What you’re looking at below is possibly the first working, untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch third gen. According to jailbreaking expert Geohot, the jailbreak should be out soon and additionally, the boy genius believes that the iPad should be jailbreakable in the exact same technique, this renders the Apple iPad literally “jailbroken” when it comes out next Friday from day one.
While there is still some time to go before anyone will be able to get their hands on an iPad. Those of you who are already dreaming of having the new Apple device may start “pretending” that you have one. If you have the iPhone or the iPod Touch and have had it jailbroken, you can now change the theme / UI on your device so that it looks literally the same as that of the iPad which runs the iPhone OS version 3.2. In fact, if you go through the entire list we have provided below, your iPhone or iPod Touch will more or less function similar to an iPad as well!
Many speculate that the fact the Google Nexus One doesn’t have multitouch enabled is because Google have had a deal with Apple and agreed not to enable this. However, is it possible? The Nexus One certainly has the hardware capabable of doing this, its just restricted from doing so that’s all. That’s why, we all saw this coming. Android hacker – Cyanogen has created a hack which allows modification Google Android OS 2.1 (which currently comes with the Nexus One) to enable multitouch capabilities.
Controlling your Android phone using your PC is actually easier than one would think. This simple tutorial will involve you installing onto your computer (Windows or Linux or Mac OS X) a free software known as Android Screencast. Once you undertake the necessary steps below, you’ll be able to control your Android phone use your mouse and keyboard.
Found this very useful quick clip recently. If you’re like me, you could only afford a 200GB hard drive when you first bought your laptop and one year later, you’ve already run out of space, this do it yourself tutorial could help you and save you from hiring someone else to do it for you. Tom Merritt from CNET shows you how to backup, create a bootable image of your Windows PC or Mac using some easily downloadable software. He then teaches you how to take out your existing hard drive and the things you need to watch out for.
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For iPhone and iPod Touch who jailbreak and use SSH to access their devices, the “Rickroll worm” or RickRoll SSH hack is something you definitely want to avoid if possible. The fact that attacks like these have been possible make you think that far more serious and malicious attacks can happen in the future. Check out the video below on how to take a few simple steps to protect your iPhone or iPod Touch from the RickRoll hack:
