How to fix the annoying “missing maintainer” error in Cydia

This guide will show you how to remove the following pesky error, which can crop up in your Cydia output from time to time:

dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' ... missing maintainer

This is a fairly common Cydia message, which clutters up the installation and uninstallation screens and can add dozens of redundant lines of output. Not only is this unsightly, it can also make it hard to troubleshoot more serious Cydia errors by swamping the installation readout. We'll show you how to take care of these harmless and overly verbose messages.

LeadMeHome makes it easy to find apps on cluttered Home screens

Home screen setups vary from one person to the next, but if yours is more cluttered than most, then perhaps you could benefit from a new free jailbreak tweak release called LeadMeHome by iOS developer LonestarX.

LeadMeHome aims to help you find app icons on your Home screen more efficiently. Whether you want to launch, move, or delete the app in question, LeadMeHome saves you the time and hassle of searching several pages’ worth of app icons with a fine-toothed comb.

Multicolor polygon wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, or desktop

After last week's popular texture-based wallpapers, I decided to resurrect another old school favorite from our wallpaper collections. Geometric shapes have consistently ranked among the most visited wallpapers in our entire collection. Multi-shaped and multicolored, these wallpapers are a great addition for either a Home or Lock screen.

The future of Mac could look a lot like iOS

the future of mac

The future of Mac could look like iOS. That’s the findings of a new report that examines Apple’s new Star project, which is said to be in the prototype stage. If details of this project come to fruition, it could change the very definition of what most of us think of as a computer as we head into the next decade.

Gauze brings a grid-style App Switcher to iOS 10 devices

Apple tweaks the App Switcher user interface with almost every major iteration of iOS. But despite all the changes Apple made over the years, the App Switcher still harbors one recognizable issue: it wastes a ton of screen real estate.

GridSwitcher was a well-accepted jailbreak tweak released in 2015 that attempted to resolve this concern by displaying more apps in the App Switcher at a glance, but it only supported iOS 7 and 8. Today, a new jailbreak tweak called Gauze by iOS developer Antique breathes new life into this idea for jailbroken iOS 10 handsets.