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Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch

Published by Chris | Filed under How To | September 30th, 2008



Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you’ve been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install AppSnapp link. It may sound scary, but the web site takes advantage of a mobile Safari exploit to install Installer.app (the gateway application for installing more applications) to your device. If you give it a try, here’s what you can expect.

JailbreakMe.com/AppSnapp [via TUAW]




Five Best Note-Taking Tools

Published by Chris | Filed under How To | August 17th, 2008



Good old-fashioned note-taking is still one of the best ways to build a personal knowledge database, despite the wealth of information a Google search box puts at our fingertips. The only sensible solution used to be pen and paper, but computers have introduced a handful of excellent alternatives for capturing notes in computer-friendly digital form.

Keep reading for a look at the five best note-taking tools, and then cast a ballot for the note-taking tool you prefer. Then let’s hear more about your note-taking app of choice in the comments. Photo by Dvortygirl.

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