Way before iOS 4 with multitasking is released, Proswitcher, an application in Cydia that enabled multitasking in iOS has been around quite a while, serving the community with that needs. Now we have multitasking in iOS 4, but that doesn’t stop the creativity of coders out there to come up with alternatives, and probably better.
Multifl0w , an application in Cydia is another implementation of multitasking in iOS, using Backgrounder as the app engine. iOS 4 multitasking might looks bored to some, which display only app icon currently running on background. Multifl0w on the other hand has addded little twist on it’s implementation of multitasking which looks pretty interesting. It display the application snapshot; the state of the app when you minimize them. The application snapshot image is huge as well and can be dragged upside down.
But there is trade off of this nice pretty app. It drain your battery pretty fast. And jailbreaking your iPhone is mandatory to have this app installed, from Cydia. It’s not free, you have to fork out $4.99 to have this nice looking multitasking in your iPhone, as well as iPad
Have you try the new Yahoo Mail on iPad? Yahoo has released Yahoo Mail for iPad which is built on HTML5 standard and it looks real good. Yahoo Mail for iPad is the same web app on iPhone but optimized for Apple iPad bigger screen. It now has 2 pane for better reading experience, with email list on the left pane and reading pane on the right. The new Yahoo Mail feature also include local caching for online viewing and email search.
So here is another app store, called Chrome Web Store, by Google. Confuse web store VS app store? Read further. You can pretty much guess what’s in the store. It is an app that running on browser. So Web Store is basically just the name of the store, but the content is an app that run on browser, understood?
What kind of app that able to run on the web. Flash, HTML5, javascript, C++ among others. There will be free and paid app to choose from the store. Chrome Web Store is due to be launched on October 2010 with support USD only app developer, before supporting multicurrenct support by Q1 2011. There are more app demoed including games on the source link at the end of this post.
Every big companies out there seems rushing to build their own app store, and that’s include Dell. Called Mobile Application Store is all in one app store for multiple platform such as Blackberry, Android and etc, except iOS of course. It claims to have over 50,000 apps in their store at the moment. However, only selected carriers in the US and Europe has access to the application in the store. User can filter the application available for them based on carriers and smartphone model. While it is good idea to have app store for multiple platform, at the same time, it should be accessible for wider range of people to gain more advantage to platform specific app store.
Just like ads-blocker plugin or extension in Firefox or Chrome, there is something you can rely to block ads in your smartphone as well. Adfree, an application that available in Android Market since early last week capable of blocking ads from browser as well as application. Before proceed, this is only working on rooted phone only. Getting it works is pretty simple, just download and install the app, and the default setting is sufficient to block ads. There is no option to block either ads in browser or application only, and I could sense that app developer who rely on ads for their free apps will not happy with Addfree.
