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Two GUIs for jailbreaking your iPod touch available

Wanna set your iPod touch free and install tons of wacky apps on it but don't want to muck around with the Terminal? Now you don't have to with the debut of two new apps that will jailbreak your iPod Touch from the comfort of your Intel Mac or Windows machines (yes, there are iPod touch users running Windows).

iJailBreak is an AppleScript app that takes all the fuss out of jailbreaking. At the moment it only works on Intel Macs, so our PPC friends are out of luck. Oh, and I should mention it was apparently written by two 13 year olds, which I normally wouldn't point out but it is featured prominently on their website.

touchFree is a Windows app that'll do the same thing, only on Windows (shocking, I know).

Both apps are free, though I imagine both will void your iPod touch's warranty, so run 'em at your own risk. I don't have an iPod touch myself so I haven't tried either. If you have had experiences with either sound off in the comments.

Thanks to everyone who sent these in.

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Justin

Hey, Katrina if you need to downgrade from 1.1.2 - 1.1.1 to jailbreak watch this video, It helped me alot. It's very easy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wLFiUCq7IHc

He has alot of helpful videos on there.

December 16 2007 at 4:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dreadnought

Andrej! you can't rejailbreak it in 1.1.2 cause it's designed to ruin the jailbreaks in the ipod touch you'll need to get 1.1.1 again but it's a dangerous process see this link for details: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F55BYCPif6E

November 20 2007 at 1:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrej

i have a ipod touch with all the apps on it and
stuff but when i updated to 1.1.2 all my apps are gone and i cant reinstall instaler
how can i rejailbreak my 1.1.2 ipod touch?

November 14 2007 at 9:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tired-of-apple-fanboys

is this or touchfree completely bug free yet? Want to know if I should go ahead and buy my touch ;) both methods??

October 24 2007 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
J.L.

Is anyone having issues with charging their Touch after using iJailbreak? I noticed my battery was down to about 10%, so I decided to charge it earlier this morning and it's been charging for about an hour and 30 minutes, but it's still in the red. Why is it doing this and what should I do to fix it? Or, is it something I'm doing? Does anyone know?

October 17 2007 at 9:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mEssYjo

so i did the jailbreak successfully and installed things like IM to bad there is no aol aim on it. quick question how do i get the map, weather, email, apps on my itouch? still a little confused and new to this. somebody HELP. thanks

October 16 2007 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zack

Hey, I'm having trouble, but i think it may be working at the same time.
i tried touchfree after crashing safari, and it took forever, and i finally gave up, but when i disconnected it, i looked at my music and saw that it wouldnt play any of my songs, and i thought to restart it twice, just incase somethings working, and lo an behold it said it had a 300mb storage capacity and 56 or so mb of free space. it also said it wasn't just 1.1.1, it was 1.1.1(3A110a) whatever that means. so what do i do from here?

October 16 2007 at 6:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lanejasper69

Okay, so I restored everything, my icons are all fine now installed all apps and some goodies, 2 pages worth o stuff on the iPod touch, but HOw DO I INSTALL the google maps ad mail apps on the touch? I hve the iPhone apps already unzipped in their respective folders readt to go...that's all I need and I'm done...

Thanks guys and gals AMAZIG accomplishment Can Someone Please answer this for me, maybe a small step by step....I know many of us would appreciate it immensly!!!!!

October 16 2007 at 2:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mitch

I Jail broke my Itouch on sunday and have started hearing a slight tick about two seconds after I go to the home screen. It's as if it's trying paly a sound or something. I have only used the ebook app and the Calendar fix. Has anybod heard of this.... It did not have this before the Jailbreak.......?

October 15 2007 at 9:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lanejasper69

Quick question I used the windows jailbreak, ALREADY HAD 1.1.1 FIRMWARE INSTALLED AND IT WENT SMMOTH AS BABy's butt...but my icons are crammed...like they are trying to overlap or something.....any ideas? can i just run it again and see if it works? ALSO, i had .net framework 2.0 not 3.0 and it wouldn't allow me to update it through vista, other than that it works great...can some one please advise? also, how do I install the mail app from iPhone? I have the apps in my possession.....

thanks,

Lane

October 15 2007 at 5:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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