Stride is a brand new jailbreak tweak from excellent jailbreak developer and designer Adam Bell. It allows you to unlock your iPhone using an 8-bit styled drawing for security, in lieu of iOS’ boring passcode option.
When you try out the tweak for yourself, it's immediately obvious that there's some highly calculated design behind this effort. Indeed, Stride allows you to unlock your iPhone with impeccable style...
SiriHeights is a brand new jailbreak tweak that allows you to easily adjust the size of the Siri window after initially invoking your personal assistant.
If you use a custom Siri theme, this tweak can help expose your theme instead of leaving it hidden behind the overlay.
Check out our video demonstation inside...
If the YouTube comments from our ShowFlash video is any indication, by and large ShowFlash is a worthless tweak.
Fortunately I don't look at comments to judge what I absolutely should or shouldn't try.
Granted, as far as usability goes, ShowFlash is fairly devoid of any worthwhile usefulness, but that doesn't mean you should absolutely avoid it, does it?
According to a new report by 9to5Mac, a new iPhone and a new iPod touch is in the works.
Should this even be labeled as a rumor considering the absolute inevitability of these hardware updates? I don't know, but the wait, speculation, and anticipation is always amusing.
According to their sources, a variant of the A5X chip will power the next generation iPhone, and it will include 1GB of RAM. To me, a varient suggests it's probably not an "A5X" per-se, but an entirely new processor dedicated to the device's smaller form factor, and less visually intensive needs.
Their source also indicates that the next generation iPhone has been seeded internally, yet it is being housed in ho-hum iPhone 4/4S casing to throw off any potential leaks.
Sounds about par for course. I guess the only thing left to make this 100% legit is for the new iPhone tester to head to his or her favorite bar, am I right?
Wouldn't it be great if you could have Facebook integration that acted similar to iOS' built in Twitter integration? Well, now you can.
Introducing Fusion — a jailbreak tweak that integrates Facebook, Foursquare, and even MySpace (obligatory lol) into your default Twitter composition pane. But the tweak doesn't stop there, it also allows you to composes messages for all of the aforementioned networks using Siri.
Check out our full video walkthrough on this awesome jailbreak tweak inside...
So yeah, I was lazy. Unlike Cody, I don't have the patience to wait on hold, or be placed in a revolving door of automated prompts. It was either head directly to the store, or give AT&T's technical support chat a try.
Thankfully, AT&T's technical support chat has a pretty good track record with me; I figured I'd give that a try before deciding to burn a gallon of gas to head to the closest AT&T store. Would they even be open on a holiday anyway?
At the end of the day, I'm glad I decided on this method. In less than 10 minutes the unlocking process for my iPhone was initiated, saving me time, gas money, and a potential headache.
Whereas it took Cody about 20 minutes to initiate his iPhone 4 unlock, it took me less than 10 minutes. Folks, it really doesn't get any simpler than this...
Wouldn't it be nice to have notifications whenever new Cydia updates are released? It's already been done once with Aptdate, but that's now been one-upped courtesy of Ryan Petrich's latest creation entitled Curiosa.
Like Aptdate, Curiosa provides you with banner notifications for new Cydia updates, but this tweak includes quite a few additional options as you'll notice from our video walkthrough...
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Ever since the passing of Steve Jobs, more and more vintage and/or rare videos have began to trickle out. In this video, circa 1980, Steve Jobs addresses the audience about a number of interesting subjects.
Topics range from a photo shoot with Scientific America, the amplification of human abilities, and much more. It's a very interesting video, and a look back at the one of the greatest entrepreneurial minds of our generation.
SwipeCam is an upcoming jailbreak tweak that allows you to use your Lock screen camera toggle as a gateway to more options.
SwipeCam only works with the old Lock screen camera interface, so that means devices below iOS 5.1.
Once the tweak is installed, simply enabled it, invoke your Lock screen camera shortcut, and swipe on the camera icon to reveal the additional toggles...
It looks like the folks at Sparrow have started to enable push notifications for a handful of users. Perhaps this is a part of a larger rollout?
YouTube personality Duncan33303 has reported that push notifications are now working on his 1.1 installation of Sparrow, as have others.
According to a blog post on Sparrow's website, the push update was supposed to be available in the next released of Sparrow, that being version 1.2. It appears, however, that the developers of the highly popular Mail app alternative may have included code in the 1.1 update to make push notifications work without the need for Apple's approval...
Want an easy way to track when your text messages were sent or received? SMS Timestamps is a jailbreak tweak that may be up to the task.
With SMS Timestamps installed, you can force a timestamp to created with every new message, or you can set specified timestamp intervals of 1, 5 or 10 minutes.
It's nowhere near a groundbreaking idea, but if you've been looking for a standalone timestamp solution, then SMS Timestamps does the job adequately...
AppMosaic is an upcoming jailbreak app that brings App Store App discovery to your iDevice by means of Cydia.
I believe this is probably the first app of its kind on Cydia, and for that, AppMosaic gets major props for originality.
Upon opening the app, you're presented with a two sided column that composes a full mosaic of app icons. The left side of the column is dedicated to the top 200 paid apps, and the right side is for the top 200 free apps.
Check out our full video walkthrough to see how AppMosaic can help you discover hidden gems on the App Store...