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And now, for an avalanche -- nay, a tsunami -- of iPhone info. Brace yourself! First, as I'm sure everyone heard Wednesday, Apple lowered the price of the 4GB and 8GB iPhone models by $200, and has discontinued the 4GB model. Now's a great time to get a great deal on an iPhone. If you've already got one, the following iPhone-hackery links may be of interest: iPHUC, a tool to allow command-line access to an iPhone. iNdependence provides a nice GUI interface in OS X to jailbreak the iPhone, install SSH, activate the phone, and install wallpaper, ringtones, and 3rd-party iPhone-native applications. MobileTerminal is a Terminal.app-like application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal requires the installation of the BSD subsystem package from NateTrue's site. However, it's much easier to install the MobileTerminal app, SSH, the BSD subsystem, and pretty much most other 3rd-party native apps using a slick little tool called Installer.app. Installer.app will not only jailbreak your phone, but it'll install a native app on your phone. From that app, you can download and install most of the current native 3rd-party iPhone apps with a single finger-touch. There's also a very nice, native instant messaging (AIM, Y!, Google, etc.) app called Apollo IM.

For sites, there's Mod My iPhone, which has a great forum as well as a well-maintained list of iPhone apps. Insanely Me keeps a collection of library and app ports that're useful to the more in-depth iPhone hacker. iPhone Alley is another excellent iPhone hacking resource, with current news, apps, and forums. iPhone Atlas has a great collection of iPhone guides and howtos, and a wonderful troubleshooting section. In the howto vein, Hack The iPhone also has an excellent collection of guides for hacking your iPhone in various ways. iPhoneApplicationList.com also collects info on all the latest iPhone apps.

As for cases, I highly recommend Waterfield's iPhone Smart Case. Waterfield is a local company to me, and I've bought hundreds of dollars of notebook sleeves from them over the years. They are very responsive, the quality of their products is absolutely top-notch, and when you deal with them, you're dealing directly with the guy who runs the company. I even bought a nice leather case for my Nintendo DS from them. They've earned all my future case purchases. If they're not to your liking for some reason, the iPhone Leather Folio from InCase may be more your style.

Finally(!), if you bought your iPhone within 14 days prior to the price drop, Steve Jobs himself has said you'll be getting a $100 Apple Store credit.