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Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:39:26 +0000

Wow I’d never heard of Dimmer. I am able to read at night with my nightstand light on, so the built in dimmer goes dim enough for me, but I can see how it wouldn’t if I had to be in an otherwise dark room (my kids have thankfully grown past that stage – good luck to you!!)

Bummer about your wifi and router. Can’t help but assume you don’t have an apple airport. I know they’re not cheap but man they seem to “just work” in my experience. Still, or either way, I wonder if the wifi issue is somehow related to the JB? Did you have this issue in stock mode?

I never got to play with iFiles – that was going to be ‘next’ after I got things settled with my JB, which I obviously never did!

Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by brandy

brandy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:38:17 +0000

I use my iPad a lot in the middle of the night (feeding a baby) and I don’t know how I got along without Dimmer. The default brightness controls don’t go nearly dark enough. Also, my iPad and my wireless router don’t always get along, meaning I have to toggle my wifi off/on to get it working sometimes. Before getting sbsettings+activator, I had to go into settings every time. Now, I swipe my taskbar and tap the toggle twice and it’s all fixed. I also love BrowserChanger, since my main browser is atomic rather than safari – it’s finally my default when clicking links in other apps. And the filesystem access through iFile has proven invaluable several times.

Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:57:32 +0000

Thanks for the thoughts and for posting. Glad it’s working well for you. Wondering…what are the primary tweaks or JB apps you use that you consider most important? Thanks!

Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by brandy

brandy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:23:16 +0000

I’ve had my iPad jailbroken since the original iPad 2 jb was released this summer. I waited to upgrade to iOS 5 until the new JB was released. I would say that 95%+ of the time, it still just works – and for me, works much better than an unjailbroken iPad (which I had for a couple days between upgrading and re-JBing). I’ve only once had a real problem, and that was solved by uninstalling the most recent tweak I’d installed.

I’m not trying to convince you to rejailbreak – if stock works for you, great. But I can honestly say that jailbreaking has NOT required me to give up my iPad “just working.”

Comment on About by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:08:11 +0000

Thanks for posting Matt. Sorry to say I don’t exactly understand the nature of your question regarding the meta data. What exactly do you want to accomplish in so doing? One of my hopes for the iPad 3 is a 128GB capacity, making cloud/sync management less of an issue. I’d still have to choose what to and not to have on my iPad, but it’d be less of a chore.

Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:05:22 +0000

Thanks for posting. And I very much agree. In fact as I was going through the JB process on the iPad I kept thinking that I’d get more benefit from having some of that stuff on my iPhone. Thing is, I also need my phone to “just work” as it is mission critical to me. It’s my sole work number and I need 100% up time…

The good news is that Apple seems to continually coopt the best JB ideas into iOS over time!

Comment on About by Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:57:04 +0000

Tony…just discovered your site. I am thinking of going to the iPAd 3 once it arrives and using that and my iphone 4 only as my main devices. Do you see any way to manipulate all of the meta data from an itunes library (currently on an 2006 mac mini running Sno Leop) for my music, vids, podcasts , ect.?

Comment on My 24 Hour Jailbreak by Nate

Nate — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:09:20 +0000

Nice post and a solid argument. I have an iPhone 4 that I love having jail broken, but my iPad 2 is not. I just don’t have enough reasons to do so. Plus, like you said, it’s nice to have things just work and I need my iPad to do that. Tweaking my iPhone with JB stuff is time consuming and this dad/teacher/husband has time for only one JB device.

Comment on Serious (?) video editing on the iPad by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:27 +0000

Thanks for posting Mike. I agree – that app is a blast and really the kind of thing that blows my mind and makes me imagine the down-the-road possibilities. It’s already a very sophisticated little app which gives incredible capabilities in a totally casual setting. Imagine those kinds of effects, with more precise control, built into Avid or iMovie. Wow!

Comment on Serious (?) video editing on the iPad by Tony Moody

Tony Moody — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:31:36 +0000

You know I have to admit I’m not an IM guy at all. At all at all. So it’s not been something particularly on my radar as far as iPad/iOS solutions go. So thanks for reminding me of this as it’s not something remotely niche-y the way say high end video editing is. So if it’s critical for you then the iPad Alone may not be such a great solution.

That said, I’m surprised that there aren’t any universal IM apps whose background capabilities are sufficient for the needs you outline. If you read this, would love to hear what the scenarios are (more specifically) where iOS falls down. Thanks!