Install .ipa on iPod Touch WITHOUT using iTune

I was surprised that using direct cable connection take quite some time to transfer .ipa file from my laptop to my iPod Touch. A 10Mb .ipa took a few minutes, while the 359Mb file took almost 10+ minutes! But at least the whole process is GUI based, and I can finish all of them while I am working on some other stuffs.

Here's the break down on what I did:

- Make sure Cydia has Hackulo.us channel (URL) setup
- Download and install the Installous iPhone app using Cydia
- Put your ipa under /var/mobile/Library/Downloads folder (using iPhoneBrowser)
- On iPhone, go to Installous application
- Click Downloads tab, you should see the .ipa item there.
- Just click and install it.

Some tidbit

- I think it's a good idea to turn on the "delete after install" feature in Installous because takes 10 minutes to delete the 400Mb .ipa (since iPhoneBrower automatically does backup when you delete stuff)

- It took a LOT of time to decompress big achieve (like ... a 400Mb achieve. In fact, I thought the connection was iPod was hanged.) But eventually it works out.