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Turn Your iPhone and iPod touch into iPad
Feb 2nd
Apple iPad, which was announced earlier this week received a mixed reaction from all over the world. Some found it as an oversized iPod touch, while others thought that it has the potential to redefine the way we will use our computers in the future. In a nutshell, iPad is indeed an oversized iPod touch/iPhone except for iBooks Store and iWorks Suite of apps.
Since iPhone, iPod touch and iPad uses the same OS (iPhone OS), the look and feel is generally the same throughout the three iDevices except for the few tweaks here and there in the iPhone OS 3.2 running on the iPad.
Now if you want to make your iPhone and iPod touch to look exactly like the iPad, simply follow the steps as shown in the video below to get the same lockscreen and springboard background, carrier logo which reads “iPad”, an iBooks like app, New York Times reader, the entire Kindle books catalog and much more.
You will need to have a jailbroken iPhone to get it all to work. Follow the instructions posted here to first jailbreak your iPhone if you haven’t already and then download and install the following in this order.
* Winterboard app via Cydia
* “Simple iPad Theme” via Cydia
* MakeItMine app via Cydia to Change the Carrier logo to iPad. More details here.
* Shrink app via Cydia to reduce the size of all the icons on the springboard.
* ProSwitcher via Cydia for Multitasking. More details here.
* NYTimes – The New York Times app for iPhone via App Store
* Classics – The iBooks lookalike app for iPhone via App Store
* Kindle for iPhone via App Store
Here is the video, showing each and every step in detail on how to turn your iPhone and iPod touch into an iPad.
Jailbreaking Apple iPad – The Possibilities
Jan 28th
The long awaited Apple iPad was released today, much to the delight of Apple fans who were waiting for Apple to reinvent the tablet/slate market. For those of you who don’t know, iPad is an all new tablet/slate like device that will run all of your existing iPhone Apps and Games on a a 9.7 inches IPS capacitive multitouch display. It is powered by 1Ghz processor and comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB flash sizes.
In a nutshell, it is a larger iPod touch with an additional iBooks Store and iWorks suite of apps. While the device has a great potential, it has its share of flaws as well, most notably the lack of multitasking, phone/SMS, Tethering and Flash in the browser. We all know how the jailbroken community has changed the way we use our iPhone’s today. Apps like ProSwitcher, Backgrounder, qTweeter, YourTube, Google Voice, BTStack and so on have enabled iPhone and iPod touch users to do amazing things which otherwise would have never been possible.
The iPad’s which were used in Demos today was running iPhone OS 3.2 Beta. A version of the OS which is currently only available for iPad. But we can be sure that Apple will release the same OS for iPhone and iPod touches as well when the iPad is ready for shipment, in exactly two months from now. Just imagine the amazing possibilities which jailbreaking can bring to this device. The ability to multitask, updating twitter without having to launch an app using qTweeter, Tethering and the ability to use Magic Mouse with iPad will make it one hell of a device. And also since one of the models of the iPad already has 3G capabilities, it wont be difficult for Cydia developers to bring phone calling / SMS capabilities over-the-air to this larger touchscreen device. Sending text messages from this large screen would be real awesome!
Of course, alot will depend on how strongly apple has patched the exploits which were used by George Hotz and the iPhone Dev-Team to jailbreak iPhone and iPod touch on OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n, PwnageTool, redsn0w, and sn0wbreeze.
