FlashGet Followup: Uninstall and Downgrade 3.4
Due to the massive amount of attention that my previous post about FlashGet 3.4 received, I’m now writing a follow-up on how to uninstall it completely, and then downgrade — to either 3.3 or the classic 1.96.
Here’s how you do it.
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Recently, Riot Games signed a partnership deal to a Southeast Asian game distribution company, which in turn caused the maker of the hit online RPG League of Legends to drop support for Southeast Asian clients. This means that gamers from Southeast Asia will not be able to access the game anymore, since geographical IP mapping will let the LoL servers know of the origin of the client.
What’s more, it’s been a few weeks now and still, there’s no news of the Southeast Asian version of LoL.
But thankfully, since the LoL server checks the origin of the client based on their IP’s geographical address, I’ve found a way to unblock it.
Sphere: Related ContentI was a really a big fan (emphasis on ‘was’) of FlashGet. I mean, come on, this little guy has everything — download management, acceleration, scheduling, BitTorrent, and even eMule! Even more — it easily integrates with Firefox and Internet Explorer by installing a little-addon which also works seamlessly with FlashGot.
Until it updated today to 3.4…
I mean, take a look at this screenshot:
A Screenshot of Flashget 3.4
What do you see? RIGHT. The one thing everybody hates about absolutely anything on the internet. The new FlashGot screen (though I gotta admit, the new silver-theme is smexy) is riddled with ads. Chinese Ads. Not only that. A Flash-like ad also appears ocassionally on your desktop, that’s right, outside the FlashGet screen.
I personally think this is waaay too much. This is overkill. And did I forget to mention that it also places a couple of Chinese URL links on your desktop?
Meh, I think I’ll try Free Download Manager or Orbit now.
UPDATE: Wow, apparently, FlashGet 3.4 isn’t even downloadable from its website yet! This probably means that only the users who already have it installed received the update. Strange enough, when I uninstall, the uninstaller from first to last was in total Chinese.
UPDATE 2: According to commenter Wommaster, the language on FlashGet 3.4 is Chinese, not Japanese. Thanks Wommaster!
UPDATE 3: I’ve written a guide on how to uninstall it completely and remove all traces of it, and then how to downgrade. See it here: http://kixtrix.com/2010/04/07/flashget-followup-uninstalling-and-downgrading-3-4/
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Cydia Crawler
So you have a jailbroken iPod Touch or iPhone. That’s cool. But what’s it without all the jailbroken apps? If you don’t have a WiFi connection at home or anywhere near, and you don’t fancy Cyder either — then CydiaCrawler will soon become your best friend (it already has become mine).
For those who aren’t in the loop, Cydia is the AppStore equivalent of jailbreaking. It has literally hundreds of freely downloadable apps which have either been rejected from the AppStore or are just far too awesome to be there. But of course, to access Cydia, you’ll need an internet connection, and the iPod Touch and the iPhone would have so via WiFi (or in iPhone, 3G and EDGE), and in your case, you don’t have any of those.
In this guide, we’ll teach you how to get your app from Cydia, without WiFi, and install it on your iDevice.
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