MobileNotifier Brings Improved Push Notifications to Your iPhone
MobileNotifier is a new tweak available for jailbroken iPhones that changes the way push notifications are handled. One cool feature is that you can access a history of all your…
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VoiceActivator Lets You Create Custom Voice Control Commands for iPhone
I’m not really into Voice Control, but if you enjoy talking to your iPhone, you will love VoiceActivator. VoiceActivator gives your jailbroken iPhone the ability to create custom voice…
Voice Notifications Come to the iPhone
Voice Notifications is a pretty cool tweak for jailbroken iPhones. It allows your iPhone to give you a voice alert of who is calling or texting you. Voice Notifications is available in…
Wi-Fi Sync 2.0 Beta Now Available for iPhone
Wi-Fi Sync allows you to sync your jailbroken iPhone over a Wi-Fi network without connecting to iTunes with a USB cable. A public beta of Wi-Fi Sync 2.0 was released for those who have…
MyWi Brings Intelligent Hotspot Feature to iPhone with ‘OnDemand’
MyWi is a popular Cydia app that allows jailbreakers to create a mobile hotspot using their iPhone’s 3G connection. Intelliborn, the company who created MyWi, recently added a new feature…
Greenpois0n Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 Available for Mac and Windows
The Chronic Dev Team have released Greenpois0n RC 5, which will jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 fully untethered. Mac and Windows versions are available at www.greenpois0n.com, and a linux version is…
Glasses Free 3D Effect for iPhone SpringBoard (Video)
This is a demo of a tweak that gives a glasses free 3D effect to the iPhone home screen. It will be available soon in Cydia for jailbroken…
RetinaPad Enables Retina Graphics for iPhone Apps in iPad 2x Mode
From MacStories: The iPad can run iPhone apps in compatibility mode, and we all know Apple implemented this feature to allow iPad owners to access a huge catalogue of apps on day one. The…
Untethered iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak Confirmed
MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has confirmed on Twitter that he has done an untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.2.1. Currently, the only jailbreak available for iOS 4.2.1 involves tethering…
Web Browser for Jailbroken Apple TVs (Video)
Soon you will be able browse the web on your 2nd generation Apple TV, after jailbreaking it of course. Fire Core announced they will be bringing both a web browser and a Last.fm app to the…
NitoTV is the First App Running on the New Apple TV
NitoTV, a popular app for the original Apple TV, is the first app running on the new Apple TV. NitoTV is a front end for the popular mplayer media player, however, it also includes…
Apple TV Jailbroken with Greenpois0n
Joshua Hill, one of the developers of the iOS jailbreak tool greenpois0n, tweeted a picture of the Apple TV with a custom background and a new menu item titled “Inject Software.” No details…
Limera1n Jailbreak Tool Now Available for Mac
Geohot has released a Mac version of his iOS 4.1 jailbreak tool, limera1n. A Mac version has been highly anticipated ever since he released the tool for Windows users last weekend. Although…
Greenpois0n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Now Available
The Chronic Dev Team has released Greenpois0n, a jailbreak tool for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 4.1. Some apps and tweaks in Cydia still need to be updated to support iOS…
Chromium OS Running on iPad (Video)
I guess this is kinda cool, but I’m not really sure there’s a practical use for it. Someone has managed to run Chromium, an open source version of Google’s Chrome OS, on the iPad.…
Apple TV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken
The iPhone Dev Team has been able to jailbreak the new Apple TV using Shatter, the same tool used to jailbreak the newest iPod touch. The new Apple TV OS seems to be a combination of the…
Newton OS Emulator Running on iPhone and iPad
You can now run Apple’s original OS for portable devices, Newton, on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It’s a little slow and needs some work, but still pretty cool. For full instructions…
Gridlock Allows You to Freely Position Your iPhone Apps
Gridlock is a new Cydia app that lets you position your iPhone icons any way you want. Of course, you will first need to jailbreak your iOS device to enable this tweak. Gridlock, a powerful…
Hackers Release Browser Based Jailbreak for iPhone 4
Jailbreakme.com is a browser-based jailbreak utility for the iPhone 4, 3GS, and 3G when running iOS 4 or 4.0.1. From AppleInsider: Hackers on Sunday released the first “jailbreak” for the…
Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store (Updated)
UPDATE: Handy Light has been removed from the App Store. Handy Light looks like any other flashlight app for the iPhone, but it’s actually hiding a tethering feating using the SOCKS proxy.…
Flash Ported to Jailbroken iPad
From YouTube: Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer, by comex ( http://twitter.com/comex ). Frash can currently run most Flash…
Use Your iPhone to Control SNES HD for iPad (Video)
SNES HD is a new Super Nintendo emulator for jailbroken iPads. It works with the My ControlPad app, which lets you use a jailbroken iPhone as a SNES controller. This is very cool and anyone…
Mirror Your iPad to an External Display with DisplayOut
DisplayOut is a utility for jailbroken iPads that lets you mirror your iPad to an external display with Apple’s iPad VGA adapter. Normally the VGA adapter will only output video for certain…
iPhone 3G Android Port Available for Download
If you’d like to try a cool, but inferior, OS on your iPhone, Android is now available for both the 2G and 3G iPhones. It sets up a dual boot, so you’ll still be able to run iPhone OS. It’s…