Apple iPhone users who are aware of iBoot for the handheld gadget might want to look at homebrew developer Niacin's iBooter, which is an interactive console that lets you access the bootloading app. It dons more features than the iPhuc, and it doesn't need iTunes installed to work. For more details, head to the full article.

Download: iBooter for Windows with Libusbfilter 0.1.12
Download: iBooter for Mac OS X v10.5.2 with usb libraries
Download: iBooter for Linux (2.6.x)

The first release of iJailbreak for the iPod Touch is here. For those who are new with the "jailbreaking" scene, it was first started by Niacin, Dre, Martyn, NerveGas, and the rest of their team. They had created a preliminary jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The release today is of iJailbreak v0.2.1 - a jailbreaking application built on the preliminary hack from last week.

iJailbreak is a program that you run on your Mac OS X Tiger - yeah, as for now, the Power PC users would have to sit and wait a bit -  so that you can basically "free up" you iPod Touch to allow third party applications. What's interesting here is that it was coded by AriX, a 13 year old!

You can download the app below and install it on your Mac. Just be careful with working on this as there have already been reports of freeze ups. If anything happens, you can still always restore your iPod back to factory default settings using iTunes.

Download: iJailbreak v0.2.1

In a previous post, we reported that iPhone hacker Niacin found a TIFF exploit for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. He has recently announced that they have released the code to perform the hack granting users full root level access even without upgrading to v1.0.2.

Before reading on, be advised that this hack could potentially brick your unit, so run it at your own risk.

To run this exploit, you should access http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch's browser. This will crash the browser but will give you full read/write access to the system. To edit or move some of the files, you will need to have IPHUC (iPHoneUtilityClient) installed as well as some knowledge on using both the put file and get file commands.

Since this is the first release of the hack, it is still in its early phases and may be a bit intimidating for less tech savvy iPhone and iPod Touch users. Niacin has given word that a tutorial will be posted soon as well as the full details on how the TIFF exploit works.

Locked of the Hackintosh forums announced that a TIFF exploit on iPhone's 1.1.1 firmware has been discovered and could potentially be the key hackers have been looking for to crack the system. The method was discovered by Niacin and is essentially the same method that was used to "open up" the PSP firmware.

The iPhone hackers got it to work by opening a specific TIFF image which in turn crashed Mobile Safari thereby creating a buffer overflow. Once they got to this stage, it allowed them to launch unsigned code on Apple's newest baby. Later posts from Locked further confirmed that code execution was indeed possible using the hack and a proof of concept code will be released very soon.

While this is in no means a complete crack of the unit, this newly found backdoor into the system could lead into the development of custom firmware and potentially homebrew for iPhone.