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How To Create & Share Your Own Flipboard Magazines On iOS

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Flipboard has always been touted as a news app that displays stories in form of a beautiful, customizable magazine. While it has received many updates in the past, the basic concept behind Flipboard hasn't evolved to a great extent. Finally though, the team behind the popular news apps has decided to take things to the next level. Rather than bringing the changes to all platforms simultaneously, Flipboard's latest update has gone live just for iOS presently. There are other changes as well, but the biggest addition to the app is user-curated magazines. Rather than relying on Flipboard to come up with interesting news stories, now anyone can create and maintain a magazine of their own. Your friends and other users can then subscribe to your magazine if it suits their taste. Read More

Discover Events & Places While Travelling With TripWhat For iPhone

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It is better to plan ahead of time if you are going to take a tour of a new city, but not everyone wants to spend a lot of time just trying to draw up plans that might not get followed at all. Besides, the whole point of sightseeing is to maintain a sense of adventure, which might be diminished if you try and plan too much. iOS apps like TimeTraveler are capable of automatically planning an entire trip just by looking at your destination and available time. TripWhat, on the other hand, lets users keep the control of their travels in their own hand, while providing assistance only when needed. Using this app, you can find worth-visiting places, concerts and tourist destinations anywhere in the world. Read More

Completely Personalize iOS App Icon Badges With Badge Customizer

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Before seeing Badge Customizer, a lot of people must have considered Boover as the ultimate tweak for making icon badges appear just they way they want. The new tweak, however, completely kills the competition, thanks to its great features and the kind of customization that can be done with complete ease. Thanks to Badge Customizer, owners of jailbroken iDevices can alter badge colors, change badge position on app icons, and even apply a tint of their choice to them. Tinkering with the size of icon badges is something that we haven't previously seen in any tweak of this kind, but Badge Customizer even offers this feature, letting you properly show off your newly revamped badges. Read More

Set iPhone Apps To Auto-Update In The Background At Regular Intervals

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No matter how annoying that App Store icon badge seems at first, app updates are important. If you are in the habit of ignoring updates for a long time (like many iOS users), you might be missing out on some great new features of your favorite apps and games. A majority of users don't like updating apps out of sheer laziness. It only takes about three or four taps to initiate an app's update process, but some people just don't consider even this much effort worthwhile. For such procrastinators, Cydia store now has the perfect tweak. Auto App Updater makes sure all of your apps are always up-to-date, and you don’t even have to launch the App Store for the tweak to work! Auto App Updater works in the background and installs updates for any app you want. Read More

LiveWire Adds A Cool New Unlock Animation To The iPhone Lock Screen

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In the past, I have been an avid user of both PaperLock and Unlockize, but within a few weeks, the novelty factor wore off and I came back to the stock iOS lock screen. Another thing that contributed towards my getting bored of these tweaks was the lack of really unique animations. On that front, the newly released LiveWire should struggle (at least in theory) since it only offers one animation, but after using it, I can safely say that the tweak is sure to reside in my iPhone for the next few days at least. The unlocking animation offered by LiveWire is very simple, and does not cause any lag. After some time, you might even forget that it is not a default part of your iDevice. The tweak is extremely simple, requires no configuration and looks awesome in action. Read More

Karma Is Among The Most Full-Featured iPhone Reddit Clients Out There

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Despite the presence of the official Reddit app (iReddit) and a few good alternatives in the App Store, iOS doesn’t seem to have as many quality third-party Reddit apps compared to Android. If you like accessing the internet’s front page on your iPhone often, there is finally some good news. Karma is a new Reddit client that packs almost all the features that are available on the web version of the service. You can easily manage your account, follow subreddits, vote on posts, leave your comments and even submit a new post from within Karma quite easily. To make it perfect, the app doesn't come with too many unnecessary features that many people would never require, and has a really simple interface. The app looks a lot like Reddit’s desktop version, and can display many different types of media files. Read More

Add A Flip Clock Widget To The iPhone Notification Center

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Flip clocks are pretty common on Android but for iOS devices (even jailbroken ones), these fancy time displays are still a bit of a novelty. The closest thing to an iPhone flip clock we have ever seen is iWidgets, which lets users add an HTML 5 time widget to their SpringBoard and lock screen. If you want a fully customizable flip clock widget though, your best bet is the newly released Flip Clock for Notification Center. The widget is capable of displaying time in the format of your choice as well as the the current date, and also lets you tinker with the color settings of the digits. The fact that you can use it with Dashboard X and other similar tweaks to place the flip clock on other areas of iOS makes the widget near-perfect. Read More

