Tag Results For: Lockscreen

GrabberApp iOS Cydia

Set iOS 5.1 Camera Grabber To Launch Any App With GrabberApp [Cydia]

Back before the release of iOS 5.1, we covered a Cydia tweak named AnyAppLock (reviewed here), which simply allowed users to replace the iPhone lockscreen camera button with a shortcut to any app of their choice. A lot has changed since then, and camera grabber has taken the place of the camera button on iPhone’s [...] (more…)

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AutoProtect Bypasses iPhone Lock Screen Passcode When On A Specific WiFi Network [Cydia]

If you are even remotely concerned about your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad’s privacy, lock screen passcode is the most rudimentary measure that can (and should) be taken, and previously reviewed Cydia tweak, CleverPin, makes that passcode intelligent enough to automatically disable itself whenever the device is connected to a trusted WiFi network, for instance, [...] (more…)

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91 Locker: 4-Way Android Lock Screen App With System Toggles

The extent of customization that Android offers to its users is nearly unmatched by any other existing mobile OS. When it comes to tweaking and personalizing your device’s lock screen, the gulf between Google’s mobile OS and other contemporary platforms expands manifold. In an attempt to provide you with the most elegant and feature-packed custom [...] (more…)

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LSBrightSlider: Add Brightness Slider To iOS Lock Screen [Cydia]

Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad not only opens the device up to several useful tweaks, but also a lot of appearance enhancements. The Cydia store is full of themes and fonts that let you make cosmetic changes to your iDevice, while utilities and tweaks add or change functionality of certain aspects of the [...] (more…)

iOS5.1 Camera Lockscreen Cydia

Get An Invisible iOS 5.1 Lockscreen Camera Slider On Any iPhone Or iPod Touch [Cydia]

As trivial as it might sound at first, the new and revamped lockscreen camera button in iOS 5.1 is among the biggest talking points in the latest iOS update. In older versions of iOS, users had to double-tap the Home button to make the camera icon appear on the iPhone’s lockscreen. In the new version [...] (more…)

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Get iOS 5.0 Lock Screen Camera Button On iOS 5.1 With Redire [Cydia]

A few days back, we discussed the method of getting the iOS 5.1 camera button on your iOS 5.0 device’s lockscreen, using a Cydia tweak named Camera Grabber (as you can read here). The camera shortcut for iOS lockscreen has been completely revamped in the latest iteration of iPhone’s firmware. As always, there are people [...] (more…)

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SliderWidth: Change The iOS Lock Screen Slider Size & Text [Cydia]

Customization is usually the main objective behind jailbreaking an iOS device. The Cydia store is full of themes, tweaks and apps which let users change even the most insignificant areas of an iPhone. This is a good thing because there are millions of iPhone users all over the world, and only through customization it is [...] (more…)

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ColorClock: Customize Time & Date Color On iPhone Lock Screen [Cydia]

Yesterday we covered a Cydia tweak by the name of LockDate, which allows users to personalize the lockscreen of their iOS device by making almost any change to the date displayed on an iPhone when the screen is locked. If you used that tweak, you might have noticed that it left the lockscreen time looking [...] (more…)

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LockDate: Change Date Format, Color & Font On iPhone Lock Screen [Cydia]

The interface of iOS is designed in such a way that even the slightest of changes you make to it can make your iPhone look like a completely new and refreshed device. There are many themes and fonts available in the Cydia store which let jailbroken iOS users customize their devices, but those may not [...] (more…)

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How To Get iOS 5.1 Lockscreen Camera On iOS 5.0/ 5.0.1 [Cydia]

iOS was bumped to 5.1 a few weeks ago, and brought a few minor, yet useful, changes to the iPhone operating system. One such change is the new lockscreen camera shortcut, which has been altered in two respects. For one thing, you don’t have to double tap the home button to bring up the shortcut, [...] (more…)

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Lock Your Screen: The Mothership Of Screen Lock Apps For Mac [Paid]

We’ve been covering lockscreen apps for Mac a lot this month, and each app that we’ve covered had its own special feature that set it apart. Lock Your Screen is a Mac app worth $3.99 in the Mac app store, and it literally has everything you could possibly want in a lockscreeen app. In addition [...] (more…)

Lockscreen WP7 Widgets

Add Lockscreen Widgets For Weather, System Stats & RSS Feed To Unlocked WP7

Jaxbot has done it yet again. The amazing Windows Phone 7 developer just keeps coming with more and more awesome homebrews, and seems determined to make the Mango platform what it should have been in the first place. WP7 is now fast catching up with iOS and Android in terms of basic features, specially if [...] (more…)

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Screen Vault: Enable Widgets, Themes & Padlock Lockscreen On Mac [Paid]

We’ve covered a few lockscreen apps for Mac this month, out of which Screensavery and Screensaver+ Free are worth mentioning. Lockscreens may not be a very popular concept when it comes to a desktop system or even on Mac, still, Screen Vault is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store that is bound [...] (more…)

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Screensaver+ Free: Draw Pattern With Mouse To Lock/Unlock Screen [Mac]

Last month we covered Screensaver +, a Mac app that adds an iOS like lockscreen to your Mac. The app was worth $1.99 and has been updated with new features. Screensavery is an app worth $2.99 featured just last week that allowed you to lock your screen with one of three different types of passwords, [...] (more…)

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How To Change Windows 8 Lock Screen Background

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview released today brought approximately 100,000 changes from the previously available Developer Preview of Microsoft’s newest OS iteration. Among these numerous changes lies the native ability to change the new Lock Screen’s background, something that was only doable through third-party tools until now. With the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, users [...] (more…)