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release your ipod touch from jail
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WHAT DO I GET WHEN I JAILBREAK?
Here is a screenshot of the SpringBoard (also known as the Home Screen)
of a jailbroken iPod touch. As you can see, custom icons have been
applied, as well as a custom wallpaper and dock image. Also, there are
clock and weather-forecast widgets which are live (they update
themselves), and there are 5 columns of SpringBoard icons instead of
just 4. There are also five icons in the dock, instead of the normal 4,
with reflections below them that were added by another "widget" of
sorts. The status bar has been replaced with a custom image, the "iPod"
text has been changed to a custom carrier image, and the battery
indicator has been replaced by a much more accurate numeric indicator.
Jailbreak Apps Used in This Screenshot: WinterBoard for custom
graphics and widgets, Five Column SpringBoard, Five Icon Dock,
BossPrefs for the numeric battery. For those of you that want my theme,
you can download it here.
By simply swiping the status bar from left to right, we can bring up
SBSettings. This handy SpringBoard enhancement places a number of
convenient toggles within easy reach, so you can switch off WiFi to
save battery power, kill processes that are stealing your device's RAM,
switch SSH on to transfer files to your device, or jot down a quick
note. The toggles in SBSettings are user-defined, so you can create
your own set easily. You can also hit the "More" button to hide
SpringBoard icons, toggle the numeric battery, and control which
toggles are displayed. The "Power" button brings up a dialog that lets
you lock the screen (if your Lock button is broken), turn your device
off, reboot, or respring into Safe Mode. You can also respring your
device with a single tap on the "Respring" button.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: SBSettings with various toggle add-ons (Fast Notes, Processes).
By pressing the Home Button whilst on the Home Screen, you can bring up
QuickGold. QuickGold is an application launcher; simply type in the
name of the application you want (it uses search-as-you-type, so
results start appearing from the very first letter) and then tap on the
desired result. It also has a handy "Recent Applications" section (not
shown here) which has shortcuts to the last six apps you launched via
QuickGold. I have it set up to only search applications, but you can
have it search contacts, Safari bookmarks, Safari history, web clips,
and text messages as well.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: QuickGold.
You can also install the Safari Download Plug-In, which allows you to
download various files straight to your device and then retrieve them
later with SSH. This comes in especially handy when used in conjunction
with SeeqPod, as you can download mp3s straight to your device, as seen
here.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: Safari Download Plug-In.
Once you have downloaded music and/or videos to your device with the
Safari Download Plug-In, you can play them using dTunes, an application
that scans your iPod's filesystem for playable audio and/or video
files. You can also use dTunes to unzip .zip files and to download
torrents.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: dTunes.
Categories is an application that allows you to create categories, or
"folders", on your SpringBoard for easier navigation. This is my
"Games" category (the green star icon on my SpringBoard; see the first
screenshot), with two more categories within: App Store and Emulators.
Categories reduces SpringBoard clutter and enables you to find apps
easily.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: Categories.
Want to carry an NES around in your pocket? How about a Game Boy Color
and a Game Boy Advance and an NES and an SNES and a Sega Genesis and a
PlayStation all in one? Emulators for the iPod touch and iPhone
allow you to do just that. In the screenshots above, I'm playing
Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Yellow, and Super Mario Bros. in iPod touch
emulators. You can even play Grand Theft Auto on the PSX if you want.
(NOTE: ROMs are illegal, as are the BIOS files required by some
emulators.)
Jailbreak Apps Used In These Screenshots: gpSPhone (top), gameboy4iphone (middle), NES (bottom).
Finally, one of my favorite apps: MxTube. MxTube allows you to stream
YouTube videos, like the default YouTube app. However, what the default
app doesn't let you do is download the videos straight to your device
and watch them offline later.
Jailbreak Apps Used In This Screenshot: MxTube.
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