Now here's something a little different: GhostSiri — a tweak that will allow you to invoke Siri without being subjected to the Siri UI.
It's currently a concept tweak in the very early stages of development, but I see the potential for something good here.
Take a look at our video walkthrough inside...
Animated GIFs are an incredibly popular method for sharing moving pictures in a way that's viewable in a wide variety of areas. As a result we have new apps like Gifture appearing on the App Store.
While GIFs are easily viewable in the Safari browser, saving them to the Photos app results in a loss of the animation. Since animation is the whole point behind animated GIFs, saving them to the Photos app under normal circumstances might seem a bit pointless.
But that's where jailbreaking once again proves its worthiness. Giffy is a new jailbreak tweak that allows you to view animated GIFs within iOS' stock Photos app...
Who types text that is lengthy enough to warrant a character counter in the Notes app? That's the first thing I thought when trying Characount for Notes, and needless to say I'm still pondering the question.
That's literally all this tweak does. It places a character counter, not a word counter mind you, but a character counter at the top of each note you compose.
Who really needs something like this?
Although I've never really understood the excitement behind the widgets, it's one of those things that my Android toting friends love to brag about.
What if I told you that there was an easy way to add widgets to the Home screen of an iOS device? What if I told you that there are a plethora of interesting widgets already available?
Both of the above statements are now true, courtesy of a new jailbreak tweak called Dashboard X. Dashboard X is the result of months of hard work by developer, Ori Kadosh. This tweak allows you to take existing widgets created for Notification Center and position them anywhere on your iPhone or iPad Home screen.
Take a look at inside for our hands-on experience with Dashboard X...
With entries like Vexillum and ColorBanner, there's no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that allow you to customize your notification banners in iOS 5. But neither of those are as deep and complete as Chip.
As simple as its name may make it seem, Chip is by far the deepest of the three tweaks mentioned. It allows you to customize banner notification background color, text color, border color, and gradient using simple RGB sliders.
Chip also includes the ability to customize the notification sound and banner animation. If you're looking for the best tweak for customizing banner notifications, then look no further...
Spotlight search is very useful when you actually need to use it, but how many times do you find yourself needing to do so?
If you're anything like me, you can probably count on one hand how many times you've used Spotlight over the past few months.
Perhaps this recently released jailbreak tweak will coerce you into using Spotlight a bit more often? It's called SpotDict, and it allows you to look up words in iOS' built in dictionary directly from the Spotlight search page...
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h2yrBK7MAY[/tube]
SwipeSelection — the jailbreak tweak based on Daniel Hooper's iPad keyboard editing concept — is now available on Cydia.
If you haven't seen our hands-on video and review of the tweak in action, be sure to check it out.
You can find SwipeSelection for free on Cydia's BigBoss repo, and it plays nice with both the iPad and iPhone.
Have you tried it? What do you think?
When Cody posted about Daniel Hooper’s iPad keyboard demo, we had no idea that it would be as popular as it has turned out to be. Thousands of retweets later, the public has spoken out against how terrible the iPad's editing situation is. I think John Gruber summed it up best when he noted that the iPad was a great for typing, but poor for editing.
The iPad keyboard demo video was created with the hopes that Apple would respond and implement something similar in the upcoming version of iOS. There's even instructions included on the video for submitting a bug report to Apple.
Well, Apple may not listen, but someone else did. Indeed, the jailbreak community has responded in a big way. Introducing SwipeSelection — a usable realization of the original iPad concept video...
Don't you just hate it when you're in the middle of playing a game and you accidentally invoke Notification Center?
I've found that in particular, games that require a lot of random swipes suffer the most from this issue.
Thankfully, a new jailbreak tweak has been created to put an end to this nonsense, and it's appropriately titled DisableNC Switch...
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFsxOEk1yU[/tube]
Do you hate having to place your app icons into wiggle mode to be able to rearrange their position on the Home screen? If so, then AlwaysArrange is the tweak for you.
AlwaysArrange is a new jailbreak tweak that allows you to rearrange your App icons on the fly, without needing to place them into wiggle mode.
Check out our full walkthrough of AlwaysArrange, and head over to Cydia if you're interested. It's available for free on Cydia's ModMyi repo.
While mobile Safari is more than adequate for casual web surfing, it's also very limited when it comes to performing more advanced functions.
For instance, if you were interested in viewing the source code behind one of your favorite websites, it's impossible to do out of the box.
Even something as simple as viewing all of the images contained on a given page is out of reach. This is a function that's easily accomplished with stock versions of desktop browsers.
Thankfully we have jailbreaking, and with it the tools to accomplish such simple, yet otherwise impossible tasks. Take Image Grabber for example — a jailbreak tweak that allows you to view all of the images on a given web site or PDF, and save, copy, or share them...
Last week we brought you an in-depth look at Lima — the web-based Cydia alternative for jailbroken iOS devices. Needless to say, we were thoroughly impressed by what we saw.
If you're anxious to get your hands on Lima, then here is your chance. As promised, we're giving away three Lima beta invitations.
Want one? Check inside for the details...