HDR Camera Enabler is a new application available in Cydia that supposedly brings the HDR camera feature to your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. I said "supposedly" because there is no way to test this mod until a jailbreak is available for iOS 4.1.
I really find it odd that this mod was released when there isn't even a jailbreak to support it. I guess it's all based on "theories" and it can't have possibly been tested out yet. Only time will tell whether it works or not...
ModMyI reports that SaurikIT LLC just acquired Rock Your Phone Inc. In other words, Cydia bought Rock. Cydia has always been the installer of choice for most of us, but Rock was slowly getting traction, especially for some of its advanced features like the ability to back up your packages.
If you didn't think the jailbreak community was a big business on its own, then it's time to think again. Just like in the App Store, there is a lot of money to be made from applications, especially for those offering a marketplace like the App Store and Cydia.
Home Page in Safari is a new jailbreak application that lets you set a home page in Mobile Safari, simply by tapping the " + " button while visiting the website of your choice, then tapping "set as home".
This is a very simple and convenient tweak that seems to be more useful on the iPad than it really is on the iPhone, as Mark from 9 to 5 Mac noted...
If for one reason or another you want to copy your iPhone contacts from your phone to your SIM card, you're pretty much screwed because Apple doesn't let you do that easily.
When there's a will, there's a jailbreak app! It's called SIManager and it will help you move your contacts from iPhone to SIM.
SIManager is available on Cydia for free from the iSpazio repo. Simply download the app and launch it to get started...
There's been quite a few interesting jailbreak mods lately. MultiMusicInfo is another one of those simple, yet very nice jailbreak tweaks for iPhone. MultiMusicInfo shows you the information of the song that's playing on your iPod app in the "now playing" bar of the app switcher.
It adds the artist name, the album and the title of the song that's playing. It even replaces the iPod icon with the album cover if available. Tapping the album cover will still behave like the iPod icon and take you to the iPod app.
Ever feel frustrated that you can't arrange your iPhone apps icons the way you want on your springboard? Then relax because we've got the solution for you. It's called Gridlock.
Gridlock is a new jailbreak application by developers Chpwn and P0sixNinja that lets you rearrange your icons any way you want them to be, simply by dragging and dropping them.
Chpwn, one of my favorite jailbreak apps developers, came up with a brilliant idea to figure out what mods and jailbreak apps iPhone users want and need. It's called Tweak Tracker and it's dead simple.
Anyone can submit tweaks or apps ideas to the website. Then anyone can vote on those same ideas. The one that make it to the top obviously get more chances of being developed.
Have you ever been annoyed by the badges showing on the folders of your iPhone? Personally, it never bugged me but Chpwn, the developer of No Folder Badges must think otherwise.
No Folder Badges is a new tweak available in Cydia that does one single thing: removing the folder badges (ie. badges for available app updates, unread emails, etc...).
Apple promised better battery life with the iPhone 4 but let's face it, it still falls short. But then again, depending on how you use it, a full charge can last anywhere from just a few hours to a couple of days (I'm being very generous). I'll admit I'm a heavy iPhone user. It's useful and I like it and being a heavy iPhone user obviously taxes the battery. I run very few things in the background to conserve battery life but I want more conservation.
We all know Apple Push Notification system falls a little short in with good notification management. To a point, Apple gave us the ability to control push notification popup: either on or off. Great choice, right? The popup notifications can become a nuisance when you're in the middle of an email, for example, and a friend decides to start messaging you. For each message, you get a nice popup, usually with the text of the message, depending on the messaging application.
For those of you wanting to suppress those annoying popups, Popup Blocker is the application you've been itching for. Popup Blocker gives you the ability to switch on/off over 10 native alerts.
Are you confused by the title of this post? Yeah, me too, but I couldn't figure out how to clearly say what I wanted it to say. Anyways, now that I've got your attention, I want to talk to you about a new jailbreak app called Remove Background.
You might remember the Remove Background SBSettings Toggle we showed you a couple weeks ago. The Remove Background app works hand in hand with it.
Like many people, I was happy with the release of iOS4. It introduced rotation lock, an awesome feature that locks the rotation of your screen in portrait. Unfortunately, this new rotation lock feature is a little less awesome because it only supports portrait mode.
The good news is there's a brand new application in the Cydia Store that changes the default behavior to include landscape support, Landscape Rotation Lock.