Jailbroken iPhone gets Expose-like view, you retail users just keep on scrollin' (video)
By Tim Stevens 
posted Oct 15th 2009 8:33AM
posted Oct 15th 2009 8:33AM
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WOW! That's cheap for a Jersey woman
I can scroll faster than the time it takes to load this thing.
Excactly, would be cool with a modified version of Backgrounder mixed with this Expose view though.
Wow, your just awesome. Keep on scrollin.
Man, the thing is useful. It may take a few seconds to load up but even if you can swipe your finger fast enough you still have to work it out to go from page to page.
Love this app, I hope to see it on cydia soon!
I would much rather have a "Folder App". I'd like to arrange my games by genre and my utilities and streaming services. I don't know why this is such a hard idea to sell?
Even then, why exactly would someone use this? It's actually significantly worse than the desktop implementation of Exposé, because all you can see are nearly identical blocks of smaller, coloured blocks. Unless you make a unique pattern of icons on every home screen (haha, this one's a smiley faaaace), it'd be harder to choose a page based on this view than based on the regular scroll view where you see them full-size. Kudos to the dev for the effort, but I think it'd be better spent on more usable ideas.
Yeah, who needs 3G anyway! EDGE + wifi is way more than what I need.
Ring a bell?
I didn't even bother checking the video. The photo tells enough.
You think I know what App I want based on 3 pixels? Get the hell out of here. No one can read the screen when its that small.
Once again, a "this is why you don't work at Apple" innovation from the masses...
*sigh
Knowing that it takes time to actually "LOAD" is just ... why bother....put your brains to better use.
@ethos: categories?
This isn't expose, it's Desktop Peek.
This desperately needs a Space Invaders mode.
that's what I thought when I first saw the picture lol
Makes for a fun way to delete your apps
cept when you shoot down the AirSharing (i.e. pr0n locker) .. think of all the hard (no pun intended) work you put into the stash.
one of those things the iphone should have started with.
you know, like cut and paste?
Banned: Priceless
Nice idea. however i am sure Apple will/should integrate somthing a bit more elegant...And Folders would be one way to help a bit. As it is you cant really see what is on the mini version of the home screen when it goes into expose mode, so this would be good if you remember where all your apps are, but otherwise its just a nice looking effect.
I couldn't agree more! Just a folder icon that you can define so that when you press it all your 'games' appear in list. I can't imagine its that hard to do, but it would be such a big help... please Apple
He already made Stacks for the iphone, wich works beter than folders tho.
Looks a bit like my X Panels...
Inspired by this?
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/10/11/flatland/
Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soM07Y3qNI for those too impatient to, you know, read.
Expose would be cool on the iphone, if it had multi-tasking.
Imagine having safari, im, email, and some shitty game all open at once and being able to switch between them a la expose. One can only dream...
Oh you poor Apple users. I've been using multitasking since 2003 =)
OSX (like almost all cellphone in the market) is multitasking.
Let's say, you can runs SSH in the background and to receive a call at the same time.
The detail is that, Apple, by design, decided that only one "main application" must runs at once and it is nice decision.
Why is it a nice decision? Is it therefore a horrible decision on the other platforms?
I guess it will also be a nice decision when they inevitably allow true multi-tasking.
Why don't you purchase yourself a Palm PRE?
Well if you jail break the iphone you can mutlitask.
How long until Apple takes this idea and implements it as their own?
Oh snap!!!
It's Spaces-like, not Expose-like at all...
Dude - they're the same damned thing.
One is for immediate multiple open windows and one is for multiple desktop layouts. they do the same thing.
Not the same, if it were like Expose, it would only display apps in use. Dude.
That would be awesome if it wasn't as slow as treacle.
I love it, I have been waiting for something like this, Apple should totally add it their OS.
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I like that! .......
It is an interesting idea. It would be something that they could optimize the hell out of if it became something official.
