Last week featured a variety of video goodness for your enjoyment. We touched on everything from OS X Mountain Lion, to a brand new method for getting Siri running on older devices. If you missed any of our videos in the last week, then we've conveniently picked out five of the very best.
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Neurocube Siri is yet another 3D animated Siri theme that contains nearly 300 frames of animation.
Not too long ago we covered we covered Neurotech Siri, a theme in similar vain, which was also elegantly animated.
Simply put, if you're looking to add style to the Siri interface, then you can't go wrong with either theme.
Does tapping twice to clear Notification Center notifications get on your nerves? Well, if you haven't used one of the many already available tweaks to eliminate the issue, perhaps FastClear is what you need?
FastClear is a simple tweak that makes the "clear" dialogue display on Notification Center instead of the "x". This enables you to clear all of your notifications with a single tap instead of two...
If implemented correctly, swipes and gestures can make all your tasks on the iPhone seem far less tedious. That's why Cydia packages like Activator and App Store apps like Clear are so popular.
Now, folks with jailbroken devices can add swipe-based navigation to their stock Mail app, with Swipe for Mail. The tweak enables you to browse through your inbox by swiping across your screen...
Looking to make Siri more responsive on older devices like the iPhone 4? Then you may want to give this free jailbreak tweak a go.
QuickSiri allows you to outright bypass Siri opening in the small 1/4 window mode in favor of full screen mode. The developer of the tweak claims that this can make Siri more responsive on older devices.
But does it actually work?
There are already multiple ways to enable iOS 5's Notification Center on your iOS device's Lock screen; IntelliScreenX and Bulletin come to mind.
But what if you wanted a free way to enable Lock screen Notification Center? Then you'd want to try Notiflock...
The Dream Team, consisting of p0sixninja, MuscleNerd, planetbeing, and pod2g, were the key developers among others who worked to release the A5 'Absinthe' jailbreak last month. All of these developers work hard to find exploits in Apple's devices to give us the necessary goods.
According to a tweet from p0sixninja, the Dream Team will be presenting at the Hack In The Box security conference, to be recognized for their jailbreaking efforts...
Whenever I hear of a jailbreak app that somehow alters the iTunes syncing experience, a red flag goes up. I guess it was one bad experience I had when I was new to jailbreaking a few years ago that keeps me on guard whenever anything wants to touch my music.
Needless to say, I downloaded MultiTunes and decided to give it a try anyway. What I found was an awesome tweak that works just as advertised. With MultiTunes, you can sync multiple iTunes libraries on your iPhone with ease...
It's sure to be a battery drainer, but for those looking for sound effects while swiping between screens, Screen Swipe Sounds is an interesting solution.
For $0.99, the developer has provided over a dozen sounds and the ability to enable vibration when swiping between pages on your iDevice.
The only downside (besides the obvious battery issue) is that the sound selection is quite abysmal. Listen in on our hands-on video inside...
The oddly named OpenURL NCWidget is yet another way to go about performing Google searches from Notification Center.
As you may already be aware of, there are already a couple of tweaks in the Cydia store to make searching from Notification Center a reality, but this one adds a few new features not found elsewhere...
Since just about everything else can be launched or accessed from Notification Center, wouldn't it be nice if you could invoke Siri directly from there as well?
With the help of a jailbreak tweak entitled SiriLaunch, now that's possible. SiriLaunch places a little Siri icon shortcut in the bottom left-hand corner of your Notification Center panel for easy access to your personal assistant...
Following the Path debacle which led the world to realize that many apps indeed upload some of your private data to their servers, much ink has been spilled about the subject. To the point that Congress sent Apple a letter to express their concern, but also to ask for more details about the situation. Apple later commented on the matter saying that apps will now need explicit user permission to access contacts.
In the meantime, a year-old study by a group of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara showing that jailbreak apps leak less data than App Store apps was uncovered. For a site like us, and for many jailbreakers alike, this study was a blessing as we could once again claim that jailbreaking can actually make your device more secure.
The problem is that this study is flawed and proves nothing...