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Yesterday Apple released it’s new iPhone 2.1 firmware with the promise of increased stability and better 3G signal coverage. iTunes 8 is also out now and at first it appeared it sealed off the exploit the iPhone DevTeam had used to allow users to “Jailbreak” their phones. With this news engadget was quick to question the relevency of DevTeam given the latest revelations. The community lashed out at their posting and they quickly posted a poll to try and prove their point, but of course they were just plain wrong (who didn’t see that coming?!). Here are the poll results a mere 5hrs-ish after the poll opened….

And to add a little salt to that wound, DevTeam has already jailbroken the new 2.1 firmware AND iTunes8. Looks like DevTeam has pwned Apple and Engadget too.

Quick post before class… Vista stopped recognizing my ipod, it made the “ding” sound but didn’t show up in itunes or “My Computer”. The iPod charges but that’s about it. Thought I was doomed but after some intense googling I found this:

Don’t worry you won’t lose your data, or have to unistall anything.

I simply unplugged the ipod, restarted the computer, and then manually put the ipod into disk mode, waited for windows to load again, and plugged it in! Thats it

Disk mode -

• plug the ipod mains charger into the ipod
• click the hold button on and then off again
• press and hold menu and select together until the apple appears
• then press select and play/pause together until disk mode appers

You don’t need to restart windows to do this btw. That’s it! Time for class, iPod freshly stocked!