Overachiever: Force-Unlock All iOS Game Center Achievements [Cydia Tweak]

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Almost every game you play on your iOS device has some sort of scoring system, designed to motivate users to get ahead of their friends. For extra incentive, some games have additional “Achievements” that are logged in the Game Center. Some of these achievements are next to impossible to gain, and a thorn in the side for avid gamers. As always, the Cydia community is here with a solution. Overachiever is a new tweak that lets you force-unlock all the achievements of any Game Center-supported game you have on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

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Later For iPhone: Set Quick Reminders & Earn Badges For Finishing Tasks [Free For Limited Time]

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The concept of reminders is common to all mobile platforms; you will find some way of setting up reminders on any phone, no matter how new or old. Smartphones take the usefulness of reminders to a whole new level, one example of which is the Reminders app in the latest version of iOS. Looking at that stock iOS 5, app you might think that it cannot be bested, but Later might make you change your opinion on that matter. The app focuses on letting users set reminders as easily and quickly as possible. Apart from letting you create reminders, this iPhone app also gives provides with an added incentive to accomplish their tasks by unlocking achievements whenever a specific number of reminders have been marked as done.

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Foxish Live RSS: Get Firefox Live Bookmarks Feature In Chrome

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Foxish Live RSS is a Chrome extension that mimics Firefox’s live bookmarks feature by syncing RSS feeds with bookmark folders, and updates them automatically at regular intervals. It does this by syncing feed items every five minutes, with folders on the bookmark bar. It shows an icon in the address bar, indicating the web page has RSS/atom feeds. Foxish Live RSS also lets you export RSS feed list, and import RSS in OPML format from other RSS readers.

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Fluid: Turn Any Website Into Standalone Mac App

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Bookmark feature in web browsers provides one of the easiest way to visit our favorite websites While it is convenient to open your favorite websites, it is just as easy to lose it among other opened tabs. Fluid is a free Mac app that lets you transform your favorite web apps into Mac OS X apps, allowing you to launch them from desktop. Think of it as bookmarking a website, only instead of being saved as a favorite link in your browser, it is saved as an executable app, which can be launched from anywhere on your system. Needless to say, Fluid functions as a web browser but instead of allowing you to universally explore the internet, it is meant to browse sites that you’ve added. The app uses a website’s favicon as the Dock icon to distinguish different sites.

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Get Windows 8 Start Screen & Lock Screen On Windows 7

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Previously, we have covered a lot of tools that bring the Windows 8 Metro UI elements to Windows 7, such as Metro7 (adds Metro Start Screen to Windows 7), Metro Sidebar (lets you add Windows 8 style sidebar to desktop), and Newgen (brings Windows 8 Metro Tiles to Windows 7 desktop). Today, we have an application called Windows 8 Start Screen Full, which adds Windows 8 Start Screen and Lock Screen to Windows 7. It also includes user-configurable tiles, Start Screen widgets, and shortcuts to Windows Media Player, My Documents, local drives and more.  Although it doesn’t come packed with Window 8 native apps such as Socialite, News, Tweet@rama, Weather etc., it uses these applications’ tiles as widgets to let you configure social media accounts, RSS feed list, and access Gmail inbox. READ MORE

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Sketch Me For iPhone: Convert Photos Into Drawings & Paint Over Them [Free For Limited Time]

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There are a lot of photo editing apps available in the iOS App Store, where some apps are focused on just one genre of photo effects. Sketch Me is one such app, the genre, in this case, being sketch effects. The app has seven variations of the hand-drawn effect, and in addition to that, lets you doodle over your photos, and add annotations in colors of your choice.

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MusicBanners: Get Notifications For Song Change In iOS 5 [Cydia Tweak]

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One of the main reasons people own an iPod touch is to listen to their favorite songs on the go. Even on iPhone and iPad, the stock Music app gets used a lot, and that is why a music-related Cydia tweak for jailbroken iOS devices is always welcome. MusicBanners might not seem like a really useful tweak at first glance, but actually, it can prove to be pretty useful for people who like to listen to music for longer periods of time, and while performing various tasks. If you have this tweak, a banner notification will be displayed each time a song ends and a new song starts. Not only that, the tweak also comes with Notification Center and lockscreen support.

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Seesmic Ping: Schedule Posts For Multiple Social Network Accounts [Android, iOS, WP7]

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From the team behind  renowned desktop, web and mobile social network (Facebook and Twitter) aggregator, Seesmic, comes Seesmic Ping – an Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 app that lets you schedule updates for multiple social networks to a date and time of your choice. The app lets you attach images and URLs with each post, save posts to drafts, or schedule them to be published from as many different social media accounts as required. As of now, the app lets you post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Salesforce. Details to follow.

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Paste Text Like: Change Format, Text Case & Remove Blank Spaces From Clipboard

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We have covered numerous clipboard tools in the last few months, including Clipboard Magic, ClipX, and Ethervane Echo for Windows, and rePasta and TetBom for Mac OS X. Most clipboard managers are capable of recording multiple clipboard entries, letting you keep spamming that Ctrl+C before pasting the required text anywhere. Last year, we covered Dolphin Text Menu, an on-screen text cleaner that performs a range of text-specific operations over any text editor, including  append and prepend text to lines, delete blank lines, change text case etc. Today, we have an open source tool for you called Paste Text Like, which lets you perform all these functions over the clipboard content. Read on to find out more about Paste Text Like.

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Klick Todo: Easily Create, Prioritize, Schedule & Track Tasks [Android]

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Who would want a task management app that requires you to sift through multiple screens, menus and options in order to define a simple to-do task? The simpler the interface of a task management app, the better it is. Previously reviewed Any.DO is a very good example of what an ideal task manager should look like. Fresh to the Android Market, Klick Todo is yet another fine addition to the list of clutter-free and easy to use task management apps for Android. In all, the app provides you with a solitary homescreen on which you can list all your tasks, set priority levels, relevant reminders, and scheduled date/time for each with just a few taps. Details to follow.

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Babylon Translator: Translate Text Between Over 75 Languages [WP7]

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If you are a Windows Phone 7 user, then Google Translate might no longer be your only option for converting text from one language to another, because Babylon Translator is here. The app performs translation between more than 75 languages, provides definitions for individual terms in a language of your choice, and sports an additional currency conversion feature.

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RedNotebook: Journal With Calendar Navigation, Custom Templates & Word Cloud

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Just a few days ago, we covered a cross-platform task manager named Conqu, which allows you to manage the tasks by providing a comprehensive set of features, including Quick Add, Tags, Dates etc. Today, we stumbled across an open source application called RedNotebook. It is not exactly a task manager, but more of a journal where you can record just about anything you want. You can write pending tasks, note down important events or use it as an everyday e-diary. It includes calendar, customizable templates, save and export options and a word cloud. You can manage the entries via tag feature, which helps you quickly search the journal entry you want to view or edit. More on RedNotebook after the break.

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