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In a surely controversial move, Nate True has released a splinter iPhone hack-dev group’s iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak to enable unauthorized third-party applications. He has since been banished from the group by releasing what the main group deemed premature for release. It is not clear if this is due to technical, copyright or imminent official SDK [...]

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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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Apple’s Lawyers Slap Popular iPhone Modding Site with Domain Name Change Order
The site modmyiphone.com changed its name and domain services to modmyifone.com per the legal request of Apple counsel. This is significant only in that we’re surprised it took Apple this long to drop the hammer on the trademark infringers, especially after its fiasco with [...]

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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.
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