Over the last few years, Cydia has gone from strength to strength to become a very formidable alternative to the official App Store experience that Apple provides on their iOS devices. The official repositories that power Cydia is literally packed to the rafters with packages, tweaks and extensions that have been released for users of jailbroken Apple devices. It may not seem like it on the face of things, but Cydia is actually extremely similar to Apple's store in the fact that packages are regularly updated and require users to physically download the new version of the software to the device when a developer pushes it out.
The developers over at F.lux Software LLC have created something for the Cydia store that steps away from the standard tweaks that we have come to expect. Their f.lux package is a tweak that is designed with user visual comfort in mind and warms up the iOS device screen in an attempt to match the lighting during the evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the time has come for you to stop worrying about receiving an astronomical monthly bill from your network provider telling you that you owe them an extortionate amount of money due to the fact that you have massively exceeded your cellular data download limits. In my experience, cellular data is a varying beast. One month I can hardly use it, and the other, I can go way over my allocated service plan limit, meaning that it is very difficult to gauge an average of how much I am likely to use.
The App Store is full of alarm clocks. It's one of those app types that just seems to have become hugely popular amongst independent developers, and rivals the Twitter apps in shear numbers. If you're on the look-out for a new alarm clock for your iPhone, then you've got plenty to choose from.
Like most Twitter users, although I have a select group of apps helping me share my sub-140 characters with the world, I'm always on the lookout for something new - an app with a different trump card than a mere glossy interface.
Over the course of the iPhone’s life, it had to undergo quite a bit of scrutiny in regards to its battery life, with a lot of analysts claiming that it often falls way too short of the estimated life which Apple claims in their literature, and seem quite proud about it in their keynotes.
Although many of those downloading games from the App and Google Play Stores are considered to be "casual games," there still remains a considerable number of "hardcore gamers," constantly seeking remakes of the classic beat-em-up's, RPG's and first-person shooters seen throughout many generations of console gaming.
The most popular extensions and tweaks that can be found within the Cydia store are generally the ones that add some kind of functionality to iOS that the developer and users believe that Apple should have included as a standard implementation. Each individual user has their own taste and desire and therefore expects different things from their device, but a lot of the time the majority agree that certain things should be a native part of the operating system.
iOS is one of the best and most advanced mobile operating systems out there, there can be no denying that. Personal preference about interface layout and design may take some people to alternative options such as Android, but even those can't question the power of Apple's iOS. However, no matter how good something is; there is always room for improvement, which is generally where the Cydia store comes in.
For those music lovers out there, the MediaSpeak tweak which has just landed on the Cydia store could be something you have been looking for. If you are a regular iOS device music listener who always has their headphones on, then this little package could add a little bit of extra depth to your listening experience, as well as actually providing a very good little audible service to users. MediaSpeak is essentially a very lightweight installation that hooks into the Music app on your jailbroken device and listens to when a new song begins playing back.
