Stashbits: iPhone 2.2 Jailbroken & Google Street View For iPod Touch

Within days of arriving in the hands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners everywhere, Firmware 2.2 has been quickly dissected and reviewed. Thanks to a prolonged testing period, the iPhone Dev Team was able to perform a Jailbreak on the still in development Firmware and perfect it once Apple made it available for download. While available for all generations of iPhone and iPod Touch, there are some key differences between the two such as the lack of Google Street View on the later and lack of Emojicon support on non Japanese iPhones. With a simple hack and a quick Jailbreak, all of this can be remedied.

Google Street View On The iPod Touch

If you don’t mind getting down and dirty in the inner depths of your iPod Touch and editing a few XML files then you should have no problem enabling Google Street View on the iPod Touch. Poster timmyj9 on the iPodTouchFans Forum has compiled a quick tutorial on how to do this.

Due to formatting issues, please remove every space before “>” and after “<" when using the code below.

1. get this file via ssh: /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plist
2. convert to xml at http://iappcat.com/plist/bin2xml
3. add

4. save then using that website again reconvert to binary
5. rename original file N45AP.old
6. copy new N45AP.plist in (make sure permissions are 644)
reboot ipod

Via: Gizmodo

Enabling Emojicons On iPhone

If the spirit of a teenage Japanese school girl burns within you or typing ‘lol’ when you don’t really mean it has lost the its silent comedy, Emojicons would surely be your next avenue of interactive texting and will bring you one step closer to putting some real, human emotion in your messaging. The process is a lot simpler than enabling Google Street View but similar in approach. Luckily for your wannabe hacker self, Steven Troughton-Smith has created a short walkthrough that will get yourself going with more smilies than you could imagine.

You need to edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist on the device -> whether you use a jailbreak to achieve this or merely some iTunes backup editor is up to you.
Add the following boolean key as ‘true’: KeyboardEmojiEverywhere
Then merely go to the Keyboards section of the Settings app, hit Japanese, and turn on Emoji. Will work for any text field/view in the OS, including on websites, AND including the titles of items on SpringBoard (e.g. if you save a bookmark to the home screen).

Via: Gizmodo

Jailbreaking iPhone 2.2

But wait, just how do I add all of these goodies to my iPhone or iPod Touch or even both? Fret not, through a process called Jailbreaking, you too can access the limitless potential of your iPhone, discover the meaning of life and even acquire the ability to date incredibly hot women. While the last two won’t happen any time soon, Jailbreaking can be accomplished relatively quick through two utilities made available by the iPhone Dev Team: QuickPwn and PwnageTool.
While your mileage will vary on how you want to Jailbreak, TheiPhoneBlog has a step by step, holds your hand, noob friendly tutorial that explains the ins and outs of Jailbreaking and just how do it.