How To Import All Your Google Reader Feeds Into Rockmelt For iOS

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It has taken a few days, but the news of Google Reader’s looming demise has finally started sinking in, and people are now coming to terms with the fact that there are other services out there that are more than capable of replacing Reader. As for the data you might have accumulated over time, that can easily be exported to the new service you decide to use. However, most people have discussed desktop-based replacements for Google Reader until now (although Feedly does have mobile clients), but there are also those who are open to the possibility of switching completely to their iPhone to check out all the latest news stories from around the world. The previously covered Rockmelt deals with RSS feeds, and lets users sift through interesting articles using gestures. The team behind the app has taken full advantage of Reader’s end, and has made it possible to import all your Reader feeds to Rockmelt in a few easy steps. Read More

addappt Updates Your iPhone Address Book When Contacts Edit Their Info

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addappt made quite a splash when it was first released a few months back, but this contacts manager had the huge limitation of being invite-only. A lot of users also felt that the app has the potential to do more, but didn't fully realize that potential. Despite these shortcomings, people appreciated the fact that addappt is capable of automatically curating your address book. Basically, all your friends are supposed to keep their profiles up to date, and the changes are reflected in your account (much like in previously reviewed IntouchID). The app also offers a great way of managing groups with utmost ease. Though most of these features aren't really useful until a lot of your friends are on addappt - something that is difficult to accomplish with an invite-only app. Thankfully, the team behind addappt has finally realized this, making their awesome app open to all iOS users. Read More

Apply Live Wallpapers & Scrolling Backgrounds To iPhone Home Screen

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Live wallpapers are no longer completely new to iOS, thanks to Cydia apps like LivePapers and Go Desk. LivePapers is great, and comes with a bunch of options, but if you are not looking to spend a considerable amount of time navigating through a lot of complicated features, you might want to avoid that app. Go Desk faces too many issues and a lot of people have complained that it causes SpringBoard crashes. Fortunately, now jailbreak users have a new option to get animated and widescreen wallpapers for their Home screen. LiveWallpaper is a new app that offers a truly one-tap way of applying interactive live wallpapers and parallax-enabled backgrounds to your jailbroken iPhone's Home screen. Read More

Create & Send Doodles From The iPhone Messages App

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The great thing about Cydia tweaks is that they make stock apps perform tasks that can usually be done only via third-party apps. A few days ago, we covered MessageMe - an iOS messenger with a pretty decent feature list. Among other great things, MessageMe can also let you draw freehand and share your drawings with your contacts. Doodle Message is a new tweak that adds a similar feature to the stock Messages app! Now you can create colorful drawings without moving away from the SMS app, and send them to your friends all in one go. The tweak even lets you choose between several brush sizes, and makes it possible to use a photo as the background for your doodles. Read More

Apple’s Podcasts iOS App Gets Playlists, Custom Stations & More

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The standalone Podcasts app by Apple that was released last year has received its first major update. Previously, it just got a few minor updates to fix crashing issues, but the change log this time is a bit more substantial. Has it ever bothered you that while it is possible to easily organize songs into different playlists, the same can’t be done for podcasts? For instance I like catching up with football news while coming to work in the morning, while my evening listening sessions are all about informative shows. So, instead of manually selecting each episode, now I can take advantage of the new ‘My Stations’ feature to group particular podcasts together. The update has also added support for temporary stations, which can help people who don’t want to disrupt their playlist for a single episode. The overall look and feel of the app has been enhanced as well, and so has the iCloud syncing features. Read More

Make iPhone Alarms Read Aloud Weather, Battery, Time & Other Info

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When it comes to third-party alarm apps for smartphones, there are some that won’t let you snooze the alarm until you thoroughly shake your device, or perform some complex logical tasks, but you won’t find many ways of adding similar capabilities to the stock Clock app in iOS. Unless you have a jailbroken device, of course. Wake Info is a new Cydia tweak that takes a gentle, yet effective approach towards making sure you don’t keep snoozing your alarm, and start your day with the right kind of motivation. The tweak endows the stock alarm app with the ability to read aloud any information you want to hear in the morning. The information can be anything from the battery level of your phone to the unread email messages waiting in your inbox. Read More

