I tried to jailbreak my iPhone yesterday. After the stories I’d heard, wherein the iPhone lights on fire, erases everything, gives you a severe frowning-upon, and is otherwise made to be generally useless, I was apprehensive, to say the least.
“Not so!” sayeth my wife! Apparently it’s gotten a hell of a lot easier these days. You simply plug in the device, download a program, press a single button, and the process is completed within seconds. Having procured the application necessary to “purchase” applications from the iTunes Application Store, albeit for the price of approximately zero dollars, I set about getting everything I had ever wanted.
My MSN Messenger client maintains a constant online presence (under the e-mail djinn_is_god@hotmail.com, which just goes to show how badass I thought I was when I was twelve), my Twitter application is now able to deliver pop-up notifications upon receipt of a direct message or “at” reply, my IRC client simply won’t log off (unless I ask it to very nicely), and my entire theme has been streamlined, minimalized, and otherwise made into something better.
It is a sad day, indeed, when it is discovered that the only way to make the iPhone do what I want it to (which really isn’t all that much beyond its current, un-jailbroken capacity) is to resort to a variety of l33t h4×0rz. That said, I am glad I managed to get it done right. My only regret is that I did not do this sooner.
