Now that unlocking and jailbreaking are commonplace, some folk have come up with a gallery of all the different ways an iPhone might look like these days.

Check out the iPhone Screenshots pool of pics from Flickr.

Nullriver Software’s just updated their Installer application for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches to v3.0b3 this morning, and now works with 1.1.1 iPhones.

AppTapp is an install program that downloads packages off the net and is a central clearinghouse for new stuff from different community sources - and is a source of great delight for the multi-touch masses the world over.

Among other things, AppTapp Installer 3 uses a different core repository (as if I knew what that actually meant) and incorporates improvements to the UI and the packaging back-end. More surprisingly, it recommends firmware 1.1.1 - which many jailbreakers and unlockers are still wary of.

Visually it features a new, more professional look-and-feel, providing a five-icon cool-looking all-black dock at the bottom of the screen with Featured/Install/Update/Uninstall/Sources icons, as opposed to the clunky four-button row on top from the previous version. It reorganizes and presents the available installs in easy-to-navigate categories that look like a typical iPhone webapp, and makes more sense. Also, it might be my imagination, but it seems there’s a heap more new installs after re-running Community Sources.

As a work-in-progress, there are still a few little things that need some fixing, but nothing major, and these are outlined in a detailed listing from the Featured page. (As usual, take care in updating if your system works fine the way it is - but hey, you’re used to this sorta thing, right? You jailbroke your expensive toy, so this should be peanuts.)

Just run your old Installer to get the new and updated version of itself.

Here’s a first-person recounting (mine) of an iPod Touch being liberated via iJailbreak:

1. Download the app. (See link in previous post)
2. Put the download into your Applications folder. (Make an iJailbreak folder there and dump the app and Resources folder in it.)
3. Run the app. There’ll be two buttons: Jailbreak and Install iPhone Apps. Choose Jailbreak. As of now the other one doesn’t work.
4. Get your iPod onto the net and use Safari to go to http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com. Safari will crash - that’s ok. Connect it to your computer. iTunes will then declare that your iPod now has a capacity of 265mb. It will contain 240.7mb of “Other” files, and just have 24.4mb free. Do not panic. This is part of it.
5. Click on OK in the iJailbreak window. It will take anywhere from 10 to 15 mins to run, and then it will tell you to physically turn the iPod off by holding the Sleep/Wake button down and using the red slider to turn it off.
6. Turn it on again by pressing the Sleep/Wake button.
7. After it completely restarts, turn it off again. Then on again. During this process it installs Springboard.
8. Then turn it off again. Then on again.
9. Tired of you doing it, it will turn off and on by itself a couple of times more.
10. Voila! Prison break.
11. There will now be an Installer icon on the main menu. Touch it.
12. A set of downloadable and directly installable apps will show up. Pick what you like and install them - it’s all just at the touch of the Install button. (Your iPod has to be on wifi to get the files, but they’re small and quick to load and install.)
13. After getting your fill, press the hardware button and go back to the main menu. The iPod will do a quick sleep/wake sequence and the installed apps will show up on the main screen. If you don’t like what you put in, it’s a matter of running Installer again, pressing the Uninstall tab and selecting what you want to kick out.

* If you want more apps, run Community Sources and you’ll have more apps than you know what to do with. (I counted over fifty additional apps after I did this.)

Notes:

• If you fill up the first page of the main menu screen, the iPod will just add more menu pages you can access with a sideways swipe.
• Some of the apps are for the iPhone alone, so see which will work and which won’t.
• Some have prerequisite apps before they can install, like MobileFinder needs the BSD Subsystem, which is a 6.6mb download. Most apps are just a few kb in size.
• There are a lot of utilities for advanced users, Summerboard themes and sound packs, and a few books, among other things in the package.
• Installing other iPhone apps will have to be done the hard way for now, as the automated portion for this on iJailbreak is still under construction.

I now have a couple of menu pages of apps, including a Notes app, an encyclopedia/ dictionary/thesaurus, an eBook reader, the King James Bible, a ToDo app, chat clients, a Finder app, the ability to add Calendar entries on the fly, games galore - including my new favorite, Tap Tap Revolution.

Who needs an iPhone?

Envious of the new iPods? A firmware hack’s come out that lets you have the nice, split screen interface of the new nano and classic on your old and creaking 5G or 5.5G video iPod. Although not exactly the same, it also gives you redesigned Now Playing and mini Now Playing screens as well.

There have been spotty reports of brickage, so be warned. The hack, available on iPodWizard.net, has a lot of warnings carefully posted on the page and you would do well to read them. It requires you have the latest official firmware, and that you have iPodWizard 1.3.7.

Oh, it’s also Windows only, and this time it’s the Mac folks that are SOL.

In my opinion, it’s not worth the risk. But it’s your call. As usual, caveat hax0r.

Dang, it works. Without a hitch.

More on it later. Just firing off that this beta is the real thing.

(Also, hi to AriX, who actually read the previous post and corrected me that he and Ben are two different people, but they are both 13-year-olds. Imagine that.)