SBRotator is a jailbreak tweak that brings iPad like landscape homescreen to the iPhone, as well as allowing all apps to work in landscape view. The tweak allows you to fully customize your homescreen any way you like and it is now fully compatible with iOS 4.x.
One of the most annoying limitation of iOS 4.2’s AirPlay feature is the inability to stream videos that you took on your iPhone to your PC or Mac with iTunes via AirPlay, or to the Television sets connected to the 2nd-gen Apple TV.
PhotoAlbums+ is a great Cydia tweak which gives you the ability to create albums and organize photos from the native Photos app on the iPhone or iPod touch. It allows you to create new custom photo albums, move photos in and out of camera roll, and even allows you to create password protected photo albums.
ChatPic is a new jailbreak tweak that puts a little photo of your contact beside each incoming chat bubble, a simple mod that gives the Messaging app a little more personality. It takes the photo stored in the Contacts application, and is compatible with Facebook photo sync, which is a utility in the Facebook app itself that downloads your friends photos and matches them to the contacts on your iPhone.
Thanks to a new tweak available in Cydia called “Pull To Refresh for Mail”, you can now just pull your inbox list down past the search bar and your mail will automatically refresh. This has been seen on Twitter for iPhone (formerly Tweetie), various other Twitter clients and more recently the Facebook application.
It was only a few days ago when a proof of concept hack for streaming videos via AirPlay using third party apps was shown on video. This was based on Erica Sadun’s discovery, details on which can be found here.
AppSync has been updated to version 4.2 so that it can be used with the new iOS 4.2.1 firmware. For those of you who don’t know, AppSync patches MobileInstallation file on iOS which is needed in order to install .ipa files manually without using iTunes.
Barrel is a new tweak available in Cydia, developed by Aaron Ash which adds a 3D “cube” effect to your iPhone’s springboard. This is a very cool tweak which changes the look of how your home screen icons scroll. Please note that this works for all devices running iOS 4.x + apart from the iPad or those with SBRotator installed.
Since Cydia is broken on iOS 4.2.x, the new Redsn0w 0.9.6b3 released today supports iOS 4.2.1 so that developers can make their jailbreak-apps compatible before Apple releases the final firmware to public. Using this version of Redsn0w, you can now install jailbreak-apps without using Cydia.
Device Speed Test is a new app available in Cydia which lets you test the speed and efficiency of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, whilst also recommending what you should do to improve performance in simple ways.
