Tired of seeing those large iPhone icons on the springboard? How about you would like to have the option to customize the icons to be smaller, or even really tiny? Well now you can! Thanks to Paul Griffin and his development of Shrink.

Shrink those icons down!

Shrink downscales your springboard icons so that you can fit more on one page!

Compatible with Winterboard, Iconoclasm, and InfiniDock!

In order … Read More

Great news for the iPhone community!
Earlier today MuscleNerd annouced the realese of redsn0w 0.9Beta3. As you may know, redsn0w is a cross-platform jailbreaking, unlocking, and customizing tool for iPhones and iPod Touch which now supports FW3.1.2. (Keep in mind that this release is still BETA and you may come across some bugs)

UPDATE: Need help on how to? Check out RoryPiper guide here: Jailbreaking and Installing a … Read More

Logitech has released what I would say is one of the coolest and EASIEST apps I have ever used. The app is called Touch Mouse and it turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad (mouse) and keyboard for your computer!

The application works over WiFi, so users can essentially control their Mac or PC from anywhere within range of their WiFi network. The app even includes a keyboard … Read More

Every time I take a screenshot to review an iPhone App or to broadcast my iPhone’s homescreen on the blog, I always get questions about the little icons I have in my iPhone’s status bar.

You might have seen them too, and been wondering where they are from. The tweak is called Notifier and it’s available via Cydia (requires a jailbroken iPhone). Notifier will put tiny icons into the iPhone’s status … Read More

If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you know there are tonnes of tweaks and mods in Cydia that do all kinds of different things to your device. If you’re like me, most of the “cool” stuff usually gets boring and you end up removing it after a week or so. Well, here’s a couple that may stay on your iPhone for a while.

Over the past week or so I found … Read More

In other jailbreaking news, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has announced that a version of PwnageTool is to be ported to Windows and Linux. Previously, PwnageTool was only Mac compatible.

PwnageTool allows users to build custom .IPSW, or iPhone firmware, files. This method of jailbreaking is sometimes seen as more reliable and foolproof against future Apple updates than any other means of jailbreaking.

It’s nice to see some Windows/Linux love … Read More

It seems indie iPhone developers have some obsesion with the Palm Pre’s UI. Not too long after the Pre was released, we started seeing Pre inspired themes in Cydia. In fact, we here at iPhoneinCanada wrote about how to “Make Your iPhone Look Like a Palm Pre“, including changing the font, with “Font Swap”.

Then, just last week, we saw the must coveted feature of the Pre arrive on … Read More

When the details of the Palm Pre were released, one of the biggest features was the issue of background apps and their webOS cards-style multitasking. All you had to do was just swipe between “cards” to change apps. Well, there the latest application to hit Cydia can now replicate the exact same thing–it’s called ProSwitcher–and it’s awesome (ProSwitcher requires a jailbroken iPhone).

ProSwitcher: Allowing Safari Pages-Like Multitasking to the iPhone

ProSwitcher … Read More

If you’ve been looking for reasons to jailbreak your iPhone, you can add this to your list.

If your iPhone is (or will be) jailbroken, you can now use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone! The hack is enabled via a Bluetooth Keyboard driver that is available from Cydia.

The full version is not yet available, but a demo is available now on Cydia from the Big Boss repo. Search for Read More

UPDATE: Apparently there is a bug when using bluetooth keyboard/mouse in conjunction with AirLock, read below:

Regarding Airlock’s incompatibilities with Bluetooth keyboards and mice:
Rich Kubota at Apple updated us again today on our situation. He said that the wireless keyboard and mouse connection-loss issue is due to a bug in the Bluetooth firmware made by Broadcom, Apple’s current Bluetooth chipset manufacturer. He said that Broadcom is currently the holdup … Read More