Tag: Daemons

📅 August 31, 2009

HowTo: Boost iPhone/iTouch Speed By Removing Launch Daemons

First, before we start, you need to understand what a daemon is: In Unix and other computer multitasking operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user; they are usually initiated as background processes.

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A couple of weeks ago FSMdotCOM showed you a trick that you can use to force MobileSafari to stop running in the background. Simple tricks like this makes our iPhone/iTouch experience even greater.

That was the first step we could take in order to boost the iPhone/iTouch speed. But there are other thing we can do, not as easy as the Safari trick, but not really complicated at all. This step requires your attention and quite a bit of your time. Make sure you read the notes and backup , backup, backup….

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📅 June 25, 2009

FakePushNotifications: Get Push Notifications On Cydia Apps

Thanks to “FakePushNotifications” the Jailbreak community will be able to develop applications that can open pop-up notification of changes or updates.If you are a developer and want to get up to / use the daemon, you can just download it from here, and put it through SSH in the following location: / Library / MobileSubstrate / DynamicLibraries /.

If you use a iPhone or a iTouch, chances are that you jailbreaked your device ( or not according to PinchMedia’s Statistics on iPhone Firmware and Jailbreak ). If you are, than you also jailbroken MobileSubstrate, a daemon that extends the functionality of Springboard. Relying on the daemon (which always runs in the background) KennyTM managed to achieve an extension that allows you to have a service very similar to that of Apple’s push notifications, but not rely on expensive servers.

Thanks to “FakePushNotifications” the Jailbreak community will be able to develop applications that can open pop-up notification of changes or updates.If you are a developer and want to get up to / use the daemon, you can just download it from here, and put it through SSH in the following location: / Library / MobileSubstrate / DynamicLibraries /.

The daemon can be called from your applications, using this code:

FakePushNotification com.yourcompany.pushEnabledApp –
aps={
alert={
body = “Hello world!”;
action-loc-key = “Welcome!”;
};
};