Following yesterday's Path debacle about how the app uploads your entire address book to its servers without your knowledge, jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich decided to do what Apple should have done in the first place: having a notification for when apps try to access your contacts data.
The jailbreak tweak is conveniently called ContactPrivacy and is a free download from Cydia. After installing ContactPrivacy on your iPhone, you won't find any new icon or settings to tweak...
I consider myself a strong advocate of the jailbreak cause. Ever since ziPhone – the first jailbreak ever released – came out, all my iDevices have been jailbroken and even unlocked when possible.
I love jailbreaking for two reasons. First, I jailbreak because I can. If there is a way to do things not the way they were intended to be, then count me in. Second, and more importantly, I jailbreak because it gives me access to a plethora of features that Apple hasn't implemented yet, or will never implement for some reasons.
For the past three months, I've used a stock iPhone 4S. Obviously that was not my choice. There just wasn't a jailbreak until Absinthe came out last week. But things are back to normal now.
Every time I jailbreak a new device for the first time, I try to reconsider what I really use, and what I really need. I also try to take into account a few things, like stability. If certain apps gave me headaches in the past, I'll just make sure not to install them again (goodbye WinterBoard). It's the perfect occasion to start on a clean slate.
This being said, I'd like to share with you all the jailbreak tweaks that are currently installed on my iPhone 4S...
Back when the iPad launched in 2010, many people complained that it didn't have any of the native apps found on the iPhone and iPod touch. However, a new jailbreak tweak by Ryan Petrich called Belfry is about to change that.
Belfry is a simple tweak that will install 6 stock apps on your iPad: Clock, Calculator, Compass, Voice Memos, Stocks, and Weather...
Wouldn't it be super swell if you could receive a notification directly in Notification Center when your favoirite jailbreak app or tweak received an update?
Apparently jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich thinks so too. Hence, he has started working on a Notification Center tweak aptly entitled (tentatively at least) CydiaBulletin.
Thankfully, it looks like the days of furiously refreshing Cydia are numbered...
Is your iPhone's keyboard getting in the way? If so, then you may want to give Pull To Dismiss a try.
Pull To Dismiss is the latest jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich that allows you to easily dismiss your iPhone's keyboard with a simple pull. It works similar to pull to refresh, except instead of refreshing the content on the page, it dismisses your keyboard...
SuperScroller is a jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich that allows you to scroll up or down using an assigned Activator action.
Many viewers are questioning the tweak's usefulness on our YouTube channel, but I could certainly see someone using SuperScroller as their preferred method of page navigation; for instance, when reading.
Check out the video walkthrough inside, and judge for yourselves...
By default, Notification Center only displays 4 lines of text in any of your messages. This is okay, but for longer messages like email, it forces you to open the message to read its entire contents.
With More Lines in Notification Center, a jailbreak tweak available on Cydia, you can display up to 12 lines of text at a time, which is usually enough to read the body of an entire (moderately sized) email or text message...
A few days ago we showed you how to enable iOS's built-in but hidden autocorrect bar using a series of simple yet time consuming steps.
If you're still interested in enabling the autocorrect bar, but the manual process turned you off, then we have good news for you.
Autocorrection Bar is a simple to use jailbreak tweak that will easily enable the autocorrect bar if you have a jailbroken iPhone. It even includes an enhancement...
Siri has certainly been at the forefront of tech news over the last few weeks. Since Apple introduced the digital assistant at its iPhone 4S event in October, it seems to be everyone's favorite subject. And the question on everyone's mind is, can it be ported to other devices?
To make a long story short, yes, it can. Although it's not available to the public (and likely won't be for some time, if ever), developers have managed to successfully port Siri to the iPhone 4. And as we've seen, it works really well. But why stop there?
Color Profiles is a new jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich, which allows you to add custom color profiles to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Color Profiles comes bundled with 19 different custom color themes that let you to radically change the look of your iPhone's color palette and temperature.
Want to see just how crazy an iPhone can look with a simple change to its color? Check inside for the hands-on video...
If one of the first thoughts to your mind when Newsstand was revealed at WWDC was: "I'm never going to use that", then this tweak is for you.
NoNewsIsGoodNews is a jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich that completely removes the Newsstand folder from iOS 5 installations.
Inside, I go hands on with NoNewsIsGoodNews, and I also showcase the much talked about Newsstand folder glitch...
No less than a few minutes after I posted about TwitterTask, iDB viewers and readers were on it like white on rice.
I hereby stand corrected; TwitterTask isn't the only way to send out native tweets from anywhere on a jailbroken iOS device.
That's because Ryan Petrich's iOS 5 compatibility update to Activator wasn't just some minor change to make sure it worked on the new firmware; no, it includes quite a few new features; Twitter and Notification Center actions being among them...