Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

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Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

I'm fairly in agreement with this, excepting the 3G unrestrictor.

http://www.cultofmac.com/top-5-reasons-to-jailbreak-an-ipad/44728

My list would be the same except #5 would be FullForce.

What are your top 5 reasons to jailbreak the iPad?

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Re: Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

Let's hear it!

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Re: Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

OK, OK...

I haven't really put too many JB apps on yet.

I have Full Force, but that is becoming more and more unnecessary as more of the text driven apps I use have iPad apps coming out. (Stanza & Beejive IM)

I also have Backgrounder - it works, but it took me a little bit to figure out how to make it work. I'm sure that will be more helpful as more apps develop.

And then there is BT Stack. This lets you use a mouse with the iPad. So far, it works just fine, and there is a second stack that will let you use a KB as well, but so far I've found that using both the mouse and KB together doesn't play too nicely together. So, there isn't a whole lot of use for ONLY a mouse if you can't use a KB at the same time.

Somehow, I also have Activator on there, but I haven't used it. I believe that it is supposed to use gestures to open programs or perform specific tasks.

I'm waiting for Infinidock to work with the iPad - that lets you create a scrolling dock and you can add as many icons to the dock as you want to.

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Re: Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

From what I can tell, there haven't been any new reasons yet. I keep looking for them.

Anyone see any new big reasons to jailbreak the iPad come up?

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blizeh wrote:
From what I can tell, there haven't been any new reasons yet. I keep looking for them.

Anyone see any new big reasons to jailbreak the iPad come up?

I think it's pretty individual. What would interest you enough to want to?

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Re: Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPad

Deni - you still have your's jailbroken? How's backgrounder treating you?

I'm much more keen to do so now that we have to wait till fall for multi-tasking.

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Yep, still jailbroken. Backgrounder was ok, but not something that I found overwhelmingly useful for the way I use my iPad. It worked pretty much as advertised - apps run in the background and when you go back to them, start from right where you left off.

After using it for a bit, I found that there were not that many things that I needed to do simultaneously. It's not like working on a PC, where you can be surfing in one window and something else in another window - you can still only have one thing on the window at a time.

That being said, I can see where it would have it's uses, especially for some people, but I don't keep it running much, because I just don't need it all the time.

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That being said, I can see where it would have it's uses, especially for some people, but I don't keep it running much, because I just don't need it all the time.

Does it have a task bar or something of the like that shows what's running?

So you didn't find it buggy, or anything like that?

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I'm looking forward to background apps running in iOS 4... Pandora comes to mind. Not sure I'm ready to JB to get it earlier though. Any other good reasons out there?

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Deni Tako wrote:
That being said, I can see where it would have it's uses, especially for some people, but I don't keep it running much, because I just don't need it all the time.

Does it have a task bar or something of the like that shows what's running?

So you didn't find it buggy, or anything like that?

Apps that get "minimized" have a gear icon in the corner. If you want to let the app continue to run, you just press the home button like normal and the gear icon will show it's still running. If you want the app to close, you press and hold the home button, and a quick dialog box comes up to say that backgrounding was disabled for that app, and the app closes.

I uninstalled it after I had a mini crash (unsure of the cause) and it took like 20 minutes to reboot the iPad. My "normal" reboot was about a minute before that, and is now at around 2 minutes, like my iPhone.

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Deni Tako wrote:
Apps that get "minimized" have a gear icon in the corner. If you want to let the app continue to run, you just press the home button like normal and the gear icon will show it's still running. If you want the app to close, you press and hold the home button, and a quick dialog box comes up to say that backgrounding was disabled for that app, and the app closes.

It would be really nice if iOS4 had this feature, though I think it should be switched.

Hold home to let it run, hit like normal to close it.

I don't know why my 3GS has to leave EVERYTHING running at all times. I feel it is slowing things down considerably.

But, maybe it always did this ...