As if something so mundane actually needed to be easier, but yes, strangely enough, Move LockScreen to Unlock does indeed make unlocking your iPhone easier.
It's actually a pretty cool jailbreak tweak, because it makes unlocking your iPhone possible without even looking at the screen; though most of you can likely pull this off anyway.
This can be pretty useful if you're half asleep, and you need to quickly unlock your iPhone for whatever reason. I know, it sounds lazy, but hear me out here...
By now, there's absolutely no excuse for an app not to support Fast App Switching, the iPhone's form of multitasking. It's been about six months since iOS 4 appeared on the scene, an update in which we finally received native multitasking on our iPhones.
Understandably, not all of our apps flew out of the gate with multitasking support built in; slowly but surely, they were updated to add support for such a critical feature. Sadly, there remain apps that have been neglected; apps that have yet to taste the sweet nectar of multitasking.
This is where jailbreaking comes in handy. Jailbreak apps like Backgrounder have provided an incredible workaround for these neglected apps. Go Native! adds yet another option to the playing field, but can it compete with Backgrounder?
If you have a hard time asking out that girl that you're interested in, then definitely stay away from AskToCall, otherwise you'll never call her.
AskToCall is basically the phone version of AskToSend, another jailbreak tweak that helps you second guess your sending of SMS and email messages.
Once installed, there are no apps or settings to configure, but you will notice a new prompt every time you dial from your favorites, recents or contacts...
Every year, there are multitudes among multitudes of apps and tweaks released for jailbroken iPhones. Similar to the App Store, some are worth more of your attention than others.
In 2010, we've looked in-depth at more apps, more tweaks, and more mods than ever before, with the goal of keeping our readers completely in the know.
Now, we'd like to take some time to reflect on our favorite jailbreak apps of 2010. Being included on this list doesn't necessarily mean the app was released in 2010, it just means that it was amongst our most utilized of this year. Drumroll, please...
Earlier this year, we reported on a Cydia tweak called "Rename" that allowed you to easily rename an app's icon name. Since then, the tweak has seemed to vanish from the Cydia Store. Luckily, there is a new tweak on the block that allows you to rename apps straight on your iPhone, and it's even easier than Rename.
Icon Renamer, by the renowned Cydia developer Ryan Petrich, is a new Cydia tweak that allows you to rename icons from your iPhone springboard in the simplest way possible. There's nothing to the actual tweak, it integrates itself into your iPhone springboard...
Pull To Refresh Safari is the latest jailbreak tweak to appear on the scene that adds Twitter App like refresh functionality to a stock iPhone app; in this case Safari. Not too long ago, Pull To Refresh Mail was released, which added the same unique refreshing capability to the stock Mail app.
Personally, I'm all for tweaks like this; it feels like a native part of the iPhone's interface, while at the same time modernizes apps that haven't changed much since they first debuted...
Being an iPhone blogger means having to take tons of screenshots of the iPhone's screen, and meticulously emailing them to myself so that I can use them in my articles. It's a drawn out process that I've been looking to streamline for quite some time.
Droplr was a great start, but it still required me to manually select the files I wanted to upload to the cloud, similar to email. Wouldn't it be great if every screenshot you took was automatically uploaded to the cloud with no human intervention?
Apparently the developers of SB 2 Cloud think so, because this jailbreak tweak accomplishes just that...
Since I'm a Gmail user, all of my email is already organized on Google's servers before hitting my iPhone. This is done by means of filters, which are essentially rules in Outlook-speak.
Rules have been noticeably absent from the iPhone's cache of email features, but that's probably because most people have setups like I do, meaning that their email is sorted and filtered prior to being downloaded to the iPhone.
For those of you that don't have this luxury, Mail Rules -- a jailbreak tweak for iOS 3.2 and up -- aims to fill in the gaps. But does the tweak's shortcomings rule it out?
I know I'm not the only one that has tossed their dedicated alarm clock into the trash ever since the iPhone came out. Wouldn't it be nice if you could plug your iPhone in, and your alarm clock app of preference automatically launched?
That's the premise behind Plugged In, a jailbreak tweak that launches any app of your choice as soon as you plug it in. It's obvious that Plugged In was designed with an alarm clock in mind, if not simply for the fact that I can't think of much else that I would use it for...
The first thing I thought when I first saw SBSwitcher on Cydia is "Wow, that's pretty expensive." Indeed $2.99 is quite the hefty price for a jailbreak tweak that essentially duplicates the functionality that you've been enjoying all of this time for free.
SBSwitcher is basically SBSettings placed in your app switcher. Unfortunately, only the toggles apply here, so if you want to invoke any of the other SBSettings functionality, like say, respringing, you'll have to resort back to your old methods...
With that in mind, there has to be some redeeming factor for SBSwitcher, right? Surely, $2.99 will travel further than that, no?
Don't you just hate it when you download an App Store App onto your beautiful iPhone 4, only to be presented with some ugly low-resolution app icon? I don't know about you, but the first thing I do is throw that bad boy in a folder somewhere. Can't have that ugliness de-beautifying my Retina display.
Thankfully, there are ways to convert your icons to retina-worthy icons, but those methods all required some form of end-user intervention. RetinaAppIcons is a jailbreak tweak that promises to take care of all of the dirty work for a nominal fee of $0.99 cents, but does it work as advertised?
We here at iDB love us some good jailbreak apps and tweaks, but there are few that stand out when you take into account sheer practicality.
For example, say you're trying to find your keys in a dark place, or need to know where to position the jumper cables on your stalled car during the cold the night hours? No sweat, you always have a flashlight with you; thanks to your iPhone and SpringFlash.
Did your favorite app make the cut? Are you totally prepared for whatever situation may confront you in a dire time of need? Are we making this way too suspenseful? Check inside and find the answer...