Nullriver's iPhone Installer makes installing native application on your iPhone easy as pie!

We know, we know. It can be a harrowing thought - hacking your iPhone with your Mac's Terminal commands and what not. All these amazing third-party native applications have been developed for the iPhone and there' no easy way to get them installed. Until now.

Nullriver has released their iPhone Installer application that makes getting all those third-party goodies onto your iPhone easier than, say, popping a pimple (and less painful). Ok, the pimple reference was a bit crude, but you get the point. Getting the iPhone Installer onto your iPhone will require a couple lines of Terminal commands, but it's easy to do and totally worth it.

Once the iPhone Installer application is installed on your iPhone, a new application icon will show up on your homescreen. The "Installer" application is your new best friend. The above picture shows you what the interface looks like - it's basically a list of applications (games, development, utilities, productivity, etc.) that the iPhone Installer will automatically download and install onto your iPhone. Easy as pie.

Now all the third-party applications that you've been dying to try are at your beck and call. No more fussing around with Terminal, you just fire up the iPhone Installer, pick the latest application to try, and click "install." The Installer.app will download the necessary data over WiFi or EDGE and do it's thing - all while you sit back and relax.

Download the iPhone Installer and follow these simple instructions:

Unzip the iPhone Installer onto your Desktop
Fire up Terminal (in Finder: Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
Type this in "cd /Users/your_user_name/Desktop/iPhoneInstaller/" (without quotes) - this changes your working directory to that of your iPhone Installer
Run the install by typing "./get_installer.sh"
Follow on-screen instructions
Hold "Home" and "Sleep" buttons until you see the "Connecting to iTunes" icon - let go at this point
Everything is now setup

Now, start up your iPhone and hit the "Installer" icon on your homescreen. You'll notice a lack of installable applications in your, that's ok, we'll fix that right quick. Find the "Community Resources" package and click it. Install the package and voila! You have a more apps than you know what to do with.

Everything from this point on is pretty self-explanatory, so go and play around. You'll be pleased!

Nullriver iPhone Installer

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