

This guide is outdated, please visit the QuickPWN website for the easiest jailbreak to date for both iPod Touch and iPhone.

Rezen and the guys from #iTouch on osx86.hu have done it again, further simplifying the Jailbreak process to a single website visit, effectively obsoleting all other software Jailbreaks. No apps to download, no resets to do, this Jailbreak does it’s work in just the first step of most other software Jailbreaks. All you have to do is visit jailbreakme.com on your v1.1.1 iPhone or iPod touch and click confirm.

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.

Apple doesn’t want your cash… At least not for iPhones

In a hopeless effort to stop the resale of unlocked iPhone, Apple has introduced a new policy limiting customers to both paying with a credit or debit card and limiting sales to 2 iPhones per person. Apple estimates that over a quarter million of the 1.4 million iPhones sold have been unlocked causing then substantial financial losses as AT&T pays Apple monthly for each iPhone service plan sold.

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This guide is outdated, please visit the QuickPWN website for the easiest jailbreak to date for both iPod Touch and iPhone.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

iPhone Elite team releases iPhone Revirginizer

The iPhone Elite team has done it again, providing a free tool to Revirginize your bricked iPhone that you upgraded to v1.1.1 after unlocking it. It will restore it to a pristine v1.0.2 that you can then update to v1.1.1 and unlock again.

Installer.app version 3.0 released

If you’ve jailbroken your iPod touch or iPhone using any of the 1-click apps or major guides, you’ve been using an out-of-date version of Installer.app meant for version 1.0.2 of the iPhone to install your apps. Today Nullriver released a new version of their software with a fresh interface and is now v1.1.1 aware.

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.

Apple to release SDK for iPod touch, iPhone in Feb 08

In a complete 360 from Steve Jobs previous statements, Apple will be releasing an official 3rd party SDK in February 2008 for the iPod touch and the iPhone. Apple’s previous policy cited AT&Ts network as being too fragile for 3rd party apps to safely exist on.