Comments on: Cydia: The iPhone ‘Get out of jail free’ card http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Garson O'Toole http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-1120664 Garson O'Toole Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:09:50 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/07/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/#comment-1120664 The website for Popular Science has a very harsh assessment of Apple's strategy of locking down its mobile operating system: <a HREF="http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-08/how-apple-tablet-could-ruin-computing" rel="nofollow">How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing</A>. If the anticipated Apple tablet computer is locked down then Chris Meadows's review article on "jailbreaking" will become even more important and useful. The website for Popular Science has a very harsh assessment of Apple’s strategy of locking down its mobile operating system: How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing. If the anticipated Apple tablet computer is locked down then Chris Meadows’s review article on “jailbreaking” will become even more important and useful.

]]> By: Martd27 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-1119599 Martd27 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:39:14 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/07/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/#comment-1119599 There is an app in cydia called cydelete thatets you uninstall cydia apps just like AppStore apps, the only difference us that the cydia app have a red x as opposed to a black x There is an app in cydia called cydelete thatets you uninstall cydia apps just like AppStore apps, the only difference us that the cydia app have a red x as opposed to a black x

]]> By: Liviu http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-1119530 Liviu Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:26:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/07/cydia-the-iphone-get-out-of-jail-free-card/#comment-1119530 There are two (related) good reasons to jailbreak the iTouch/Phone for ebooks: 1. Easy file transfer to your pc using winscp; useful first and foremost for liberating Kindle books 2. Easy file transfer to the iTouch and control on location - most of the time Stanza is the only ebook application you need, with the Kindle one to sample and transfer, but it comes handy once in a while There are two (related) good reasons to jailbreak the iTouch/Phone for ebooks:

1. Easy file transfer to your pc using winscp; useful first and foremost for liberating Kindle books

2. Easy file transfer to the iTouch and control on location – most of the time Stanza is the only ebook application you need, with the Kindle one to sample and transfer, but it comes handy once in a while

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