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Google Brings Its Location Discovery App Field Trip To iPhone

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A lot of times, our mobile devices iPhone might have been responsible for keeping us home or stuck to the screen even when out, but a few really good apps can actually encourage you to go out and explore the real world. Google’s Field Trip certainly has what it takes to rank among the best apps of this kind. It has been around on Android for some time, but has just arrived on the iPhone today. The main concept of the app is pretty simple. Field Trip notifies its users of any interesting places nearby, based on their location. You can then use the app to learn more about the place, get directions to it or just bookmark the attraction for later. The app hands the users enough control to choose the frequency of notifications and the genres of places they are interested in. Read More

Enable iPhone Camera Flash In Panorama Mode With Flashorama

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iOS 6’s panorama mode might be the most underrated feature to come with the platform’s latest update. A lot of apps allow users to capture panoramas pretty impressively, but having this feature in your iPhone’s stock camera really kills the competition. Despite all its awesomeness, the panorama has a glaring omission: you cannot use it unless the ambient lighting is perfect. Wen shooting ordinary photos or even videos, it is possible to turn on your camera’s flash any time you want, but the option is strangely missing in panorama mode. So, yet again, Cydia has to come to the rescue! Flashorama is a new tweak that adds the flash toggle to the panorama view in iPhone. You can control the flash before beginning to shoot, or even while moving the device around to capture the panorama. Read More

How To Fix Low Brightness Issue After Respring On Jailbroken iOS 6 Devices

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iOS 6 hasn’t been Apple’s smoothest mobile operating system release. To date, it has faced issues like reduced wireless connectivity, unexpected battery drain, Auto Brightness unreliability, and a security bug that allows you to bypass the lock screen to get complete access to the Phone app. More recently, it was discovered that jailbroken iOS 6 devices are facing their own display brightness issues. Thankfully, a fix for it has been released on Cydia. Check it out after the jump! Read More

Stitch Lets You Create Awesome Video Presentations On iPhone Using Local & Web Images

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As any student can tell you, making an effective presentation isn't as easy as it looks. You don’t want to be too extravagant with the clip art and colorful effects, but such elements can also be essential to capture the audience’s attention for the span of the entire presentation. Wouldn't it be nice to have a way of easily creating as many presentations as you want before finally choosing one for actual use? If you are using a tool like PowerPoint, it isn't very practical to keep trashing your work and starting from scratch repeatedly. This is where Stitch can help you. Not only does the app let you create detailed video presentations on your iPhone, it does that in just a few simple steps. Read More

Add Articles To Read-Later Services From Safari & Chrome On iOS With Readr

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If you have ever tried to read a lengthy article (like Haroon’s extremely detailed analysis of Ubuntu Touch Preview) on your iPhone, you are sure to have realized the usefulness of Mobile Safari’s ‘Reader’ view. However, you have to wait for the Reader button to show up by itself, as there is no way of invoking the mode at will. Readr is a new Cydia tweak that adds the Reader option to the sharing menu of Safari. And if you aren't satisfied with Safari’s own Reading List, the tweak also lets you associate your Pocket, Instapaper or Readability account with the browser so that you can add any post to these services without requiring a third-party app. The fact that it works with Chrome for iOS as well makes Readr absolutely perfect at what it does. Read More

Customize App Rows & Columns On iOS Home Screen, Dock & Folders With CustomGrid 2

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The need for Cydia tweaks to be updated for iOS 6 has provided many developers with a chance to improve upon their former releases, and users are getting to enjoy revamped versions of some really popular tweaks. People have been waiting for CustomGrid to become compatible with iOS 6 for quite a while now, and the tweak’s updated version has finally been released with some great new features. CustomGrid 2 lets you give a makeover to your iPhone’s SpringBoard, Dock, App Switcher tray and folders. For those of you who haven’t used the tweak before, CustomGrid offers amazingly detailed options to change the number of app icons that can be placed in different areas of iOS. You can also change other aspects of this display grid, and arrange your apps in precisely the way you want. Read More

Always View Videos In Landscape Mode On iPhone With LandscapeVideos

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If an app cannot play videos in landscape mode, not many people are going to use it on the iPhone’s rather small screen. Most good developers add landscape support for videos in their iOS apps, but the practice is not universal. Even if a video can be viewed in landscape, there is no way of bypassing the orientation lock just for video playback, and this can be really annoying for users who like to keep the orientation locked in portrait mode most of the time. LandscapeVideos is a new Cydia tweak that takes care of both these scenarios. You can configure it to bypass the orientation lock while playing videos, and it even forces some of the portrait-only apps to play videos in landscape mode. Read More

