Jailbreaking an iPod Touch with the January software update
I bought my iPod Touch back in February and since then I’d been pondering jailbreaking it. Some of the walkthroughs looked a bit scary and that kept putting me off trying. Yesterday I read the Lifehacker article: Jailbreak Any iPhone or iPod Touch in 45 Seconds and finally decided to have a go. I followed their instructions and I now have a 1.1.4 iPod touch jailbroken with the January software update running.
I’ve spent a few hours today looking at the apps listed in Installer.app and these are the ones I’ve installed so far.
MobileScrobbler
The main thing I wanted to get up and running on my iPod was scrobbling my music to Last.fm, I really missed this feature from my Nano. This app scrobbles tracks directly to Last.fm when you connect to a wifi network, no running an app on your computer when you sync your iPod. Also you can listen to streamed music from the site.
BossTool
This app allows you to free up disk space on the apps partition of your iPod by moving the fonts and apps. I found moving the fonts gave me enough space - nearly 100mb.
MobileTextEdit
A text editor is always a useful thing to have kicking around.
MobileFinder
This is used by MobileTextEdit to allow easy selection of files to edit.
BSD Subsystem
Both MobileTextEdit and MobileFinder need this installed.
Books
I’ve always had an ebook reader installed on my PDAs right from my first Handspring Visor. I’ve really missed not having one on my iPod so this app was a must. It will open plain text and HTML files.
AFPd
This sets up an Apple File Sharing server on your iPod, it’s the easiest way to copy ebooks.