Reading small text is difficult. Reading small text on a 3.5" screen is insane. Sure, Safari allows for pinch to zoom, but what if you just want to magnify your text old-school style? Sadly, there's no default provision to do so.
As always, that's where the jailbreak community comes in. This latest tweak — Magnifier for Safari — makes it really simple to dynamically boost the size of your text. Check inside for a brief demonstration of this text-size boosting tweak...
As most of you guys and gals are well aware of, I'm the type of person that loves keeping things stock, or at least stock looking.
My car is stock, my iMac is stock, my iOS devices are jailbroken, but they look close to stock.
For that reason, it's probably no surprise that I continue to use the built in Safari browser for all of my web needs, despite the fact that it's severely lacking when compared to third party options.
That's where handy tweaks like BackForwardList for Safari come in. It allows me to keep the stock browser, while giving it a nice usability boost. See inside for the video evidence...
Arguably the best web browser available for the Android platform, Dolphin, is now also strutting its stuff on iOS. Dolphin's claim to fame is its deep gesture integration, which reduces the need for quite so many on-screen buttons. Perfect for smartphones with smaller screens, just like the iPhone.
Offering its wares for free, Dolphin joins a long list of web browsers in the App Store which aim to take a piece of the browsing pie from the stock Safari software, but it may need to offer something unique if it's going to make people switch...
We've discussed several jailbreak utilities for Safari over the last few years, but Sleipnizer could be its new best friend. The package adds two major features to the option-starved browser.
Sleipnizer borrows its peculiar title and feature-set from a Japanse browser named Sleipnir. It installs into the native Safari application in iOS, and makes surfing the web with the native browser a little bit more fun...
The autocorrect feature in iOS is pretty annoying. Where is it the most annoying? The Safari search bar. Everyone knows the search field is much better at predicting what you're typing than Apple's autocorrect.
And for that reason, Filippo Bigarella created NoSearchCorrect. This simple utility disables the frustrating feature when performing searches in mobile Safari...
I'll be the first to admit that Safari's mobile browser in iOS isn't the greatest. It's lacking some serious features that you'll only find in third-party applications. However, it is the stock browser, and for that reason alone it's the most popular.
Luckily, the jailbreak community is really good at tweaking stock iOS apps to make up for missing options. Such is the case with this next tweak, which adds a homepage button to the feature-starved browser...
Don't you just hate it when you accidentally close out a tab, desktop browser or otherwise? Thankfully, most desktop browsers include provisions to quickly restore a closed tab in an instant. With mobile browsers, however, it's a matter of going back through your history.
That's about to change. Actually, that has changed. Introducing: RestoreTab for Safari — a jailbreak tweak that lets you quickly restore your previously open tabs.
And that's not all; it's a bit more than just restoring your previous tabs, as you'll notice in this video walkthrough...
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...
Webscrollian is a brand spanking new jailbreak tweak from a staple in the jailbreak community, @chpwn.
Webscrollian is his latest concoction, and it brings significantly faster page scrolling to web views, i.e. Mobile Safari.
Want to see how a stock Safari browse stacks up against a a supercharged Safari browser with this TweakWeek entry installed? Check inside for the head to head comparison...
With jailbreak utilities like iFile and Safari Download Manager, your iDevice can seem more like an actual computer than a phone or MP3 player. The two apps allow you to manually download files, edit them, and move them around from folder to folder.
However, there hasn't been a convenient way to natively upload files in iOS (that I've known of), until now. Safari Upload Enabler just surfaced in Cydia, and it allows you to upload content from inside Mobile Safari...
While it's true that Safari has a way to search for specific words on page, it's not the most efficient implementation in the world.
Apple decided to combine the web search with the search on page, resulting in a clumsy feeling page search that works; it's just not that fun to use.
EasyFindOnPage fixes this problem by placing a dedicated search button directly on your Safari browser's tool bar.
Want to see it in action? Check inside for the full lowdown...
For those still unfamiliar with TweakWeek, it's an ongoing contest for jailbreak developers to essentially build 7 tweaks in 7 days. Criteria for the competition is that each utility must be free, and produced in 24 hours.
This week's featured TweakWeek developer is Chpwn, the creator of popular jailbreak apps like VoiceActivator and AppSlide. His first entry is a simple utility that allows you to set web clips (and apps) to launch full screen...