I tried the blackra1n jailbreak a couple of weeks ago. Wow amazingly easy and quick. I have since restored my phone to a pre-jailbroken state. To be perfectly honest I have not found a compelling reason to run jailbroken since 3.0. But I like to see whats happening on that front every once in a while.
I went to the zoo yesterday, the only reason this is making my blog is that while there I played with a Qik app for the iphone (if yours is jailbroken). Instant video streams are cool, even if I have no talent as a film maker. Check it out: http://www.qik.com/robg.
Netatalk on the iPhone is great, but what if you want to turn it off. Using Bossprefs it is easy to create a toggle which allows you to control the state of your netatalk daemon.
For this to work you need a jailbroken iphone with netatalk, openssh, and Bossprefs installed, all avaialable through Cydia. I would also suggest grabbing insomnia to stop your iphone going to sleep (or change the settings in system preferences).
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I have netatalk on my iphone to access files via afp. I wanted a publicly accessable dropbox. These instruction deal praimarily with the iPhone, but they would work on any system where you were running netatalk.
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I want to muck about in the sdk and I want to take my muck and move it to an iphone. What I am doing is not worthy of sale – or really even distribution, but to test it on an actual hardware I have to pay apple so my app is signed.
The simulator is exactly that, a simulator, not an emulator. You really have no idea of the performance of your code until you throw a real iphone in the mix. But with a jailbroken iphone and a bit of pokery you can get the sdk to play nice with your hardware. See this page: http://www.246tnt.com/iPhone/.
Well worth the effort. Now I know my app which runs fast and smooth on the simulator, waits 30 seconds and then crashes my iphone. I used to be able to do that on my Windows Mobile without coding anything.