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Last week's keynote, brought the news that iOS 5 will be released to the public this Wednesday. iOS 5 brings over 200 new features to your iDevice. Many of these new features seem to be inspired by jailbreak tweaks and apps, so will you still need to jailbreak your iDevice after iOS 5 is released?...

Intelliborn has just updated its popular tethering app MyWi with full support for upcoming iOS 5 firmware update. MyWi is a jailbreak app available in Cydia store which allows users to enable wireless tethering on any carrier and take full advantage of their mobile data plan by turning their iPhones into WiFi hotspots. MyWi 5.0 can be downloaded for a price of...

Here comes another simple yet handy Cydia tweak called Magnifier For Safari. As the name implies, the tweak works with MobileSafari allowing you to adjust the font size of viewed web pages for easy reading. Once you download and install Magnifier, you will see a new button “Adjust FontSize” added to “Add Bookmark”, “Add to Home Screen”...

iOS developer Vertex has just released a brand new tweak for all jailbroken iPhones and iPods called FolderIcons which brings the ability to customize iOS folder icons. Normally, each iOS folder icon is made of folder background image and thumbs of icons in folder. However, this simple tweak allows you to set your custom icon for selected...

Cydia is the reason we all jailbreak our iDevices right? Whenever we see the Cydia icon on our iPhone, iPod or iPad's homescreen after performing a successful jailbreak, it brings a smile on our face! Developed by Jay Freeman also known as Saurik, Cydia allows us to find and install thousands of tweaks, software packages including apps, interface...

A brand new tweak called PlayAwake in the Cydia store that allows you to do something which Apple should have included in iOS 5 or even before that. The tweak lets you use any song from your iPod music library and set it as an alarm from within the native Clock app. Once you download and install...

A brand new iPhone tweak called SMS+ (SMSPlus) has just gone live in Cydia store. As the name implies, it  is an SMS messaging tweak that brings all the missing features to the iPhone's native Messages app, which in fact is the best thing about it unlike iRealSMS or BiteSMS which both install and work as...

It appears Jay Freeman a.k.a. "Saurik", the creator of the Cydia jailbreak store, has filed a lawsuit to acquire the domain cydia.com from a company named Cykon, as reported by Domain Name Wire. Freeman's first attempt to acquire the domain failed as it was determined Cydia.com was registered in 2002, years before the creation of...

Ever wanted to use your iPhone's camera roll photos as a slideshow on your homescreen? Well now it is possible with this upcoming springboard tweak called "MultiWall". The tweak allows you to set multiple photos for automatic scrolling on any jailbroken iPhone or iPod's homescreen, replacing the regular background wallpaper. The tweak has not yet...

Update 1: Andrew Liu has updated Swype to beta 2 with the following new features: - improved accuracy - added blue swipe tracer line - feature added to work with most apps Swype developed a way of typing on a touchscreen keyboard by sliding your fingers across keys and letting its unique auto correct work...

Update: Link fixed for repo fixed: http://qwertyoruiop.com/beta With the release of iOS 5 Beta, the iPhone Dev Team was quick to immediately release a tethered jailbreak via redsn0w. Just as fast as the jailbreak was released, 3rd party developers went right to work and as noted by 9to5Mac, the ability to develop notification widgets was discovered...

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...