Our mobile phones and tablets can be great for the car. They hold our music collections, they give us access to our contacts and the built in maps feature can be indispensable--if it's accurate. But they're not perfect for driving. Screens can be a fatal distraction and if you're on the road … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Powerful Utilities For Keeping Your iPhone, iPad, Or iPod Touch Secure
You've probably heard that jailbreaking makes your devices less secure. In a sense that's true. Jailbreaking disables or circumvents a number of key security features including the 'sandboxing' that keeps applications from accessing unauthorized files outside their own directory. On the other hand, … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Most Powerful Twitter Tweaks On Cydia–2012
I ran into a problem when I tried compiling tweaks for this list: Twitter tweaks have a short shelf-life. Too often I've revisited old favorites, only to find that they don't support current apps--or the the Twitter API itself changed since the tweak was released, so the tweak loses the ability to … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Most Powerful Music Tweaks On Cydia
The iPhone wasn't always about apps, software, games, or productivity. It was originally introduced by Steve Jobs as a phone that contained an iPod. Apple bundles a pair of earbuds--or 'EarPods'--with every iPhone sold; the iPhone is a music playing phone. Meanwhile, jailbreaking is about adding … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Best Activator Plugins And Extensions–2012
Activator is a Cydia tool that enables programs and plugins to be launched without tapping on an icon in the SpringBoard. By default Activator can be launched through touch gestures, button presses, and accelerometer-based motion controls. The default actions these gestures can be assigned to … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Free And Essential Everyday Tweaks And Utilities For The iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch–2012
We've covered Cydia tweaks for a fair number of niche uses in the iJailbreak Toolkit articles, from our extensive Download Toolkit to the iPad Laptop Toolkit, but how about Cydia tweaks that everyone should be using everyday? Here's a list of five free tweaks and utilities that you should absolutely … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Must-Have Cydia Tweaks And Utilities For Retro Gamers–2012
Do you play classic games on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch? Carrying around hundreds of games with you can be very handy on a long plane ride, especially without the need to keep all those tiny cartridges on hand--but a touch screen tablet isn't the best platform for playing oldschool … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Most Powerful iPhone, iPad, And iPod Touch Utilities For Remote Access On Cydia 2012
Here at iJailbreak, we don't think it's just important to cover the newest tweaks and utilities as they come out, but also to highlight the programs that are useful, interesting, and powerful: the tweaks and apps that showcase why we jailbreak. We previously listed what we felt were the five best … [Read more...]
[iJailbreak’s Toolkit] 5 Most Powerful iPhone, iPad, And iPod Touch Download Utilities On Cydia In 2012
Here at iJailbreak we're not just committed to bringing you the day-to-day tweak releases, we're here to help you choose the best tweaks and utilities for your needs. There are tens of thousands of packages on Cydia, in the default repositories alone, and you can't be expected to keep up with them … [Read more...]