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Show off your taste in music with FullScreen Album Art

Have you been looking for a way to spruce up your iPhone's Lock screen, without needing to install a bulky tweak like WinterBoard? If so, you might consider giving FullScreen Album Art by jailbreak developer bushe a shot.

The tweak's name completely gives away it's one and only function, which is to enlarge the album art image on your device's Lock screen while you're listening to music. That way, you can show off your favorite music while you rock out...

Photo Organizer Pro is out with new features, better iPad support and more

Good news Photo Organizer fans. The developer lordscotland has listened to your feedback, and has subsequently posted an update to the app with new features, sort options and more. Actually, he rolled the update into a whole new tweak.

The original Photo Organizer, which was released back in February, is a simple tweak that allows you to copy, delete and rearrange pictures in the stock Photos app. And the Pro version is exactly like that, but with a few more options...

FullScroll hides the title bar when scrolling in third party apps

It seems like well-known jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich has been extremely busy as of late. Earlier today, we told you that his new Do Not Disturb tweak 'Luna' landed on Cydia. And now we've got another one to show you.

Have you ever noticed when scrolling in an app like Chrome or Facebook, the title bar (top of an app that contains text or buttons) disappears? It's kind of cool, right? Well with FullScroll, you can make all of your apps do it...

Velox updated with new activation method and several bug fixes

Velox, arguably one of this year's most highly anticipated jailbreak tweaks, finally landed in Cydia this weekend after what seemed like several weeks of waiting. Initial feedback for the tweak has been mostly praise, but there have been some scattered reports of bugs.

Of course, bugs are typical in first-version software releases, as are the bug-squashing '0.1' updates that follow them. And today, Velox has received its 0.1 update that includes a new, double-tap activation method, and a handful of other improvements and bug fixes...

Velox now available on Cydia

Good news folks, the moment we've all been waiting for is here. Velox — the highly anticipated jailbreak tweak that allows you to interact with your Home screen icons to access notifications, quick functions, and more — is now available on Cydia for download.

Last month, we brought you a sneak preview of Velox. And with more than 100,000 views, it seems like many of you agree with us on how useful this tweak could be, and are looking forward to trying it out. Well today, we're happy to report that you finally can...

How to make Yahoo’s new weather app the default in iOS

Last month, Yahoo released a new weather app for iOS aptly named Yahoo! Weather. And its fit and finish actually surprised some people. Our very own Christian Zibreg said it's "the best-designed iOS app from Yahoo yet."

It's just too bad that you can't make the app the default weather application in iOS. Or can you? Actually, thanks to a new jailbreak tweak called 'YahooWeatherisBetter,' you can make Yahoo's new weather app your default...

BiteSMS updated with big performance improvements and bug fixes

Good news for folks who like the features of biteSMS, but don't use it due to performance and reliability issues. The team behind the popular Messages app replacement claims many known bugs were fixed in an update today.

BiteSMS version 7.5 was released this morning with a number of performance-related improvements and bug fixes. In fact, the developers say it's now 100% the same speed as the Messages app. Full change log after the fold...

How to bypass Facebook’s Chat Heads limit on iOS

Yesterday we showed you a couple of free, handy jailbreak tweaks that allow you to activate the new Chat Heads and sticker features in Facebook's 6.0 app. And that's great for the folks that didn't have access to them, but what about everyone else?

Don't worry, we have you covered too. For those of you who already have Chat Heads enabled in the Facebook app, there's a new jailbreak tweak out called FB Unlimited Chat Heads that removes Facebook's pesky 4-Chat Heads-or-less limitation...

ZodTTD seeds public beta of new gpSPhone GBA emulator

Fans of legacy console video game systems rejoice! The well-known iOS emulator developer ZodTTD is back in action. Zod has been absent from the jailbreak scene for a while, but there's been plenty of talk of him coming back to update N64iOS and other popular ports.

That speculation materialized last night, as the developer announced that he had created a Cydia repo where he would be posting public betas of his updated emulators. And he's already seeded his first beta: gpSPhone v8.0.0, an emulator for Game Boy Advance ROMS...

How to enable Chat Heads and Stickers in the Facebook app

Last week, Facebook released version 6.0 of its app for the iPhone and iPad. The update included two highly anticipated new features, Chat Heads and stickers, which the social network showed off at its 'Home' media event earlier this month.

Unfortunately, the two features are on a staggered rollout that Facebook said should be done "over the next few weeks," so not everyone has them yet. But never fear. As usual, the jailbreak community has come up with an easy way around this...

Would you like it if Cydia looked like this?

What would Cydia look like with a fresh coat of paint, ratings, reviews, and no ads? It could look a little something like this: a Cydia alternative design concept, which was dreamed up by Sentry, the designer of the popular Auxo jailbreak tweak.

In its current form, Cydia is okay with me, but there's no denying that having a refresh that looked something like this would be pretty sweet.

Cydia introduces new TSS Center, Saurik explains what happened to iOS 6 TSS data

Recently, Saurik, the creator of Cydia, posted a new blog entry explaining the history of Cydia's TSS caching capabilities. As you know, Cydia has been able to automatically save off SHSH blobs for potential downgrade ability with jailbroken devices.

Things have changed rapidly over the years as iOS' security evolved. The earlier versions of iOS included absolutely no downgrade protection. Eventually, with the adaption of TSS, basic verification to make sure that you were installing newer firmware, instead of older firmware arrived. This security was enhanced further with the adoption of a new verification scheme — APTicket — which has proved to be a pain in the rear for would be downgraders. Yes, there have been, and will always be a few exceptions to that rule, but for the most part, Apple has done a good job of cutting off the ability to downgrade firmware.

What does all of this have to do with Cydia's new TSS Center? Well as it turns out, the APTickets saved for iOS 6.0-6.1.2 are all "useless", as they're incomplete tickets unsuitable for booting a device.

In a post on his blog named Where did my iOS 6 TSS data go? Saurik explains in verbose detail the issue at hand...