Monday, March 14, 2011

iPad2 - Bye Bye Home Button?

iPad 2 - Bye Bye Home Button?

Can you really use your iPad2 (and original iPad for that matter) without the Home button? Yep. It's true. You can. With a 4+Gb download @ $5 from the Mac App store and few clicks, you can enable great multi-touch gestures on the iPad 1 & 2.










  1. Register your Apple ID as a developer. You can do this on Apple’s developer site, and this membership is free. This will give you access to the tools you need to put your iPad in development mode.
  2. Download and install XCode 3 or 4 and the iOS SDK. You can download XCode 3 from Apple’s site or download XCode 4 from the Mac App Store for $5. The iOS SDK comes with both of these releases.
  3. Plug in your iPad to your mac with USB, and Lauch the XCode app, which should be in the “/Developer/Applications” folder on the root of your Mac OS X install volume.
  4. In the “Organizer” window of XCode, you should see your iPad in the list of devices. Click on your iPad, and then click the “Use for Development” button on the “Summary” tab of the device pane.
  5. A popup will appear asking you to login as a developer. Simply hit “Cancel,” and your iPad will still be put into developer mode.
Then under General in the iPad settings, turn Multitasking Gestures to ON.

Then ENJOY!

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