Why should you jailbreak your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch?

1) The jailbreak app store AKA Cydia.

Those who do not jailbreak their iDevice may find themselves missing a lot of useful and fun apps. Cydia, created by Saurik, is an "underground" app store that has little to no restrictions as to what can be available for users to download. Apps that have been rejected by Apple can usually find a home inside of Cydia.










2) Make ringtones out of your music without iTunes

Why shouldn't you be able to make ringtones out of music you already own. With AnyRing, you can choose songs from your iPod to set as your ringtone. You can even choose specific times in a song and save them as your ringtone.










3) Theme Customization

Apple really limits how you can change the appearance of iDevices. With Winterboard you can change your home screen, lock background, SMS background, font replacement, sounds, keyboards and lots more.










4) Safari file download manager

This manager allows you to download media, images, documents, etc. This application is highly customizable and you can even choose where you want to save your downloads.










5) View local files on your iPhone with a file browser

iFile is a file manager that gives you file access under root. You can move, copy, rename files as you please.










6) Toggle 3G, Bluetooth, Brightness and Wifi from one menu

Tired of navigating through the Settings Menu just so you can turn off Bluetooth, Wifi, 3G, etc. sbsettings allows you the convenience to have all those features in one easy to access menu.










7) Transfer files to your iDevice fast and secure with SSH

Have some files that you want to take on the go with you. OpenSSH allows you to install a SSH server onto your phone. You can access those files from a PC when you connect your iDevice to your wireless network.










8) Tether your internet connection

If you have other devices or want to share your internet connection with your friends, MyWi allows you to tether your phone's 3G connection.












9) Unrestrict your 3G Priveleges

Apple restricts iTunes downloads, FaceTime calls and Youtube HD uploads to Wireless connections. With 3G Unrestrictor, you can bypass Apple's restrictions to these apps.










10) Five Icon Dock

Sometimes 4 icons at the bottom just isn't enough. Have instant access to 5 apps on your dock insead of 4.

How to download torrents to your jailbroken iPhone / iPod with iTransmission

Like I mentioned in the title, your iPhone/iPod will need to be jailbroken for this to work. The app store and Cydia have both blocked this app from their repo and although it may be use to pirate content it also has it's legitimate uses.

First we'll open up Cydia, then click on the Manage tab on the bottom.

Click on Sources, this is where we'll add the iTransmission repo then click edit.

Click Add and type in the URL listed below. If the URL doesn't work, try googling iTransmission repo for another repository.

A warning will popup telling you that this repository has been reported by the community.... Go ahead and click Add Anyway.

You'll now see the insanelyi Repository in the list of sources.

Browse the insanelyi Repository and install the iTransmission package. Once the installation is complete you will have successfully installed iTransmission onto your iPhone/iPod and are ready to start downloading torrents.

Open up Safari and browse to your favorite torrent downloading site. For this example I will be using http://www.piratebay.se

Each torrent will have a magnet link and a torrent link. iTransmission accepts both of these. To add a torrent in iTransmission you will need to hold down either the magent or torrent link and then copy that link. We will be pasting into the iTransmission app. In the image below I have circled a magnet link and a torrent link.

Now open up the iTransmission app. Click on the + icon on the bottom. This is where we will paste our torrent url or magnet link. You may also choose a torrent from your filesystem but I will not be going into that in this tutorial.

Click OK and should see your torrent's download progress.

As you can see, the download speeds are decent all depending on your internet source. iTransmission does allow you to download with 3G as well.

Now if you want to see some of the dtails of your torrent such as the files contained and the download location you can click on the torrent. As you can see the download location is /var/mobile/Documents/Downloads

Once the filed has completed, I would recommend that you remove the torrent from iTransmission. Make sure that you choose Yes but keep data. Otherwise, your data from the torrent you just downloaded will be gone.

Using a file browser such as iFile, you may browse to where you torrent files were downloaded to and do what you would with them.