Month: April 2013

Live Battery Indicator now available for free on Cydia

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

Live Battery Indicator, a jailbreak tweak that merges the battery bar and the battery percentage into one, is now available for free download on Cydia’s BigBoss repo. I must say that I was quite surprised at the reception that this tweak, a very simple one, received in our preview. A lot of you guys seemed to be keenly interested in its release.

Live Battery Indicator performs pretty much exactly like it did in my preview build of the tweak. Just like the preview version, there are no options or settings to configure, and once it's installed it starts working immediately.

There is one unsuspected surprise that you'll find when installing the official version of Live Battery Indicator, though. Can you guess what it is?

T-Mobile airs new iPhone 5 advertisement

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

T-Mobile is wasting no time touting the fact that they finally have access to the world's best smartphone. Can you blame them? This latest creative compares T-Mobile's contract-less plans with the competition.

The spot features two iPhone 5's: one surrounded by a series of mouse traps to represent being trapped within a competitor's contract, and another, free of traps, representing T-Mobile's new contract-free strategy.

Let’s Talk Jailbreak 06: I’m still having fun

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

In episode six of Let's Talk Jailbreak, Sebastien and Jeff discuss Cydia's issues with TSS, Filippo Bigarella's generous contribution to cancer research, and a few amazing new jailbreak tweaks. Jeff also gets the opportunity to follow up on last week's episode, as he provides a dialogue of his experience using the new Messages jailbreak tweak. Needless to say, you don't want to miss this episode.

Great new iOS email client Triage arrives

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

The market for iOS email clients has exploded in recent months, with new arrivals like Dropbox-owned Mailbox, collaboration software Sendgine and of course Google-owned Sparrow all striving to rethink, with more or less success, what email should be about.

Needless to say, I was immediately hooked up on Triage, a new kind of iOS email client software from Southgate Labs Limited, billed as "first aid for your inbox."

To be clear, this app is meant to complement rather than replace your primary email client by helping you "use your downtime to quickly remove the noise and stress" in order to reach Inbox Zero nirvana. And boy does it succeed in achieving that objective...

Mailbox opens its doors to all

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

Good news for all of you would be Mailbox users: the app no longer requires to you to wait an inordinate amount of time before gaining access to it. That's because Mailbox has dropped its reservation system, an idea initially brought forth to stagger the amount of users placing stress on its network at any one time.

Along with the recent 1.2 update, which brought smarter snooze options and a helping of UI tweaks to the fore, Mailbox can actually be used immediately after downloading it. How's that for practicality?

How to quickly enable or disable Airplane Mode from the Lock screen

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

LockScreenAirplaneMode is a free jailbreak tweak that just touched-down on Cydia's BigBoss repo. It allows you to quickly enable or disable your iOS device's Airplane mode feature directly from the Lock screen.

A simple tap and hold will enable AirPlane mode, and another tap and hold gesture will disable AirPlane mode. As you can probably imagine, this is an extremely simple tweak. There are no options to configure, or settings to adjust.

New Grabby update adds customizable icons and up to five items to the camera grabber

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

Ryan Petrich's Grabby tweak has been updated with a bunch of new features, making it a much more well rounded tweak than the initial release. With version 0.2, downloadable now on Petrich's personal beta repo, you can have up to five apps assigned to the Lock screen camera grabber at once.

But, of course, that's not all. This latest version lends the ability to mix and match the icons featured on the camera grabber, along with the ability to display the actual app icons themselves. The tweak is still in beta, but if you were hesitant to try it out the first time, you may want to considering trying it out now.

Here’s what Chat Heads could look like on a jailbroken iPhone

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

This is admittedly, a very rough demo, but it does give us a rough idea as to how Chat Heads might look on iOS. I'd say it's only a matter of time before a jailbreak developer implements Facebook's Chat Heads in some way, shape, or form throughout iOS.

What do you think? Perhaps it could be an extension of biteSMS, or maybe it could be a standalone feature? Whatever the case may be, I believe that the only variable here is time.

Time Warner to enable live TV streaming in its iOS app tomorrow

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 16, 2013

Time Warner Cable, a major U.S. cable telecommunications company, confirmed to Bloomberg that it will be adding out-of-home live television streaming to the iPhone, iPad and iPod devices via its free TWC TV software, which will gain new features via an update tomorrow. In addition to on-demand television shows and movies available from 26 networks, the refreshed TWC TV app will also make ten live television networks available for out-of-home viewing on iOS devices. Go past the fold for the full breakdown...

How to open App Store links without closing out of the current app

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

QuickStore is a jailbreak tweak that allows users to quickly open App Store links within apps. The tweak contains a simple kill switch located in the Settings app, but outside of that, it's ready to go as soon as it's installed.

When App Store links are tapped while within another app, i.e. from Safari, then a pop up window will load the App Store inside of the currently running app.

JellyLock is an Android inspired Lock screen launcher for iOS

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 16, 2013

JellyLock is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to add an Android inspired Lock screen launcher to iOS. The tweak, developed by Max Katzmann, and only available via his beta repo, has proven to be quite popular amongst the jailbreak community — it's been downloaded over 19,000 times already.

Like its inspiration, Android Jellybean, JellyLock features a lock icon that you can drag to the edge of a circle on your Lock screen to unlock your device. It also features the ability to fully customize the look of the launcher and add up to three custom apps that can be launched directly from the Lock screen. Take a look inside as we go showcase JellyLock in our in-depth video walkthrough...