iJailBreak





AriX, a gentleman from our sister site, Apple-Touch.com, took the time to automate the jailbreak process for Mac Intel users by making iJailBreak. Sure, judging from the title, you might think it was for the iPhone, but not so much, its for the iPod Touch, the iPhone’s service provider free cousin.

Unboxing iPod Touch

Word is, he is working on versions for PPC based Macs, and then he’ll likely begin work on a version for Windows. This version of the hack only requires the user restart the iPod Touch when told to by the software.

Unboxing iPod Touch

The software still uses the TIFF exploit, and then makes heavy use of iPHUC, but just about everything is automated. If I read right, once everything is done, you have the Installer.app app installed, AriX is adding features to his Jailbreak software all the time, I heard rumblings of making the ROM transfer process for the NES emulator easier, integrating the option to install the iPhone apps, integrating SummerBoard installation, since it’s a little trickier now, tons of stuff, only time will tell.

Working on an Automatic Jailbreak Installer [via apple-touch forums]

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