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ColoredKnob is a simple new tweak in Cydia which lets you change the color of your 'Slide To Unlock' arrow on your iOS device's lockscreen. By default, when you visit the lockscreen you see the stock Grey colored arrow at the bottom but with ColoredKnob, you can change it to Red or Green. If you don't...

Earlier we told you about a Corona 1.0.6 update to address a DRM issue with iBooks. The iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of redsn0w 0.9.10b5 for download to address these issues: Update #5: redsn0w version b5 incorporates yet another fix for iBooks, this time involving DRM. @planetbeing wrote a utility called “crazeles” that...

Jailbreaking has become a lot easier over the years, and the latest instalment for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 is no exception. Using Absinthe v0.3 for these two devices on firmware 5.0.1 is literally as simple as one click of the mouse. To prove it, my first video with iPhoneinCanada shows you just how...

A new utility called iOSOpenDev is going to introduce an open source platform for iOS developers containing Xcode templates for creating new Cydia tweaks with little programming knowledge. The iOSOpenDev project will allow users to build common types of jailbreak tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, Notification Center widgets, SBSettings toggles, and Mobile Substrate tweaks....

A couple of weeks back, Corona 1.0.5 update was released in Cydia to solve the iBooks crash upon launch issue which majority of users were reporting after applying the untether patch for iOS 5.0.1 on their jailbroken A4 devices. However, the issue was never fully resolved with users reporting randomly disappearing text and images from their installed iBooks...

Zephyr, an awesome Cydia tweak from iOS developer Chpwn which brings gesture based multitasking to iPhone and iPod touch allowing users to swipe between applications using left or right swipes and seamlessly move between applications, has just been updated to version 1.1. The latest update brings improved stability and bug fixes as well as a couple of...

A new tweak has been recently pushed to Cydia called Vexillum which allows users to customize the background and font colors of the notification banner in iOS 5. The tweak is pretty simply and does what it says by adding new options within the Settings.app. Once you download and install the tweak, Vexillum tab appears in the...

A new Cydia tweak called TelOnNotification has just made it possible for iOS 5 users to dial any phone number directly from the notification center. The tweak basically provides a quick access to the Phone application by displaying the keypad inside the pulldown notification center menu. The tweak installs as a notification center widget and can be easily toggled on...

A cool jailbreak tweak called xMessages has recently gone live in the Cydia store which lets your add contact photos as thumbnails to the stock Messages app. Along with displaying contact photos, the tweak also shows message time stamps letting you keep track of sent and received messages easily. Much like the Cyntacts tweak for Contacts,...

iOS developer Ori Kadoshi has pushed a new Siri-related tweak to the Cydia store called Custom Siri Background. As the name suggests, the tweak simply lets you change Siri’s background wallpaper. You can choose any custom image or use a photo taken with your iPhone camera directly from the camera roll. Custom Siri Background is reported...

Back in 2009, there was an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) in regards to jailbreaking smartphones, such as the iPhone. That is set to expire and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a petition to urge people to sign it and send a message to the Copyright Office to renew this...

Another Siri exclusive Cydia tweak called Lingual has just been released by the CodeThemed team that extends Siri's functionality to voice translation. Lingual allows translation from English to over 30 languages. The developers have said that they're also looking to include translation to English in a future update. The tweak pulls in results using Microsoft's Bing Translate API...