September 8th, 2007 | Posted by Dean Lucas 55 comments

iPhone & iPod touch hack – adding 3rd party apps

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The iPod touch will have most of the same native apps as its talkative big brother, the iPhone. And those apps it won’t ship with will most likely be available from 3rd parties. So how do you add these to your iPod touch without having hacking skills or touching the terminal? Use AppTapp, the same graphical tool for adding 3rd party apps to the iPhone. It does everything for you. Just download AppTapp to your Mac desktop and run it. Then select your iPhone firmware version, and let it do its thing. You will then see the new AppTapp icon on your home screen. Touch the icon and the AppTapp will connect to the internet to fetch the list of available apps. iPod touch users, be sure you are on a wi-fi network before running AppTapp from your device.

Update – 10/15/2007
CONFIRMED – iJailbreak does work on the iPod Touch! Finally, we can put 3rd party apps on our iPod touch thanks to the work of a diligent 13 year old hacker! Read how to install iJailbreak now.

Update – 10/14/2007
RUMOR – Teenager claims to have an easy iPod Touch jailbreak. iJailbreak, an automated program that allows third-party applications to run on the iPod Touch, doesn’t work for the iPhone, and is only available for iPod Touch owners that are using Intel-based Macs. Users on MacRumors.com have already reported success with iJailbreak. It’s in beta so use at your own risk. Learn how to download iJailbreak. Let us know if it works for you.

Update – 10/08/2007
CONFIRMED – Today, hackers have exploited firmware v1.1.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. Stay tuned. 3rd party apps are on the way! Read more about the hack.

Update – 10/05/2007
This hack does NOT work for iPod touch, nor does it work for iPhone. With this, or any other 3rd party app tool, please remember that if your firmware is not supported, do not try to do an install. Hackers are working on a new hack that will work with the latest firmware update and they had a major breakthrough last night. We’ll let you know when this is available so stay tuned here or subscribe to our RSS feed. Until then, you should check out all the great 3rd party web apps available for iPhone and iPod touch.

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  • Bri

    I need help jailbreaking my ipod touch 2.2.1. I have a windows 2000 professional desktop (yea its old) but i was wondering if it was compatible with the whole jailbreaking process?

  • e,n

    my i-pod touch is broken(i think) when i click on a app from the app store for free its shows up. Then disappers what do i do instead of jailbreaking it doesnt work!!!!

  • Tom

    If you are looking to jailbreak any of the devices including the upas then download spirit I used It on my iPod touch with latest fw and it is an untethered jailbreak so I can turn it off and on without re jailbreaking I highly reccomend using this one as it is the best one I’ve found that wont mess up your iPod, iPhone and ipad just search for spirit jailbreakon google(works on windows bu nt sure about mac)

  • corey

    just hacked mine using greenpois0n.com its simple and also downloaded installous app its a app u can get paid stuff for free.

  • http://topdroidapps.org Top Droid Apps

    Why are mobile apps so cheap. Even though, they are cheap I just don’t trust them.

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