iJailBreak, released today, is the first automated iPod Touch jailbreak app for Mac, but do you know what’s really crazy about this app? It was written by a 13 year old!

Windows users have had an automated jailbreak for a few days now, but thanks to AriX, a 13 year old coder, Mac users can also take the easy way out.

You can get iJailBreak here, and it only requires you to restart your iPod. It takes care of everything else.

Currently, iJailBreak requires Mac OSX 10.4 and is a universal app, although it seems to be unusable on PPC. Fear not, the software is in its beta form, with AriX working hard to patch up any problems. This writer has tested the software and can cofirm that it is working.

If you’d like to SSH and SFTP into your Touch in order to do some more advanced work (which is necessary in order to install certain programs like the iPhone’s maps.app), type “ssh -l root your.ipod’s.ip.address” into terminal. It’ll ask you for a password, which is “alpine”. Then open Cyberduck or your favorite SFTP program and SFTP into the the iPod Touch using the iPod’s IP address. The username is “root” (oddly, I’ve had to use “Root”) and the password is “alpine”. You should now have complete access to the file system; use cautiously.

Update: iJailbreak now works on PPC, and the latest release will install iPhone apps automatically for you.

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Entry was posted on Sunday, October 14th, 2007 at 2:39 pm under Apple, Tips and advice.  Print This Post

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