Singtones: sung ringtones, customized just for you

by Cody on May 18, 2012

Have you been looking for a way to make your iPhone’s ringtone more personalized? Do you enjoy listening to jazz ensembles? Well if you answered yes to one of, or (preferably) both of these questions, you need a Singtone.

What’s a Singtone? Well it’s a ringtone, customized and sung just for you by the folks of Ensemble 101. The group is looking to take its jazz act on the road next year, and they are hoping to use Singtone sales to fund the tour… Read More

 

VolumeColor: change the color of the iPhone’s volume HUD

by Jeff Benjamin on May 10, 2012

You can safely file this one under the “not necessarily useful, but nonetheless interesting” tweak of the day. VolumeColor is a recent Cydia release that allows you to alter the color of your volume HUD.

It’s also not that original, as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen such functionality in another tweak before, though its name currently escapes me.

Anyhow, feel free to take a look at our video walkthrough of VolumeColor inside… Read More

 

‘Chip’ now available on Cydia

by Sebastien on May 9, 2012

A few days ago, we gave you an exclusive preview of Chip, a new jailbreak tweak that allows you to customize banner notifications background color, text color, border color, and gradient using simple RGB sliders. Chip also includes the ability to customize the notification sound and banner animation. In short, it brings an insane level of customization to your notifications.

Chip is now available in Cydia, via the BigBoss repo for $1.99.

 

‘MusicGestures’ adds customized gestures to the stock Music app

by Jeff Benjamin on Feb 26, 2012

MusicGestures is a jailbreak tweak that lends the ability to control the stock Music app with gestures instead of button presses. There are a total of 6 actions (7 if you count disabled as an action) that you can assign to any number of gestures.

The gestures can be used to skip, play, pause, and gather info on both the album cover view, and the individual track view.

It’s not the deepest tweak in the shed, but the simplicity of MusicGestures makes it worth a look… Read More

 

PushTone: Change push notification alerts sounds on a per-app basis

by Jeff Benjamin on Feb 21, 2012

PushTone is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to customize audible push notifications on an app to app basis.

That means that you can change something like the standard Tweetbot notification into a duck quack, or any of the other alerts and ringtones available in the ringtone library.

If you’ve been looking for a convenient method for customizing your alerts down to the app level, then look no further than PushTone… Read More

 

‘iUnlock’ adds custom unlock animations and sound effects to your iDevice

by Jeff Benjamin on Feb 20, 2012

If the first thing you though was: “Hey, that looks like UnlockFX,” then you’re not alone, I thought the same thing too.

But after a little bit of testing, I’ve confirmed that there just may be enough differences between UnlockFX and iUnlock to warrant a look.

While its animations aren’t as original and inspired as that of UnlockFX, iUnlock does feature a few more bells and whistles to make it worthy of your consideration… Read More

 

AndroidLoader for iOS gets a major update

by Sebastien on Feb 13, 2012

We’ve talked about AndroidLoader before, the jailbreak tweak that replicates the way Android lets you see all your apps on one single page. Today the app got a major update making the it more appealing than ever.

For those of you who don’t know AndroidLoader, it’s a tweak that allows you to launch, view or hide certain applications, play music, and more, with a simple tap or swipe gesture… Read More

 

How to create and add custom logos to Zeppelin

by Jeff Benjamin on Feb 13, 2012

I don’t think anyone foresaw how popular Zeppelin would become in the jailbreak community, but there are tons of custom logo packs available, and more being made each day.

What if you wanted to create your own custom logo pack? How would you go about adding the Zeppelin logos to your iDevice manually without going through Cydia?

This tutorial seeks to answer that question, along with providing you with our very own custom iDB carrier logo pack! Read More

 

How to customize your iPhone’s carrier name

by Jeff Benjamin on Feb 13, 2012

Customizing your carrier name is nothing new, but did you know there are tons of ways to go about doing so?

In this video demonstration, we’ll highlight four different tweaks that you can use to customize your iPhone’s carrier name. You can even use Emoji icons and create custom logos with the proper know how. Check inside for the full rundown… Read More

 
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