• firmware – a set of programs built in your device;
• 1st/2nd generation – There are no 2nd generation of iPod Touchs yet. There’s an upgrade in the firmware only – from version 1.1.2 to version 1.2.0. There are 2nd generation of iPhones thou that are also referred as iPhone 3G (there is a built-in 3G GSM network support);
• Unlocking – It’s the procedure of enabling the iPhone for use with any GSM operator. iPhones are by default locked to a certain set of operators who have contracts with Apple. As your iPod Touch has no GSM functionality at all you have nothing to unlock;
• Jailbreaking – It’s the procedure of taking full control over your device. App Store is the only official way to install applications on your device but not all of the iPod Touch/iPhone applications are available there (as many of them do not conform to Apple’s terms). If you want to be able to install even more software on your device you have to jailbreak it. In fact App Store is a great source of applications so if you don’t need more applications than those available there you’d better not get into this jailbreaking stuff. iPod Touch users used to jailbreak their devices because there was no App Store in firmware versions prior to 1.2.0;
• mirrors – “Mirrors” are servers that make a shadow copy of the original files and give you an alternative download location in case the primary download servers fail;
• The method described in the following post (actually) is designed for iPhone only (as the custom firmware mentioned in it is an iPhone firmware – there are differences). You’d better wait for some time for the new version of WinPWN to be released.. if you insist on jailbreaking your iPod Touch. Jailbreaking gives you the ability to install extra applications from sources different from App Store, but it doesn’t make non-free applications free. In fact there are many free applications there. Unfortunately Super Monkeyball is not one of them;
• iTunes doesn’t break applications installed with Cyndia (the additional installer available on jailbroken iPhones/iPod Touches) unless you Restore your device. Custom firmwares used for jailbreaking devices are designed so that the current versions of iTunes do not detect weird stuff ;

My personal advice to you is to wait for the availability of WinPWN 2.0 or find a friend with MacBook or any other computer with MAC OS and use the Pwnage Tool on it to jailbreak your iPod Touch. In fact there are currently not many applications in Cyndia so you won’t benefit much with jailbreaking your device at the moment. So you’d better wait a bit…

here are the details:
-i have windows xp

-i purchased ipod touch last october so that makes it a 1st generation.

-ipod touch is 8gigs.

-i never paid attention to the firmware but i did upgrade to 2.0 this week. and then i found out about all this jailbreaking, dev team, pwnage, winpwn, etc.

-i realized i’ve been using such a boring itouch for the past months. i feel dumb now and want to experience the true potential of an ipodtouch.

now. these are the things im not too farmilar with..
-if i have an ipod touch, does that mean i dont need to/ cant unlock it coz its not a phone?

-what do these “mirrors” do?

-if i do pwn it like your method above, will i be able to run app store AND d/l applications for free such as super monkeyball, this customizer thing (for ipod themes, etc), tetris, etc without paying or anything?

-and if i do get these free applicaitons through installing them directly on ipod touch for free, when i sync it to itunes, what happens? everything will stay the same? wont the itunes recognize somethigns weird here?..

ok please pardon my lack of knowledge in all this jailbreaking. never done it before and dont want to risk any bricking of my itouch lol. just want to noe the basics before i attempt to do anything..

so please help me out here. (: greatly appreciated