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NetBlender recently announced a new technology called BD Touch, that connects to the iPod Touch and iPhone and allows the use Blu-ray disc streaming directly from your Blu-Ray player. It sends the information via Wi-Fi and will work with all BD-live enabled devices such as the Sony PS3.

BD Touch enables transfer of digital copies of movies from Blu-ray disc menus, real-time movie details and Blu-ray disc titles, incorporating this data into games using the iPod Touch as a controller.

“Having spent the past decade building interactive video products we are thrilled to bring together two of the most interactive consumer products ever created with BD Touch,” said John Harrington, NetBlender CEO, in a statement. “We began R&D on integrating the two devices right after I experienced the iPhone Multi-Touch interface for the first time.”

They development started when the iPhone SDK was released in March and will continue in R&D until June when it is said to be released. To check out videos and get more information visit the NetBlender Site.

A new iPod Touch has been released with an increased capacity of 32 gigabytes. The price is set at $499.

That’s right folks, the ipod elite team have succesfully downgraded and jailbroken the 1.1.3 iPod Touch Firmware! Below there are two videos showing the procedures.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YakjwxB3nQU

The source mentioned in the video below is http://ipodtouchmaster.com/files/repo.xml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7PsJXI0fg

Good Luck and enjoy!

Steve Jobs announed at his Macworld keynote speech, that Apple will begin selling applications for the iPod Touch. They are: mail, stocks, weather, maps + chapter/ lyric support (new). You may recognize these apps from the iPhone, which is great, except that it’s going to cost iPod Touch owners $20 to get them. Unless of course you’ve jailbroke your touch.

With your Jailbroken iPod Touch, you can use the ScummVM game emulator to natively play a lot of classic games. The ScummVM wiki assures us that although it started as LucasArt’s only games, it’s since evolved for much more.

1. Open Installer.app on a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch. Jailbreak guide.
2. Tap the “Sources” button in the bottom-right corner.
3. Tap the “Edit” button in the top-right corner.
4. Tap the “Add” button in the top-left corner.
5. Enter http://urbanfanatics.com/scummvm.xml into the text area and tap “OK”.
6. Installer will refresh your sources. It may close. If so, reopen it.
7. ScummVM is now available for install in the Games section.

From the wiki:

You need original disks to run the games. We will not give support to anyone using illegal copies of the games. The only two games which are legal to download (Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky) can be found at our downloads page. A number of games are still on sale, and for games not in the list go to eBay, into your attic or sometimes they’re still in local bargain bins.

Get read-only access to your Google shared documents. Point your iPod Touch (Mobile Safari) to docs.google.com/m and view them in all their glorious splendor.

Hopefully we’ll see some full read/write access in the near future.

Apple has announced that they will be releasing an SDK for native iPhone/Touch application development by February.

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

Good news for all those iPod Touch owners who would rather not jailbreak their Touch.

A lengthy guide has surfaced to Jailbreak your iPod Touch and seemingly run all existing iPhone apps.

iPod Touch Jailbreak Guide

“I need some beta testers for the exploit to make sure everything is perfect for the release. If you are interested. Please jump on my IRC server.

\Niacin”

- source: irc.toc2rta.com

The new Jailbreaking method for the 1.1.1 firmware utilizes the familiar TIFF exploit, which is run through MobileSafari.

From tuaw.com:

“The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1. Right now, they’re nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been made. Congratulations to dinopio, asap18, netkas, Martyn, mjc, Niacin, BloomFilter, pytey, tE_gU, pumpkin, roxfan, sam, SmileyDude, NerveGas, Nate True, Arminius, DirectriX, Edgan, ixtli, kroo, xorl, and the rest of the team.”

The wait is almost over.