BiteSMS is one of the most popular, premium tweaks available on the Cydia store and functions as a full replacement for the native messages application that ships with iOS. The popularity of BiteSMS spawns from the fact that it addresses serious functionality flaws that exist in the default messaging application. For those that have been using BiteSMS since the beginning in 2008, the current 6.0 release will seem a million miles away from the bare bones tweak of version 1.12 which featured a character counter as its most notable update.
Since the launch of the iPhone 4S in October this year, it seems that a week cannot pass by without new rumors and speculation emerging regarding the release of a new Siri port allowing users of older generation devices to take advantage of the advanced features that the Apple’s new personal assistant offers. Some of the well publicized solutions have been nothing more than a port of the Siri GUI, while others have been genuine working hacks which unfortunately require the illegal distribution of files to make it a sustainable solution for the masses.
We’ve got another jailbreak tweak to discuss today. It’s called AlbumArt on AppSwitcher and it lets you, well, see the album art for the currently playing song in your app switcher! Details after the jump!
Yesterday we reported on Apple releasing a firmware update for its Apple TV device, which brings a series of bug fixes in a rather run-of-the-mill release.
Jailbreak tweaks and apps fall into two different categories - there are some that are designed to make our lives easier by removing obstacles that Apple has placed in our way, and there are those that add increased functionality that, for some reason, Apple has deemed unnecessary.
Jailbreaking enthusiasts have been waiting anxiously for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5/5.0.1 and they will be happy to know that it is now closer to release. Details after the jump!
We're big fans of iOS 5 here, except that pesky battery problem of course. One of our favorite changes that Apple made to iOS in its fifth iteration was the addition of the Notification Center - a home for all your push notifications, missed calls and SMS/iMessages to live.
SwitcherLoader, a new tweak for iPhone, is now available and can be downloaded for free on a jailbroken device. Developed by Fr0zen Sun, the small tweak allows you to customize the views and plugins into the app switcher interface.
It was only a few days ago when iOS developer and hacker Pod2g showed off his new untethered jailbreak exploit running on iOS 5. At that time, he tested it on a third-gen iPod touch running iOS 5.0 and wasn’t sure if it would also work on the new iOS 5.0.1 as well. But he did promise to test it on iOS 5.0.1 and report back accordingly with results.
The scramble to make Siri-like apps, tweaks and plugins for not just the iOS devices, but anything with a speaker and an internet connection, has seen quite a few possible solutions pop up across both the App Store and the jailbreak store, Cydia. So far, none have really come close to either replicating the functionality of Siri, or offering something different but actually works.
