Looking for a new way to spice up your iPhone's lock screen? If so, then Developer Chance Hudson might have the jailbreak tweak for you.
Entitled GravityLockScreen, this tweak allows you to add a measure of physics to your iPhone's unlocking functionality.
The end result is a tweak that allows you to better showcase your iPhone's wallpaper, while altering the manner in which you unlock your iPhone into something a bit more entertaining...
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...
And the onslaught of jailbreak utilities continues, with this new release from iSam. The package will allow you to automatically insert your email address into a text field upon double tapping the "@" key.
While you could accomplish this with an app like Xpandr, Double At is much more simple. This utility is for power users who are constantly sending out their email address from their iDevice...
We've seen a flurry of jailbreak tweaks surface over the last few days, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down. Multiple packages turned up in Cydia today, but the one we're going to cover in this post is IconCommands.
The utility allows you to set customized actions for when you tap on an app icon. For example, you can set applications to launch on a single tap, hide once double tapped, and delete after 3 taps. I know it sounds similar to Apptivator, but it's actually very different...
As an iDB writer, I spend a lot of time downloading and installing Cydia packages on my iPhone. The problem is that I don't want my device locking in the middle of my work, and toggling off the autolock feature is a 5 step process.
Naturally, I turned to Cydia for a utility to solve my problem. There were a couple of good options available, but I really liked SleepDepriver. Unlike the other jailbreak tweaks, SleepDepriver disables your screen from dimming...
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...
If you're always paranoid about the amount of battery life remaining on your iPhone, or you'd rather see the battery life percentage on your lockscreen, then you need LSBattery.
LSBattery is a new jailbreak tweak that replaces your lockscreen and slider text with the iPhone battery percentage...
Isn't it funny that Cydia rarely stumbles into the conversation when someone asks what your favorite jailbreak app is? When you think about it, Cydia is far and away the most important, and well put together jailbreak app of them all. It just so happens that it's also the main source of other jailbreak tweaks and apps.
Saurik's brainchild is the reason that most of us are able to thoroughly enjoy jailbreaking today. We also appreciate how hard he has worked over the years to improve the performance and features of Cydia. The 1.1 update still brings a smile to my face, after all.
That all being said, one of the main complaints about Cydia stem from its lack of true multitasking. Saurik graciously included a nice resume feature in his previous update, but that still isn't the same as having true multitasking. Thankfully, enabling multitasking is about as easy as it gets. Check inside for a video tutorial that shows you how to enable multitasking in Cydia...
The empty lockscreen in iOS makes for an interesting place to deploy jailbreak tweaks. In fact, it seems like we've seen an excess of them since Apple unveiled the lockscreen-based camera shortcut in their upcoming iOS 5.
The feature has inspired tweaks like CameraLock and FlashLock, which allow you to access the camera and its flash respectively, without having to unlock the device. Now there's a utility available that combines both tweaks into one package...
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...
Have you ever found yourself opening your iPhone's apps by accident? Perhaps you're navigating from page to page, and you finger slips, launching an app that you had no intention of opening?
If that scenario sounds all too familiar, then DoubleTapToOpen may be just what you need.
DoubleTapToOpen is a recently added tweak to Cydia's BigBoss repo, that requires you to double tap an app icon before it will launch. Personally, I find this tweak to be a bit over-the-top, but check inside and judge for yourselves...
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...