James Cochran’s Blog

Backgrounder is available for your Jailbroken iPhone through Cydia. What does this mean? You can finally truly multitask on the iPhone. This is something that should be officially coming at some point but should really have been enabled in 2.0 of the iPhone firmware. I’m still testing it out but so far it is working like a champ. The most use I’m going to get out of it is to be able to listen to Last.fm while checking mail or playing Spore. If you still haven’t Jailbroken now is the time. If you have then fire up Cydia and check in changes. It is small and you’ll be happy you have it.
Once you have it installed all you have to do is hold the home button down for a few seconds in the app. You’ll see the pop-up in the image below. It will then exit the program but it will continue to run in the background. To close it just open the app and do the same thing. You can even set up programs that you always want to run in the background.