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Guide to Installing Frash (Flash 10.1) on your iPhone through Cydia

Aug 15

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Being able to see Flash banner ads isn’t exactly necessary, but there are still some sites out there with unpassable Flash intro and the like where being able to view Flash if you want to would be helpful. If you want Flash running on your iPhone, Comex (creator of the Spirit and JailbreakMe hacks) has been working on Frash for awhile now. It’s still Alpha so it’s use at your own risk.

Do you need Flash on your iPhone? Not really. But would you like to be able to install what you want on your phone without Steve Jobs telling you that you don’t need it? Yes. If so, follow the steps below:

1. First, it requires that your iPhone is jailbroken (use jailbreakme.com if you haven’t yet)

2. Open Cydia

3.Tap Manage

4.Tap Sources

5.Tap Edit, then tap Add, then type http://repo.benm.at/

6.Tap Add Source, then tap Done, then search for Frash and Install both Frash and Frash Toggle (if you want to be able to turn it on and off, I recommend it)

9.Respring

Now you can view your favorite flash sites. When the site has Flash content you will see a grey Flash box:

Tap the box and it will start the Flash:

Remember that it may not always work correctly and could cause crashes due to it still being in Alpha. Let’s hope Comex gets a release out soon.

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Jailbroken iPhone – iOS 4 – How To Be Prepared

Jun 21

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iOS 4 is OUT! It is rumoured and has a very high chance of being released at about 10:00 AM PST (Cupertino time).

Warning – If you want to hactivate or use Spirit do not proceed, do not upgrade to iTunes 9.2! If you will use redsn0w then you will be fine.

  1. Upgrade to iTunes 9.2
  2. Sync / Transfer everything
  3. Backup
  4. If using RockApp make sure to save your package list so the next time you jailbreak you can restore your packages
  5. Restore to stock firmware (helps reduce the chance of bricking, had an experience with this)
  6. Sn0wbreeze has been released. Get it to jailbreak.

Update: for 4.0 and 4.01 along with the new iPhone 4 you will want to use the new tool at www.jailbreakme.com

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Circuitous – another great multitasking app for the iPhone

Mar 16

Posted by jordandev in iPhone, jailbroken app reviews | 6 Comments

Following in the footsteps of Kirikae, Multifl0w and ProSwitcher, Circuitous is another great new innovation in multitasking for the iPhone. Like the others, it provides a useful interface for Backgrounder’s multitasking capabilities. Kirikae does it like a processes list screen, and Multifl0w and ProSwitcher did it like the Palm Pre’s Cards implementation. Circuitous does it like a dock:

It looks nice and has easy to use close buttons. The springboard icon can be turned off. One missing feature for now is the inability to turn off icons for the stock apps like Phone and Mail. Circuitous hooks into Activator like a lot of recent jailbreak apps which is great and any new apps should use it as it is becoming the standard and makes management of what gestures and buttons do what centralized.

One thing that I like about Circuitous that the other task switching apps don’t do is that it can open up on the lockscreen if you want it to:

If you still use Kirikae or ProSwitcher and you want to try out Circuitous there is no reason not to as it is free and it can be used at the same time as the others with no incompatibilities that I’ve seen. Hopefully all this competition for task switching apps creates even more innovative features to come.

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