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You didn’t think you had to wait too long to get your iPhone 3GS Jailbroken, did you? The wait is finally over as George Hotz has released a Jailbreak application for iPhone 3GS for Windows. Here is how purplera1n is supposed to work:

To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware. Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app.

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Playing the piano on a mobile phone has never been this much much. Piano Sharp is a super cool piano applications for iPhone. It makes it so easy to compose and play your music on the go. You can record new songs and play your existing MIDI files. Best of all, Piano Sharp is designed to have something for everyone, regardless of how good you are.

Piano Sharp lets you pre-record up to 3 different parts of your songs separately and then put them together. The piano is very easy to play with. You can use the accelerometer to manage the piano more effectively. Another feature that I loved in this app was the ability to export recorded songs and also import MIDI files.

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Fritz is one of the best chess engines in the world. I got introduced to the Fritz family in the 90s. It feels almost like yesterday when I picked up Fritz 4.01 to take my chess game to the next level. Fast forward a few years, and we finally have Fritz Chess on the iPhone. Fritz is no ordinary chess game. It’s a super engine that can help you analyze games, play rated games, and take your chess game to the next level. Fritz is more than a game. It’s a comprehensive chess training system that helps you get your game to the next level, and now you can do it all on your iPhone.

What I like about Fritz chess is all the game modes that are available on it. The Blitz mode is useful if you want to play quick games. The long games are closer to what you see in a classical chess game. You can also turn the clock off and go without a limit. I obviously don’t recommend that unless you have trouble managing your clock. Fritz also have many levels to help players from all levels to have fun without getting beat to a pole by it. Fritz can be ruthless if you choose the highest rating level. So if you are a chess newbie, I strongly encourage you to adjust the playing level to have more fun with Fritz.

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We have all heard it before: how no phone on the market can even get close to challenging iPhone in the smart phone market. iPhone is more than just a piece of hardware. The platform that Apple has built around it and the power of the community behind it has made iPhone a tough nut to crack for Palm, Nokia, and other companies that have tried to “kill iPhone.” The problem that many of these iPhone challengers have had is they do not come up with many original, game changing ideas. That makes it extremely difficult to compete against iPhone. Add to that the fact that you are not competing just against the hardware, and you’ve got a mountain to climb. A very steep one.

Google may be the only company that is capable of coming up with a game changing solution for the mobile market, but it is not interested in developing its own phone. Microsoft has been rumored to be interested in taking another shot at Apple, but Microsoft is a follower and not such a good innovator these days. Palm Pre is certainly a capable phone and a worthy challenger, but it falls short as it does not pull everything together as well as iPhone does. So is there any hope for these companies to kill the iPhone?

There is hope, and that hope comes from a partnership that has been the only Achilles’ heel for Apple iPhone. I have always believed that the exclusive partnership with AT&T was a good short-term idea, but not working with other carriers has kept iPhone back a bit. It’s not as if AT&T provides an out-of-this-world service to its customers. And everyday we hear about yet another problem with AT&T service. AT&T has tried to make the iPhone even more tempting by lowering its wireless service prices and make it easier for folks to upgrade to iPhone, but painful shortcomings still remain. Apple may be dedicated to keep innovating, but as long as AT&T is the one and only carrier (in the U.S.), iPhone challengers can dream. It still won’t be easy to topple iPhone.

While the economy seems to be stabilizing in the past couple of months, there are still a lot of folks who are looking for a new career or just a job to make a living. Whatever the case, you can always use your iPhone to create a resume, look for job openings, or even master the art of interview. There are plenty of job iPhone applications to choose from but here are 10 apps you should try:

1. Resume Pro: a very useful application for job hunters that lets you send create your resume and send your PDF resume to recruiters right on your iPhone.

2. Job Interview: not a job hunting application per se, but it does provide you with interview tips to ace your interviews.

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