PwnageTool is a very famous tool created by iPhone Dev-Team which is used for jailbreaking and unlocking various iPhone firmwares. Unfortunately PwnageTool is only available for Mac OS X users. As a Windows user, in order to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone / iPod Touch you have to download custom IPSW files which is created on Mac with the same PwnageTool. All you have to do is to restore the custom firmware on your iPhone using iTunes which allows you to maintain your iPhone baseband and downgrade firmware anytime. Here are working download links for all custom IPSW files for every firmware released by Apple for iPhone / iPod Touch.

Yup! Its true. According to Novell, they will introduce a “new technology” which will port almost all Xbox 360 games on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Novell will announce this technology tomorrow on March 16, 2010. Not only on iPhone, Novell also have plans to introduce same technology for all Android based devices but it will take some time.

According to FoneHome, Namco have confirmed that they will be releasing Tekken, probably a scaled down version of Tekken 6 for iPhone in March 2010. Tekken is one of the earliest and most famous 3D arcade fighting games released in 1994. Namco have not specified that either they will be releasing classic version of Tekken or scaled down version of Tekken 6 but what they do have confirmed is that the game is in the final stages of its development. Capcom have released its much anticipated game Street Fighter IV at a Capcom Fight Club event.

Through iControlPad, you can turn your iPhone or iPod Touch to a device similar in controls like Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable). Just fix your iPhone or iPod Touch in the iControlPad frame and start getting the gaming experience similar to PSP. Though not too many units of iControlPad is available to people but the company will soon start its mass production.

Credibility of jailbreaking and unlocking tools for iPhone has really become a question! Another jailbreaking tool named Gull1hack has arrived, its developer are claiming that tool will be able to jailbreak iPhone(3G,3GS) and iPod Touch(All models) with new bootrom(05.12.01) and it will be untethered.

No doubt Opera Mini is the best mobile web browser with over 50 million active users world wide and now Opera is finally jumping to iPhone / iPod Touch which will multiply this count for sure. The first demonstration of Opera Mini running on iPhone 3GS was made at Mobile World Congress where it loaded New York Times webpage almost 5x times faster than iPhone 3GS’ stock browser.

F0recast is tool for iPhone OS 3.1.3 which lets you to know your iPhone or iPod Touch serial number, baseband version, bootloader version info and model number. It’ll also inform you about whether your iPhone is unlockable or not? If yes then which tool can be used to unlock your iPhone or iPod Touch like blackn0w or ultrasn0w. Moreover F0recast will also tell you whether you’re jailbreak will be tethered or not.

For those who have updated their iPhone to firmware 3.1.3 (Jailbroken) would have noticed that the Jailbroken / Cracked apps are not working anymore. Even if you reinstall these apps, they won’t work until you patch your MobileInstallation file via AppSync. Good news is that you can patch your MobileInstallation file just like you did it for firmware 3.1.2. After patching the MobileInstallation file, you can install .ipa files manually without using the iTunes.

Sometimes when hard resetting your iPhone or iPod Touch don’t solve your problem then you need to restore original default factory settings on your iPhone via recovery mode. On restoring original factory settings you will loose all data/information you have stored on your iPhone, so it is always advisable to backup your data before you may proceed to the restore procedure. Usually iTunes automatically makes a backup on connecting and sync your iPhone with the program.

Sometimes when your iPhone or iPod Touch don’t respond to any of your inputs e-g screen taps or buttons then you need to hard reset your device. By hard reseting your iPhone or iPod Touch, you are actually doing a force shutdown to your device.