How To Quickly Clear Icon Badges From Any Or All iPhone Apps

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When you stop to think about it, a handful of tweaks like Activator, SBSettings, Springtomize, Infinyfolders and a few others cover the bulk of customization needs of many users, while most other tweaks strive to bring some small new features or modified versions of the functionality offered by these famous Cydia projects. In the past, there have been some pretty decent options for you to get rid of the icon badges from your SpringBoard, with a few tweaks going as far as concentrating on just a specific app’s badge, like the previously covered noOTA. Springtomize, in addition to its various other virtues, has the most convenient badge-removal options available for jailbreak users. However, it does cost money and if you want nothing more than hiding icon badges, the investment might not be worthwhile. Clear Badges offers the same functionality for free, and even throws in an SBSettings toggle for those looking to remove all badges in one go. Read More

NARR8 For Android & iPad Adds Animation & Interactivity To Comic Book Reading

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Comics know no age or genre, which is one of the reasons of their appeal. If you’re a fan of comics, and not just specific series by giants like Marvel or DC, but of the art itself, NARR8 (read ‘narrate’) for Android and iOS will definitely keep you occupied with its collection of amazing graphic novels made by skilled artists and story writers. Most of you probably aren't new to the concept of digital comics, but NARR8 brings something more to the table. Elements like animations, music and sound effects make sure that your experience is more than interactive, much like in Madefire for iOS. NARR8 has been around on the iPad for a while now and recently made its way to Android smartphones and tablets. Read More

Quickly Open Your Favorite Website With A Gesture On iOS Using Go2Now

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Activator is like ketchup for jailbroken iOS devices; it has the power to turn even the most mundane tasks into something noteworthy. Most of the times, visiting a website is no big deal. If you go to a URL frequently, most iPhone web browsers (including Mobile Safari) offer the option to bookmark the website. To access this bookmark list however, you still have to launch the browser, go to the options menu and look for the appropriate bookmark. Add Activator to the the mix, and it becomes possible to bypass all this hassle with ease. Go2Now is a new Cydia tweak that lets you open any URL in Safari or Chrome with a gesture of your choice. The tweak can be associated with any Activator gesture, and immediately opens the configured URL without showing any intermediate interface. Read More

Send Photos & Videos Directly From iOS Keyboard With QuickPhoto

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When it comes to  jailbreak tweaks, there are ones like FullForce, FolderEnhancer, Winterboard themes et al that significantly alter or enhance your user experience, and then there are one-trick pony tweaks that subtly change one very specific part of your operating system to get one thing done right. Developed by CocoaNuts - the folks who developed the RageBoard keyboard add-on - QuickPhoto is a recently launched jailbreak tweak that's a good example of the latter. It allows you to add photos and videos from local albums to your message compose box directly, much like the Emoji keyboard that you can enable from Settings > General > Keyboard. Check out our hands-on look at it after the jump. Read More

Add Rage Faces & Memes To iPhone Keyboard With RageBoard

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Rage faces have been all the rage since memes became mainstream from being a mere niche interest of 4chan, tumblr and reddit users. Lately, they have been quickly gaining popularity in messaging apps, but you have to go through a lot of steps before you can insert one into your next text. iOS apps like SMS Rage Faces allow you to copy rage faces to your clipboard and then paste them into your messaging app, but it’s a bit too much of a hassle. What if, like inserting Emoji, you could insert rage faces into messages directly from your iOS keyboard? Well, there’s a jailbreak tweak on Cydia for that! Read More

Customize iOS Notification Banner, Alert & App Switcher Animations With Animer

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Cosmetically speaking, iOS has remained largely the same since it was introduced back in 2007. If you believe this makes Apple’s mobile operating system boring and stale, you can always jailbreak your device, use Dreamboard or Winterboard and make it look like the illegitimate child of Android, Windows Phone and iOS itself. We don’t honestly like that sort of mutation, but we do like and recommend playing around with smaller user interface tweaks to make more subtle changes. With that thought in mind, we’ll be discussing yet another tweak today that helps you personalize certain system animations in iOS. Check it out after the jump. Read More

Import Music & Video From iOS Download Managers To Stock Media Apps

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Apps and tweaks like Bridge and UV Downloader make the Cydia store really useful for anyone who wants to have access to online media files round the clock. While Bridge offers the option of exporting files to the stock Music or Videos apps without needing any intermediate computer connection, you still have to use the app’s own rather basic downloader. There are some pretty decent download managers available in the App Store, so won’t it be just perfect if they offered Bridge’s export options? Of course Apple will never allow such a thing, but that’s what the Cydia store is here for. UniversalMediaImporter is a tweak that adds the option of exporting media files from third-party downloader apps to the stock iOS app. The tweak supports popular media formats, including MP4, M4V, MP3 and M4R. Read More

