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Meet the iPod Touch. It looks like an iPhone but is thinner because you can't use it as a phone. There is a little buzzer in the Touch but it only chirps now an then. In fact, the device is not much more than a visual touch-pad equipped with wifi.


Both devices run Apple iPhone OS. This looks like Mac OS X but is a stripped down version for the two tablets.


To fully utilize the capability of iPhone OS it's necessary to jailbreak it. With the right tools this will take about 10 minutes. Excluding the time to fix your iPod when things go wrong... ;)


Once 'jail-broken' you can download many applications trough Installer.app. This includes games, dictionaries, ebooks and all kind of little tools like an all purpose converter. By using mobileterminal you can even use your iPod for ssh or telnet.



To jailbreak your own iPhone OS iPod Touch it is easiest to use the jailbreak package from http://www.itouchable.de/ (Jailbreak_Apps-itouchable.de.zip). The site is in German but the tool will enable iPhone applications on your iPod Touch (and it has an English menu).


The iTouchable package is based on ZiPhone. ZiPhone is the basic iPhone OS tool that will crack the operating system open. It also is the easiest way to unlock an iPhone (not needed for the iPod Touch as it doesn't have a sim an also does not activation trough iTunes).


For even more applications, you can try Cydia. This is a Debian APT front-end and uses packages from Telesphoreo.