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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.

CNN Money is purporting that the upcoming release of Leopard (OS X), there are signs that Steve Jobs is set to open up the iPhone (iTouch) to third party developers.

The article doesn’t name the iTouch directly, but so far everyone is still referring to the two as one and the same even though there’s been no noticeable progress on the iTouch hacking front thus far.

The iPhone was open to third-party software from day one, of course, as long as coders stuck to writing within the confines of the Safari development environment and didn’t try to write so-called “native” apps — a restriction that some hackers took as an invitation to crack the thing open on their own terms.

Apple today released their updates for the iPod touch and iPhone. On the iPod touch we saw the general updates and one very nice one. It would seem that some people who were experiencing problems with their negative screens don’t have the issue with this update! Yea! Now, this hasn’t fixed everyones, but it has fixed a good number. The only bad side is that the jailbreak might be even slower with this software update.

This screenshot of a crash report in the iPod Touch indicates that the Bluetooh framework was intentionally left in the iPod Touch, or it’s simply further evidence of the sloppyness we’ve seen in the port from iPhone to iPod Touch:

I don’t know about you, but I would like to see this solved once and for all…

Gizmodo is reporting that they exchanged their faulty iPod Touch for one with a good screen.

“iPod early. I thought I was stuck with a wonky screen. I waited a couple of weeks to see what was up, and once Walt Mossberg said the defective screens were only an early production problem, I was off to the Apple Store to exchange mine. While we still don’t know if the problem has been resolved completely, I can say that my iPod touch has a screen that looks as great as advertised.”

“I made an appointment with the Genius Bar guys who did some video tests of their own, and came to the same conclusion I did. No questions asked, they took my old iPod touch, handed me a new one, and I was on my way. Pretty painless overall.”

Good news for all those who have faulty screens, go get yours.

Well it’s a dream come true for all the eager soon-to-be iPod touch owners, they seem to be shipping earlier than the 28th. Some of the pre-orders seem to have been shipped already and my iPod (which I order on the 14th) is “prepared for shipment”. We will see in the next couple of days if this is true or not.

Well it’s almost 6 days till the iPod Touch is “released” and almost ten for the web orders to arrive. I think it would be a good time before it’s in your hand to tell you some of the not so great parts.

1.Negative Screen Issue:

This has effected a good amount of the earlier ones. Comparing their screen to an iPhone’s screen you can see that some of the color is “washed out” or even inverted. Now, Apple has come out and said that this was only in some of the first ones, but it’s still something that could effect yours.

2.Not the Claimed Battery Life:

Battery life is something that some iPod owners have had good experiences with and some not so great. In Walt Mossberg’s review, he reports that the battery life falls short of Apple’s 22 hours of music and actually gets 17 hours of music . All little disappointing considering the rest of them got their claimed battery life.

3.A Slow Jailbreak

If you were like me and expecting a rapid jailbreak like the iPhone, hold your horses. From what hackers have said, the jailbreaking of the iPod touch is going to be a slow process. It will happen, but just don’t expect to do it the night it’s released. Hopefully once Apple “releases” it more hackers can get their hands on it and help the process.

Hopefully Apple will fix their screen issue and we won’t have that. We just have to live with the other two.

As expected, the release of iTunes 7.4.2 has pushed crispSofties into releasing a new version of their iPod.iTunes software for compatibility reasons.

For those of you who don’t know:

“Unlike other iPod copy tools, iPod.iTunes provides real synchronization of MP3/AAC tracks and even playlists entries from your iPod(s) to your Mac(s). iPod.iTunes saves your time because it automatically only copies those tracks which are missing in the iTunes library, excluding duplicates. It provides also an option to build a list of tracks which are not in iTunes and to copy only desired tracks from that list.”

Apple has released a new version of iTunes yet again. The new version will fix an issue with creating ringtones using iTunes Plus song purchases. And it also includes the unrefutable bug fixes to improve stability and performance (translation: report back all your illegal downloads).

That last part was a joke.

Apple released an update to address performance issues in the new crop of iPods. Due to the increased graphic capabilities of the new iPods, especially that of Cover Flow, users were experiencing slowdowns in their interface.

To receive the update, dock with iTunes and select your iPod in the device browser and click “Check for Updates” in the Summary tab.