Signal 2 Maps Out Your iPhone Carrier’s Cellular Coverage In The Area

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The most common factor that makes people switch from one mobile carrier to another is bad reception. It isn't easy living with poor call quality, slow internet speeds and continuously disappearing signals due to insufficient coverage from your service provider. The bars in the top-left corner of your iPhone’s screen give you a general idea of the signal strength in the area, but it is always nice to get the complete picture. Signal 2 is a Cydia app developed by planetbeing from the evasi0n jailbreak dev team evad3rs. If you want to know the exact distance the nearest cellular tower is from you, or the accurate numerical value of the signal strength you currently have, Signal 2 is the way to go. The amount of information it offers is truly staggering. Read More

Set Up Auto Replies For SMS & iMessage On iPhone With AutoResponder 2

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Answering machines were insanely popular until smartphones with built-in voicemail capability came along. Now that we have smartphones, different solutions better than voicemail are also making their way to the the market. Though one thing that hasn't changed much for a long time in this regard is texting; there is no way of easily setting up automatic responses for texts received when you are busy. Fortunately, iOS users with jailbroken devices have had AutoResponder for a long time, which is a tweak that lets you configure automatic responses to texts that go unattended for a particular duration. Until now, AutoResponder only worked with older iDevices, and a lot of people on iOS have been missing it. Better late than never though, as the developer of the tweak has released AutoResponder 2 that is aimed just at iOS 6 users, and works with iMessage as well as SMS. Read More

Prevent iMessage Recipients From Seeing An Indicator When You Type

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Out of all the messaging apps available for iOS, iMessage holds a special place due to its seamless integration with the stock Messages app. After all, everyone likes free texting, and iMessage make you feel exactly like you are texting the other person. There are a few things about iMessage that make it far superior to ordinary SMS. It notifies you whenever your messages has been read, and even has an indicator to alert youu whenever the other party is composing a message. To make things perfect, iMessage offers some great customization options. You can protect your privacy by not letting other know when you have read their messages, as there is a dedicated option available for this purpose in the Settings app. One thing you can’t do by default, however, is to hide the small indicator that tells your correspondents whenever you are typing a new message. As usual, Cydia has come to the rescue. The newly released TypingPrivacy tweak provides you with this handy option to grant you complete control over iMessage. Read More

View & Manage All Cloud & Local Files In One Place With Files App For iOS

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When it comes to accessing all your important files on your iPhone, solutions like iCloud and various other third-party apps let you import data from numerous sources. However, most such services lack the simplicity and convenience that would keep users coming back to them repeatedly. If you have to spend a lot of time just trying to learn using a file viewer, then there is definitely something wrong with it. Files App is a new iOS app that is perfect for everyday use, and can import files from just about any location or service you can think of. It also has viewers for most of the popular file formats including music, photos and videos. If you are feeling lazy, the app even offers the option to transfer files wirelessly via any desktop web browser. Read More

QuickShoot Is The Fastest, Most Discrete Way To Take Photos On iPhone

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Most iPhone owners use their device’s camera quite frequently, but there are times when even the lock screen shortcut is not quick enough to let you capture that right moment. You can pin the Camera app to your dock, or use one of the many available Cydia tweaks that offer camera shortcut options for Notification Center. QuickShoot is a tweak that serves a dual purpose. For one thing, you get to snap photos secretly, since there won’t be any viewfinder on the screen. Secondly, it saves you the hassle of launching the camera app and waiting for it to load completely before shooting a photo. All it takes is going to the SpringBoard of your iPhone and double-tapping the camera icon. Sounds convenient, right? Read More

Transfer Clipboard & Song Playback Position Between iPhone & Mac With BeamApp

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We’ve covered about a dozen different apps that let you send files from your iPhone to your Mac and vice versa; some free, some paid; some gorgeous, and others ugly. What they all have in common is that they work over Wi-Fi. The apps are useful if you don’t want to connect your phone to your Mac with a cable, or if you don’t have your cable at hand. BeamApp is a free Mac app available in the Mac App Store with an iOS companion app that allows you to send and receive items from your clipboard to your Mac over the internet regardless of whether they are on the same Wi-Fi network or not. The content you can bean could be email addresses, navigation directions, phone numbers, or a URL. When a website URL is sent from your iPhone to a Mac, BeamApp for Mac opens it in your default browser. In addition to sending and receiving content from your clipboard, you can also send the current song playing in the iPod app on your iPhone to your Mac. Read More