Notifications system is among one of the best and most important upgrades we have seen with iOS 5. Some people would say that Apple has a lot to thank for different ideas to the jailbreak community, as many ideas were tested in the real world before Apple released it with their official apps. iOS 5 Notification Center features a pull down menu that is now place where all notifications are located. This new system is exceedingly intuitive but has a great potential for further improvements via serious of small but interesting tweaks like the one we will explore next.
WeeKillBackground is a new tweak within Cydia app store and it attempts to improve things for jailbreak users even further. This tweak when activated will immediately terminate all apps running in the background therefore freeing your iPhone resources for more important tasks or simply to conserve some energy. This will be especially important to newbies which hoard apps and use them like they have infinite resources on their iOS devices. If you tend to launch many different apps every day there are great chances your iPhone will run many useless tasks in the background. This will slow down your iPhone considerably and it will also consume the energy stored in your iPhone battery in a short time.
You wont get any new icon on your home screen after you install this handy tweak. You can configure the tweak in the usual way, by navigating to the Settings app. When installed you can use it simply by opening Notification Center and tapping on “Tap to kill apps” option. Keep in mind that this is a jailbreak tweak only so you will have to jailbreak your iOS 5 iPhone before you can use it. To jailbreak your device we recommend RedSn0w for Mac and Windows. Please feel free to use guides and manuals you can find in our blog archives.
Sometimes we just cant stop wandering, where do Cydia app developers get such inspiration for their unexpected improvements like Magnifier for Safari? Certainly iPhone screens are not exactly the best platform for reading text documents but this tweak is able to save the day and enable you read your important stuff on the iPhone. Did you ever strained your eyes with reading a small text on some website? Here is a solution for you if you have a jailbroken iPhone. Magnifier For Safari will resize the small fonts in a breeze and enable you to scroll quickly and efficiently through your reading text.
This tweak can be found in Cydia only meaning that you have to jailbreak your iPhone before you can enjoy it. You can jailbreak your device by using some available jailbreak tools like Sn0wbreeze, RedSn0w or Jailbreak Me. For instructions on how to use this apps please check our blog archive. It is simple, legal and fully reversible. If you find jailbreaking unsatisfying, which is exceedingly rare just restore your iPhone and you have a stock iPhone again.
After you download and install Magnifier For Safari, you will see a new button appearing in your browser: ‘Adjust Font size’. When you tap on the icon it will launch a slide bar where you can optimize the font size of the page you are reading at the moment. Basically the whole process is quite easy and straightforward. If you are often reading large text based websites on your iPhone Magnifier For Safari is just what you need. You can purchase this handy tweak for $0.99 in Cydia app store.
Every day we are witnessing some new ingenious jailbreak tweak and app. Here is another small but potentially very useful tweak for your device. If you ever heard about Google’s audio recognition services you will know it can convert your speech into text. So now we have a new jailbreak tweak which does something similar for your jailbroken iPhone. Voice Keys is available for your device in the always useful Big Boss repository. When you install it you will be able to convert your spoken words and sentences into text for yor SMS or email. The conversion isn’t done by this tweak, instead it captures your audio and then uses Google’s own services for this. As always you should keep your voice slow and clear if you want to get a decent result with this.
At the beginning you will get strange results but after some time your experiences will approve as the app will adjust to your voice. This wont be helpful if you are in hurry and need to get something written down fast, but if you have plenty of time you could easily make a good use of this particular tweak. It works for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can download it for free if you have Cydia installed, just make sure that you add Big Boss repo to your iPhone sources list. It comes as a free download and it is a great excuse for trying something new with your iPhone.
There are a number of Cydia tweaks and apps which at the first look seem unimportant or even ridiculous, but if you ever encounter a small yet bothersome problem, you will often find out that there is already a solution for that particular problem in Cydia. That is why jailbreak is an excellent thing in iOS world.
While Safari, which is the native browser for all iOS devices, is itself a great piece of software it does have some small drawbacks. Safari has enabled users of mobile devices to enjoy surfing the Internet almost at the same level as when surfing on your computer. This is especially so if you have a jailbroken device and you can push Safari over the limits imposed by Apple. With a few tweaks you can download and upload various files as needed, personalize your home page and even use the full screen size option on Safari!
