Now that Greg (MobileCrunch) has given full instructions for jailbreaking and tethering, I thought I would give one more interesting thing you can do with a jailbroken iPhone and SSH access – change those ugly icons! “Resident theming genius” (theiphoneblog), Ally (iMuggle on TiPb Forums and in the Twitter) has begun collecting her excellent tutorials into one easy to browse place. Here’s ... more.

Jailbreaking the iPhone seems harmless to most, but Apple is claiming that this could be catastrophic to cell phone towers and networks if this process is legalized. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently awaiting word form the Copyright Office on a request to legalize the all to common practice of jailbreaking. This would allow users to hack and alter the iPhone’s baseband processor... more.

Wow, those hackers are quick, while they initially claimed to be jailbreaking  1.1.2 hours after it came out, they actually took a bit longer, but not much.  The good news is that the jailbreak software is compatible with both mac and windows.  However one of the downsides is that this is not quite the one touch jailbreak we had all become so used to using.  But hey give that time, now that th... more.

So as if the Applesnap jailbreak (a super cool hack that allows the user to install third party apps) hack wasn't already awesome, the people who came out with it have found a way to improve it. Now you can actually find the root menu to check to see what happened if something went wrong, there is a progress indicator when Safari restarts (a necessary part of the process), and they have create... more.