Oct 20th 2007 12:07 am Unlock the iPod Touch with iJailbreak
A new unlocking tool called iJailBreak allows third-party apps to run on the iPod Touch.
iJailBreak is an automated jailbreaker. It has a straight forward GUI so you do not have to be technically skilled to put games or an ebook reader on your iPod Touch. In fact you can put any number of third party programs now on the device. It can even add iPhone applications if you wish!
The only user interaction required is for you to restart the iPod Touch. In fact the whole process is simply to run iJailbreak, hook up your iPod Touch and then restart when prompted. Even my grandmother could do that!
This isn’t really that surprising. Given the iPhone hacks and the power of the underlying iPod Touch, it was really just a matter of time.
What is surprising is that this program was written by a 13 year old programmer named AriX. He used AppleScript and wrote it in 3 hours. The program has been licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 so it is available for free! Originally designed for Intel Macs, iJailBreak has since been updated to run on PowerPC Macs.
So if you own an Apple iPod Touch you can now install games, instant messengers, wi-fi locators, PDF readers, eBook readers and many more. And iJailbreak makes unlocking it a snap!
Posted by Gregory / Applications and Device and Hacks