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How to Make biteSMS Work on iOS 4.2.1

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated March 9, 2016

Now that more and more jailbreakers are making the jump to iOS 4.2.1, courtesy of Redsn0w, a lot of people are wondering what's up with biteSMS? The app installs fine, but right off the bat you'll start to notice something's not quite right with our #2 favorite jailbreak app of 2010.

In fact, for me, attempting to send a message with biteSMS 5.0 while on iOS 4.2.1 crashes the app outright, rendering my fiendish text messaging habits useless.

Of course, if there's anything we know about the biteSMS crew, it's that they're always on top of things; in fact they've already released a beta version of the app that works well with Apple's latest firmware. Check inside for the quick and easy how to...

IconHarvester: The Easiest And Prettiest Way To Change Your iPhone App Icons

Alex Heath ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

In the jailbreak community, there are plenty of ways to change the way that your iPhone interface looks. Icons especially are a large part of the iOS interface that people like to tweak to their liking.

Once jailbroken, you can do all kinds of things to your iPhone's icons. You can convert old app icons to retina display icons, arrange the way they look on your home screen in any way you want, and the list goes on and on.

Themes via apps like WinterBoard also allow you to change your icons to suit different looks. IconHarvester, by NanoTech, is a relatively unknown jailbreak app that focuses specifically on icon-theming. It's elegant and simple interface make it well worth the price for any icon lover...

AskToCall Makes You Think Twice Before Phoning the Girl You Like

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 28, 2010

If you have a hard time asking out that girl that you're interested in, then definitely stay away from AskToCall, otherwise you'll never call her.

AskToCall is basically the phone version of AskToSend, another jailbreak tweak that helps you second guess your sending of SMS and email messages.

Once installed, there are no apps or settings to configure, but you will notice a new prompt every time you dial from your favorites, recents or contacts...

The 10 Best Jailbreak Apps of 2010

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 2, 2018

Every year, there are multitudes among multitudes of apps and tweaks released for jailbroken iPhones. Similar to the App Store, some are worth more of your attention than others.

In 2010, we've looked in-depth at more apps, more tweaks, and more mods than ever before, with the goal of keeping our readers completely in the know.

Now, we'd like to take some time to reflect on our favorite jailbreak apps of 2010. Being included on this list doesn't necessarily mean the app was released in 2010, it just means that it was amongst our most utilized of this year. Drumroll, please...

Easily Rename Your iPhone App Icons From The Springboard With Icon Renamer

Alex Heath ∙ Updated February 28, 2018

Earlier this year, we reported on a Cydia tweak called "Rename" that allowed you to easily rename an app's icon name. Since then, the tweak has seemed to vanish from the Cydia Store. Luckily, there is a new tweak on the block that allows you to rename apps straight on your iPhone, and it's even easier than Rename.

Icon Renamer, by the renowned Cydia developer Ryan Petrich, is a new Cydia tweak that allows you to rename icons from your iPhone springboard in the simplest way possible. There's nothing to the actual tweak, it integrates itself into your iPhone springboard...

Cydia Now Shows Your iOS 4.2.1 SHSH Blobs

Sébastien Page ∙ December 26, 2010

If you load up Cydia today you will notice that it is now showing your SHSH blob for iOS 4.2.1. It's probably due to the recent release of RedSn0w 0.9.6b7, the long-awaited but complicated untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1.

If you don't see your 4.2.1 blobs in Cydia, maybe you should use TinyUmbrella and make sure you're 100% ready for any eventuality.

‘Pull To Refresh Safari’ Makes it Fresh to Reload the Web

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 23, 2010

Pull To Refresh Safari is the latest jailbreak tweak to appear on the scene that adds Twitter App like refresh functionality to a stock iPhone app; in this case Safari. Not too long ago, Pull To Refresh Mail was released, which added the same unique refreshing capability to the stock Mail app.

Personally, I'm all for tweaks like this; it feels like a native part of the iPhone's interface, while at the same time modernizes apps that haven't changed much since they first debuted...

‘SB 2 Cloud’ is the Perfect iPhone Screenshot Companion

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 22, 2010

Being an iPhone blogger means having to take tons of screenshots of the iPhone's screen, and meticulously emailing them to myself so that I can use them in my articles. It's a drawn out process that I've been looking to streamline for quite some time.

Droplr was a great start, but it still required me to manually select the files I wanted to upload to the cloud, similar to email. Wouldn't it be great if every screenshot you took was automatically uploaded to the cloud with no human intervention?

Apparently the developers of SB 2 Cloud think so, because this jailbreak tweak accomplishes just that...

Mail Rules Aims to Add Structure to Your Inbox

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 20, 2010

Since I'm a Gmail user, all of my email is already organized on Google's servers before hitting my iPhone. This is done by means of filters, which are essentially rules in Outlook-speak.

Rules have been noticeably absent from the iPhone's cache of email features, but that's probably because most people have setups like I do, meaning that their email is sorted and filtered prior to being downloaded to the iPhone.

For those of you that don't have this luxury, Mail Rules -- a jailbreak tweak for iOS 3.2 and up -- aims to fill in the gaps. But does the tweak's shortcomings rule it out?

MakTorch Aims to Ignite Your iPhone Nightlife

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 18, 2010

Another day, another flashlight app. It's just the life of being an iPhone blogger. This time around the flashlight in question is called MakTorch, an app available for free on Cydia for jailbroken iPhones.

So, what distinguishes MakTorch from the rest of the playing field, besides its hilarious banner ads?

Most of the flashlights on Cydia are jailbreak tweaks, but MakTorch is a full-fledged app. This means that it features an app icon on your Home screen that is used to invoke the app...

Plugged In is the Perfect Tweak For Turning Your iPhone Into a Full-fledged Alarm Clock

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 18, 2010

I know I'm not the only one that has tossed their dedicated alarm clock into the trash ever since the iPhone came out. Wouldn't it be nice if you could plug your iPhone in, and your alarm clock app of preference automatically launched?

That's the premise behind Plugged In, a jailbreak tweak that launches any app of your choice as soon as you plug it in. It's obvious that Plugged In was designed with an alarm clock in mind, if not simply for the fact that I can't think of much else that I would use it for...

My Love Letter to PkgBackup

Jeff Benjamin ∙ December 17, 2010

PkgBackup is one of the more expensive jailbreak apps that you will find on the Cydia, but you'd be hard pressed to find a developer that's put as much continuous work into their app.

The backup solution has been on the receiving end of quite a few updates recently, so I thought it would be appropriate to visit some of PkgBackup's most convenient features.

One of those features is the wonderful DropBox integration, which is so good it inspired me to write this love letter...