TUAW reader Ian Donaldson discovered that the SBEnableAppReveal preference allowed you to double-tap hidden applications to reveal them–and double-tap them again to re-hide them. I decided to see whether I could extend that behavior to other applications. After a bit of examining, I discov…

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f vi and a bash shell are totally foreign to you, jump to that page
whether you are command line (and vi) -friendly:
 
1. Jailbreak your iPhone, and install the following packages -
1 • BSD Subsystem
2 • Term-vt100
3 • Erica’s Utilities (be certain to edit your path to i…

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Not all preferences seem in your iPhone Settings application. As I discussed rather thoroughly in my Modding Mac OS X book, it’s not that hard to dig through applications and discover undocumented–or in that case unpromoted–preferences that add spice to your Mac or iPhone. I decide…

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Conceited Software has just released a new version of the firmware version 1.1.2 jailbreak. Now including Activation and YouTube for iPhones, PPC support, and an motorized fix for SpringBoard crash problem on touches.

To perform the jailbreak, run the batch file on Windows which will bring up a j…

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Conceited Software/TouchFree has just released its GUI jailbreak. that is the “final bit” that performs the jailbreak after you run OktoPrep in 1.1.1 and next upgrade to 1.1.2. The Software runs under OS X and Windows, grabs the input off your iPod touch or iPhone, upgrades it with the J…

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Sure, firmware release 1.1.2 is just around the corner — expected to launch along with the European iPhone in just a few days — but that hasn’t stopped the guys at jailbreakme.com from updating their software and enhancing your jailbreaking experience.New features include better Yo…

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by the weekend, AppSnapp — a tool that makes it drop dead simple to install third-party applications on iPhones — underwent a significant overhaul. Among the enhancements:

The jailbreaking and pushing of Installer.app to the iPhone are now logged to var/root/Media/AppSnapp.log (on the iPhone…

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