In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening

Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey’s poorest urban school systems. The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth Amboy and South Brunswick, to start their own iPod programs in the last year…[...] Thanks to mac26 for providing this nice story on Digg.

iPhone 1.1.1 Multipage SpringBoard Hack

Today brings this marvelous SpringBoard patch from Nicholas “Drudge” Penree, NerveGas and Pumpkin. It allows you to add as many 3rd party applications to SpringBoard as you’d like and offers a kicking-new paging feature; notice the paging dots at the bottom of SpringBoard.[...] Thanks to npenree for providing this nice story on Digg.

Third party apps running on iPhone 1.1.1

TUAW’s resident iPhone hacker, Erica Sadun, reports that hacker asap18 has been able to port several apps to the formerly locked down iPhone 1.1.1 firmware.[...] Thanks to blankbaby for providing this nice story on Digg.

Girl gets iPod for birthday, finds rocks inside.

You unwrap your gifts fervently and you hit pay dirt. The iPod you wanted—no, you needed! You open the packaging with great anticipation, only to discover that there is no iPod. Only rocks. Not even good rocks, or iRocks, just rocks.[...] Thanks to whothehellareyu for providing this nice story on Digg.

Got root on the iPod touch? They do

Hacker Niacin breaks open root access to the iPod touch (and the 1.1.1 iPhone), and TUAW is there. One step closer to complete pwnership of Apple’s new iPod…[...] Thanks to batmn42 for providing this nice story on Digg.