If you're not familiar with the jailbreak community, Cydia is an alternate store where you can download themes and tweaks to further enhance your iDevice, more than what Apple has allowed you to. You can change the look of the UI, and even change how your iDevice functions. One of the more prominent developers, Ryan...
A Macintosh Plus inspired retro-concept winter board theme for iPhone and iPod touch called iOS ’86 is now available for download through Cydia (via FSM). The theme comes complete with retro icons for stock apps, dock, folders and notification badges. Originally designed by Anton form Russia, the theme has been replicated by guys at iTheme who have now put it up...
In case you've gotten bored with the limited sound effects on your iPhone, iPod touch or your iPad, here's a nice little Cydia tweak to let you customize them. The tweak is called iSounds and it lets you apply custom sound effects to the entire iOS interface. You can either choose a complete set of sound effects...
One of my favourite changes when iOS 5 came along was Notification Center. But with most Apple implementations, it's fairly locked down. Enter the Jailbreak community. Some developers have added many more functions to Notification Center, making it more useful and powerful. So in this video I go over my Top 5 Notification Center Jailbreak...
Since the introduction of the iPod, we have managed our music in a completely different way than we used to. Before the ".mp3", we would have to actually go to a store to purchase an LP, cassette, or CD (depending on your age). If a friend had a song you wanted listen to, you would...
As a blogger and app reviewer, I'm always looking for the best way to feature and show the things I'm writing about. Sure, you can get an affordable point-and-shoot that shoots pretty decent HD video, but the best way would be to actual record the display itself, like a screen cast. You could use the...
Redsn0w is a popular jailbreaking tool, maintained be The iPhone Dev Team. It has been used to jailbreak many iOS devices on various firmwares, over the past few years. The iPhone Dev Team have just released an update, with a few new bug fixes. Updates #5b and #5c: Version b5b fixes an issue with using...
SBSettings is one of the best Cydia tweaks ever built and with its seamless iOS 5 notification center integration, the system toggles have never been easier to access. However, many users with jailbroken iOS 5 devices are not able to enable SBSettings inside the notification center. This simple tutorial will teach you how easily it...
Just recently, CocoaNuts updated Celeste, the first bluetooth file sharing app to support iOS 5 releasing its initial public beta on the Cydia store and today, we have yet another bluetooth file transfer app for iOS 5 jailbroken iPhones, iPods and iPads. Called AirBlue Sharing, the app allows you to share all common types of files including photos,...
A new tweak named Sara has just been pushed to Cydia [via Appadvice] which promises to be a fully functional Siri alternative for all iOS devices including the original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod 3G. Best of all, Sara has the same UI as the Siri (see screenshots below). With Sara, users can do many thing such...
A lot of people have been cursing CocoaNuts, the developers of some of the best Cydia tweaks including Gremlin, Celeste & YourTube / YourTube HD for not releasing iOS 5 compatible updates, especially the customers of Celeste who paid a hefty $9.99 for quite a buggy tweak which once promised to be the ultimate bluetooth file transfer solution...
For those using aTV Flash (black) for their second generation Apple TVs, Firecore has just announced their 1.3 update that includes automated firmware backups and other miscellaneous features and bug fixes. The former 1.2 update was released back in mid-January brought various zoom options. It's not quite Valentine's Day, but we couldn't wait to show...
