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Wow - that was fast! The 2.1 firmware hasn’t been out that long and the Dev team has released the newest version of the popular pwnage and quickpwn tools. I’m not going to steal all the thunder as they had a few things to say in the release that you should read. Two really nice things: One they released as a torrent so download speeds should be really good and two, there’s no need to patch iTunes since the team found a way around that.

So, Click Clicky to head on over to the dev blog and grab the torrent links to get your Jailbreak on!

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Over the past couple days you’ve likely read a couple posts by me complaining about some terrible advice that is being handed out by the blogs and forums around the interwebs. I’m not going to say I’ve never given out terrible advice either - hell I’m (in a short while) going to explain to you why I plan on jailbreaking my iPhone and (possibly) voiding my warranty - but in those posts I really gave no other alternatives than to call Apple. Today I want to tell you why I’m jailbreaking - and why it just might be a good idea for you to do so as well.

Quick show of hands - how many people have 3rd party applications installed, which in one way shape or form have data in them? I’m guessing from the breeze I just felt - pretty much everyone. Think about it for second - applications like Moleskinery+, 1Password, eWallet, Shazam, FuelGauge, and countless other applications all store your data. I’ve got data in all of them. But there’s a problem … when my iPhone takes a dump and I have to restore it my only option is to rely on what has already proven itself to be a flawed system - namely iTunes.

If you’re here reading this you’ve most likely already had a restore issue, or you’ve already seen reports of it. Along with the failed restore issue, there’s other problems with restoring - things like what if I don’t want to restore everything on my device, only the data from a single application? For example - I just deleted a note in Moleskinery+. What if I want that back? Should I have to restore everything back to how it was last night (and possibly lose other data) just to get back a single note?

It’s almost like Apple completely forgot about how backup and restore works in the real world. I’ve RARELY restored an entire server, it’s almost always one or two files from a directory. Backup and Restore on the iPhone is inherently flawed and Apple needs to fix it. But given the fact that Apple seems to want to try and forget everything it knows about basic system administration - read on past the break to see what you can do to keep from becoming just another lost data statistic.

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