Tweaks like these are the reason why I love jailbreaking so much. Jailbreaking allows you to add obvious features to the iPhone that Apple may have looked over, or purposely omitted.
Plugication is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. It's a jailbreak tweak that forces your music to resume when you plug your headphones back into your device.
Check out our full video demonstration of Plugication inside...
Apple has been the subject of much ire and speculation over its perceived lack of support for the United States and its scarcity of jobs, but now the company is hitting back with a few choice numbers it believes shows that the opposite is in fact, true.
Apple notoriously gets all its products from Foxconn in China, with Brazil now also becoming a source for all those devices with an Apple logo on the back. This has led to Apple being on the receiving end of much bad press over labor conditions at Foxconn's factories as well as the question being raised of why doesn't Apple build its products on US soil.
But as Apple is keen to point out, the iPhone and iPad maker does actually have its fingers in many US-based pies, creating and sustaining over 500,000 jobs in the process...
Do you have a couple of apps that you just can't live without? Do you find yourself wishing for a way to launch them directly without hitting your Home screen?
If you fit the above criteria, then check out this video preview of AppSlider. This is an upcoming jailbreak tweak that lets you specify two app shortcuts for your Lock screen...
DisableLaunch is a free jailbreak tweak that adds a security element to your iPhone's Home screen.
With the assistance of Activator, you can outright prevent apps from launching from your SpringBoard.
It's not the most surefire security feature ever invented, but it can get the job done in a pinch...
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AnyVoice — the jailbreak tweak that allows you to fit Siri with nearly 40 different accents from around the world — is now available for download in Cydia.
If you haven't seen our preview of AnyVoice, be sure to check out our preview post located here.
AnyVoice is available for a free from Cydia's ModMyi repo. You will need a jailbroken iOS 5 install with Siri (either legit iPhone 4S Siri or Spire) to take advantage of AnyVoice.
We've covered a number of great RSS reader apps on iDB over the past few years, but our favorites aren't hard to spot. Flipboard and Pulse News have both seen extra attention on our site due to their terrific user interfaces.
If you don't have at least one of these apps on your Spring board, you should reconsider. Their graphic-driven UIs make it extremely easy to follow your favorite tech sites while on the go, including iDB...
Earlier this week we talked about the possibility of Apple entering other markets to keep up its ridiculous growth pace. There's only so far the company's current iPhone and iPad products can take it before sales start to plateau.
When we mentioned the idea, we had no clue that the automotive industry was on Apple's list of potential new markets. But according to a recent job listing, the Mac-makers are in search of an automotive engineer for an undisclosed project...
The New York Post is reporting today that Apple is pushing ahead with plans to launch its own subscription TV service. The publication claims that Apple is looking to roll out the service by Christmas this year, despite serious push-back from major content providers.
We've been hearing rumors that Apple was working on its own streaming video service for over a year now, but this seems like one of the first times we've heard the news from a major outlet...
Even though we have a pretty good feeling that Apple is going to unveil its third ATV set top box next week, gossip is still bouncing around about Apple's full-scale television. We've been hearing rumors of an Apple TV set for several months now.
A lot of the chatter can be traced back to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. The firm's resident Apple expert has been the device's biggest proponent up to this point, and now he's back with some new information...
We know you're a devoted iOS user, but isn't it always interesting to know what goes on up in Redmond? Microsoft just released its consumer preview of Windows 8, which is designed around tablets. The lingering question of course is how it compares to the iPad. Microsoft's tablets haven't really succeeded in the past, so it will be interesting to see if Microsoft got it this time.
The Verge is ready to answer the question on our mind and has compared the iPad 2 to a Windows 8 tablet on video. The new Metro UI actually doesn't look too shabby...
A Retina display seems almost confirmed to be featured on the iPad 3, as more rumors and pictures have popped up over the past few weeks. A Retina display on the iPad 3 will be of astonishing quality. Just look at your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S screen's quality, and then picture it on the iPad. Just wow.
The guys over at Pixels on Toast have already started getting their upcoming game Food Run ready for the 2048×1536 resolution. In doing so, they have showed us what a game running on that high quality of screen looks like. And it looks amazing...
We know, or feel like we know, just about everything there is to know about Apple's next tablet — except its name. Most websites, including us, have just been assuming that since it will be the third iPad, it will be called the iPad 3.
But according to Gizmodo, the new device will actually be named the iPad HD. The site points to a couple of pieces of evidence to back its claims, including third-party cases and data from web traffic analytics...