A new tweak has appeared in Cydia called Air Home Video. For $0.99, this tweak will bypass the inability of AirPlay in iOS 4.2.1 to stream videos from your camera roll to your Apple TV. Apple really needs to fix this. Don't forget AirVideoEnabler to stream other videos to your Apple TV. Air Home Video...
The jailbreak community comes up with some amazing stuff. Today the latest tweak is Pull to Refresh for the iPhone's Mail app. Pull to refresh first came to the iPhone via Loren Brichter's Tweetie app. Now, that feature is commonplace amongst various iPhone apps (E.G. Facebook app). Pull to Refresh for Mail is something that...
Even though iOS 4.2. is upon us, there are still features 'missing' that everybody wants. One of those includes an improved notification system. A new tweak in Cydia, called OpenNotifier is now taking your iPhone status bar to another level. Similar to old tweak Notifier, OpenNotifier allows for more customization as there is dedicated section...
Cydia was founded by Jay Freeman, better known as 'saurik' to the jailbreak community. His work with Cydia has resulted in the exponential growth of tweaks and 3rd party applications for iPhone users. Jay's work has been so prolific he recently gave his thoughts at TEDxAmericanRiviera. His talk revolved around the notion that "even software...
Another day, and another new tweak for the iPhone 3GS. Earlier in the week we profiled how you can enable 720P HD video on your 3GS. Now, you can have a semi-FaceTime experience via a new Cydia tweak called FaceIt, from iPhoneIslam.com. This free tweak will enable your iPhone 3GS to receive FaceTime calls and...
There's a new tweak in Cydia that will allow you to bring an animated clock icon to your homescreen. The tweak is called LiveClock and it's free. Essentially your stock clock icon will now act like a wall clock and display the actual time (moving seconds hand too), instead of a frozen clock image. This...
If you use a jailbroken iPhone, you likely have been taking advantage of either Cydia or Rock.app. Well, two weekends ago Rock Your Phone and Saurik's Cydia announced that they would merge and that both of their respective stores for jailbroken devices would merge as well. To be more specific though, Cydia acquired Rock Your...
Is your iPhone's sleep/wake button broken? Or are you looking for the easiest way to put your iPhone screen to sleep? There's a recent addition to Cydia called QuickLock2. With one tap of a button you can lock your iPhone and have the screen put to sleep. This is a fantastic solution for those with...
Did you bypass the latest iOS 4.1 update on your iPhone 4 because you are preserving your jailbreak (which is coming soon) For those that did update, you are probably enjoying the benefits of HDR photography. Did Apple Acquire their HDR Skills from imsense? The latest HDR story is that Apple acquired the UK company,...
The makers of Rock Your Phone have allowed people to purchase 3rd party jailbroken apps such as MyWi and My3G for their iPhones. Rock Your iPhone has just been acquired by Cydia (SaurikIT), which now has become the world's largest independent iOS App Store. To reflect some upcoming changes, the layout of Cydia's main page...
With iOS 4.1's imminent release this Wednesday, one of the most anticipated features is the ability to take HDR (high dynamic range) photos on the iPhone. However, it appears as though the HDR photo option will be absent from the iPhone 3G/3GS. We've seen Apple leave out hardware intensive features on older iPhone models (*cough*...
After using an iPhone 3G, then experiencing the iPhone 3GS--the performance was like night and day. Then, going from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4--more speed improvements were gained. However, the new 'multitasking' feature of iOS 4 has caused my iPhone 3GS/iPhone 4 to come to a crawl at certain times. Why? The reason...
