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Jailbreak is Available for 2.2 iPhone Software

Dev Team came to the rescue again with jailbreak for 2.2 iPhone Software.

If you are tot sure if you want to jailbreak read the following posts, they may sway you.

• Need a reason to jailbreak your iPhone? Here's ten of them
• The Only One Reason to Jailbreak Your iPhone: Full Internet Tethering

For more adventurous, we tested all of our guides and they are still valid for 2.2 jailbreak:

QuickPwn Mac

Windows

Pwnage Tool Mac

If you never jailbroke your phone just follow guides above.  Do not forget to check out our glossary it may help you to understand the terminology.

Read Dev Team post to understand some of the requirements and limitations of 2.2 jailbreak.  Well everything is still the same from 2.1 jailbreak.

Use Links below to Download Latest Software

Mac PwnageTool
http://iphone-dev.fgv6.net/PwnageTool_2.2.1.dmg
http://jmcoon.net/PwnageTool_2.2.1.dmg
http://www.stealthyhosting.com/download/PwnageTool_2.2.1.dmg
http://crapget.com/PwnageTool_2.2.1.dmg

Mac QuickPwn
http://jmcoon.net/QuickPwn_2.2.dmg
ftp://dev-team.kicks-ass.org/Quickpwn/OSX/QuickPwn_2.2.dmg

Windows QuickPwn
http://www.theiphoneguru.org/wp-content/uploads/QuickPwn22.zip
http://imodzone.net/QuickPwn22.zip
http://jmcoon.net/QuickPwn22.zip
ftp://dev-team.kicks-ass.org/Quickpwn/WIN/QuickPwn22.zip

Follow the check list below if you have your iPhone jailbroken: 

1. if you have Cycorder installed make sure to copy all of the videos from iPhone to your computer.

Videos located on your iphone under mobile user in /mobile/Media/Videos

2. Check /mobile/library/downloads directory for files you like to save

3. Use AppBackup to backup setting for your applications, just in case. 

After back-up, copy /mobile/library/AppBackup folder to your computer

4. Use AptBackup to save the list of installed Cydia Apps.  Make sure to sync with iTunes after back-up (back-up is stored in iTunes)

5. If you use Categories there is no way to recover your settings (let us know if you know the method)

6. Sync your iPhone with iTunes last time

7. Use one of ours jailbreak guides (see list above)

8. After jailbreak use iTunes Restore to copy files back to your iPhone

9. Go to Cydia and install AptBackup, restore your Cydia Applications.

10. Copy all of the folders/files from steps 1,2,3 back to your iPhone.

NOTE:

• if you use Categories you will have to rebuild them. 
• Also, all of your application icons will have slightly different arrangement on your springboard.
• if you use Quick Gold make sure to update it, new version is available which fixes some minor 2.2 issues.

Let us know if you found better way to restore to your original set-up on your jailbroken phone.

Hollywood Pocket: Watch free movies on iPhone

Now you can watch full-length motion pictures on your iPhone...for free!  Introducing Hollywood Pocket, a Web App which streams movies via the iPhone's YouTube App. 

You can choose from the following genres:

The selection of movies is not very wide, nor recent.  Hollywood Pocket is definitely recommended for those who appreciate older cinema, namely Charlie Chaplin, Abbot and Costello, and Alfred Hitchcock.

View Hollywood Pocket on your iPhone

NBC Releases Mobile Web App

NBC's olympics webpage -- http://www.nbcolympics.com/ -- is now optimized for mobile use. Although the site isn't specifically an "iPhone webapp", it works great on the iPhone.

The site offers:

• Latest Olympic News
• Medal Count
• Results
• Schedules
• TV & Online Listings
• Video
• Photos
• Top Sports
• Team USA
• Inside the Sport
• About Beijing
• Polls
• Photos

Take a look at these screen shots:

The best feature of the web app, of course, is the olympic video playback:

Bookmark it before the olympics are over:

www.nbcolympics.com

Parlez-vous iPhone? "Oui, oui" sez Google Translate.

With the iPhone having Web capabilities -- and Google offering a Web-based translation service -- you'd think using your iPhone to ask "Where's the men's room?" in a variety of languages would be a breeze, no?

No, indeed.  As Allen Hutchison learned to his chagrin, Google Translate and the iPhone don't place nice at all.  Especially ironic, since Hutchinson's a software engineer for Google in London.

But because he's a software etc., Hutchinson hunkered down with a fellow programmer from the London office and coded up an iPhone interface for Google Translate.  It's actually a browsable option on Google, so there's no software to download/install.

Sez Hutch, "Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can't use the local data network."  Testing it on a trip to Austria and Italy, he found he could get between 200 and 400 translations in 1MB of data download, which amounted to about 400 phrases for less than $10 when roaming internationally.  (As usual, your mileage may vary.)

To access the iPhone version of Google Translate, go to www.google.com and choose the "more" tab, or go directly to translate.google.com in your browser.

[Via Official Google Mobile Blog]