Month: October 2011

iSounds: Add Classic OS 9 And Apple Newton Sounds Effects to Your iPhone

Looking to turn your iPhone into a throwback iPhone? How appropriate, considering that we're on the eve of one of the most highly anticipated Apple unveilings in quite some time.

iSounds is a yet to be publicly released jailbreak tweak, which adds various classic sound effects to your iPhone. We've got video details on how it works, and how you can try it out for yourself, right after the break...

Benchmarks Suggest A5-Powered iPhone Would Support Much Faster Graphics

While we're all getting so uptight about whether the incoming iPhone will be of the 4S or 5 designation, and thus, whether it will receive a new design or not, MacRumors is there to bring us all back to reality.

The site's founder, Arnold Kim, has sought to remind us all that, while all the glitz and glamor of possible redesign is tempting, we're forgetting about the specs that will actually power the device.  lt's obvious that the next iPhone will feature Apple's impressive A5 chip architecture — the chip that currently powers the iPad 2.

That fact alone means we'll have a significantly faster iPhone to buy. Check out the impressive benchmark breakdown inside...

iPhone 4S Shows Up in Vodafone Germany Listings with 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Capacities

It's already been rumored that the iPhone 4S will come in a 64GB flavor, and now mobile carrier Vodafone Germany is listing the iPhone '4S' in three different capacities on its website.

Carriers have been known to create placeholders for unreleased Apple products, with some carriers even offering preorders for the fifth generation iPhone before it is announced. In the case of this Vodafone listing, the iPhone 4S is listed for the first time instead of the 'iPhone 5' placeholder that we've seen before. The storage options line up with rumors as well...

EA Sports Presents FIFA Soccer 12: This is Football

It's football season here in the US, and every Sunday fans gather around the TV to watch their favorite NFL teams go to work. But a lot of folks may not know that it's football season in Europe, too.

No, we're not talking about American football, but what most of you know as soccer. The EPL (English Premier League) is underway, and what better way to get in on the action than with the all-knew FIFA Soccer 12 game in the App Store...

Are You an Apple Fanboy? [Infographic]

With Apple set to unveil the next iPhone tomorrow, 'fanboys' are coming out of the woodworks. Some may call these people 'Apple enthusiasts', while others would call a fanboy something more along the lines of a mindless zombie.

What does it mean to be an Apple fanboy? Let's take a closer look...

How to Add Basic Photo Edit Options to the Stock Photos App

Wishing for a quick and simple way to perform basic photo editing tasks without the use of external app?

True, such a feature is baked directly into iOS 5, but that's still a few days away. What about now?

Jailbreak connoisseur Filippo Bigarella's got you back, with the recent release of PhotoEdit, a jailbreak tweak that brings a few basic photo editing options to us iOS 4 users...

ActiveAccess for Activator: Enable Zoom, VoiceOver, and Invert Colors From Anywhere

The awkwardly named ActiveAccess for Activator, is a jailbreak tweak, which allows you to assign various accessibility options to Activator actions.

Accessibility options consist of features like Invert Colors, VoiceOver and Zooming — options that are great for the visually impaired.

Thanks to this tweak, there's an even easier way to invoke these features by assigning one or all of them to an Activator action...

UnlockBright: An Eccentric Brightness Tweak for Your Lock Screen

Feeling eccentric? If so, then why not add some interesting brightness controlling functionality to your iPhone's slide-to-unlock bar, by means of UnlockBright?

UnlockBright is an interesting jailbreak tweak, because it combines the slide-to-unlock bar with your iPhone's brightness settings. The weird thing is, that these settings aren't permanent, they only take effect as you're unlocking your phone.

Confused? Take a look at the video demo just after the break...

LSMediaControls: Control Music Simply By Swiping Your Lock Screen

I have to admit, I really didn't see much of a need for LSMediaControls in my jailbreak repertoire...until I happened to use it while driving.

My experience using this tweak while on the road has opened my eyes to how incredibly useful it can be.

No longer do you need to glance at the iPhone to make sure you're tapping the right button.

LSMediaControls makes it simple to play, pause, skip and listen to previous music, from virtually any music app. Check inside for the video details...

How to Enable Swiping for SBSettings Toggles [Video]

A few days ago, we received a question about SBSettings; specifically, how do you enable swiping for the toggle buttons in SBSettings?

By default, SBSettings will enable more than two rows if you have more than eight buttons in your list of toggles. Because of this, there's no need to have separate pages for toggles, due to everything fitting on a single page.

Ah, but there is a simple way to force a maximum of two rows of toggles, as this video tutorial shows you inside...