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A brand new jailbreak tweak from JamieD360 called NCSettings has just hit the Cydia store. The tweak adds some attractive looking settings toggles to the iOS 5 Notification Center. For those who frequently use SBSettings on their jailbroken iOS devices, this is a pretty cool alternative. You get toggles for common settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode, Respring and more....

One of the features on my iPhone that rarely gets used is the Spotlight page. When you're on you home screen, and you swipe your finger to the right, you can search for anything on your iDevice, in one convenient search field. If it's something you don't use regularly, and you have your device jailbroken,...

A few days back, the popular Sparrow iPhone app went live in the App Store as the first real viable alternative to Apple’s Mail app. Sadly, the app was released without "push notifications" since the feature was pulled by Apple before approval, due to the fact that Sparrow team was caught using an API reserved for VoIP apps....

A simple yet handy new jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store called ActionSlider. As the name implies, the tweak adds a 'slider' to the iOS 5 Notification Center which looks similar to the brightness slider. The slider can be configured to perform commonly used iOS actions be sliding it LEFT or RIGHT. Once you download and...

A brand new jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store called SMSmileys. This simple tweak brings real smileys to the native Messages.app and is available as a free download. Once you install the tweak on your jailbroken iPhone, your text smileys like  :') or <3 etc. will be automatically converted into more fun and...

With iOS 5 came the Notification Center. It was a vast improvement over the way iOS used to handle notifications, but there is always room for improvements. In cases where we are not getting what we want from Apple, we look to the jailbreak community and Cydia. A tweak has recently been released called "SpeakEvents",...

There is a new web based store on the way for jailbroken iDevices. It is called iTweak. It is being described as an alternative to Cydia, featuring themes and utilities for your jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. They also hint that there will be a Mac and PC client to visit the store, but...

If you have a jailbroken iDevice, you have probably heard of a tweak called Zeppelin. It allows you to quickly change your carrier logo in the status bar, without Winterboard or respringing your device. Since it's release, Cydia has been flooded with lots of different logos. We thought there should be at least one more....

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...

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...

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...

Last week's discovery of Path's unauthorized uploading of our personal data to their servers has had many people questioning how safe our information really is. Forbes now points to a 15 page study called PiOS: Detecting Privacy Leaks in iOS Applications written by a team of international university researchers. The team consists of Manuel Egele from the...