Add A Stopwatch To The iPhone Lock Screen With Stoppur

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Whenever you have to use the stopwatch available in your iPhone, there is a possibility that you will forget all about it once it goes to the background and you start using another app. This is because for some inexplicable reason, iOS does not show any notifications or even an icon badge when the stopwatch is in operation. Stoppur solves this problem quite efficiently. Recently released in the Cydia store, this tweak does something even more useful than adding a badge to the Clock app; it adds the entire stopwatch display to your device’s lock screen. Of course there is no way of controlling the timer without launching the Clock app, but having the continuously updating time display right on your lock screen can certainly come in handy in a lot of situations. Read More

Official Reuters News App For iPhone & iPad Impresses With A Great UI

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Reuters has been among the world's leading news agencies for quite a long time. It is not just an important name for the business and media sector, but is often the first to break many important news stories as well. Having said that, it is impossible for users to always be in front of their TV screens or on a news service’s website to catch the latest happenings from around the world. That is where news apps become really important. Reuters has had a presence on iOS for quite a while, and the organization has just launched a new official app for iPhone and iPad. The app has a beautiful interface that you can navigate using easy gestures. Besides keeping you up-to-date with the latest news from around the world, he app also lets you create a custom watchlist for the stock market. Read More

Get Album Art & Gesture Controls In The iPhone Volume HUD

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The translucent box that shows up on your iPhone’s screen every time you change its volume might not be the most important feature of iOS, but the Cydia store already has a few tweaks that focus on this HUD to enhance it. Some tweaks let you add more information to the volume display but if you don’t want to alter it too drastically, there are options like Hud that add album art to the box whenever you are listening to music. Music HUD is a new Cydia release that can be deemed a combination of the two aforementioned tweaks. It doesn’t focus on a single particular feature, though everything it offers is related to music. Thanks to Music HUD, it is possible to control song playback by performing gestures on the HUD, add album art to it and tweak the music info that is displayed. Read More

The Best Video Players For iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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There can be no denying the fact that thanks to their high resolution Retina screens, Apple devices can hold their own against any smartphone in terms of display. The screen resolutions and other display aspects just keep getting better and better with each new iDevice release, but what’s the use of having such extraordinary hardware if you can’t play even the most popular video formats on your iPhone? While this could have been a real problem if users had to rely solely on the stock Videos app, thankfully there are a lot of quality video players available on App Store as well as Cydia. Many iOS users might not even be aware that their iPhone can play just about any video file, thanks to some awesomely feature-rich apps. It’s all about finding the right app for your device, and that’s what we are going to help you with. In what follows, we will take a look at some of the best video players available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Read More

Cross Greeting Cards With Time Capsules & You Get Keepster For iOS

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It is an emotional moment for most people if they lose their text messages, but times are changing and a lot of our important conversations now reside on the cloud, thanks to services like iMessage, Facebook, Skype and the like. However, if you are the kind of person who likes to keep or share mementos and souvenirs from the past, a simple Facebook message might appear to be a bit too casual for the purpose. Keepster is an iPhone app that makes sure you express the right message at just the right time or situation. The app connects with your Facebook account to let you send visually rich greeting greeting cards, time capsules or location-triggered messages to your friends. You can also use Keepster to send a message (or photo) to your future self. Read More

Quickly Record A Voice Memo In iOS Using An Activator Gesture

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Not many people use audio recording as regularly as they shoot videos on their iPhone. There are some situations, however, where capturing just the sound is enough, and you don’t have to waste your device’s battery as well as storage space on a video clip. Audio recording is also great for taking notes during a lecture or interview. iOS comes with a stock audio recorder of its own, by the name of Voice Memos. It might not be the most frequently used app on your iPhone, but it can come in handy every once in a while. A lot of people (including yours truly) are too lazy to go through the hassle of unlocking their device, launching Voice Memos and then pressing the record button. The steps might not sound too tedious but in a pressure situation, every second might be precious. This is why Ryan Petrich’s new Voice Memo Toggle for Activator might be a good add-on to keep in your iDevice. Thanks to the tweak, you can begin a recording session from any area of iOS merely by performing an Activator gesture; there is no need to even look at the screen! Read More