iOS (Jailbroken): One of the quirks of the iPhone is that apps can access your personal information, including your contacts, without you knowing about it. If this bothers you, ContactPrivacy is a tweak that sends an alert when apps start digging through your address book. More »
The Notification Center feature of iOS 5 is a powerful tool to keep track of everything happening in your life, but it’s not obvious how to use it to its full extent. We’ll guide you through the basics of getting started with Notification centre and show you how to make it more useful with a few tweaks. More »
iOS (Jailbroken): Since iOS 5 was jailbroken, we’ve seen a steady stream of Siri hacks. But if you’re looking for an all-in-one utility, AssistantExtensions is the best place to start. More »
iPhone (Jailbroken): Whether it’s the simplicity, ease, app selection, or carrier contract that keeps you on your iPhone, it doesn’t mean you’re not a little envious of some of the other platforms. If you’re jailbroken, the amazing customisation app Dreamboard can help you make your iPhone look and feel like another OS while still retaining the things you love. All you need are these great themes. More »
iOS (Jailbroken): If you’ve ever wanted to secretly take a picture of something with your iPhone without anybody knowing, the default camera app is not the way to do it. But if you’ve jailbroken your phone, you can install SlyCam, from Cydia, to take photos from your Notification centre. More »
iOS: (Jailbroken) If you have a jailbroken iOS device, you might have noticed that iBooks either crashes when you try to launch it or struggles to properly display books you purchased from Apple. A new version of the jailbreak tool Redsn0w solves the problem. More »
iOS (Jailbroken): One of the major annoyances with the iPhone’s default Messages app is that it barely shows any timestamps next to your messages. In previous iOS versions, you could long tap a message in order to see its timestamp, but with iOS 5 that feature is completely gone. If you’ve jailbroken your phone, now you can use xMessages to get this back. More »
iOS (Jailbroken): One of the odd omissions in Siri is that you can’t tweet using it, even though Twitter is otherwise integrated into iOS. Sireet is jailbreak tweak that adds the ability to tweet natively from Siri to jailbroken devices. More »
iOS (jailbreak): Orbit is a handy jailbreak hack that adds home screen page switching in the style of Mac OS X’s Expose feature. This is very useful if you’ve got a lot of apps and pages to manage. More »
iPhone (Jailbroken): Using Siri to control your phone is very handy, but having to activate the feature every time you want to issue a new command is annoying, especially when driving. There’s a way (albeit battery-intensive) to have Siri respond to voice commands all the time. More »
