Cydia news and information: read the latest development about Cydia, including jailbreak tweaks.
Last month we introduced you to CallTell, a jailbreak application that tells you who's calling before the phone starts ringing. Well, there's a new app available in Cydia that does just this, and a little more.
iCallAnnounce will announce in a human voice the name of the caller you're receiving a call from. Even better, it can also announce the full SMS details (Sender & Text) of an incoming SMS message in real time. How cool is that?
Some of you may already know FastSnap, an application that was previously available on Rock, which was recently migrated to Cydia. FastSnap allows you to easily capture a photo or video inside the camera.app using the volume button of your iPhone.
FastSnap also comes with a few other handy settings. With FastSnap you can also silent the shutter sound when taking a picture. This feature can be enabled from the Settings menu. To quickly launch the default camera app you can also drag your finger over the top Status bar...
If you rotate your iPhone in landscape mode and hit the home button to launch the app switcher, you will notice that apps in the switcher keep their portrait mode orientation. A new jailbreak app called App Switcher Rotator will fix that for you.
App Switcher Rotator rotates the app switcher icons to the current orientation. That's all it does...
PlayAwake is a new jailbreak app available in Cydia that will let you use your iPod music as an alarm clock sound on your iPhone. By default, you are only limited to a few alarm clock sounds on your iPhone. PlayAwake wiill lift this limitation and let you choose any song from your iPod library to wake up to.
Just pick a track from your iPhone's music library from inside the default alarm clock app and you will wake up listening to your favorite song...
There's been a bunch of new jailbreak apps popping up in Cydia within the last 24 hours. The thing is, they're not all that great so instead of giving them full coverage, I thought I'd put them all in one short and convenient list.
So check them out, maybe give them a try and let us know what you think of them...
LSRotator is a new jailbreak app in Cydia that lets you rotate your iPhone lockscreen. Just like it works on your iPad, this tweak lets your iPhone lockscreen rotate according to your device orientation.
If you liked SBRotator, then this app will be a nice addition and will let you use your iPhone in landscape mode on the lockscreen too...
Wifi Passwords is a new jailbreak application that displays all the wifi passwords you have entered on your iPhone when connecting to secure networks.
Let's say you're at your favorite coffee shop. You brought your iPad for the first time and you don't know the wifi password, but you did enter the password on your iPhone before. Well, instead of asking the password to an employee, just launch Wifi Passwords and find out what the password for this coffee shop network is...
Covert is a new jailbreak application by Chpwn that lets you enable private browsing on Safari. Let's imagine you want to browse those favorite dirty sites of yours but you don't want your girlfriend to snoop in your browser history and realize you've been watching 2 girls and a cup for the 50th time, then Covert is for you.
I certainly hope that's not what you will use Covert for, but at least you get my point. This being said, this is how to use Covert...
About 2 weeks ago we told you that Rock Your Phone had been acquired by Cydia. While I wasn't very excited about it, there was nothing I could do but wait to see Rock die slowly.
And the day has come. Today Rock Your Phone is dead. I just updated Rock via Cydia and all I can see now when launching the app is this...
Reality can suck sometimes. As bad as the truth can be however it is usually almost always best to come to terms with certain aspects of reality. As far as this piece is concerned it's iPhone's reality.
We always spend lots of time trying to dig through the rumors when a new iPhone or version of iOS is released and pinpoint the newest features. What we spend comparatively less time on is coming clean on what features we know the iPhone will never get..
SwitcherMod is a new jailbreak application available in Cydia that supposedly improves the iPhone app switcher. I say "supposedly" because I fail to see the usefulness of this applications.
Developed my Ryan Petrich, one of my favorite jailbreak developers, SwitcherMod allows you to drag icons to reorder them. It also allows you to make exited apps transparent and show the "close" button by default...
FolderEnhancer is a jailbreak application by Japanese developer Ashikase that should be available in Cydia soon. This is still a beta project but it seems to be very promising.
According to this video, FolderEnhancer will allow to open folders much faster than Apple's stock folders, and it will also allow us to have multiple pages of icons within a folder. Another interesting feature is that we'll finally be able to add folders insider folders...