With a first generation iPhone or an iPhone 3G, you only have 128 MB of memory. The iPhone’s internet browser Safari takes up a big portion of that memory. And that portion keeps growing if you open up more pages. If you have a jailbroken device you can force apps to close via SBSettings. But wouldn’t it be handy to close Safari automatically after you press the homebutton? Cydia has an answer.
I’m not sure how many people are aware of the local RSS feed reader in Safari on the iPhone/iPod touch. This service sort of lags from the old. Mac service, and I have no idea why Apple has not yet updated it to reflect and integrate with the MobileMe service.
» Safari RSS Reader feature on the iPhone
Pastebud is a new service that allow copy and past text between Safari and Mail but also between webpages. It does not require any application to be installed and works using two bookmarks in Safari.
» Pastebud: Copy & Past between Safari & Mail
iMobileCinema is a powerful Safari plugin for playing internet videos on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can watch millions of videos on any podcast site or blogs with it. Install it and visit Google Video, Youtube, or any other sites via Safari.
» iMobileCinema: Flash support for Safari (jailbreak)
One of the much needed and wanted additions to the iPhone currently is the implementation of Adobe Flash Player in MobileSafari. There has been many speculations of how this will be done or if it will even make it to the iPhone. Well, reportedly, Adobe Systems’ Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem, has confirmed that Flash is indeed coming to the iPhone, but “Apple calls the shots as to when it’ll be available.†» Flash on iPhone: Adobe confirms it, Apple decides when
Recently, Apple seeded a beta firmware 2.2 to developers. There hasn’t been any features added yet, but the Safari interface has changed just a little. Read the full post by clicking the read more link. » MobileSafari’s interface receives a change in beta firmware 2.2
Back on 1.1.4, there was an application called AdBlock that disabled the ads in the iPhone’s Safari browser. This greatly reduced the time it took Safari to render web pages, especially in a situation without wifi. Well, AdBlock still isn’t ported to 2.0, but there is another way to manually disable ads in Safari. It requires SSH or USB access to your phone’s filesystem, but is pretty easy. Read inside for instructions. » How to block ads in Mobile Safari
