DevTeam published first screenshot about their procress of hacking (jailbreaking, pwning) new iPod Touch. New device has new hardware, that might be used in future iPhones. The DevTeam work just started, so the fun part is coming.

iFunBox is an iPhone file browser for MS Windows. It is quite useful. I use iPhoneBrowser tool, and this one I like very much. It is free, download iFunBox V0.6.199.35.

Jamesisbored published a guide, that shows how to block ads, that show up in Safari browser during web surfing.

MobileSafari has one major drawback. Up until now, there was no way to block ads. Ads increase the load time of a webpage, and especially on EDGE cause the internet to crawl. Blocking them will give you a lot of extra speed. This is one of the simplest hacks available for your iPhone. You will need to be Jailbroken and have the 2.0 Update, or later.

1. Connect to your iPhone through SSH, iPhoneBrowser, or some other tool.
2. Navigate to /etc/.
3. Now download this replacement hosts file. Replace iPhone's file with this one.
4. Restart your iPhone!

This hack has been tested and confirmed to be working on the iPhone 2.1 Update.

WinPwn developer posted a note, that the new version of WinPwn will be soon. That is all, not much details. New version will probably support new firmware version 2.1.

According to reports in the toucharcade.com and macrumors.com comments

List of Apps affected by the 2.1 software update beside number of forum reports: (in order of reports)

> 20 reports

Last.fm: (no audio) Developer aware, v2.0 update in transit

Zen Pinball: (no graphics white screen) Developer aware, v2.1 update in transit with improved frame rate, responsiveness, and graphics

Toybot Diaries: (corrupted sound effects) Developer aware, v1.2 update in transit

10 or more reports

Alli's Jigsaw:(cannot select new image) Developer aware, update in transit

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BossPrefs and Categories are updated for 2.1 firmware. As usual, download it from Cydia Installer.

It is recommended that you all hold off jailbreaking 2.1. There are many issues that dev team is working through. A jailbreak isn’t quite enough.

Many apps are not yet stable. Categories will not work because we cannot launch one app from another at this time. Cydia is not yet stable. I recommend you wait a day or two still.

Dev Team released QuickPwn and PwnageTool for firmware 2.1 (2g firmware, 3g firmware). It doesn't work with new iPod yet. Mac OS versions only for now.

Direct Downloads - QuickPwn

• http://daten.gorgont.de/downloads/iphone/QuickPwn_1.1.dmg
• http://www.dayofdefeat.org/QuickPwn_1.1.dmg
• http://www.eltonno.eu/QuickPwn_1.1.dmg
• http://69.73.148.215/~evasive/downloads/QuickPwn_1.1.dmg

Direct Downloads - PwnageTool

• http://www.dayofdefeat.org/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg
• http://daten.gorgont.de/downloads/iphone/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg
• http://www.eltonno.eu/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg
• http://alekserviz.com/adamov/PwnageTool2.1Mac/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg
• http://rs402.rapidshare.com/files/144960584/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg
• http://69.73.148.215/~evasive/downloads/PwnageTool_2.1.dmg

Theiphoneblog just published first screenshots of the new iPhones firmware 2.1.

Running 2.1 (5F136) now, and here’s what we’re noticing: WiFi works fine (tried on Apple and Linksys routers). New icons for connection type (3G/Edge) in the top bar. New blue filled and half-filled dots to describe state of video and podcasts (watched/listened to). Genius Playlists don’t seem to work as well as iTunes 8, at least for me, with lots of songs coming back as “not related”.

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Apple published a kb for this case. Here it is:

Symptoms

After installing iTunes 8 for Windows, some users may see a blue screen error message when connecting iPhone or iPod to a Windows Vista computer. In some cases, the computer may immediately restart when connecting iPhone or iPod to the computer.

Products Affected

iPod, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Vista, iPod touch (2nd generation), iTunes 8 for Windows, iPhone 3G

Resolution

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