Really, Apple. Are folders that hard or scary to implement or for users to use? I'm sure if Mac users (and the rest of the computing world, as well as BlackBerry users) can handle dealing with icons inside folders, I'm almost positive iPhone users can handle it.
I'm not saying I don't agree, but I don't really understand how to implement it with multitouch.
From the home screen do you have icons (folders) of the AppStore genres, then you press one and go in? Or does every icon look like a folder?
Once in a folder do you swipe to get out, or would the typical "back" button show up at the top?
Make folder have a option to scale their colour using s RGB slider plus you can name the obviously!. And yeah when inside hit the home button to take you back to the main screen. I cannot see why this would be any kind of issue to the "experience" of using the phone.
why not use expose with the apps running in background?? or multitasking??
This one is better:
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=1893
This would be great for Android. So we can see everything that is running and easily switch to it.
I see what you did there.
You do? Maybe you can tell me because I'm not sure what I did here. I just think it's a neat idea for Android as well.
iphone can't multi-task lols but android can!!!
Looks crappy to me prefer it larger
most women do...
ZING!
Damn, and I suggested this to apple not a month ago. Nice to see someone actually made it.
OR, OR!...give us ways to organize the apps in folders, Apple. I hope they don't build this into the OS.
........
This is what we need
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Irt_J2c7o
NO! It won't be released soon. He takes a long time to get anything out. Working on too many projects at once by himself.
He had also complained on his site that he was going to stop making unpaid Apps as they weren't profitable.
Go figure.
Is it me or did he press the icon "expose" not the home button?
On a related note, for you Jailbreakers, try Kirikae.
It's a bit like backgrounder, but better. Trigger it with a double-tap on home and it backgrounds the app you're in, and pops up a list of other runnnig apps and a favourites list of non-running apps. Tap the one you want, do what you need in the 2nd app, then double-tap again and select the original app you were working on that was backgrounded. It's bloody great, best JB app I've found so far.
Excellent app,
but the double tap function conflicts with Music Controls as that uses the home button double tap as well.
but...
doesn't Kiriake also have the option to be invoked by holding the home button down as well?
If only Apple could jump into the future to 1998 and figure out what multitasking is.
Who really has that many apps? I have trouble filling up 4 screens of apps let alone the sheer amount in the article.
seems pointless, I do wish we could create folders tho, right now its just like an organized tiled colorful mess
Maybe if the display were higher resolution this effort wouldn't look such a convoluted mess - The iPhone's 320 x 480 display makes these layout far too pixelated.
With the wealth of Windows Mobile/Android phones supporting 480 x 800 (true widescreen), Apple is looking way behind when it comes to available display technology.
IMO - This 'Pocket Expose' looks more like 'different just for the sake of being different', with little practical use as this point.
For everyone asking for folders,
heard of 'Categories'?
sheeesh :(
Rather use Pogoplank which i can organize all my apps and scroll thru them nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7zA2n0Jkg
Looks nice
zomg, can't believe he has doodle jump all the way on page 4....
For people with a jb iPhone. If you have backgrounder installed, and you want a quick and easy way to switch between apps that are open (safari and say facebook and some radio music player) then install mquickdo. All you have to do is swip down from the status bar and a "popup" will show all open apps and you can quickly switch between them. Check it out on YouTube for a better understanding.
why the hell is it used for getting to different pages?! useless!
this should definitely be written for switching through APPS, because the iPhone needs MULTI-TASKING.
It is called orbitz, and will be in the cydia store for $2.99 asap
It is called orbitz and will be in the cydia store asap for $2.99
It will be called orbitz and will be in the cydia appstore for $2.99, ASAP.
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lol see, now it don't know who I am.
There's a feature in the ShopShop app that may inspire a change from Apple. Holding over the page dots brings up a cover flow view of list panels and you just drag to the one you want and release. Quick and easy, and no need to change any existing OS mappings.
They scrolling, they waiting...
i guess everyone seem to just forget about the finder feature apple was so proud about
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