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SiriLoveLyrics: Ask Siri for lyrics to your favorite songs

Out of the box, Siri isn't much a music fan. But throw a few jailbreak tweaks here way, and she starts to love music. In fact, this latest tweak apparently makes her love lyrics.

Indeed, SiriLovesLyrics is a jailbreak tweaks for Siri that involves music. It allows you to query Siri for the lyrics of the currently playing song in your Music app, and outputs them in a clean interface so that you can sing along to your favorite songs.

Sara Dictation: Siri-like dictation with multiple language support

Sara Dictation is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to have Siri-like dictation on a non-iPhone 4S device. This isn't the first time we've seen a tweak that allows this — siri0us immediately comes to mind — but it is certainly worth trying.

If "Sara" sounds familiar, that's because it is. It's from the same developer that brought you the Siri alternative named Sara, which we covered last week.

Apple fighting non-iPhone 4S devices running Siri?

Is there a new game of cat and mouse brewing? Reports from non-iPhone 4S Siri users indicate that there may be.

Apparently, Apple has altered its requirements for a successful Siri connection, adding a new token to the mix that has caused problems for those who connect to a 3rd party Siri server on non-iPhone 4S devices.

Are you one of them?

How to create and add custom logos to Zeppelin

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!

How to customize your iPhone’s carrier name

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...

LockSliderz: Launch up to four apps from your Lockscreen

Want to launch up to four applications directly from your Lock screen? If that sounds like a good idea to you, then you want to take a look at this.

It's called LockSliderz, and it's a jailbreak tweak that does exactly that. Via two slider bars, you can launch up to four apps directly from your iDevice's Lock screen...

Top jailbreak videos of the week

Each week there are tons of awesome new jailbreak tweaks released, and this past week was no exception. From Siri themes, to Siri alternatives, to Siri servers; it's all here in this week's top jailbreak videos of the week. We also consider the jailbreak classic, LockInfo, along with a simple way to move your iPhone's cursor a character at a time.

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Add a mirror to Notification Center with ‘MirrorWidget’

MirrorWidget is a jailbreak tweak that places a mirror in iOS 5's Notification Center. The "mirror" is just an image from either the front or rear facing camera; you can switch between the two, and you have the ability to snap a photo in the process.

Making sure you look dapper has never been easier. Check out our video walkthrough straight ahead...

SwipeShiftCaret: Move your cursor a single character by swiping

Don't you just hate it when you need to position your character in a specific spot, but you can't accurately do so due to the iPhone's lack of single character movement? I think we've all been there.

Fortunately, SwipeShiftCaret solves that issue by allowing you to swipe your finger on the screen to move a character space either left or right.

It's an extremely simple tweak with no settings, but it makes editing on an iOS device so much more intuitive...

NCColors: Customize Notification Center background using simple RGB sliders

NCColors is a simple and straightforward method for customizing the background color of iOS 5's Notification Center. To do so it uses simple red, green, and blue sliders to adjust the hue proportions, which allows you to easily come up with a seemingly infinite amount of custom colors.

The RGB sliders alone make NCColors one of the best tweaks available when it comes to changing Notification Center's background color. Check out our further coverage inside...

‘WeeTrackData’ tracks data usage via Notification Center + Giveaway

It doesn't take long to realize that your mobile provider isn't really worried when you go over your data limit. In fact, they're happy to ding you with a fee for another allotment of data.

WeeTrackData is a jailbreak app that resides in Notification Center, and it puts you back in the data monitoring driver's seat.

This is an awesome tweak that will help you monitor your data usage using a variety of intervals, and user configurable billing cycles. If you're struggling with managing your data usage, then you don't want to miss this...