I have said it before, I am saying it now and no doubt I will say it time and time again, but the most popular tweaks in my personal opinion are the ones that provide either a much needed enhancement to the operating system or an actual real world benefit to users. Aesthetic modifications are all well and good, but tastes change over time and they will no doubt be downloaded, used for a brief time frame and then pushed into obscurity whereas a tweak or modification which provides an actual tangible benefit will stand the test of time.
Over the last few years, jailbreak users have become accustomed to developers coming up with new and interesting tweak ideas, and releasing modifications through Cydia which are extremely complex and often contain a large settings bundle with a number of configurable options. In some instances, this is required and can more often than not, provide users with a lot of options, and important they give the illusion of value for money. But sometimes producing something extremely simple can be of equal benefit to users.
It is that time of year again when the crème de la crème of Hollywood come out in force for Oscar Sunday to compete against each other for award based glory. Oscar Sunday is undoubtedly the largest night of the Hollywood Calendar where actors, actresses, producers and directors alike turn out in their over priced outfits to see who will win the accolades.
Software development is like any other profession in which sometimes a piece of work can be completed and distributed that you are entirely happy with, but as time progresses and feedback from users comes in, it becomes apparent that you could have done things a bit better or made improvements to certain aspects of your product. It is that constant striving for improvement and enhanced usability that generally sets good developers apart from the great ones.
The Siri software is undoubtedly one of the main driving forces behind the huge global success of the iPhone 4S and plays a big role in convincing people to swap towards Apple when they are about to choose a new smartphone. Plenty of other voice recognition and assistant type applications exist, but nothing offers the same deep rooted functionality that Siri can provide, coupled together with the fact that the service is offered in a native setting and seamlessly works within iOS.
A new jailbreak tweak will have you adding little icons and symbols to everything you write, all via iOS software keyboard.
As children - even those raised in an era bereft of much in the way of technology and electronic gadgets, most of us will remember having played some variation of a memory matching game.
Much like Facebook with those status updates, individual tweets are easy to remove - as long as you have the time and patience to go through each one and remove them.
The jailbreak community is always coming up with some awesome, and some plain old whacky ideas. Looking at this latest jailbreak tweak we have to say that we think it may land bang square in the middle of the two extremes.
If you're the kind of person that jailbreaks their iPhone in order to customize it to the Nth degree, then altering your notification sounds is no doubt high on your list of priorities. A new jailbreak tweak sets about making just that as easy as possible, but it'll cost you $1.99 for the privilege.
