Apple iTunes provides iPhone and iPod Touch backup and restore facility, but if you have jailbroken your device you must be having lots of stuff that iTunes won't backup, in such a situation restoring your device will result in loss of such data, thanks to brand new software iSafeCopy you can now backup and restore that data savings lots of time re-installing everything from scratch.

iSafeCopy is currently in beta and allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to backup and restore Cydia sources, installed applications, Winterboard Themes, Cycorder Videos, Camera Roll Images, Wallpapers, MxTube saves, Ringtones, Address book, SMS, Notes, iBlacklist Database, Full Call History and Calender data with ease.

Despite all the warnings if you upgraded your iPhone to the latest iPhone OS 3.0 Beta without a developer account you must be locked-out from normal phone functionality, downgrading your iPhone to an earlier version is pretty straight-forward but downgrading your baseband (which is responsible for the unlock being not functional anymore) is not possible with newer versions, You can downgrade iPhone OS 3.0 To earlier 2.2.1 version using the following guide.

Apple is all set to provide an preview of upcoming Apple iPhone OS 3.0 on 17 March unveiling the latest iPhone SDK for developers, no further details are provided about the invite-only media-preview event but the announcement has definitely got iPhone users something to watch for in coming days, this upcoming major OS update is supposed to bring more features to somewhat lacking feature-set of this top-notch device.

iPhone still lacks basic features like Copy & Paste, MMS, Bluetooth file-transfer, Tethering and Video recording out-of-the-box and iPhone users are looking forward for these.

Despite being a popular and sought after device Apple iPhone lacks some basic features like Bluetooth file-transfer between phones, for some strange reasons Apple included Bluetooth functionality but did not provided any means to perform file-transfers on the device, but one brilliant iPhone developer has now found a way around and released the world's first iPhone Bluetooth file-sharing application iBluetooth which is now available for downloading at the Cydia Store.

The application is capable of discovering nearby bluetooth devices with full featured file sending capability including PIN authorization.

We have shared tips to manage Apple iPod and iPhone using free iTunes alternatives, as blogged earlier the iPhone PC Suite lets users manage Apple iPhone and iTouch without iTunes via a simple to use interface, the free software has now evolved into a suite of utilities for managing all aspects of your iPhone faster and easier.

Once connected iPhone PC Suite will prompt and install a PhoneDeamon in your iPhone which will act as a bridge between the desktop application and the device.

RipDev has released a new iPhone anti-piracy system to prevent iPhone Applications and Games from getting cracked by Crackulous, named Kali Anti-Piracy the service lets iPhone developers protect their work from getting cracked and pirated, the Kali anti-piracy system is a server-side service allowing developers to wrap their applications using the anti-piracy wrapper for protection from crackers, RipDev team also assured that underground hacker communities and trends will get constantly monitored to make sure that Kali anti-piracy system remains effective and uncrackable.

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Games and applications purchased via the iTunes Store are protected with DRM and can only be used on a single device they were purchased for, but not anymore as Crackulous the one-click iPhone application cracker is here, the free application allows users to crack the protection and use application/games purchased via the iTunes Store on as many devices as you like, once installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch you can crack any game or application that you purchased via iTunes Store using a simple to use GUI, once cracked the decrypted .IPA files will get saved at /var/mobile/media/DecryptedIPAs/, from where it can be downloaded via SSH and shared with your friends or community.

To install Crackulous use the simple instructions as follows :

While everybody is busy enjoying the New year celebration, Apple iPhone owners who were using Unlocked versions of the device and mistakenly upgraded to iPhone Software 2.2 resulting in an bricked version which can't be downgraded are eagerly waiting for the promised software unlock by the iPhone Dev Team, to make things more interesting the Dev-Team posted this cryptic message on the

If you are stuck with an unlocked iPhone 3G waiting for a software unlock from iPhone Dev Team, here is some good news for you, the iPhone Dev Team has announced that an software based unlock application similar to QuickPwn for iPhone 3G will get released on New Year’s Eve, however only users having iPhone 3G's with 2.11.07 or earlier baseband will able to get the unlocker working, the unlock r

Now this is a big news, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has managed to reverse engineer Apple iPhone hardware drivers and successfully ported Linux on Apple iPhone and First generation iPod devices.

The port makes use of a Busybox installation (popular Router OS) created with buildroot, the port is in its early stages and supports Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, Interrupts, MMU, clock and other similar basic functionality, the team is looking forward to accomplish write support for the NAND, Wireless networking, Touchscreen, Sound, Accelerometer and baseband support as the development progresses.