Tag Archives: jailbreak app

iOS 4 Jailbreak Experiment: Using Backgrounder to limit multitasking and save RAM

by on July 29th, 2010 at 10:36 am

The Backgrounder svnr513-1 beta by Lance Fetters (@ashikase) has a pretty neat new feature that helps you specify whether to background an app in jailbreak style, multitask the way Apple does it, or promptly kill an app when you press the Home button. I’ve even read on Ashikase’s Twitter account …

Review Update: MyWi 4.0 for iPhone [Jailbreak]

by on July 28th, 2010 at 3:32 pm

MyWi 4.0, the jailbreak app that turns your iPhone into a glorious WiFi access point, was updated a little while ago with a few major improvements and a major price increase to go along with it. The app has also been split into two products: the older MyWi, and the …

New Release: SnowCover Pro 1.0, gesture-based playback controls on your iPhone lockscreen ...

by on January 31st, 2010 at 4:58 pm

[Update: there's now a version 1.1 of SnowCover Pro with an extra corkboard theme, though it's a little buggy right now, so I'd suggest you wait until February 1st to try the app out. Version 1.1 keeps telling me I have a cracked copy (Untrue - I bought the app …

LockInfo 2.0 is out for iPhone [Jailbreak Apps]

by on January 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 pm

LockInfo 2.0 (Diego looked at 1.x here) has been released for $4.99 on Cydia/Rock. The new version isn’t a huge overhaul in terms of looks, but it does make the app a little more powerful than before. In addition to the calendar, SMS, Phone, and Mail notifications, the app can …

Quick video demo of my jailbroken iPhone [Jailbreak apps]

by on January 12th, 2010 at 6:26 pm

Josh Gard recently put up a great post outlining his favourite jailbreak apps, and it features a great breakdown of his various apps and why he loves to use them. The video above has a similar focus, but it’s really just a light overview of a few of the apps …

Universal Search for iPhone could be a little more universal

by on October 17th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

I think I may have accidentally broken my favourite Universal Search (previously covered here) I’ve been toying with other Jailbreak apps, but I think I’ve been pretty careful about which ones I load and I don’t think they’d interfere with this Spotlight. The problem right now is that Uni Search …

With a name like Blackra1n, you’d think my iPhone would be depressed…

by on October 12th, 2009 at 9:54 am

But it’s not. So far, it’s very, very happy! It’s loaded up with SBSettings, mQuickDo, Elert, ToneFXs, Backgrounder, and Notifier. I know you folks aren’t new to jailbreak posts on JAiB, but I figure I’d take a crack at one since I haven’t been jailbroken in a little while. This …