For some strange reason Apple has made deleting contacts an overly difficult task; they've likewise made deleting individual Safari history items impossible.
Perhaps these hurdles and restrictions exists by design, but that doesn't change the fact that they're both incredibly annoying.
If you happen to be jailbroken, two tweaks — OneByOne Safari and OneByOne Contacts — seek to address this lingering issue within iOS. Full video walkthrough inside...
The iPhone's App Switcher has gotten a bit long in the tooth, but if you're a jailbreaker, there's no shortage of tweaks that can help improve the app switching experience.
Switchy is the latest tweak to do that, and it's based on a concept design created by Brent Caswell. Caswell's beef with the current App Switcher stems from the fact that it takes up too much real estate, while providing minimal functionality.
Going into the concept, he apparently had no idea that a Cydia developer would turn his work into reality, but a few days later and Switchy lives. That's evident of how awesome the jailbreak community can be when it works together to implement new ideas...
HomeSpringPage is a new jailbreak tweak that will allow you to add an empty first page to your Home screen. This is great, because it allows you to have dedicated real estate for adding Dashboard X widgets.
If you're a Dashboard X user, HomeSpringPage is a natural fit to accomodate your needs for space. Take a look at our full video walkthrough inside for the proof...
I may be in the minority, but I think RIM seems to be on the right track with their recently unveiled BlackBerry 10 operating system. There's nothing in it exactly groundbreaking, but at least RIM appears to be building on a solid foundation for the future.
Whether or not BlackBerry 10 is enough to save the reeling company still remains to be seen, but at the very least it's a good attempt by the Waterloo, Ontario based smartphone maker.
As a testament to how much better BlackBerry 10 is when compared to previous BlackBerry software, a jailbreak tweak has been created that actually emulates the functionality of a BlackBerry. Has that ever been done before?
Octopus Keyboard is an upcoming jailbreak tweak that seeks to bring RIM's new gesture based predictive typing to iPhone users. The tweak is still in the early stages of development, but developer, Mario Hros, was kind enough to give me sneak peak of what he's been concocting.
Take a look inside for a full video walkthrough of Octopus Keyboard in action...
If the title to this post seems a little familiar, you're not imagining things. AutoProtect is a tweak that works very much like Filippo Bigarella's CleverPin, in that it auto-disables the passcode lock once it senses you're on a "friendly" Wi-Fi network.
Although it's certainly not an original idea, AutoProtect works well from my testing, and provides you with a nice balance of convenience and peace of mind that's often hard to come by...
Silencing annoying audible notifications and squashing banner alerts? There's a jailbreak tweak for that.
DoNotDisturb does exactly as its name implies — prevents Notification Center alerts from causing any disturbance.
For a look at how it works in action, watch our full video walkthough...
Clock Widget is a simple Android inspired widget that's great to use if you like to hide the clock in your status bar like yours truly.
I see this as being more or less of a way to show off the potential of Dashboard X, as it was created by the developer of Dashboard X himself.
Check out our video walkthrough for more info...
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Although it was the first widget exclusively developed for Dashboard X that I was able to test, Dashtweet is actually the second Dashboard X widget to appear on Cydia after Clock Widget.
Dashboard X is a new widget platform that allows you to add widgets directly to your iOS device's Home screen. This allows you to customize your iPhone similar to the way that Android devices allow to toy with various widgets.
Dashtweet, as its name suggests, is a Twitter widget that allows you to tweet directly from your Home screen. You can now get it for free from Cydia's BigBoss repo. Be sure to check out our full walkthrough of Dashtweet as well.
You can safely file this one under the "not necessarily useful, but nonetheless interesting" tweak of the day. VolumeColor is a recent Cydia release that allows you to alter the color of your volume HUD.
It's also not that original, as I'm pretty sure I've seen such functionality in another tweak before, though its name currently escapes me.
Anyhow, feel free to take a look at our video walkthrough of VolumeColor inside...
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For those of you who have been highly anticipating Facebook support for TwitkaFly, your wait is officially over.
TwitkaFly has been updated, and along with the update comes a new plugin that lends Facebook support to the formerly Twitter exclusive tweak.
Check out our preview of the new Facebook functionality if you've yet to do so. The update to TwitkaFly is free for those who've previously purchased it, while the new Facebook plugin will set you back $0.99 on Cydia's BigBoss repo.
Are you happy to finally see Facebook support in TwitkaFly?
Dashboard X — the new upcoming widgeting system for iOS — has its first official widget in the works, and it's based on Twitter.
Dashtweet is the name of the new widget, and it allows you to send tweets from anywhere on your Home screen.
This is likely the first of many official widgets designed specifically with Dashboard X in mind. Check out our video coverage of Dashtweet in action...
Earlier today I had the opportunity to spend some time with the new Facebook plugin for TwitkaFly — the popular jailbreak tweak available on Cydia.
TwitkaFly is a tweak that allows you to send Twitter updates from anywhere by means of a user-configurable Activator action. It is also one of the most well supported tweaks that I know of, which speaks volumes for moeseth, its developer.
This new plugin will allow you to update your Facebook status, send a tweet, or do both at the same time. If you'd like to see how it works in action, then by all means take a gander...