One of the great mysteries of the iOS user experience is the lack of contact pictures in some apps, even when their use would make great sense. If you're like me, and you have a hard time identifying most people by name, so, sometimes it might be frustrating that many of the native iOS apps, such as Contacts and Messages, do not display contact images by default, unless you know a workaround.
Ever wished your iOS device would play a smooth intro video whenever it's powered on? iStartupMovie is a new jailbreak tweak that lets you do just that with little to no effort.
One of the main new features in iOS 5 is the introduction of a few widgets as part of Notification Center. Yet, in this feature's short life, there hasn't been a really useful widget, until now. BBSettings displays a whole range of iOS settings right from within a widget.
In our installment of today's new Cydia releases, we present to you another handy tweak. There have been many attempts to bring a decent gesture-based system to iOS, and it seems as though they've finally cracked it - well, at least for the lockscreen.
When Apple added a flash to the iPhone 4's already great camera, little did they know that they had just created one the world's most desirable flashlight!
Many of you would have rejoiced when Comex released JailbreakMe 3.0. Not only did it bring what will always be considered the easiest jailbreak possible, but it finally brought an untethered jailbreak to the iPad 2, which had proved a very tough nut to crack.
Many of the tweaks that ascend from the open-source cauldron that is Cydia are those of which you didn't realize you needed until you've encountered them. That's the wonder of having a jailbroken device - the more developers create these useful apps, the easier it becomes to tailor the experience of using an iDevice to your every day need.
With Apple's iPhone being a device that we carry around pretty much 24/7, we often want to share web content with each other, and thanks to the App Store, there are more than a few good ways to do just that.
If you use Facebook on your mobile device, you might be a frequent user of its messaging service. If so, you might become the newest fan of Facebook's just-released standalone messaging app for both Android and iPhone.
While Facebook does allow users to make video calls to friends, this feature is limited to the desktop version of Facebook. If you want to make calls on the go, well, you can’t. However, with the recently updated Talkatone app, you can make voice calls to your friends on Facebook.
