Transparency is one of those tweaks that allows you to do all sorts of things with respect to the look of your Home screen app icons. As its name suggests, the primary purpose is to make your icons transparent, or in many cases outright invisible.
Once installed, you'll receive a new settings panel in the Settings app that allows you to customize your app icons in a very granular way. Take a look at our video walkthrough for the detailed evidence...
Controlling your Music app from the Springboard has been done before by the jailbreak community, but I guess the developer of PodControl felt they needed to put their own spin on the formula.
PodControl is a simple jailbreak tweak that places three buttons on your Home screen. The buttons consist of Next, Play/Pause, and Previous, and they perform just as one would expect.
Take a look inside for our video of PodControl in motion...
DockHide is a recently released jailbreak tweak that enables you to hide the dock on your iPhone's Home screen.
Along with outright hiding the dock, there's also a provision to stretch out the remaining icon spacing to fill the void from the missing dock.
All of this is accomplished by means of a simple Activator action that you can configure via the tweak's settings panel.
Check out our video walkthrough of DockHide inside...
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQdIS0jH-Q[/tube]
Earlier we reported that a new jailbreak tweak was on its way to Cydia to enable push notifications in Sparrow. That tweak has finally touched down on Cydia's BigBoss repo for free, and we've taken it for a thorough spin.
Do the push notifications make Sparrow a legitimate Mail app replacement, despite the flaws that we uncovered in our previous video review?
Check out our video walkthrough of Sparrow Push for the answer.
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Yes, we're giving away a 3rd generation iPad to one fortunate reader. Why buy a new iPad when you can get one for absolutely free?
All you have to do is follow a few instructions and you'll be entered to win. The winner will be announced next Friday. Check inside for more details...
If you're looking for a way to remove your app notification badges in one fell swoop, there are many options to do so. Just search for "badges" in Cydia, and you're bound to come up with a few options for suppressing those annoying badges.
And then there are tweaks like Springtomize 2, which removes badges, along with about a million other functions.
But if you just want a tweak that will silence your app badges, and nothing else, then there's a new option called BadgeRemover...
SiriCorrectInfinity is a free jailbreak tweak available on Cydia that allows you to make text edits to Siri queries not once, but an infinite amount of times.
Since a lot of people don't know that you can edit Siri queries to beging with, it's one of those things that's best explained by seeing it for yourself.
Check out our video walkthrough inside...
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSuhjmIbmVA[/tube]
Plugication — the jailbreak tweak that automatically resumes music upon connecting your headphones to your device — has been officially released to the public.
Our preview covered Plugication's main feature, but a version is also in the works that will allow users to disable the "pause on disconnect" feature that happens when you remove headphones.
Plugication can be downloaded for free from Cydia's ModMyi repo. Be sure to share your thoughts after giving it a try.
Isn't it weird that the stock Messages app doesn't automatically convert ASCII smiley faces into Emoji icons?
I never understood why Apple neglected to include this feature; I think they should have at least made it an option.
Thanks to the jailbreak community, now it is an option, and that option is called SMSmileys...
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...
Looking for an instantaneous method for blurring the background after invoking Notification Center?
If so, then perhaps Ryan Petrich's longwinded FastBlurredNotificationCenter will suit your needs.
This is a free jailbreak tweak available on Petrich's beta repo, which causes an instant blur effect for Notification Center.
Inside we have a brief video of it in action, along with the link you need to score a free copy for yourself...