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By the time you read this post, Eye-Fi must have released the firmware upgrade and IOS app so that you can use the card with your iPhone, or iPad.

If not, you can use this method, which does add additional features.

Now that the webserver is running on the IOS port of XBMC, you can use a web-browser or remote app to tell you iPad what to play.

XBMC on iPad

FINALLY! XBMC is on the Apple TV2.

Maybe you weren’t waiting for it. Maybe it just appeared as a big surprise. But this is the biggest hacking news in a long time.

It’s not gonna be as popular as when Jailbreaking the iPhone first appeared, but for all the geeks other there that have been running XBMC, first on there original Xbox then their Ubuntu or Windows boxes, this is GREAT news.

Finally, a tiny box like the Apple TV2, for $119CAN, will run XBMC. This is really really cool.

Hey, and not just the Apple TV2, but even your iPhone and iPad. FANTASTIC!!

I need to go tweets this now…

Whenever Apple updates the firmware of their IOS devices, previous apps will still works.

However, this is not anyways the case when you jailbreak, so ask yourself if it’s worth it first. Are the advantages of the newer firmware worth the possibility that some of your jailbreak apps will not work?

Here is something to think about.
You just read that the latest firmware has been jailbroken and you want to install it so that you get the extra features, but hold on.

One of the biggest reasons for already jailbreaking your device is because you wanted to add features that didn’t already exist. But what if updating to the latest jailbreak prevents those apps from running?

I’m running 4.01 but 4.02, 4.1 and now 4.2 are out. I know when I upgraded to 4.01, Apps from Cydia that I really liked, no longer worked. MyWi, Infinidock, and Infiniboard, just to name a few.
Now those apps have been updated to work with 4.0x but what happens when I update to 4.2 when that Jailbreak comes out, Will these apps still work? Maybe, maybe not.

In my case, the advantages of having all my jailbroken apps working is more important than having the latest features in 4.2

So think about that before updating to the Latest and Greatest. Maybe it’s the Latest, but maybe not the Greatest.

If you are running an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch with firmware 4.01 or less, you can quickly jailbreak your device using JAILBREAKME.COM

Using a vulnerability in the way .pdf files are rendered, this website is able to ‘root’ your device, and in doing so, it will install the jailbreak.

Oh, and by the way, the Library of Congress in the U.S. passed rules in favor of jailbreaking.

See that, what’s illegal one day because legal the next.

Boy, that did not take long!

Using Spirit, I jailbroke my iPad in under 30 seconds.
Now I can do some really magical things.

Now that my iPod Touch has been jailbroken, it’s time to start doing things that I could not do before. One of those things, is to install ‘themes’, but before I can do that, there are some things I need to do first.

Install OpenSSH, I use this application because I want to be able to wirelessly access the file system of the iPod Touch. Using WinSCP on my PC and running OpenSSH as a service on my Ipod Touch, I am able to transfer files and make changes to files on my device.

Installing OpenSSH is quite simple, just use Cydia. From the ‘Home’ screen in Cydia, scroll down to ‘OpenSSH Access How-To‘

You can also do a search using Search icon in the toolbar, enter OpenSSH

Once you have installed it, be sure to also install Mobile Terminal, and use it to change your default password. Thousands of jailbroken devices have been ‘Rick-Rolled‘ because the default password was not changed. The instructions are available in the Cydia application.

From within ‘Cydia’, choose ‘Root Password How-To‘ and follow the instructions.

TakeAway:
Install OpenSSH for wireless access.
Change default password using Mobile Terminal.

There are alot of guides and videos available on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch or IPhone, I don’t really want to get into that here, what I want is to talk about What’s Next.

Before I get into that, let me just say, that at this time, even though firmware 3.1.3 is out, I am using 3.1.2 Maybe a jailbreak for 3.1.3 is out but I’m not using it. So when I went about jailbreaking my 8GB iPod touch, I had already downloaded the 3.1.2 firmware for my device, and when it was required by iTunes, I did a right-click on the ‘Restore’ button, and selected that file instead of letting iTunes install 3.1.3

Once the firmware was installed, it did restore most of my previous apps, but not all, obviously some apps I had previously installed were not part of the backup.

The next important step was to jailbreak it, so I used ‘blackra1n’
That went really well, once the application was on my iPod Touch, I configured the WiFi and ran the install.

Cydia was now installed.

I have hacked the LePhone RSS Theme so that it will display the Lifehacker feed in the proper location.

Give it a try if you are using the Teknologik Theme.

Download Lifehacker4Teknologik.zip

To read the feeds from your iPhone / Ipod Touch, visit this short url http://bit.ly/lifetek then click on the + at the bottom of your screen and choose ‘Add to Home Screen’

I even place the shortcut where it looks really cool.

Found a quick way of installing SqueezeBox, in case you want to add features like Music-On-Hold using it.

rpm -Uvh http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/squeezecenter-repo-1-6.noarch.rpm

yum install squeezeboxserver

Those two lines installed 7.5.0-1 for me.
Configure using the web interface. ie http://mypbiafserver:9000

Start using
service squeezeboxserver start