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That is right! Devteam member planetbeing has done a phenomenal job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available for the iPhone and first generation iPod Touch.

From Planetbeing’s blog:

I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.

What we have:

- Framebuffer driver
- Serial driver
- Serial over USB driver
- Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc.

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Touchgrind is an application for those skateboarding or “fingerboarding” fans out there! Using your fingers on the multi-touch display on the iPhone, you can pull off many tricks on touchgrind!

From Illusion Labs:

The innovative finger controls together with true physics simulation let you pull off tricks like ollies, shuvits, kickflips, heelflips, impossibles, 5-0, 50-50, crooks, smithgrinds, boardslides, tailslides, darkslides etc in endless combinations.

Features:

• True physics
• Innovative multi-touch controls
• 12 unlockable boards with different abilities
• Warm up, Jam Session and Competition game modes
• Tutorial videos
• Stunning 3D graphics
• Realistic sound

Touchgrind is $4.99 USD for a limited time on the Appstore

Developer website: touchgrind.com
Buy it at the Appstore: itunes.apple.com — Click Here to Buy

If you’re one of those people who gets phone calls and/or SMS messages 24/7 from telemarketers, you’ll love to know there’s a way of whitelisting and blacklisting individual phone numbers, its called MCleaner!

MCleaner is a firewall apps for iPhone, which can block the incoming call and SMS, it’s easy to use and good for you when you are busy, constantly in important meetings or discussions. The downloads and set-up is very simple, and you will get rid of all the unwanted calls and SMS.

This latest version of MCleaner adds:

• support firmware 2.2.
• “Accept and Hungup” which will hungup the call right after accept it,so there wont be “voicemail” for the blocked call.
• fix minor bugs.

How to install MCleaner:

• Jailbroken iPhone
• Launch Cydia, and Choose the Utilities Category
• Choose MCleaner and Install

Installer source for iPhoneOS 1.0: www.mcleaner.com/iphone/install
Installer source for iPhoneOS 2.0: http://repo.neolinus.org/ispazio

MCleaner costs $11.99 USD

- source: mcleaner.com

Rip Dev have coded a pretty neat, free, iPhone tool in 8 hours. What does this neat tool do? Well, this tool allows you to toggle Airport/Bluetooth from on to off or vice versa, kill active applications, and monitor the memory usage in real time all at the swipe of a finger across the status bar!

Presenting a new free tool for your iPhone - coded entirely today in past 8 hours. :) The thing is called Hood, and it will add a quickly accessible panel to your iPhone that allows you to toggle AirPort, Bluetooth, kill active application and monitor the memory usage in real time.

To activate, just swipe the finger across the status bar (that’s where the carrier name, time, and various status icons are displayed)

Hood is available now in Installer.app, category Utilities.

- source: ripdev.org

Update: PwnageTool has been updated to 2.2.1 — This update fixes the bug that is related to ‘Simple Mode’.

PwnageTool 2.2.1 Download (Mac OS X only)

From iPhone Dev Team’s Blog:

• Locked iPhone 3G

If you are using your iPhone with one carrier and have no interest in the possibility of an iPhone 3G unlock in the near future then just restore or upgrade to 2.2 using iTunes and use QuickPwn to Jailbreak and add Cydia and Installer.

• Locked iPhone 2G (1st Generation)

Restore your iPhone 2G with iTunes then run QuickPwn to do the magic, ‘nuff said.

• iPod Touch 1G (Original iPod Touch)

Update to 2.2 with iTunes and run QuickPwn.

• iPod Touch 2G (New iPod Touch)

Sorry, no support at this time.

You can download PwnageTool and Quickpwn from our iPhone Downloads section.

PwnageTool 2.2 Download (Mac OS X only)

Quickpwn 2.2 Download (Mac OS X)

Quickpwn 2.2 Download (Windows)

- source: blog.iphone-dev.org

Apple has launched a new site, called “iPhone Your Life,” which allows you to see applications as they relate to different parts of your life.

From Apple:

Once you own an iPhone, you discover that it’s more than a phone. It’s a way of life.
Take a look at some ideas to help you get the most out of your iPhone, wherever you go.

Apple has sections for: Around Town, World Travel, At Home, Getting Things Done, and Fun and Games. They have staff picks, top downloaded apps, and descriptions of featured applications.

- source: Apple.com

Apple released an update for iTunes! iTunes 8.0.2 released a few hours before iPhone firmware 2.2 went public.

According to Apple, iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers.
• Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X.
• Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.

You may download this update at Apple’s website at apple.com, on Mac OS X’s software updater or from us at:

Download Apple iTunes 8.0.2 for Mac OS X

Download Apple iTunes 8.0.2 for Microsoft Windows

That’s right! Apple has surprisingly released firmware 2.2 in the middle of the night.

This update includes the following:

• Enhancements to Maps
  - Google Street View
  - public transit and walking diretions
  - display address of dropped pins
  - share location via email
• Enhancements to Mail
  - resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
  - improved formatting of wide HTML email
• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular)
• Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
• Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
• Preferences to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard settings

You may download the update via iTunes but iPhone-Hacks urges you NOT to update if your iPhone is jailbroken or unlocked. Wait till the masters of iPhone hacking, iPhone DEV Team, come up with a solution to jailbreak and unlock this firmware version.

We’ll have this update available on our iPhone Downloads section as soon as possible!

Update:
iPhone 3G 2.2 ipsw Download From iPhone-hacks

iPhone 2G/EDGE 2.2 ipsw Download From iPhone-hacks

Download iPhone 2G/EDGE Firmware 2.2 From Apple

Download iPhone 3G Firmware 2.2 From Apple

A new firmware is approaching for the iPhone and with it comes another warning about the dangers of blindly installing new firmware versions before iPhone hacking teams have had a chance to rip it apart and update their software accordingly. Here is the latest note from the iPhone Dev Team on this matter:

in the past and we’ve warned against the immediate installation of these updates without knowing what they do to your device.

This is indeed true of the iPhone 3G’s upcoming 2.2 release. Installing ‘2.2’ straight away on the iPhone 3G using the iTunes auto-updater could affect your chances of any software unlock in the near future (should one be found and released), so when you see an update in iTunes await our instructions first!

Please don’t blindly install the update and then complain about it later ;-)