iPhone: Jailbreak start to finish

While it's still horribly fresh in my mind, various notes about taking your iPhone from a merely interesting toy to a complete, powerful productivity-destroyer:

• ZiPhone is one-step shopping for jailbreak/installing Installer/getting the best app sources
• Good sources include AppTapp Official, Ste, NullRiver, BigBoss. Also ModMyiPhone.
• Conceited Software has w00t stuff, but their server is flaky. I've had to remove them and re-add them. What gives?
• Thank you: ZiPhone, Erica Sadun, NullRiver, Roz, John B., and others.
• Things You Should Learn To Do:
• Reset your iPhone (Settings > General > Reset > Reset all Settings)
• "Reboot": Home+Sleep for 7 seconds, shut down, Sleep for roughly 3 seconds
• Restore: ZiPhone to set it back to "normal", then iTunes. Note: the iTunes update servers may be offline. Don't panic.
• Find Sources: Run Installer, select Sources, Refresh.
• Add a Source: Installer > Sources > Edit > Add. You'll need to know the URL of the source.
• Remove a Source: Installer > Sources > Edit > click red circle/line on left, click Delete on right. Alas, I don't know how to restore sources, yet. You may need to remove a source to avoid install problems.
  
• GOOGLE SEARCH: Everything I've written here I learned by searching. Don't bother your friends or post to a forum until you've done a Google search.
• Steps to take:
• Valium :)
• Sync iPhone to back up.
• Install ZiPhone and iphonebrowser on your PC. I don't have a Mac, so I can't help there. Don't have them yet? Where to find them? Remember what I said about Google Search?! 'Nuff said.
  
• ZiPhone jailbreak. Yes, you may want to unlock your iPhone. I decided I could live with ATT, having lived with them for several years already. If you're not in the US, I can't help you. I didn't unlock my iPhone; to quote John Cleese: "I may be a fool, but I'm not stupid!"
• On your iPhone, run Installer. All instructions from now on are on iPhone.
• Install these key apps. See this blog for more details!:
• BSD Subsystem
• BSD Subsystem 2.0 Term fix
• Community Sources
• SUID Lib Fix
• ZiPhone iBrickr fix
• Install other apps as you like. I can recommend:
• MobileFinder, MobileTextEdit (thanks Erica)
• Term-VT100 by Conceited Software
• Erica's x, a set of utils, etc. by Erica Sadun aka Ste
• Categories, by BigBoss. Be careful. Most of my experience with iPhone hacking comes from recovering from stupid use of Categories. Read the directions and help first!
• HP12C, HP15C, HP16C by Thomas Fors. For us former HPers and fans of RPN.
• SendFile by (who else) Erica Sadun.