Multi-tasking On iPhone With Multifl0w Jailbreak Application
One of the most popular app among jailbroken iPhone users is Backgrounder - the free app that allows you to multitask; a feature almost omnipresent among smartphones but something that remains unavailable for iPhone users till date.
Now here is another iPhone app that improvises on Backgrounder to create a better multitasking experience (think Palm Pre).
Backgrounder lets you open multiple applications and also helps in identifying all these iPhone apps running in the background with a badge. With mutifl0w, you may additionally slide through all the open apps and easily toggle between them. Double-tapping your iPhone home button takes you to the multifl0w screen where all the open apps are displayed. Tapping on an iPhone app displays it in full screen for you to work on while the other apps continue to run in the background. It helps if you are on iPhone 3GS since the higher RAM capacity means you can toggle between lot more iPhone apps.
Multifl0w is currently available for iPhone OS 3.0 and above and is built over Backgrounder. There are a few minor bugs at this moment though, which includes a springboard crash when the multifl0w app is opened simulataneously with another loading app. However, the app developer says updates would soon be made available for these.
The app is already available on Rock and should also be available on Cydia soon. While you do have a free trial, the jailbreak iPhone app costs $4.99, which we feel is slightly higher considering that the base app Backgrounder and the other popular multitasking app for jailbroken iPhones, Kirikae are both free.
Nevertheless, $5 is still a small price to pay for such a valuable utility denied for quite sometime by Apple as running multiple applications could drain your iPhone's battery quickly. If you have downloaded multifl0w, please don't forget to tell us your experience.
[via AppAdvice]
ProSwitcher – Free Multitasking iPhone Application
Those of you who had tried the beta version of the free multitasking iPhone app for jailbroken iPhones, Proswitcher, will vouch for the fact that this is one of the best multitasking app available for iPhones.
Now, good news folks. The iPhone app just has been officially released and includes more enhancements.
When we had written about the beta version of the app earlier this month, we had a lot of positive things to say about it. Not only does this iPhone app integrate very seamlessly with the native look and feel of the iPhone, but also it consumes way less memory than the other popular multitasking app, multifl0w. Available for free against the $5 that you had to shell out for multifl0w, this was no doubt a very good deal.
Having said that, the official release now comes with a lot more enhancements as well. Here is what you get to have in addition to what was available in the beta version:
App Card Badges: The app card badges display new notifications from the app running in the background everytime you launch Proswitcher. For instance, new mail notifications on your mail app will now be visible at the top right corner of the app card.
Set Home Screen: This is a new option available in the Settings. By using this option, you can choose whether to view the ProSwitcher screen or the Home Screen every time you close a running app.
Bigger Active Card: The beta version of ProSwitcher displayed all iPhone apps running in the background in the same size. Now, the active card alone is shown in a bigger size over the other running apps. This is not a major change, but definitely has a better appeal.
If you are interested in trying this iPhone app out, you can download it from Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone. As always, don't forget to tell us how you find the new iPhone app.
[Via Iphonehacks]
Circuitous – Multitasking iPhone Application
There are quite a few multitasking apps for jailbroken iPhones. While apps like ProSwitcher and Multifl0w do a good job, here is another jailbreak iPhone app that offers another good user experience to toggle between iPhone applications.
Dan Zimmerman, the developer behind Circuitous calls it a "custom app switcher".
Circuitous is an app that provides a clean interface to switch between the various active iPhone applications. Unlike ProSwitcher and Multifl0w where users need to move away from the existing iPhone app to surf through other active applications, Circuitous displays all the active iPhone apps in a vertical dock that can be accessed from any screen of your iPhone.
Using Circuitous, it is possible to activate the custom dock through several shortcuts like short-holding the Sleep button, double pressing the Home button or double tapping the status bar on your iPhone. Also, users may cycle forward or backward through the various open applications using shortcuts like the ones mentioned above. All these customizations may be made via iPhone Settings. Check out the video below to see Circuitous in action:
Circuitous is available for free on Cydia and Rock. The new version of Circuitous (v1.1) also offers additional features like closing and reordering active iPhone apps with simple gestures. Do checkout the iPhone app and let us know if you think its better than ProSwitcher or Multifl0w.
[via ModMyi]