iOS (Jailbroken): It’s not easy to edit text on an iPad — you have to hunt and peck awkwardly on the screen to make a selection or place a cursor. SwipeSelection is a simple jailbreak tool that adds gestures on the keyboard that make navigating text easy.
iPad (Jailbroken): Not being able to open a bunch of different apps in multiple windows has been a gripe for many iPad users since it first launched. A new jailbreak tweak called Quasar solves that problem and lets you open as many apps as you like in smaller windows for real multitasking.
We’ve shared many ways to speed up, clean up, and revive your iOS device before, but if you’re jailbroken, a free app called iCleaner can actually perform a bunch of maintenance tasks with one tap.
iOS (Jailbroken) The iPhone’s automatic brightness feature isn’t great, and the brightness slider is hidden away inside the settings menu, making it a pain to get to in a hurry. If you’re sick of being blinded by your phone in the morning or not being able to see a thing in the sun, then Swipebright is a simple toggle for jailbroken iPhones that makes brightness easy to adjust anywhere.
If you prefer a search engine other than Google, Bing or Yahoo, you can add it to Safari on iOS with this jailbreak hack.
iOS (Jailbroken): iTransmission has been the only good BitTorrent option for jailbroken iPhones for a while, but after it was abandoned by the developer it was never updated to run properly on newer operating systems. The project has now been picked up by a new developer and iTransmission has just updated to work on iOS 5 as iTransmission 2.
If you jailbreak, you know how annoying that little red badge on your Settings app is. You know there’s a new version of iOS, but you can’t upgrade because it’ll ruin your jailbreak and you just want that notification to go away. Here’s how you can do it.
iOS (Jailbroken): Cydia provides access to a lot of really cool jailbreak-only apps, but it can’t actually tell you whether you have new updates until you open it up manually. A new app called Curiosa puts Cydia updates right in the Notification Center, so you’re alerted as soon as an update is available for your favourite jailbreak apps.
iOS (Jailbroken): Activator is a jailbreak hack that has been around since the early days and we love it. As software blog Addictive Tips has noted, a recent upgrade brought a neat new feature: actions based on headphone connections and disconnections. That means that you can now use Activator to make your phone launch an app whenever your plug your headphones in or take them out. Here’s how.
We’ve talked about Activator before, the cool app that lets you add new functionality to your jailbroken iPhone’s buttons (like opening the camera by hitting the home button three times). It just updated to include the ability to launch any app when you plug in your headphones.
