If you needed any more proof that Apple’s lame cat-and-mouse game with the iPhone jailbreak community has only served to increase its resourcefulness and creativity, look no further than the iDongle, a slick piece of hacker-made hardware that can jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch running …

People rarely talk about iPhone app piracy, but when they do, it sounds devastating: 90% piracy rates, $450 million in lost sales, etc. Here’s the truth: App Store piracy isn’t a big deal—and it never will be. With these shockingly high reports comes the general air that developers are…

One of the most common complaints about Google’s new Nexus One Android wunderkind is that it lacks native multitouch support , making things like resizing objects with a finger pinch gesture impossible. That is, until now. Developer Taimur Asad has posted a set of instructions to install a multitouch add-…

Jailbreakers in Australia are being infected by a worm that changes their wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley . And while that sounds kinda funny, it’s another reminder to make sure you’ve changed the default password on your jailbroken iPhone. Sophos reports that the worm appears to do nothing worse than spread and change…

If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, listen up: a worm is reported to have broken out in Australia that targets owners who have not changed the default password after installing SSH. The worm’s behavior is somewhat amusing: it changes your background to a photo of Rick Astley, then looks for other phones…

You won’t find an official announcement anywhere on the iPhone dev-team’s blog yet, but a new version of the redsn0w jailbreak, 0.8, has just been posted to its official torrents that apparently includes 3GS compatibility (in addition to support for the 3G and original iPhones plus the second-gen …

And so it continues. Geohot has returned with some help from hacking buddies chronic, posixninja, and pod2g with news that the same “24kpwn” exploit used to cracked open the iPod touch 2G will work on the iPhone 3GS. That means a jailbreak and unlock can be launched just…

There’s no need to be intimidated. I’m here to hold your hand every step of the way while you jailbreak or unlock your original iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, and it’s really not much hassle at all. ( One Page ) Step 1 Let’s check to see if jailbreaking or unlocking an iPhone makes…

That iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak we saw the iPhone Dev-Team pull off earlier this week ? It’s out now, or at least, part of it is. Pwnage Tool is now flooding torrents, but there’s lots of caveats here. Most importantly, this isn’t Ultrasn0w , which means if you’re wanting to…

The iPhone Dev-Team (no relation) have been teasing us for a little bit now with what they’ve been saying is an iPhone OS 3.0-compatible version of yellowsn0w , and tonight in a video presentation they unveiled ultrasn0w, which should let you unlock any iPhone on the market, running…