It's been an extremely slow day for gadget news, so I decided to jailbreak my iPhone today (or, rather, Neal's iPhone). I decided to use iFuntastic, recommended by TUAW. If you have your iPhone plugged in before opening iFuntastic, it immediately recognizes it and all all you have to do is click on Unshackle , then follow directions. I installed the BSD Subsystem since many third party apps require it, then I got to the fun part and installed Pool, and Twinkle. I kept getting an error with Labyrinth, but it eventually installed. If you do get an error, try Clear Queue , then try again. Sometimes that helps. I'll be playing and testing with it, and will keep you updated! Remember, jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch voids the warranty and the geniuses will not help you!

Our lease ends in a week on May 21st. We haven't found the right Geek Brief Mobile yet, so we're going to have to find a temporary place to live while we continue to look. This Brief is an update on our goal to take the show on the road. Friends of GBTV keep pointing us toward the super cool CNN Election Express Bus. It's a mobile news bureau/studio and it's very cool. Right now, we're looking at three very different buses. One is a 1985 Eagle that is very inexpensive but would require quite a bit of work. One is a 1995 VanHool that is nicely converted, but has some red flags. One is a well-maintained 1998 Prevost with low mileage. We think of what we do as Open Source media. Taking the Brief mobile for a couple years is a big goal and viewers are rallying around the project. Companies are too. Like everything we do in comparison to big media, we think we can do something as cool as the CNN thing for a small fraction of the cost. This episode is sponsored by Beck's Beer. It doesn't have a pre-roll. At the end of the brief, I invite beer aficionados to visit becksbeer.com and talk about a really cool job opportunity. Beck's is looking for an official blogger. Info about that is available at becks.com.

On Brief #361, I talk to My Home 2.0 Guru #2, Brian Albert. He's the craziest person I've ever put on The Brief. He showed me some of the projects he's built over the course of his life, and I try to convince him to call himself a geek.

On Saturday, I hung out at the My Home 2.0 studio, a technology makeover show. I got to see some really cool D.I.Y. projects, but I'm not allowed to show you those just yet. On Brief #360, I talk to one of the three gurus, Alison Lewis about how her interest in integrating technology into fashion. She gets her fashion cred from Parsons, and her tech cred from creating and installing interactive exhibits in children's and science museums.

I love you guys, but there was no way I was going to spend $500 on a Psystar to try it out, even though it's deductible. John Biggs from CrunchGear.com did it, and I called him up to talk to him about it.

This Brief was meant to be up hours ago, but we had a computer crash just before a meeting. We had to re-edit after we got home tonight. Twitter friend, @Lindsay25 turned us on to The Great American Road Trip project. It's three guys driving through the lower 48 in 5 days. They charted a route that is only 7500 miles. Their journey started on Sunday and ends Friday, May 9th. Using mobile broadband, they've blogged about the trip all week. Tivoli Audio announced and Internet radio called NetWorks. It streams audio via Wi-Fi or Ethernet. PicLens is a free broser plug-in that turns browsing photos and video online into an immersive 3D experience. You can download the plug in from here, and you can learn how to make your Web site Piclens ready here. The Kuro Plasma Displays by Pioneer have black levels that are five times deeper than last year's models. Friday night (May 9th) at 9PM EDT, Neal and I will be on Ustream.tv/calilewis live from New Jersey talking about the status of the Big Trip. Come by and join the chat.

I've been a little bus obsessed for the last couple of days. Our lease is up on May 21st. Our plan has been to downsize and move into a small apartment for the summer while we finish planning The Big Trip. Even though we won't be ready to hit the road, we're really anxious to get the bus and start geeking it out for the trip. Times is an RSS feed reader for Mac that is beautiful. It creates a Newspaper-like context for news delivered via RSS. It isn't a static experience though. Times takes advantage of Core Animation to make reading the news an enchanting experience. When you click on a headline, the page folds down to reveal the text of the story. A featured called Shelf lets you organized stories into stacks. You can download it from here and try it for 14 days. It's the one newsreader I've found that's worth paying for. The PC Decrapifier is a freeware application that removes all the trialware nonsense that comes pre-installed on a new PC. Evernote is an extension of your brain. Clips from Web pages or photographs you take with your phone camera can be sent to your Evernote database where the information is searchable. It's very cool. Lycos Cinema is a social video viewing experience. You pick the video, invite up to 10 friends and the video is synced to everyone watching at almost the exact same time. A chatroom gives viewers a way to talk about what they're watching. The big downside, though is the very limited supply of interesting content. The conversation about prerolls and Beck's Beer is on my blog, iCali.tv.

We had a hard time decided whether the big story for today was the launch of tomcruise.com or that Microsoft bailed on the Yahoo! takeover. I'm still not sure, but everyone should go to tomcruise.com and watch the 25 Years reel. If you don't find it funny...well...then...nevermind! Woopra, my favorite analytics tool, now works on a Mac thanks to a recent Java upgrade. My twitter friend, @jeffmccord explains how it works on his blog. Hitachi has a new set of 1080p displays that are only 1.5 inches thick. Some of their 01 series of displays have a power swivel feature that is remote controlled allowing viewers to turn the display 30 degrees in either direction. AT&T yanked the rug from underneath iPhone owners by providing free WiFi and then taking it away. Rubik's Cube got together with a Kompoloi and had a very cool love child called The NeoCube. It's a combination of 216 high-energy, rare-earth spherical magnets that connect together in unlimited configurations. They're good for creativity, focus or just as a cool thing to put on a desk.

Yamaha Key Between People, Disklavier Mark 4, Movies available on iTunes immediately, Starbucks transitioning to AT&T

ots of boxes have been built to get some of what's on your PC onto your HDTV. Most of them govern which content you're able to see. The ZeeVee ZvBox will let you see what ever is on your computer from any TV connected via a coaxial cable. You're essentially creating a personal HDTV channel that displays whatever is on your computer. You can access and control any application on your computer. You can even play DVDs from your computer's optical drive. Zv components are available for pre-order exclusively from Amazon. The only downside I could find is that the computer channel will be the same on all connected TVs. Two people in different rooms cannot watch different videos at the same time, unless I missed something. Sometime around CES, we covered the R2-D2 DVD Projector. We thought it was a cute novelty thing until @chaeseco pointed us toward the video via Twitter. Neal told him we already covered it, but after watching the video we wanted to show it to you guys. It's longer than most videos we put on Geek Brief (about 2 minutes), but it's just too cool to shorten. The Star Wars Shop sells the R2-D2 DVD Projector for nearly $3000 and they're sold out.