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Ready for another interesting way to "secure" your iPhone's app icons? The latest so-called security app on the block is IconLock, and it's a free download on Cydia's BigBoss repo.
While anyone who has any inkling about iPhone jailbreaking will easily compromise your plans to lock down your iPhone, it should be more than enough to keep grandma from accidentally ruining your app icon layout.
Check inside for a full video synopsis of IconLock...
The iPhone 5 is right around the corner. Whether it's coming in September or October, one thing is sure: you want it!
If you can't afford the iPhone 5 and are just looking for a few reasons not to buy it, the peeps at MacTrast got you covered. They came up with 9 reasons not to buy an iPhone 5...
D.A.R.K. is the latest from Chillingo, and it is a dark outer space horror-themed dual stick shooter. It’s set up as a super-soldiers vs. aliens mystery thrill ride in 3D.
As a member of the D.A.R.K. Squadron, the player is on a mission to find out the events leading up to the current condition of the USS Stormbringer, an enormous military ship. The D.A.R.K. Squadron is a military unit - think outerspace version of the Marines, or maybe Special Forces. Serious tough guys suited up in serious armor and packing serious heat...
As usual, that didn't take long. Hot of the heels of the Beta 5 release of iOS 5, the iPhone Dev Team has released RedSn0w 0.9.8b5, which, of course, allows you to jailbreak Apple's bleeding edge firmware.
Per the norm, this is a tethered jailbreak, meaning you'll have to be near a computer to perform a tethered boot if you have to restart your device for any reason.
This latest version of RedSn0w is available for both Mac and Windows users. Check inside for more details...
One of my favorite Mac apps has finally made its way to iOS...well, kind of. Caffeine, is a popular Mac app that prevents your Mac from going into sleep mode for a set interval of your choosing.
The Caffeine on the jailbreak store isn't related in anyway besides the name, but it aims to do something similar.
The jailbreak version allows you to prevent your iOS device from autolocking by means of a handy Activator action. It's not nearly as polished as the app it borrows its name from, but it's not too shabby either. Check past the jump to see Caffeine in action on video...
Not too long ago we posted an article and video about iStartupSound, a jailbreak tweak that allowed you to add custom boot up sounds to your iPhone upon restart or respring.
Now, the jailbreak community has taken the next obvious step by allowing full startup movies to accompany your restarts and resprings.
Logically, the tweak is called iStartupMovie, and it works somewhat similar to its audio only predecessor. Check after the break for an in-depth video walkthrough of iStartupMovie in action...
Google's Chrome web-based app store received a new entry this week, and believe it or not, it does have a link to the world of iOS.
The newly released appMobi is a web app designed to help developers to code HTML 5 web apps, but it also packs a sucker punch that we didn't see coming. If after writing your HTML 5 app, you decide you'd like to submit it as a native iOS app to Apple's App Store, then appMobi will let you do that, too...
Remember when kids used to sit and play with plastic toys and run around outside? Me neither. It seems that these days, the joys of hacking are too strong a pull for our little ones.
CNET highlights a 10-year old hacker, going by the name of CyFi, who has presented an exploit to the "Kids" section of the popular hacking conference, DefCon. The exploit, which currently works on both iOS and Android, allows certain games to be prematurely advanced by simply altering the device's clock...
Who else thinks that links are about as entertaining as a watching linoleum warp, paint dry, or grass grow? Couple that with the fact that I'm always hesitant to click a link, because most of the time I have no clue what trifling thing is waiting for me on the other side.
Save your friends and family from the guesswork, and try out Email Safari Screenshot, a brand new jailbreak tweak available on Cydia.
Just as its name says, when you share a link via Mobile Safari, a screenshot of the page you're linking to is included right along with it. Check out my video walkthrough of this awkwardly name tweak inside...
It seems like the rumors and speculation for Apple's upcoming smartphone have been non-stop over the last couple of months. To make things even more confusing, a lot of the information is completely contradictory.
Is it going to be a modest upgrade or will Apple give it a major overhaul? Will it launch in September or October? How are we supposed to keep up with all of it? Luckily, the folks over at The Next Web were kind enough to help put everything in perspective with this infographic...
It's always fun to compare iPhone and Android smartphone users across a variety of different metrics, though for the life of me I can't quite work out why. Is it because we're all pre-programmed to initiate competition in just about anything, or is it because we iPhone users possess a slight air of superiority?
No matter the reason, we have a new set of statistics, this time comparing the regularity with with the two camps and those mobile ads we all know and love...
A lot of folks jailbreak their iDevices to add functionality to iOS. Maybe they do it to download SBSettings to access toggles quicker, or to install Xpander to save time typing. For the most part, though, people tend to jailbreak for productive reasons.
But Cydia also has a lot of non-productive apps. Not just games, but entertainment-type apps that are more likely to be used in a round of "look what my phone can do," rather than actually used. Now that I've preempted what category this one falls into, here's iWindows...