Not to be pedantic, but the pictured iPod Touch is 1G, not 2G.

Posted at 10:39 pm on Mar 10th, 2009 by Kyle

It’s also not jailbroken. I’m an idiot.

Posted at 10:43 pm on Mar 10th, 2009 by Eliot Phillips

Some of the interesting technical details are here: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155752

Posted at 10:52 pm on Mar 10th, 2009 by cptfalcon

@cptfalcon Thanks! I added the link to the post.

Posted at 11:01 pm on Mar 10th, 2009 by Eliot Phillips

jailbreak why!? WHY to buy hardware corrupted by design ???!!!

Posted at 12:24 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

by releasing jailbreaks, patches, etc you just helping this corruption

Posted at 12:26 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

why not to spit back on company that spit in you face instead of trying to find a ways around

Posted at 12:27 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

and here are windows instructions how to do it

http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155816

Posted at 12:29 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by kulla

like there is nothing on the marked like it 1998 and no one know what mp3 player is

Posted at 12:29 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

Nice to see that the team released it for free instead of letting some bottom feeders make money off it.

Therian sounds like he:
*owned one, broke it and it didn’t get fixed under warranty.
*wishes he owned one, but can’t afford it
*is just too anal to allow himself to possibly like apple stuff
or
*is a 13-ish yr old, who’s parents won’t buy him one.
In any case, make one comment and move on. No need to spam the comments section just because you don’t like a product.

Posted at 4:32 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by Pouncer

ok I can be rude too
Pouncer you sound like apple fagboy

I newer said I dont like the product, I dont like the attitude company have to their customers and I hate too see no one doing nothing about instead helping to continue this corruption by finding ways around, why should customers find ways around in a first place, why apple products (and many others companies) need crutches in a first place ?

Posted at 4:45 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

What would someone gain from Jailbreaking the ipod touch? I understand jailbreaking the iphone to switch carriers, but what with ipod touch? Thanks for your input.

Posted at 5:54 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by Golddigger

therian: was that even english?

golddigger: The reason to jailbreak the touch is mainly to be able to run unsigned code on it, so that you can use the device to it’s full potential. There’s a lot of great apps that have been banned from the app store, because either they replicate an itunes function, or for some reason or another apple doesn’t want people having that function. Docs (reads word/excel/pdf files), Cycorder (use the camera as a video recorder), Podcast programs, they have all been rejected from the official app store, but you can still get them if you jailbreak the touch.

Also, with installous, you can pirate almost anything in the app store.

Posted at 6:10 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by solex

Thank you Solex

Posted at 6:22 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by Golddigger

therian: Why not use the technology on the market? Very few elegant and advanced alternatives are available compared to the touch, and it is for ingenuity that people jailbreak them, so that the hardware may be used to its full potential. Apple may be corrupt as the rest of them, but they have nice hardware in the touch and the iphone.

Posted at 7:08 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by shizzle

Sorry Therian, I don’t even own an apple product. Fagboy.. well I guess if not hating them simply because of the company’s attitude makes me a fagboy, well then so be it.

Posted at 8:49 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by Pouncer

well sorry. I just get really mad thinking about itunes, apple store drm and other crap they force. It starting to look like you don’t own what you bought more like renting it

Posted at 9:34 am on Mar 11th, 2009 by therian

This is to therian,

First off, I am not an “apple fanboy”. I buy products that are of good quality and worth my money.

The ipod touch is an amazing peice of electronics, it really has changed my life for the better since buying it. I never lug my laptop around and wont use a new music player for a long while.

Itunes is awesome as well, it is easy to find what i want when i want. Although i would rather have the physical CD It is very convienent to hop on itunes buy what i want and have it instantly. DRM is a nessacary evil, it hinders pirating slightly. It stops me from buying a CD and giving it to my freind to copy, which means he might buy it.

So please dont be so ignorant of a very good thing. Try it, if your not a little kid the ten dollars an Album is way worth it.

Posted at 3:15 pm on Mar 11th, 2009 by Jeff Wallin

iTunes DRM isn’t completely locked down. Last I knew, (albiet a while ago), you could use dbpoweramp(I think) to convert m4a, to mp3 or wmv(if that’s your thing).
Not saying apple is superior, but they beat the hell out of alternatives like rhapsody, who only stream songs for a monthly charge, if you want to download you have to pay per song +monthly chrg.

Posted at 3:27 pm on Mar 11th, 2009 by Pouncer

Can anyone tell me where i can download “installous”? uhmm give a link here or email me at happypixels@ymail.com thank you… :D

Posted at 3:40 pm on Mar 11th, 2009 by Jon Li

If anyone needs any help on doing this or simply has some questions, feel free to join #itouch on irc.osx86.hu. :]

Oh and therian, if you haven’t paid attention recently, most albums on the iTunes store are now DRM free.

Posted at 5:10 am on Mar 13th, 2009 by Lutin

Therian, just get out of this comment section. You just are mad that you cant get an ipod touch because you live in some oher country (hence your bad spelling and english) or you are some 10 year old whos parents wont buy you an ipod.

This comment was written on my ipod touch too :)

Posted at 9:40 pm on Mar 13th, 2009 by Tom34

I tried to get this to work for about 3 hours now… from what it sounds like it either works very easily or not at all. Unfortunately for me, not at all

Posted at 8:38 pm on Mar 16th, 2009 by Jeff

Therian just needs to get over it. It isn’t our fault that he can’t get an itouch. I wrote this on my touch too. <@:P

Posted at 9:23 am on Apr 7th, 2009 by Too lazy to cheat

can anyone tell ne what is the quickest jailbreak for the ipod touch? im from the philippines and i dont know how to

Posted at 5:45 pm on Apr 17th, 2009 by matt

Step by step instructions on how to jailbreak your ipod touch 2g on windows xp/vista.

Posted at 12:41 am on Apr 23rd, 2009 by carter

I can’t find were to download the programs I need to jail break my I touch can anyone give me the links? Plz and thank u

Posted at 10:01 am on May 10th, 2009 by John Doe

ok i found the soft ware but i dont know how to run the programs to work every time i try and start them nothing happens at all even when i try to run as administrator someone help please and thank you

Posted at 12:16 pm on May 10th, 2009 by John Doe

People here are asking what the benefits are of jailbreaking. It makes it possible to install 3rd party products and apps, but it does void the warranty. However, I think it is worth it.

Posted at 7:23 am on May 12th, 2009 by johnnykickass

podsod.blogspot.com

Posted at 7:24 am on May 12th, 2009 by johnnykickass

I have downloaded the assassins creed game on my computer, since i found this game on a torrent and it’s size is 128 megabyte …
anyway, my 2G ipod is jail broken, but i can’t get this app on it???
I’ll appreciate any help ^_^

Posted at 9:55 am on Jun 4th, 2009 by silence

Man I can’t wait for the new iPhone 3G S, my iPhone 1st gen really needs a replacer.

Posted at 2:44 am on Jun 22nd, 2009 by jollypal