Available via the Big Boss repo in Cydia, iClassic brings the iPod classic interface down to the click wheel to your iPhone/iPod touch. You can choose whether you want a black or white iPod classic, among its customizing features. The shake to shuffle feature of some of the latest iPods is there as well. Make note though that this is not a replacement app of sorts to the iPod app already pre-installed.

I chose the black personally (goes with my actual black iPod classic).

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Looks like Adobe is getting increasingly restless about Apple’s lackadaisical approch towards bringing Flash to the iPhone. 

Now in a seeming attempt to place the blame squarely on Apple, Adobe is taking the issue to the iPhone users themselves. 

Now iPhone users trying to access Flash content on their handsets are shown this message from Adobe: 

“Apple restricts use of technologies required by product like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch”. 

It sounds like a last-ditch effort by Adobe to bring Flash to the iPhone users. Many previous attempts to talk to Apple about bringing Flash have only ended up in empty promises. This has been because Apple has always suspected the Flash player of bringing down the performance levels of the iPhone and Steve Jobs has in fact gone on air saying that he has not been particularly impressed with Adobe’s offer for the iPhone. 

Recently, Adobe had launched a beta version of Flash Professional CS5 that enabled app developers to port their Flash applications to the iPhone platform. However, users looking to access Flash based web content on their iPhones have remained unlucky so far.

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Several publications on Wednesday reported Apple’s latest iPhone 3GS units came with presumably jailbreak-proof firmware. The reports were half correct: The phones do indeed ship with different firmware with a new bootrom, but they are still hackable. 

McDonald compared this situation with the newest iPhone 3GS devices to the second-generation iPod Touch. Apple shipped this iPod Touch with a different bootrom from the previous version, and for a while, owners who jailbroke the device needed to tether their devices in order to boot up. Later, the iPhone Dev-Team released another exploit to enable untethered booting. 

The iPhone jailbreak community emerged soon after the original iPhone launched in June 2007. Hackers discovered methods to install unauthorized third-party software on the device, as well as unlock the iPhone to work with carriers that otherwise did not serve the iPhone. 

Apple wasn’t pleased. At the launch of the British iPhone in September 2007, Steve Jobs said Apple would work to suppress unlock hacks. 

Apple has even suggested to the U.S. Copyright Office that jailbreaking is illegal — to no avail, as the Dev-Team has been careful to only provide patches hacking the iPhone, as opposed to copying the software, according to McDonald. 

“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” Jobs said in September 2007. “We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them breaking in.” 

With the latest upgrade, it appears Apple has not stopped the Dev-Team from breaking in. But for the time being, the company has made hacking new iPhones very inconvenient and perhaps impractical.

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The iPhone Dev Team has released their PwnageTool version 3.1.4 which supports the recently released iPhone OS 3.1.2.

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Car security company Directed Electronics is unveiling a new iPhone application Tuesday that lets customers control parts of their Viper SmartStart-enabled vehicle from their iPhone or iPod Touch. 

The app, called Viper SmartStart, is quite similar toZipcar’s recently released iPhone app, except it can work with your car, and not one you’re renting for the weekend. It too creates a virtual keychain control module that can do things like lock and unlock your vehicle, open the trunk, and activate the alarm, getting rid of the need to carry around one of those keychain clickers as long as you’ve got your phone handy. 

Coolest of all, though, there’s a “Smart Start” button in the center of the screen that can turn on your vehicle. The company is promoting this as a simple way to defrost or cool off a car before you get in–that is, assuming you correctly set the climate controls the last time you were inside. 

Since the app uses the iPhone’s data connection to send the commands, you can control your car (or cars) from anywhere you have an EDGE or 3G signal. It also means you can use it on a non-cellular data device like the iPod Touch, as long as it’s near Wi-Fi. 

The app is completely free, but it requires you have Viper’s SmartStart system installed in each car you want to take control of. This costs $499 for a new installation, or $299 for cars that already have a Viper alarm system, as well as an active subscription to Viper’s Smart Start service. Buyers of the system get a year of the $29.99 service included when they get the service installed; then they have to pay after that.

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Apple may be developing a Radio app for the iPhone and iPod touch, according to 9to5Mac. 

The application is said to run in the background like the iPod app and be very similar to the FM radio in the new iPod nanos. It could even be incorporated into the iPod app. 

The holdup on this app is apparently the integration of iTunes with the program. When listening to the radio you will be able to easily purchase the song using the Mobile iTunes Store. 

9to5Mac also hypothesis that the app will likely have the same Live Pause functionality that the Nanos currently enjoy. 

Both the Broadcom BCM4325 chip in the iPhone 3GS and the Broadcom BCM4329FKUBG chip in the new iPod touch support FM.

(via iClarified.com)

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GeoHot has released his BlackRa1n jailbreak for Windows users only. 

BlackRa1n should work on all devices using OS 3.0 and up. Please note that the new iPod touch requires a tethered jailbreak. Meaning, if you let the battery die you will need to use BlackRa1n to boot it again.

Also, its important to note that BlackRa1n does not hactivate your iPhone. This means that you must be using an official Apple carrier for activation purposes.

No word yet on a Mac version.

You can download the jailbreak utility from here.

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Apple on Thursday released an update to the iPhone OS, bringing it to version 3.1.2. The minor update reportedly fixes a handful of issues with the software. 

According to Apple, the update — which applies to the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS — has the following improvements: 

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update, which weighs in at over 200MB, can be downloaded through iTunes. A corresponding update for the iPod touch was also released. 

A month ago, Apple released iPhone OS 3.1, which debuted a number of new features, including a Genius recommendation system for software in the App Store. It also added ringtones from record labels, directly into the iTunes application on the phone. 

Of course the iPhone Dev Team has to have their say on 3.1.2…

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