WinterBoard is the most favored companion of anybody wanting to modify colors, shapes, or themes of their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. It has just been updated, offering a series of bug fixes for every compatible version of iOS.
Some of the most popular tweaks which reside within the Cydia store happen to be packages that provide a little extra novelty, or fun little additions to the experience that comes with, when using an iOS device. One of the latest tweaks that has landed in Cydia comes from the developer named Cykey and goes by the name of SwipeDock.
One of the beautiful things about Apple's addition of the Notification Center section to iOS 5 is the ability to quickly get access to certain information, which as we all know is generally notification based. The beauty of being jailbroken is that Notification Center can be extended way beyond its original scope, allowing for all kinds of wonderful things to be displayed.
For those jailbroken iOS users who are regular downloaders of files through torrent sites, you will no doubt remember that the tried and tested method of downloading these files was through the iTransmission tweak in Cydia that was developed by Mike Chen. Unfortunately, as is so often the way with Cydia based packages, as time progressed, work on the popular tweak came to a halt leaving users with no real alternative.
While question marks still remain regarding Siri's ability to properly recognize spoken word, judging by the amount of parody videos going viral, Apple's voice assistant software certainly has a pretty enviable career to fall back on in the entertainment industry.
If you're increasingly bored with the engine noise of your car (smart car owners, I'm looking at you), a new app has been released that hopes to partially solve this problem. Available for both iOS and Android at the low cost of $0.99, XLR8 simulates the audio of various sports cars by utilizing your phone's accelerometer to play engine sounds that kind of matches the way you're driving. When you rev your real car, the audio revs up as well. When you slow down and approach a stop light, the audio also matches this as well.
LogMeIn is a remote desktop app of high critical acclaim, and is often regarded as the best RD apps available for mobile devices. While the service costs $39.99 per year, its reliability and features have seen it garner a sizable user base, and off the back of its success, creator LogMeIn Inc. has launched a brand new cloud-based storage service aimed at both iOS and Android users.
Jailbreaking an iOS device brings a number of well documented advantages to the table. It includes things such as gaining full control over software installations on the device, as well as being able to easily manipulate app file names and strings to change the default behavior, look and feel of how the whole thing works. On the whole, the additional control that jailbreaking gives users can only be a good thing, but with that being said, there are certain pitfalls to be wary of.
While there are many great Twitter clients helping us voice our <140, quickly upload pictures and check up on what everybody else has to say, there's a glaring lack of proper Twitter management apps out there.
If you're a fan of tweaks a little out of the ordinary, then AppMosaic by ctrled may be just the sort of thing you look for. Probably classifiable as an app as opposed to a tweak, it portrays the top 200 apps (free and paid) in one elongated mosaic. It only depicts the icons, but by tapping on them, a box appears at the bottom of the screen denoting the title and its publisher/developer.
