Jailbreak

Well that was fast! A tweet from MuscleNerd reports that the iOS 5 beta on a fourth generation iPod touch has been jailbroken. iOS5 jailbroken on ipt4g: http://is.gd/7GxIcK http://is.gd/BwPvfh via limera1n + tethered boot..not too many surprises :) While this is great news for jailbreakers, it is still too early to make any conclusions about...

Popular Canadian developer Ryan Petrich has announced TweakWeek, a new promotion to enable 3rd party devs to get their tweaks out there. The premise is to have one free tweak a day by Ryan, then thereafter tweaks by other notable developers. Apps must be open source. Here's what's been released so far: June 1: DietBar...

MobileNotifier is a fantastic notfication tweak available in Cydia, from developer Peter Hajas. We first reviewed MobileNotifier back in February, and it has soon evolved into a viable notification alternative (that is until iOS 5 is revealed!). Recently, Peter blogged about his departure from MobileNotifier, shocking most people including yours truly. He said he couldn't...

We broke the news about the 'connection' between the departure of Peter Hajas from his MobileNotifier project and his possible move to Apple. To celebrate before his leave Peter and his team have released MobileNotifier Beta5, the final release. Here is what's new: - MobileReply. Reply to text messages while within other applications! It works...

Update 3: Click here for an updated story that confirms Peter's employment with Apple. Update 2: It appears Peter Hajas has been confirmed to be working for Apple. One of his tweets from a few weeks ago, via Redmond Pie: @brittaahh I’m glad you like it. I’ll see what I can do I will be...

Here are some jailbreak tweaks that should already be in iOS. Could of any variation of these tweaks make an appearance in iOS 5? We'll find out next week at WWDC. ScreenDimmer – Lets you change the minimum time until the screen dims or turns off entirely. You can also set a whitelist so that the screen...

The popular and elegant Cydia tweak for Push Notifications, known as MobileNotifier has exceeded 230,000 downloads, as announced by developer Peter Hajas on his blog. This is an indication that iOS users are in high demand of a new revamp for unobtrusive Push Notifications as the existing system has been well in place since iPhone...

The jailbreak tweaks I most often use are Activator, SBSettings, and Infinidock. Activator Activator allows iPhone/iPod Touch users to activate an app or a setting by simply pressing a button or doing a finger gesture on the screen. For example you can have the Phone app launch by holding down the volume up or down...

Third party developers in Cydia tend to get overlooked sometimes with their innovative tweaks and apps. The latest upcoming app is called RecognizeMe, and it brings facial recognition to the iPhone 4. By utilizing the front-facing camera, it will scan your face to unlock your passcode. RecognizeMe is the first Facial Recognition security for the...

Canadian developer Ryan Petrich (he released Untrackerd) has released a new tweak available in Cydia called Rich Text for Mail. This tweak allows for rich text in Mail, something that is currently unavailable in iOS (maybe we'll see something for iOS 5?). The tweak is $4.99, and will bring a new dimension to your emails...

With today's firmware update for the latest Apple TV, we were warned to not update to preserve the existing untethered jailbreak. It didn't take long, but @i0n1c passed on his untether exploit to the iPhone Dev Team, and updated tools have been released for a new jailbreak. Update #2: Apple released a minor update to...

BiteSMS allows you to send a text to anyone from any application with the help of the free tweak, "Activator". For me I use "swipe to left on status bar" but you can set it to whatever you want. After swiping your finger across the top, a message box will come up and you can...