Want a way to make SMS messaging a little more personal? Then look no further than ChatPic, a jailbreak tweak that puts a little photo of your contact beside each incoming chat bubble.
Sure, there are many other apps that provide some variation of this premise, but if adding a smidgen of personalization to your SMS messages is all that you desire, then it's hard to go wrong with this tweak...
Pfft, refresh buttons, who needs 'em, right? Head into the new decade with style by adding Twitter app-esque refresh functionality to your email, courtesy of this latest jailbreak tweak.
That's essentially all that the cumbersomely named Pull To Refresh for Mail does, although it performs quite well. The only suggestion I have for the developer is to perhaps fire their entire "app naming department." Check inside for the full scoop.
Call me crazy, but I'm convinced that there's a special roundtable meeting each week at Apple where all they do is sit around projector and examine what jailbreak apps released the previous week.
I can hear it now; "Uh, yeah, and uh, PhotoAlbums+! Yeah, uh, that looks like something we should have had from the, uh, very beginning, let's use that!"
Okay, so that probably doesn't happen, but PhotoAlbums+ is the latest example in a long line of Cydia store releases that will inevitably appear in an upcoming release of iOS. Why do I say this? Take a look inside and see what makes this tweak a no brainer for Photo Album users.
Have you ever wished you could add contacts directly to your Home screen? Well, if you have, you're not alone, I think it's safe to say that everyone's pondered this possibility at least once.
But Apple surely isn't throwing consumers any bones when it comes to this feature, so leave it to the jailbreak community to come up with a solution, even if it doesn't work entirely as you may have hoped...
With the iPhone 4, Apple introduced the amazing Retina Display which gives us 4 times more pixels on the same screen size. Many app developers have already optimized their applications, including the icon, for the Retina Display, but there are still a few devs that are late to the game.
We already saw how to convert old app icons to Retina Display icons, but the process wasn't very straightforward. There is now an easier way to do all that thanks to a new jailbreak app...
AirPlay just got the jailbreak treatment. AirPlay (one of Apple's new technologies in iOS 4.2) allows streaming video to be pushed from any iOS device to an Apple TV.
AirPlay is only intended to allow streaming from the iPod and YouTube app, but this new jailbreak tweak opens up AirPlay possibilities to any playable media on an iOS device...
I think the majority of people are in agreement that one of the key features that the iPhone has lacked over the years, and continues to lack, is a competent notification system.
Sure we have push notifications, but those can be incredibly disrupting and intrusive. Then there's the app icon badges, which serve their purpose, but can quickly litter your homescreen with a mess of little red icons.
What's a guy to do to get some good notifications around these parts? Jailbreak, of course.
Let's be honest, how many of you actually rely on the little dots above your iPhone's dock to gather your whereabouts while swiping between pages?
If you're like me and happen to find yourself rarely relying on those dots, all the while preferring a more minimalistic look to your iPhone, then chpwn's latest tweak, aptly entitled No Page Dots, is for you.
Not all jailbreak apps are compatible with iOS 4.2.1 so, to make it easier for us to figure out what works and what doesn't, MuscleNerd has created a list of applications that are compatible with iOS 4.2.1
The list that can be found here is available to anyone to edit. If you want to know what works, and more importantly if you want to help the community, you may want to check out this list and add your own entries.
One of the things I really dislike when updating my iPhone to a newer iOS and jailbreaking it, is reinstalling all my jailbreak apps, one by one. This is a long and tedious job, especially if like me, you have a bunch of tweaks and jailbreak apps.
There is now an easy solution to backup all your jailbreak apps, tweaks, and themes, so you can update your iPhone, jailbreak, and reinstall those apps in no time. Here is how it works...
According to its developers, Barrel is a jailbreak tweak that adds a 3D "cube" effect to your icon pages. The description surely fits the bill and doesn't disappoint, but the price may prove to be a stumbling block.
Take a look inside as I take a video glimpse at this latest Jailbreak App. Then you can decide for yourself if this visual tweak is worth departing with your hard earned cash...
A few weeks ago we gave you a preview of GridTab, a jailbreak application that shows your opened Safari tabs in a grid, as seen on the image above.
GridTab is available in Cydia for $0.99. You can see a video of it in action below...