Owners of iPhones and other smartphones are one step closer towards taking complete control of their gadgets, thanks to a new government ruling Monday on the practice of “jailbreaking.”   This weekend has seen a flurry of activity about digital rights, but the biggest news dropped Monday morning, when the FCC announced that it had made the controversial practice of “jailbreaking” your iPhone — or any other cell phone — legal.Jailbreaking — the practice of unlocking a phone (and particularly an iPhone) so it can be used on another network and/or run other applications than those approved by Apple — has technically been illegal for years. Most jailbroken phones are used on the U.S. T-Mobile network or on overseas carriers, or are used to run applications that Apple refuses to sell, such as Safari ad-blocking apps, alternate keyboard layouts, or programs that change the interface to the iPhone’s SMS system and the way its icons are laid out.While technically illegal, no one has been sued or prosecuted for the practice. (Apple does seriously frown on the practice, and jailbreaking your phone will still void your warranty.) It’s estimated that more than a million iPhone owners have jailbroken their handsets.
Apple fought hard against the legalization, arguing that jailbreaking was a form of copyright violation. The FCC disagreed, saying that jailbreaking merely enhanced the inter-operability of the phone, and was thus legitimate under fair-use rules.
The upshot is that now anyone can jailbreak or otherwise unlock any cell phone without fear of legal penalties, whether you want to install unsupported applications or switch to another cellular carrier. Cell phone companies are of course still free to make it difficult for you to do this — and your warranty will probably still be voided if you do — but at least you won’t be fined or imprisoned if you jailbreak a handset.
In addition to the jailbreaking exemption, the FCC announced a few other rules that have less sweeping applicability but are still significant:
• Professors, students and documentary filmmakers are now allowed, for “noncommercial” purposes, to break the copy protection measures on DVDs to be used in classroom or other not-for-profit environments. This doesn’t quite go so far as to grant you and me the right to copy a DVD so we can watch it in two rooms of the house, but it’s now only one step away.
• As was the topic in the GE ruling I wrote about, the FCC allows computer owners to bypass dongles (hardware devices used in conjunction with software to guarantee the correct owner is behind the keyboard) if they are no longer in operation and can’t be replaced. Dongles are rarities in consumer technology products now, but industrial users are probably thrilled about this, as many go missing and are now impossible to obtain.
• Finally, people are now free to circumvent protection measures on video games — but, strangely, only to investigate and correct security flaws in those games. (Another oddity: Other computer software is not part of this ruling, just video games.)
—Article by Christopher Null technology writer for Yahoo! News.

Downgrade iPad 3.21 to 3.2 is coming very soon. This will allow you to Jailbreak the iPad with the latest firmware.

AT&T Free Msg: Picture and video messaging (MMS) is now available for iPhone. Your existing messaging plan includes unlimited send and receipt of text, picture & video messages. To enable MMS, connect your iPhone to your computer and click “Check for Update” in iTunes, then restart your iPhone.

If you used the jailbreak for 3.1 the update will work and your jailbreak will stay on your iPhone.

Yes you wont lose the jailbreak!!!

I get asked this question a lot so here’s the fix to download music from an iPod to a computer using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Mac OSX.

For MAC OS X Leopard users
To download songs from your iPod to your Mac or Macbook use Senuti. Senuti has an interface that allows OSX mac users to download songs directly from their iPods or iPhones into iTunes.
Download Senuti here.

For Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 users
To download songs directly from your iPod to your Windows PC, download EphPod. The EphPod interface allows you to browse your iPod and download songs directly to your iTunes.
Download EphPod here.

Step 1) Hold down power for 3 sec
Step 2) Don’t release the power button and press the home button for 10 sec
Step 3) Release the power button and hold the home button for 30 sec. Most of the time it will stop at about 21 seconds. You can release the home button after that.

When your iPhone or iPod touch has strange problems it could be a software or firmware glitch. Doing a restore can fix a lot of problems including…

Apple icon wont go away
Wi-fi not working
Apps not starting
iPod, iPhone not playing music
iPod, iPhone not playing movies

To restore
Step 1) Open iTunes
Step 2) Right click the iPhone icon
Step 3) Click back up your iPhone
Step 4) After the back up click restore

This solves a lot of strange problems that are caused by software glitches.

Tip: Convert music wmv to mp3
You can use imtoo mpeg encoder to convert wmv to mp3 and make ringtones.

Tip: To put new music and movies in your iPod without deleting the old music\movies you can plug in your iPod, open iTunes, check the box that says manually manage music.

This will allow you to drag and drop music in your iPod without deleting the other music\movies.