Backgrounder is a Mobile Substrate-based extension to iPhone/iPod Touch's SpringBoard application launcher that allows applications to run in the background (applications are normally terminated upon suspension).

The hack allow you to hold down the home button when you quit an app to have it continue running in the background. Considering this is homebrew software, it’s probably trivial for Apple to reproduce it but, as we all know, Apple does what Apple wants to do.

You can even add some XML code to assign apps that run in the background by default, a handy little trick for keeping IM apps in the background. Apparently there are still some bugs but this is an impressive little bit of innovation from the homebrew community. Who said Pwning was dead?

More info: iPhone Backgrounder | Download: Cydia installer

Source:→ CrunchGear