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.
With a new tweak available in Cydia called Fake Operator, you can now rename your operator / carrier and put it as whatever you desire. Similar to the MakeitMine application that was released after the first-ever jailbreak, but with this new tweak you can do so without a dedicated app, oh and it is fully support on the latest iOS 4.2.1 firmware.
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.
So you don’t like the now-changed hardware mute switch on iOS 4.2.x for iPad and want to turn it back into orientation lock? Well there is now a jailbreak app for that ! , which changes the mute switch functionality of the hardware button back to its original orientation lock mode from iOS 3.2.x (for iPad) era.
The recently released Redsn0w 0.9.6b3 can jailbreak all iOS based devices including the new A4 devices like iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G. Since Cydia included in this version of Redsn0w is not compatible with iOS 4.2.1, you can use the following steps to install a patched version of 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.
Have you ever wanted Android-like panoramic wallpaper scrolling when you switch homescreens on your iPhone or iPod touch? Well, now you can with a tweak for jailbroken iPhones / iPod touches called Parallax.
This is just a little heads up to our earlier story about enabling FaceTime on jailbroken iPhone 3GS. The folks over at iPhoneIslam have released FaceIt which can enable FaceTime calling option on iPhone 3GS.
MobileNanny, at least in my knowledge, is the Mac Daddy of monitoring software for smartphones. It is an A-Z solution for monitoring and recording activity on iPhone (as well as other OSes) for confinement-loving parents, obsessive lovers and employers.
Just a few days ago, we posted a detailed step-by-step guide on how to enable HD video recording on iPhone 3GS. The entire process was - let’s just say - rather tedious. And I say tedious only because enabling HD video on 3GS now is as simple as installing a tweak.
