I’ve been curious about jailbreaking my iPhone since I first got it, and just the other day I went through with it. I used QuickPwn and it was a snap. For the record, I have a 2G (the original) iPhone and I wasn’t going for unlocking it.

It’s cool to see all the non-App Store things you can install on your iphone, plus all the customizations you can do with it. I think my favorite app so far is Flixwagon’s video braodcasting app, which records video that can viewed live it flixwagon.com/username. Considering I have a new baby in the house and family and friends scattered all over the country who are always asking for pictures, the app has really fit the bill for me. The other thing that has rocked has been customizing the SpringBoard (which, I never knew, is the name for the ‘desktop’ of the iPhone, the screens that contain all the icons for the apps you have installed).

Downloading new software using Cydia has been every bit as simple as using the App Store. As far as I can tell, the overall selection of apps is not as big as what it used to be because there were big changes in the iPhone software from version 1.x to 2.x and not all apps have been ported over.

One big word of warning to anyone who is about to attempt this: DO NOT INSTALL KATE. Kate is an iPhone customization app the has had many, many problems reported with it. Unfortunately I only learned about that after installing it left my iPhone in an unusable state. Even after i uninstalled it, it was still whacked, so I had to reinstall it, turn off all of its options, and then uninstall it. Then after restarting the phone all the icons were all out of place and a bunch of app’s settings were reverted to their defaults.

If anyone has some suggestions as far as killer apps or repositories I should be checking out, please let me know.