How To: Run iPhone Apps on the iPad Without Pixel Doubling [UPDATING]

If you’ve just jailbroken your iPad I guess you’ve already installed OpenSSH from Cydia, which is that framework that allows you to root into your device using FTP clients like Cyberduck and Transmit.

If so, there’s a little trick you can perform that lets you scale iPhone apps for the iPad, without waiting for the developers to update their apps. In this way, and if you’re lucky, you can have an iPhone app running in fullscreen without pixel doubling, which supports all the various orientations and that even uses iPad’s UI elements.

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Apple Confirms: One Million iPads in 28 Days

This is not surprising at all, but it’s nice to have an official confirmation. With a brief press release, which we’re embedding after the break, Apple has confirmed that they’ve sold 1M iPads in just 28 days, while it took 74 days to have the same result with the iPhone.

Great job.

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Jailbreak the iPad With Spirit for Mac And Install Your First Cydia Apps - Compatibility List

So, big news tonight folks: Spirit, the universal jailbreak tool we’ve all been waiting for, it’s out. You can go check it out here. I’ve just managed to jailbreak my iPad (my iPhone is already jailbroken and stuck at 3.1.2) and the process has been very fast and easy. Check the tutorial after the break, together with our impressions about the first apps we’ve installed from Cydia.

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World of Warcraft, Streamed To The iPad

Gaikai is a revolutionary online gaming service, lead by the well known game developer and personality David Perry (@dperry), that will allow you to play games inside your web browser using server side streaming technologies for games. The service is currently accepting signups for a private beta invitations, just go here and enter your details.

Well, David has just posted a picture of what it seems World of Warcraft streamed to the iPad. The interesting fact is that Gaikai for desktop computers should work with Flash Player, but obviously this won’t happen with the iPad so maybe we should expect a specific version for Apple’s device. We can’t wait to find out more.

Check out the photo after the break. [via]

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Find Your Car with Sally Park

I tend to park in the same parking lots every time I go out. Maybe because my town is relatively small, or just because I’m that type of guy that enjoys getting used to things, I’ve gotten used to park my car in the same lots.

But when I go out of my town with my friends, it might happen that when it’s time to come back we spend a few minutes trying to remember where we left the car, and sometimes we also get lost in the attempt to find it. And when these situations occur, we have to thank Doseido for releasing Sally Park in the App Store.

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Instinctiv, An Alternative to doubleTwist

There are definitely a lot of new kids on the block nowadays. For the iTunes alternatives, we don’t have to look farther than Ecoute and Everplay for smaller solutions, and Songbird and doubleTwist as full library / syncing replacements for our multitude of devices. With doubleTwist making a name for itself with its ability to sync to the Droid (including recent Podcast and Amazon integration), one more player has stepped into the field that’s currently open to the public. Instinctiv syncs playlists to my Droid, shuffles music to my mood, and is a rather simple solution for playing and searching your music.

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Jailbroken iPad 3G Sending SMS [Video]

The iPad is jailbroken (at least for the Dev Team guys) and this means that a lot of new stuff will be possible. We saw multitasking, we saw Cydia, now it’s time for text messages. Musclenerd, the popular member of the Dev Team, has just managed to use his jailbroken iPad 3G to send texts using a command line tool, but there no GUI for it (yet?).

Check out the image and video after the break, and you can bet that this is coming to Cydia someday. Next, phone calls?

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Binary Nights Releases Forklift 2.0 [Beta]

What a week for file transfer apps for Mac OS X. Panic has released the long awaited Transmit 4 this week (be sure to read our review here if you missed it) and now Binary Night has finally put the first official public beta of Forklift 2 online, you can go download it here.

Forklift 2 features a completely rewritten and 64-bit compatible engine, which according to the developers should make this new version 3x - 33x faster than any other app on the market. We’ll let you know about that after our tests during this weekend. Also, the 2.0 update brings new features like Workspaces and Synclets, Stacks, Unarchiver framework and many other stuff. Stay tuned for a complete review next week.

In the meantime, go download the beta and check out two screenshots after the break.

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Adobe Rewriting Wired Magazine App in Objective C

Remember the Wired iPad app? Yes, the one Adobe and Condè Nast were working on, and which was built using Flash. Well, according to All Things Digital Adobe is actually rewriting the whole application using native Apple’s SDK, because of the well known problems Apple has with Adobe’s framework. Adobe and Condè Nast still haven’t confirmed anything, but sure this seems as the only solution to be accepted into the App Store.

Well, unless you build a webapp for that. If you missed the video of the Wired app, we’ve embedded it again after the break.

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