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.
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.
iOS users are likely fans of the system's built-in Google Maps client, which is arguably the best one of its kind. However, there are features many users have yearned for since its inception but have never been able to get, such as on onscreen compass. Thankfully, there's 'Compass for Maps', a jailbreak tweak that seamlessly adds this feature.
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.
Late last week, iOS 5 Beta 5 was seeded to eager Apple developers. As always, many are asked the million-dollar question: can it be jailbroken? As with all previous builds, the answer is yes, with the latest version of Redsn0w which was just released, as long as you don’t mind plugging your device into your computer every time you power it on.
Once you stumble upon a gem from Apple's App Store, it is extremely easy to share the app with your buddies. Send over a URL and the job is done, and they too can enjoy your wondrous discovery. Be it an addictive game or a great reference app, there are fast approaching half a million to choose from, so recommendations are a good way of cutting corners.
When Apple introduced the App Store way back then, and later the whole notification system that has caused such uproar among iOS users, somewhere along the way ended up with notification badges.
