Today Apple officially released the latest version of iTunes (8.2). Anyone who is familiar with jailbreaking should be well aware that now is a time to wonder, will the cat and mouse game continue? It seems like it has but @MuscleNerd claims it is unintentional on Apple’s part.

Today’s iTunes 8.2 update changes the way your computer talks to the device. This affects things like QuickPwn and PwnageTool when they try to identify what’s connected. Also, ssh over usb breaks due to same reasons. Fixes are in the works but for now avoid 8.2

So if you are planning on jailbreaking anytime in the near future, be sure to avoid this latest version of iTunes until the fix is made available to the public.

Stay tuned as TiPb will bring you the latest updates as they become available.

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iPhone-Dev Team to Potential Jailbreakers: Do Not Install iTunes 8.2

Engadget’s reporting that we won’t see just two new iPhones, not just three, but a whopping four next-generation iPhones coming soon!

we’re hearing from a trusted source that new iPhones in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities just garnered approval by the PCS Type Review Certification Board, the standards body responsible for certificating handsets for use with some carriers (AT&T, for instance).

Only a week remains before WWDC 2009, so we’re deep behind crazy lines here, people, and anything is possible. But four new models? What about the CDMA version for China? The iPhone nano and iTablet for Verizon? The flying model that oinks?

We’ll find out next Monday!

[Thanks to Jeffdc5 for the head's up!]

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4 Next Generation iPhones Coming? 4GB - 32GB?

Available to developers in pre-release form to coincide with iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 and Beta 5, Apple has just pulled the switch on iTunes 8.2 for everyone. At the same time, they’ve also released QuickTime 7.6.2. Since QuickTime is a core technology to many Apple and Mac components, no doubt other updates (like GarageBand for Mac, pictures above) will follow.

If you notice anything new we haven’t already covered, let us know in the comments!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Check the TiPb iPhone Forums for updates on what's new]

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Apple Releases iTunes 8.2, QuickTime 7.6.2

Welcome to iPhone 101, where TiPb helps new iPhone users use their new iPhones — or just gives you a handy link to send to your new iPhone using friends.

This time we’re tackling something near and dear to every child-caring adult’s heart: how to resent your iPhone Home Screen to default. Because as we all know, you let your child at your iPhone, and they can switch around your icons — even blank your Home Screen — in no time flat (and yes, the above is a real screenshot of an iPhone after a 3 year old spent about 5 minutes on it…)

Luckily, there must be a lot of parents at Apple, because they’ve made it lickity-split simple to restore.

From the home screen, tap Settings (yeah, if you can find it — but at least they can’t delete that or any built-in application).

From Settings, hit General, then choose Reset.

From the Reset menu, choose Reset Home Screen Layout. When it asks you to confirm, tap the big red Reset Home Screen button.

And you’re done. Your iPhone’s icons will be back to the way Apple ships them… until your child gets a hold of them again!

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iPhone 101: How to Reset Your Home Screen Icons to Default

We are all aware that WWDC is only one week away. If history is any indication of what is to come, that means we should be introduced to the next-generation of Apple’s iPhone and if we follow previous patterns, we should start seeing the iPhone 3G supply starting to run thin on all levels.

AppleInsider is now reporting that Best Buy headquarters has sent out a memo to all of it’s stores saying to expect little to nothing in terms of iPhone 3G supply for the next few weeks. Last year we saw similar shortages but they occurred a few months prior to WWDC, April to be exact.

So, after all the previous rumors covering Austria to Australia, Canada and back what do you readers think? Ready to pick yourself up a new iPhone? Sound off in the comments!

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iPhone 3G Supply Running Low at Best Buy

Confession: Jeremy can’t believe we’re posting this, but after a bunch of forum questions, email queries, and a mini Twitter ’splosion, we figured we’d put this up as a public service message to the Jailbreak community.

First: don’t panic.

Second: those strange little black icon badges that have suddenly popped up on your Phone, Email, iPod, and perhaps other apps? Yeah, that’s because you installed Backgrounder, and that’s how Backgrounder shows you which applications, built-in or user-enabled, are currently running background tasks (multitasking).

Third: enjoy.

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iPhone Jailbreak 101: What Are Those Swirly Black Badges on Mail, Phone, iPod?

Last week we posted on Google’s Latitude service coming to the iPhone by way of Safari. Of course, as Computerworld (via MacRumors) points out, for the location-tracking buddy service to work in the browser, the browser must support geo-location, and not just for Google.

According to BrowserSphere developers were told back in March that Safari would support the Geolocation JavaScript classes, which “work with the onboard location services to retrieve the current location of the device.”

So we guess IP addresses won’t be the only way for annoying web ads to try and localize us any more?

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iPhone 3.0: Safari Geo-Location Not Just for Google’s Latitude

A former pick of the week for me, and one of my most-used Mac and iPhone apps, has just seen the latter, mobile version updated. I had a chance to try out 1Password touch 2.0 [Free - iTunes link], and the new ability to sync Wallet Items, along with an entirely new, very robust way to sync over Wi-Fi, work the way such things ought.

If you loves security, and want the ability to take your super-strong, pseudo-random passwords, as well as credit cars, debit cards, and all that new goodness, with you, give it a try.

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1Password touch 2.0 Now Available

Each week we bring you the biggest stories from around the Smartphone Experts network. We’re changing up our format this week: shorter, bite-sized, yet still delicious.

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Best of SPE, 31 May 2009

QuickOffice has updated their Mobile Office Suite [$19.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone to version 1.2.0. The full list of updates is after the jump, but what caught our eye was this little goody:

• Supports iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5

What’s new

Quickword (Word Processor):

• Predictive text, auto-capitalization, and double-space for a period shortcut
• Find text in a document and search for next or previous occurrences
• Increase and decrease indentation level of bulleted lists, numbered lists, and paragraphs
• Set paragraph alignment
• Increase and decrease first line indentation on a paragraph
• View tables that are too wide for your screen by flicking the table left and right

Quicksheet (Spreadsheet Processor):

• Copy/Paste cells, columns, rows, and cell ranges & formulas are dynamically updated!
• Landscape editing directly into a cell
• Edit directly into a cell in portrait — Just double tap the cell
• New and easy way to build formulas
• Set or remove cell borders
• Add, rename, delete, and reorder worksheets inside a single spreadsheet
• Clear the formula bar contents by pressing X or clear all contents & formatting from the toolbar
• Edit font type and size
• Set alignment within a cell

Quickoffice Files (File Management):

• Auto-bookmarking your last viewed position in documents
• Slide show viewing of remote and local images
• UI improvements

As always, if you try it out, let us know how it works for you!

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QuickOffice Mobile Office Suite for iPhone Updated to 1.2.0