Comments on: Purplera1n comes to OS X, washes away third-party multitasking limitations

By: tavella

tavella — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:50:15 +0000

Not sure which CPU your running but if it’s a PowerPC, could be part of the issue. As for the windows version, if you’re on vista or windows 7, make sure your right click the app and run as administrator. Hopefully that helps.

By: MIKE

MIKE — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:27:43 +0000

i have mac osx 10.4.11 and i cant even open purple ra1n after i download it is there a system requirement.
then i try it on my pc and it says it closes unexpectedly
someone help

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:24:46 +0000

Backgrounder is nice, but I really don’t see why apple couldn’t just make it happen for real. It should be the consumers choice to kill their battery. I mean the battery doesn’t last a whole day anyway after lite usage so I really don’t see the issue apple has.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Cincinnati United States

By: tavella

tavella — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:12:59 +0000

Apple doesn’t support/allow applications to run in the background so you need to jailbreak the phone so that you can install apps such as Backgrounder. Purplera1n was only available to Win x86 os’s at first. RC2 included Windows 7 and x64 builds. Now a Mac app is available to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS.

By: apac

apac — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:15:53 +0000

so uhh… what does this actually do? why would you need access to a computer to enable third party background support?