If you're all into destabilizing your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch whilst simultaneously reducing its battery life, we have good news. The "Spirit" jailbreak is now available for all iPhone OS devices (including the just-released iPad 3G).
The jailbreak, from SpiritJB.com, is untethered. This means that once you have hacked your iDevice using the one-click software, you can restart it at will, just like you could with a clean, Apple-approved copy of the operating system. Some alternate methods require that you hook the iPhone OS device up to a computer to enable it to boot.
Jailbreaking involves hacking the OS to give you access to the file system and to allow running of third party software (as much of it as you like at the same time, hence the possible battery-life hit). With this release, the third-party application repository Cydia is reported to be buggy, so much so that it may crash your iPad or iPhone and require that you restore it from your official and proper Apple backup.
What this hack doesn't do is unlock your iPhone from its carrier. If you're feeling brave, go grab the download from the link below. Happy hacking.
Download Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone 3.1.3, iPod touch 3.1.3, and iPad 3.2 [SpiritJB via Cult of Mac]
UPDATED 5/3/2010 with correct download URL.