And here comes the latest Cydia improvement called Restore Tab For Safari . This small tweak has a name which explains everything. If you are like most of us a serious iPhone or iPad user you will often have a bunch of tabs open, and from time to time you will by mistake turn your tab off. This happens especially if you are in a hurry and since your iPhone screen is quite small you can often encounter this issue. This is easel solvable on your desktop computer but so far this wasn’t possible on Mobile Safari, that is until now. But after you install Tab Restore for Safari you will definitely forget about this problem. Whenever you open a new tab a small icon will appears at the bottom of the browser which says restore tab. If you accidentally close a tab with important informations, just tap on restore tab and you can continue with your work.
This tweak is available in Cydia and it costs $0.99. You can find it in Big Boss repo so add it to your list of sources if you already didn’t do so.
Tweak Week is an event organized and inspired by Rayan Petrich, a famous Canadian iOS app developer and it is an event where during every day of week some well known app developer releases one open sourced iOS app. This was the ocassion when Elias Limneos, himself an Greek iPhone dev has released a cool new tweak which could become quite popular in short time. This original little tweak aims to do something every iPhone owner wishes from time to time: if you add this tweak you will be finally able to rearrange your iPhone Status Bar the way you prefer it.
Here is a demo of this nice new tweak.
As you saw in the demo you can easily rearrange the icons in your Status Bar with a few quick moves of your fingertips. If you couple this tweak with lets say CleanStatus tweak, you can clean up and organize your Status Bar as efficiently and simply as you alwyas wanted to. To download the tweak you will need to jailbreak your iPhone. All iPhone models can be jailbroken currently with PwnageTool or RedSn0w for Mac. On windows PC you can use such tools as Sn0wBreeze or RedSn0w for windows.
After you get this tweak through Cydia, you can immediately start organizing your Status Bar. Do not forget to add this Cydia repo to the list of your sources: http://rpetri.ch/repo Note: this tweak is free, so thank you to Ryan Petrich and Elias Limneos!
Do you like this tweak? Are you willing to try it out for yourself? If yes, please share your experience! We think its awesome, do you agree?
A new jailbreak tweak comes for iPhone users on non supported networks like T-Mobile and others. This jailbreak tweak will enable you to use visual voice mail and it’s features. Most important are newly available settings for your voice mail.
When you install this tweak, simply tap the VoiceMail icon and then simply login or if needed, register a new account. When you have made an account, all future missed calls will be redirected towards your YouMail account. In addition, you can create your own, unique voice greetings for different callers. Alternatively you can choose some of the available generic greetings for your voice mail. You can also forward interesting recorded voicemails to some friend in your contact list.
All in all this is a cool tweak which can significantly improve the usability of your iPhone. Jailbroken iPhones gain more and more functionality with every new tweak. Hats of to the tweak developers Dustin Howett and SaurikIT for their efforts. You can now download this tweak from the Cydia App Store.
Another cool tweak is released into Cydia app store. This tweak enables iPhone users to share photos with their Facebook friends directly from the camera roll of your iPhone without need for any special app. The name of the tweak is appropriate: Native FB Upload. When you install this tweak you can send it in a simple, painless way directly to your Facebook account just like what you can already do with Mobile Me app. This tweak was developed by Tyler Nettleton who is also known as InfectionX on Twitter and it costs $1.99. You can get it from your Cydia App Store.
To share a photo to Facebook just open your photo and tap on the Export option on the bottom of the screen. This option is used mostly for sharing images with MMS or through email, but now it’s also used for Facebook sharing.
So you have just to select Facebook as a way of sharing, and your photo is being instantly uploaded to your Facebook page. No additional app is needed for this task. Currently this tweak will give you only the chance to share one picture at a time, but the developer has already announced that in the new future this will change.
You can see a demonstration of the app in the Youtube video bellow.
Let us know did you like this app if you decide to purchase it.
