Multi-tasking can be easily enabled on the iPhone 3G by setting a flag in the capabilities plist, according to a tweet by cdevwill.

wow looks like multitasking can be enabled on the 3G if you just set multitasking=TRUE on the capabilities plist in SB (N82AP.plist)

This doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Apple doesn’t want multi-tasking to run less than optimally. Disabling it is most likely a choice made to keep the device from running slower. (and of course to sell more iphones…)

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Musclenerd Tweeted – Something you won’t find in stock 4.0…a VNC server

What you see in the video is vnc running on an iphone running OS 4.0 meaning that it has been jailbroken. There are two things happening here, either the dev team’s spirit jailbreak works with 4.0 or they have more tricks up their sleeve.

As expected, Apple didn’t introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support? Read more…

This is very smooth and with all of the new features coming on OS 4.0 this is going to make our iphone run a lot smoother since we will be using native apple programming such as homescreen background wallpaper, multitasking, folders, multiple exchange accounts. The list can go on forever but here is a quick list on what apple’s OS 4.0 software will be replacing for us jailbreakers.

Backgrounder – Replaced by native Apple multitasking

Categories/Stacks – Replaced by native Apple Folders

Multiexchange Cydia – Native Apple unified mailbox with multiple exchange accounts.

To the normal everyday users this isn’t helpful but it is a huge step in jailbreaking the ipad for advanced users. Basically what this means is that hackers can now start looking for exploits to jailbreak the ipad.

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Will Strafach has posted the first images of Cydia running on the iPad. His iPad was jailbroken using the ‘Spirit’ jailbreak by Comex.

“I didn’t think anything could be faster than ra1n or gp. @comex proved that wrong. It works so naturally. All he needs now is an ego inflation and he’ll be the new @geohot! *g* In all seriousness though, top notch stuff. ”

Take a look at the images below…

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AT&T has said that the iPad’s upcoming $30/month unlimited plan will not be subject to the usual “5GB soft cap”, according to GearLog.

According to AT&T’s Mark Siegel, “unlimited is unlimited.” Stream video 24/7 if you want; AT&T promises that they won’t criticize or judge. Read more…

A little-heralded feature of iTunes 9.1 is the ability to convert higher bitrate songs to 128kpbs AAC files for iPhone or iPod touch sync with iTunes. How do you do it? It’s a simple check box option in the Summary tab when your iPhone appears in the iTunes source list. When the box is checked, on the next sync, all your songs on your iPhone that are not 128kpbs AAC files will be removed and then re-added, being converted on the fly. Read more…