Giffy: view animated GIFs in the Photos app

by Jeff Benjamin on May 7, 2012

Animated GIFs are an incredibly popular method for sharing moving pictures in a way that’s viewable in a wide variety of areas. As a result we have new apps like Gifture appearing on the App Store.

While GIFs are easily viewable in the Safari browser, saving them to the Photos app results in a loss of the animation. Since animation is the whole point behind animated GIFs, saving them to the Photos app under normal circumstances might seem a bit pointless.

But that’s where jailbreaking once again proves its worthiness. Giffy is a new jailbreak tweak that allows you to view animated GIFs within iOS’ stock Photos app… Read More

 

How to add a character counter to the Notes app

by Jeff Benjamin on May 7, 2012

Who types text that is lengthy enough to warrant a character counter in the Notes app? That’s the first thing I thought when trying Characount for Notes, and needless to say I’m still pondering the question.

That’s literally all this tweak does. It places a character counter, not a word counter mind you, but a character counter at the top of each note you compose.

Who really needs something like this? Read More

 

Top videos of the week

by Jeff Benjamin on May 7, 2012

After a bit of a slow period in the spring, new Cydia releases are beginning to pick up steam. Check inside for videos that show you how to improve text editing on a jailbroken iPad or iPhone; or perhaps you’re interested in adding widgets to your Home screen, or customizing your Notification Center banners? It’s all here in this week’s top videos.

Please be sure to share our iPhone, iPad, and iOS video guides by spreading our posts on Twitter and Facebook. Read More

 

Add widgets to your Home screen with this new jailbreak tweak

by Jeff Benjamin on May 6, 2012

Although I’ve never really understood the excitement behind the widgets, it’s one of those things that my Android toting friends love to brag about.

What if I told you that there was an easy way to add widgets to the Home screen of an iOS device? What if I told you that there are a plethora of interesting widgets already available?

Both of the above statements are now true, courtesy of a new jailbreak tweak called Dashboard X. Dashboard X is the result of months of hard work by developer, Ori Kadosh. This tweak allows you to take existing widgets created for Notification Center and position them anywhere on your iPhone or iPad Home screen.

Take a look at inside for our hands-on experience with Dashboard X…

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Chip: a feature rich jailbreak tweak for customizing banner notifications

by Jeff Benjamin on May 6, 2012

With entries like Vexillum and ColorBanner, there’s no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that allow you to customize your notification banners in iOS 5. But neither of those are as deep and complete as Chip.

As simple as its name may make it seem, Chip is by far the deepest of the three tweaks mentioned. It allows you to customize banner notification 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. If you’re looking for the best tweak for customizing banner notifications, then look no further… Read More

 

SlideWriter: an upcoming app that makes text editing easier on the iPad

by Jeff Benjamin on May 6, 2012

Not that we can blame them, but it looks like someone’s trying to capitalize off of the attention garnered first by Daniel Hooper’s iPad editing concept video, and then again by Kyle Howells’ jailbreak tweak that made the concept a reality.

SlideWriter is an upcoming App Store app that will allow you to edit text using techniques made popular by both the concept and the subsequent jailbreak tweak implementation.

The developers of SlideWriter have put together a brief video demo to show how the app works in action. Check it out inside… Read More

 

SpotDict: Search iOS’ built in dictionary from Spotlight

by Jeff Benjamin on May 5, 2012

Spotlight search is very useful when you actually need to use it, but how many times do you find yourself needing to do so?

If you’re anything like me, you can probably count on one hand how many times you’ve used Spotlight over the past few months.

Perhaps this recently released jailbreak tweak will coerce you into using Spotlight a bit more often? It’s called SpotDict, and it allows you to look up words in iOS’ built in dictionary directly from the Spotlight search page… Read More

 

‘SwipeSelection’ now available on Cydia

by Jeff Benjamin on May 5, 2012

SwipeSelection — the jailbreak tweak based on Daniel Hooper’s iPad keyboard editing concept — is now available on Cydia.

If you haven’t seen our hands-on video and review of the tweak in action, be sure to check it out.

You can find SwipeSelection for free on Cydia’s BigBoss repo, and it plays nice with both the iPad and iPhone.

Have you tried it? What do you think?

 

iPad text editing concept comes to life thanks to this jailbreak tweak

by Jeff Benjamin on May 4, 2012

When Cody posted about Daniel Hooper’s iPad keyboard demo, we had no idea that it would be as popular as it has turned out to be. Thousands of retweets later, the public has spoken out against how terrible the iPad’s editing situation is. I think John Gruber summed it up best when he noted that the iPad was a great for typing, but poor for editing.

The iPad keyboard demo video was created with the hopes that Apple would respond and implement something similar in the upcoming version of iOS. There’s even instructions included on the video for submitting a bug report to Apple.

Well, Apple may not listen, but someone else did. Indeed, the jailbreak community has responded in a big way. Introducing SwipeSelection — a usable realization of the original iPad concept video… Read More

 

How text editing on the iPad should be

by Cody on May 3, 2012

If you’ve ever spent any kind of time editing text on the iPad, you know that there has to be a better solution. Placing your cursor in a certain spot in a sentence or paragraph can be difficult. And between letters? Forget about it.

Luckily, YouTube user danielchasehooper has come up with the perfect way to fix this. In his new video entitled “iPad Keyboard Prototype,” he demonstrates how Apple could make cursor placement much more precise… Read More

 
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