If there were bigger news this week than the fallout and repercussions from the legalization of jailbreaking, we've yet to hear it. But news, as it always does, did happen, and the happy elves of Mac|Life were there to make sense of the pieces, just for you, Dear Reader.

Features:

- 10 Reasons Why You Should Jailbreak Your iOS Device Today - Long, long ago, as long as two whole weeks, there were two compelling reasons why not to jailbreak your iPhone. Now that the legal reasons have fallen away, there's just that warranty issue. Well, we've found ten reasons that trump that little formality easy.


- 10 of the Best Apps in the Cydia App Store for a Jailbroken iPhone - Okay, so you jailbroke your device. What now? What did you do it for and what do you want to do now that you've done it? The apps, of course, the sweet, sweet, un-Jobs sactioned appy goodness. Here's ten to get you started.

How-Tos:

- How-To: Stream Audio Files to your iOS Device from MobileMe - If there's one thing we iPhone users like, it's finding some way around our rather paltry memory limitations to get more of what we own and love on our mobile devices. Well, it's the cloud to the rescue with this MobileMe solution for music lovers everywhere.


- How To Stop Magic Mouse Hand Cramps - We've all been there. You get a new mouse, but your hand is so used to the way the old mouse did things that you press a lot of wrong buttons and make a few wrong clicks, and worst of all, the dreaded unbelievable hand cramps. We know, we know, like we said, we've all been there. So take a couple tips from us what to do about it.


Reviews:

- July's Highest Rated Reviews - Woooo doggies! It's that special time again, time for a round up of the top reviews of the month. There's no good, bad, and ugly here. It's all good.


- Sleep Is Death Review - No, this isn't the game version of Inception, though you might think of Christopher Nolan's mindbending movie when playing this solid little number. We'd like to see a way to make the dream space creation run a little faster, but this is a pretty decent start.



News:

So, we like to imagine you are reading this article on the Mac|Life app on your jailbroken iPhone, but if you're still not sure how all this jailbreaking is supposed to work, comex et. al made it easy for you...and it's so easy, this joker decided to film himself doing just that in, of all places, an Apple store; how's that for moxie?...not to be completely overshadowed, the Dev Team came up with their iPhone 4 Unlock that also fixes Skype multitasking...or if you prefer FaceTime one of the things you might want to do with your jailbroken iPhone is some FaceTime on 3G instead of just Wi-Fi... but holy moley, don't bring down AT&T's fragile network doing it, this stuff is data intensive, as you'd imagine...and if you're thinking later on the jailbreaking, you may want to move now, as Apple is looking into this PDF vulnerability issue...meanwhile, our advice? Don't download any untrustworthy PDF files, all right?...whether this gets addressed in the iOS 4.1 we'll have to wait and see, but Apple's dropped the beta along with SDK 3 in developers' hands...so what do these iPhones of which we speak cost around the world? Here comes the graph to answer that very question...speaking of around the world, the latest iPhone killer (snicker) may not be enough to bring down Apple's baby...heck, it may not be enough to help troubled RIM with its international woes...meanwhile, could trouble be brewing for Apple with Android? It appears Google's operating system "sells" more than Cupertino's; could this be Windows all over again?


Meanwhile, Apple's rolling out iPad App Store upgrades that are just the ticket...pair that with our weekly tips for iPad users and you've got yourself a nice bucket of sweetness for the weekend...hopefully you'll soon be reading this on your government-approved iPad in Beijing...speaking of reading, it looks like Amazon was clever to put out a Kindle app, as they still manage to rule the roost in e-book land, despite the awesome sauce that is the iPad; well played, Bezos...FOR NOW, that is, as Apple moves into third place in the portable computer market on the back of a litle something they call the iPad...of course, here's the question: are you paying too much for this 3G connectivity? (we don't want to give away too much, but it's AT&T we're talking about here, people)...and what would an iPad article be without the rumor mill which never no never stops churning, which means it's imaginatin' time with mockups galore...and speculation about front facing cameras and so forth...and so on, like Intel inside; this one is a rumor we sorta kinda have to credit...