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Original iPhone hackster extraordinaire Nate True has used some undisclosed means to peek into firmware 1.1.3 and discovered essential file system structural changes that will allow Official SDK based third-party applications to run and install easily. Notably…

SpringBoard appears to display whatever is in the /Applications directory. Earlier firmwares used a .plist XML configuration file. Then, [...]

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Our iPhone jailbreaking research has concluded. We have restored our devices back to a semi-factory fresh state of firmware 1.1.2 and no longer revel in AppTapping. The inevitable occurred: compulsively updating and installing third-party apps resulted in unfortunate instability of an unknown sort. With Mail and iPod functions quitting and crashing, the only marginally useful [...]

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Patience Required, Running 3rd Party Apps on iPhone OS X 1.1.2 possible.
Is Apple is winning the cat and mouse game against pre-SDK application development, despite best efforts on behalf of the dev community?
Our testing reveals that incremental downgrades towards 1.0.2 and then back up to 1.1.2 indicate success. Employ the TIFF exploit in 1.1.1 via [...]

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On Teaching Mobile Application Design at Parsons
Dr. Dobb’s Journal, legendary software design publication, published our phone interview on its web portal yesterday on the subject of teaching mobile media design at Parsons Communication Design & Technology. John Dorsey, the editor of Dr. Dobb’s, offered probing questions that got at the nature of the program, the [...]

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It’s never been easier to install custom applications
You can now jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch to install third-party applications with extraordinary ease. Visit the URL pictured above with your Mobile Safari and in an instant your device’s file system will be opened and the AppTapp Installer will appear on your Springboard after a restart.
Via [...]

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