Is your iPhone's keyboard getting in the way? If so, then you may want to give Pull To Dismiss a try.
Pull To Dismiss is the latest jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich that allows you to easily dismiss your iPhone's keyboard with a simple pull. It works similar to pull to refresh, except instead of refreshing the content on the page, it dismisses your keyboard...
A few days ago chpwn released Spire, a legal Siri port for the iPhone 4 and other devices. The release was met with much excitement, and likely just as much confusion. How does it work? Can it work with an existing Siri Proxy?
Getting Spire working on your non-iPhone 4S device may seem daunting, but it's actually fairly straight forward, especially if you've successfully followed our Siri Proxy tutorial in the past. The Spire setup pretty much involves the same steps needed to get Siri Proxy working, with a few notable differences thrown in.
Check inside as I show you how to get Siri running on your iPhone 4 using Spire. This should also work for other devices, like the fourth-generation iPod touch...
The year is almost over, so we thought that it would be a good idea to take a look back at our favorite apps of 2011. The iDB staff has chosen its favorite App Store and jailbreak apps from this year and compiled the picks into a little retrospective.
All of the apps in this list were either released this year or updated with significant changes. Here's our favorite apps and tweaks from 2011...
The location-based aspect of the Reminders app is convenient but limited. As of now, all you can really do is setup reminders based on your current location or the contents of your Contacts app.
With MapReminders, you can peruse an entire map to setup reminders for certain locations easily. Check out our video walkthrough of this upcoming jailbreak tweak...
Want to travel across the globe without leaving the confines of your humble abode? If so, then look no further than LocationHolic, a location-spoofing jailbreak tweak for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
LocationHolic works by essentially overriding your device's location data with a location of your choosing. Choosing the location is as simple as searching or even placing a pin on a map. It really doesn't get any simpler than LocationHolic, as you'll see in our video walkthrough...
The Notes app is a great app for saving quick items that you need to get back to later, but often it's easy to forget that you wrote anything down in the first place.
With SBStickyNotes, forgetting just became a tad more difficult. That's because this tweak allows you to save favorite notes to you Home screen as a bookmark.
We've gone hands-on with SBStickyNotes on video; check inside to view the full walkthrough...
Yesterday we told you about chpwn's new jailbreak tweak entitled Zephyr. It's a tweak that can easily enable iPad-esque multitasking gestures on all iOS devices running iOS 5.
Inside, we personally demo how easy it is to get multitasking gestures on iOS 5. It's as simple as jailbreaking your device, and installing chpwn's excellent tweak. You don't want to miss this...
Hot on the heels of the release of his popular Siri port, Spire, the infamous iOS hacker known as chpwn has released another jailbreak tweak. The utility, known as Zephyr, will change the way you switch between active apps.
The program is a two-part tweak with a focus on multitasking. Chpwn has been talking about Zephyr for several weeks, saying things like "you guys are really going to love this." And tonight, it finally hit the Cydia Store.
If you own an A4 device, chances are you spent your day jailbreaking. After months of waiting on a proper iOS 5 exploit, both the Chronic and iPhone Dev teams released untethered jailbreaks late last night.
There have been reports, however, of folks having some problems with the new untethers. One issue in particular, a "launchctl" error, has been fairly common. So Saurik has pushed out an update for the untether to fix it...
Over the past few weeks, the entire jailbreak community has watched pod2g work diligently on the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. All eyes have been on the infamous hacker as he has tested his exploit on device after device running iOS 5.0.1.
Tonight, it appears that all of his hard work has paid off. After waiting more than 2 months for an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak, it's finally here. You can now completely jailbreak any A4 device running iOS 5.0.1.
Since Apple unveiled Siri as an iPhone 4S-exclusive feature back in October, the entire jailbreak community has been waiting for it to be ported to older devices. We've seen videos of hackers running the digital assistant on non-4S hardware, but never a public release.
Tonight it would seem like the wait is finally over, as a new jailbreak app entitled Spire has just surfaced in Cydia. The utility, created by prominent jailbreak developers Ryan Petrich and chpwn, is a tool for installing Siri on unsupported, jailbroken devices...
Some great developers from the iOS jailbreak community have put together a huge giveaway called iOSPromo for the holiday season. Filippo Bigarella, David Ashman, stm, Yllier, and Elias Limneos are all giving away multiple copies of their popular jailbreak packages for free to their Twitter followers.
The giveaway lasts for one week and includes popular jailbreak tweaks like LockInfo and Springtomize 2. More details after the break...