Ugg… ‘nother ******’ jailbroken app I’ve had to uninstall. **** too, I loved Inspell. Amazing app. Truly… amazing. But the little ‘freaker was slowin’ down the system… and started slowly makin’ typin’ unbearable. I mean, what was I to do?? I’d deal with people who had iPhones with OS 3.0. What am I to do with spelling on the Neocell but have it be sluggish? Brag to non-jailbroken OS 3.0 iPhone users:
“Well I’m customized, I actually got spellin’ on my iPhone.”
“For real? Oh my god. Girl, come see this, this boy’s got spelling on his iPhone… Show us.”
“‘Ight, check it out… wait… the Notepad app’s not, wait… gotta’ wait for the, um… keyboard will take just a sec… it’s… ‘freak, come on… do something… it’s really not that slow when, oh, ok, it’s ready.” *tap tap tap* “See? Spelling.”
“Wow, that’s awesome… but, um, why is everything so slow?”
Yeah, um… **** that. And here’s the worst part… besides Adblock, it’s the only jailbroken app I have running with my system. I’m not even using Backgrounder. That’s pure sluggishness, Inspell, all by itself. And it’s not Adblock doin’ it because didn’t install Adblock until after Inspell started making the system sluggish. And no, I didn’t have nothin’ funky added into Inspell, just the normal app and everything that came with it (just the English dictionary, no other languages).
So how bad was the sluggishness? Bad… You could feel it just swiping through springboard pages (springboard is the icon desktop thing). Once I uninstalled it and anything else that was also installed with it the speed came right back after a reboot. It absolutely was Inspell. That’s sad man… that’s real sad.
The Neocell’s speed is almost the exact same as non-jailbroken OS 3.0 iPhones (you really can’t tell the difference), so ****’s runnin’ top notch now, but… I miss Inspell and Backgrounder.
Peace, J
So I’ve got the Neocell’s OS 3.0 reinstalled and jailbroken now, and I’ve got all my non-jailbroken apps and media reinstalled… I haven’t touched Cydia or installed any jailbroken apps, and I’m just noticing the amazing speed perormance. I’m talkin’ speed compared to how the Neocell was when it was running good with the jailbroken apps working.
Right now I’ve got nothing installed… and the speed’s much faster than when I had my jailbroken apps installed. So that either means one of two things… either the quick speed is from having the OS reinstalled and it’ll slow down some after I’ve used it some more, or one of three jailbroken apps are slowing the system down. If it is that, the only apps it could be would be BossPrefs, Inspell and Backgrounder.
There could be one other thing… Winterboard. If you read my posts from before, I had Winterboard installed. It made **** so slow and I removed it. But maybe that messed up crap and helped to make things slow.
So I’m gonna’ run a little experiment… I’m not gonna’ install Backgrounder or Inspell to see if performance stays snappy. And in fact, since BossPrefs doesn’t work for wifi, I’m not gonna’ install it at all.
Here’s the reason speed’s so important to me. Speed is “ok” while in apps, but for switching between apps… that’s where speed’s the biggest issue. Someone comes up and says “Where’s the location…” of something. No prob, right? It can be if **** takes a long time. You’ve got the address in Notes. Gotta’ open it up, select the note… then, click the link to open the location up in Maps, then let’s say you wanna’ add the location of it to your contacts. Well if your gonna’ get delay and sluggishness between each action you make, it really becomes frustrating and embarasing. “Opps… wait… Wait…”
So I’m runnin’ the Neocell naked for a while to see how things go before I install Backgrounder or Inspell. Then I’ll let ya all know what kinda’ results I found.
Peace, J
So we all remember Clippy, right? It hasn’t been that long since OS 3.0’s been out. But already so many people have forgotten about Ryan’s groundbreaking app, Clippy, that allowed us to do copy-and-pasting of text.
I feel for Ryan. Here’s a dude who creates something great and releases it for free to the world. Everybody’s all talkin’ great things about it, then, once Apple decides to include copy-and-paste in their OS update, everyone (including myself) drops Clippy like a bad habit.
Does anyone remember that he worked hard on releasing something to us for free? Na… they couldn’t care less. I bet he was thinkin’ “I do all this hard work, ask only for donations, which no one gives, and now… all that hard work was for nothing. I should have charges those ungrateful people for Clippy if I knew they would do this.”.
Well it looks like he’s not goin’ out like that, and this time, he’s not takin’ the same crap from people like us. Just like he did with Clippy, he’s done it again. He’s released a much, much needed feature to iPhones; spell check. But not some cheesy-*** app you type in words to… an actual “system” integrated into iPhone 3.0’s system.
I’m sure he thought “Darn that Apple, they copied my system for copying-and-pasting with OS 3.0, and then added functionality to enhance something I created from scratch…” and thought “Since you built on an idea I created, I’m gonna’ built an add-on from the text selection system you created…” and came up with Inspell.
Inspell is a spell checking system that’s integrated into OS 3.0’s text selection system. When you select text, your presented with your usual copy, paste, cut, ect… but if your word is misspelled or a unique word (i.e. “funkalisious”) you get an extra option now, “Correct”. Correct brings up a pop-up that gives you a list of words it could be, or gives you the option to add it to the directory. But it’s not just that… it also adds a red underline under all words that are misspelled. That’s the best part of all. Bring able to see, instantly, as as you type if you’ve misspelled a word, just like your computer.
Ryan’s done it again. And this time, it’s not free. I hate apps that cost money, but I totally understand him charging for this app. It’s like, screw giving it for free, if people want it, this time they’re going to make a donation… a donation of $2.99, the actual price of the app. This time he’s makin’ sure he gets compensated for his tine and work.
I wanted to try it out, but there’s no trial. I’m not buying anything if I can’t tell if it works or if it’s even worth it. Mama didn’t raise no fool, so I installed a cracked version.
It worked, didn’t slow down the system… Cydia said there was an update for Inspell… I updated it and it was actually a patch by Ryan to display pop-ups every now and then to my cracked version, sayin’ somethin’ like “Please pay for my app”. Yeah, I’ll get to that later…
So from what I could tell, it worked perfectly. Flawless in fact. It functions as if it were built right into the OS by Apple. I tried it out for less than an hour and I was hooked. ‘Ight Ryan, you got my $3.24 (Paypal). I wondered “Hmm, will this work over the cracked version?”. Sure ‘nough, it did.
I really hate the idea of spending money on apps, but the day I’ve had Inspell, that measly $3.24 is so worth it. I mean, I spent $1.89 on a soda today at a Chinese joint today, so $3.24 ain’t nothin’.
I’m so freakin’ impressed with this app. I think it’s even more important than Clippy was. This is just as important as Backgrounder, if not more important. Speed seems good with Inspell, like I’m typin’ in the Wordpress app while playing net radio via WunderRadio in the background (from Backgrounder) and Inspell is of course running with the system. System speed doesn’t seem to be affected by it.
So, I’m extremely impressed. Hopefully it won’t have a negative impact on system speed later on. I’m freakin’ thrilled to have this baby.
Nice job Ryan, but my advice is to offer a five day trail of Inspell (like Adblock does) ‘cuz expecting people to pay for something without trying it is kinda’ nuts and’ll drive people to piracy.
Peace, J
