Flash Workarounds for the iPhone

Yet Another Way to Watch Movies

I have gone movie crazy! Hehe. So this one is pretty much more straightforward that the one above. This one also works with O Player. Both Lite and Paid Versions available from the App Store. You'll wan't the paid version to remove ads (which don't really get in the way). O Player supports a variety of formats...so any movie available online should be able to play. If you have ever heard of iPhone Moviez or whatever, their new link is http://mediamp4.com/ (only viewable on a smartphone NOT on your computer)



Step 1: Get O Player.

Step 2: Open up O Player's Webbrowser.

Step 3: Go to http://mediamp4.com


Step 4: Click on a link and watch a movie with no limitations in terms of viewing.

Your iPhone and Flash.

Steve Jobs and Adobe have had a long history together. Steve Jobs has currently firmly denied Adobe any hopes to put flash on the iPhone or iPod touch or the iPad. Jobs believes that html5 is the future, and flash is too buggy for usage on the iOS. But this is definitely not an answer for most of Apple's community. When phones like the Blackberry support flash, why not the iOS? Anyway, many users have found workarounds to get Flash and even Java working on heir devices and this lens demonstrates most of them.

Frash

Currently most popular

While all of the tools used to enable flash on your iDevice are buggy, Frash has to be the one which works best. Frash was originally coded for the iPad but works for the iPhone and iPod touch as well. You will need to jailbreak your device first, however. (Want to enable Flash without Jailbreaking? Read on). Open up Cydia,



But first, Crash Course in lightning fast Jailbreaking, if you want Cydia Now:



> Go to www.jailbreakme.com (by Comex) on your iDevice.

> Slide your finger across the jailbreak button.

> Wait till Cydia installs.


Now open up Cydia. Go to Manage > Sources > Tap Edit > Now tap Add.


Enter the following source URL: http://repo.benm.at

Now install Frash. Since Frash can take up a lot of battery (it is a Safari Plugin btw) you might need a toggle. So go ahead and download the SB settings toggle from the same source. SB settings are Spring Board settings and are enabled when you slide your finger across the top of the screen. To enable SB settings, go to Search on Cydia and type SB settings and download the one from Big Boss (a developer).


Now whip up Safari and enjoy Flash video. Want to watch movies? Go to www.moviewatch.in and try Putlocker links on your favorite movies, Putlocker links usually work best with Frash (or so my Friend says). Most YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and even Hulu content is now available to you.

Note

To those who think that they can play flash games on Miniclip with these tools, they are strongly mistaken. These tools are still in testing stages and the furthest one can get to is the loading screen of a Miniclip in Frash. Only Runescape is possible (and with Java) and that I will talk about later.

Skyfire Web Browser

No Jailbreaking...but not Free either.

Skyfire has been much hyped over before it's release. It's a web browser you can download from the App Store with an Adobe Flash Plugin. Still, you must be reminded that it only supports some Flash video and that too from You Tube and Dailymotion etc. Forget movie watching from the site I mentioned earlier when I talked about Frash (www.moviewatch.in) since it plainly does not work on it. (not even videos coded in .mp4 or .flv). And once again I should repeat...no Miniclip. No Addicting Games. No CrazyMonkey games. No Nitrome. Sorry.

There is an iPad version and a small version for the iPhone/iPod touch.

iOS Flash Video

Javascript Bookmarklets

Javascript bookmarklets are a beautiful thing. They offer great functionality, are free and do not require a Jailbreak. iOS Flash Video is one such Javascript Bookmarklet that you can add as a Safari Plugin which can convert videos from



>Vimeo

>Dailymotion


>Megavideo (with O Player from the App Store)

>Youtube

>Hulu



and much more into native flash content which can play on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. To get this precious piece of javascript, go to http://iosflashvideo.fw.hu/



To install the bookmarklet,



>Go to the website

>Press the "+" button on your Safari Toolbar.


>Name your Bookmarklet (or keep it iOS Flash Video by Default)

>Now go to your Bookmarks bar and press Edit.

>Open up the iOS Flash Video Bookmarklet (or whatever you named it) and edit the bookmarklet so that everything before "javascript" is deleted.



Now whenever you find a video on a website from the above mentioned providers, just open up your bookmarks bar and click iOS Flash Video (or whatever you named it) and enjoy your video!