In case you had recently deleted the App and know its name, you can quickly search for the deleted app on the App Store and install it back again on your device. Open the App Store on your iPhone or iPad. Note: Make sure that you are signed in with the same Apple ID that you had used to purchase the App. Once in the App Store, search for the Deleted App by typing its Name in the search bar. Now, tap on the Deleted App as it comes up in search results. The next step is to Download and Install the App back on your device. Since you have already paid for the App, you won’t be charged for downloading the App yet again from the App Store. As mentioned above, all the Apps that you download from the App Store, including Free and Paid Apps are linked to your Apple ID and the Apps are stored in your Account on Apple’s Cloud servers. What is good about this setup is that practically every App that you download from the App Store will be available in your App Store Account. Even if a publisher removes a particular App from the App Store, the removed App will still be available in your Account. However, this set up of saving every downloaded and purchased app to a User Account can create a huge list of free, purchased and discarded apps. This makes it really difficult to find a particular App from the huge pile of Apps linked to your User Account.
If you've just jailbroken your iPad I guess you've already installed OpenSSH from Cydia, which is that framework that allows you to root into your device using FTP clients like Cyberduck and Transmit. If so, there's a little trick you can perform that lets you scale iPhone apps for the iPad, without waiting for the developers to update their apps. In this way, and if you're lucky, you can have an iPhone app running in fullscreen without pixel doubling, which supports all the various orientations and that even uses iPad's UI elements. Disclaimer: We're not saying that the apps that don't support this trick are badly developed. No, this is just a tutorial about a trick we've discovered and that works with some apps. Not a developer's fault if an app doesn't support it. To do this you'll need to edit the info.plist file inside an application, so be sure to have an app like Textmate on your Mac to edit .plist files.
The iPad stores applications inside /var/mobile/Applications and every app comes in the shape of a folder with a name like this (F1DCF4E2-0D72-4720-BCF1-F914B5208F55) and this means you'll have to open every folder to see which app is inside. Once you've found the app, say Tweetie 2, look for the info.plist file and download it to your computer. SSH into your device. If you're on a Mac you can use Cyberduck or Transmit, Windows users can go with WinSCP. The "2" value tells the applications to run natively on the iPad. Then save, and replace the old info.plist file in the app's folder. Respring the iPad, and you'll have a non-pixelated iPhone app running natively. In my tests (Tweetie 2, iStat, Twitterrific, Here File File, Flickit Pro) I've been able to run perfectly only Tweetie 2, which scales and works - just take a look at the screenshots. The other apps I've tried presented alignment and touch issues, text fields and buttons didn't work and there were some weird problems with the UI. I don't know which criteria an app should meet to be scaled in this way, but if you'll manage to successfully run some with good results please let us know in the comments. Canabalt: works very good, but landscape mode is forced and you can't enable portrait mode. Anyway, the game is fully playable and enjoyable in full screen. Mailroom: displays native UI elements but I haven't been able to tap on buttons. Icebird: loads and redirects to the App Store. Dropbox: works, but has alignment problems. Videos play in fullscreen though. Reeder: except for some text formatting issues, Reeder is iPad compatible. It works both in portrait and landscape mode, swipe works, I've managed to read all my feeds with it.
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