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Clear Up Space On Your Home Screen with: Categories

There have been a lot of innovative apps to come from the developers who host their stuff on Cydia, rather than the App Store. One such app, which I never really hear people talk about, is "Categories". It comes from BigBoss, and is a free download in Cydia. It's been around for a while, but...

How to Arrange your iPhone Icons Easily: Movement for Mac

If you're a heavy iPhone user, it's easy to fill up your homescreens with tonnes of apps. One major grip is moving an app from the last page to the main homescreen. You have to drag, drag, and drag again. It's very time consuming and painful. However, there is hope upon the horizon. It's in...

How to Change the “Slide to Unlock” Text

Hey, everyone. RoryPiper here. I've been away for a couple of weeks, but I'm back, with a quick, easy hack, that will change the "Slide to Unlock" text, on your lock screen. This will work on the iPhone or iPod Touch, but requires it to be jailbroken, with Winterboard installed. Basically, we are creating a...

Customizing iPhone Spotlight Search

Before I even begin this post, I want to make very clear that I know what I am about to talk about is old, old, old, old news. How do I know this? Because it has been around since June 17, 2009 and maybe even earlier. The reason I am posting this is because this...

How to Add Caller ID to Skype on iPhone

We all love talking on our iPhones right? What I don't like though is paying the $0.35/minute long distance charges on the Rogers/Fido network. How to bypass paying through the roof long distance rates on Rogers/Fido? Easy! Install Skype on your iPhone if you haven't already and make calls with your data plan (or WiFi)!...

Make Your iPhone Look Like a Palm Pre

One of the recent smart phones to make iPhone owners slightly glance away from their magical devices for a second, has been the Palm Pre. The Pre is not available in Canada, yet, but is offered by Sprint in the US. It will be coming to Canada later this year, from Bell. Their web OS,...

DiskAid: a USB Solution to OpenSSH

Hey there everyone, RoryPiper here again, for another Sunday post. Over the last few weeks I've posted a couple of articles on customizing your iPhone. The process involves SSH'ing into your iPhone to place certain files in certain folders. Well, if that process confused you, I have a simpler solution: DiskAid. DiskAid is a shareware...

How to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS in 7 Minutes (redsn0w/Mac)

Do you own an iPhone 3GS? Been curious about all this "jailbreaking" hoopla you've been hearing about lately? Well, you're in luck because about a week ago the iPhone Dev Team (and other young hackers) released an updated version of redsn0w. We have lots of updated jailbreaking guides here. Anyways, here's a quick video I...

Creating Your Own Lockscreen Theme

What is the first thing you see, when you pick up your iPhone and wake it up? It's the lock screen, right? Most people have their favourtie photo or a wallpaper they downloaded, on their lock screen, but what if you could really customize your lock screen, with whatever you want? Well, there is a...

How to Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 2G/3G/3GS on 3.0 redsn0w Guide

Looking to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 1G, or iPod Touch 2G? You have come to the right place! What is 'Jailbreaking'? Jailbreaking is a term used that refers to modifying the software on your iPhone/iPod Touch. These modifications essentially "free" your device from the device constraints and...