No Jailbreaking of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to watch Flash Videos with iOSFlashVideo Bookmarklet
Posted by unlocker on Tuesday Jan 4, 2011 Under JailbreakIf you own a device from Apple such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, you probably know that Flash content does not work on any of the aforementioned device and it will not happen anytime soon as Steve Jobs explained in his open letter describing why they did not allow Adobe Flash in their platform.
However, it has not stopped the people from figuring out a way to run Flash videos in their devices. We have seen few bookmarklets and hacks over the past few years that allowed iDevice users watch Flash videos on their Mobile Safari browser.
Now, a new bookmarklet called iOSFlashVideo was recently released that allows users to watch Flash Videos from different sites such as Vimeo, Dailymotion, Flickr Video and others. The good news is, you no longer have to jailbreak or hack your iDevices.
Simply follow these instructions to setup the iFlashVideo on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch:
1. Open your iDevice’s Mobile Safari browser and point it to http://iosflashvideo.fw.hu/
2. Add the page as a bookmark (Tap on “+” button, then “Add Bookmark” button and then “Save” button).
3. After the bookmark has been added, you need to go back to Safari Bookmarks to edit the iOSFlashVideo bookmark. (Tap on the Bookmark icon, then tap on the “Edit” button and then tap on iOSFlashVideo bookmark).
4. You need to remove everything before javascript from the URL field of the bookmark. That’s it you are all set to use the iOSFlashVideo bookmarklet.
5. Now, if you navigate to any webpage with Flash video content (except YouTube), you will notice that the embedded Flash videos will show up as a blank whitespace.
6. To watch the Flash video, simply tap on the bookmark icon again and tap on the iOSFlashVideo bookmark. The Flash video should now load on your iDevice’s Mobile Safari.