iPhone News Updated

iPhone 3GS jailbreak, ‘purplera1n,’ hits Web

Just as America gears up to celebrate Independence Day comes news that iPhone 3GS owners are getting some freedom of their own.

George Hotz, who you may recall as the teenage hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS code named purplera1n. It enables the installation of third-party software not approved for Apple’s App Store.

For now, purplera1n is Windows-only (but not Windows 7) and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. In a Friday blog post titled “I make it ra1n,” Holtz says a Mac version is “coming shortly.”

Holtz notes that he normally doesn’t make tools for the general public and would rather wait for the iPhone dev team to do that.

“But guys, what’s up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played,” he chides on his blog. “We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the ‘last’ hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.
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R.I.P Michael Jackson

The King of Pop died in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.

He was 50-years-old. He’d been staying in Bel-Air while working on his comeback, including 50 sold-out shows in London. CoM pays tribute to one of the greatest popstars ever: rest in peace Michael.

Michael Jackson on iTunes.

[Thanks: http://cultofmac.com]