We love looking at and telling you about new concepts for a better iOS experience. Today, there’s another new iOS 7 concept, which imagines a Notification Center with actions. Apple introduced the Notification Center in iOS 5 and it has been improved in iOS 6, but if you want more out of your Notification Center, [...]

There are dozens of Cydia tweaks for the Notification Center, but how many of them make the iOS interface look simpler and less cluttered? Fade is a Cydia tweak that makes interface elements fade away and turn transparent as you pull down the Notification Center pane. The Tweak: The interface elements Fade affects include pretty much everything on the [...]

I’ve never had a problem with the stock Notification Center. I made the switch happily from Notified Pro when I upgraded to iOS 5 and never looked back. While I like having plugins in the Notification Center, I never felt it needed a major overhaul. That was until I saw this concept. Designer Alex Saretzky noticed that [...]

Philippe, the developer behind numerous iOS interface tweaks, has just updated BlurriedNCBackground with a complete overhaul of the original code. This rewrite adds features such as full support for the iPad’s notification pane and a simpler preferences panel, while it supposedly fixes the memory leaks found in the previous version, improving performance. The Tweak: If [...]

Ostium is a somewhat unfortunately named Cydia tweak that modifies the way the Notifications Center pane opens in iOS. Ordinarily you pull the pane down from the top of the screen. With the Ostium tweak installed, you can split the screen in half with two fingers–like a pair of automatic doors, with the notifications center appearing in [...]

Bulletin Pro is a tweak available in Cydia that lets you heavily customize the look, size and functionality of the Notifications Center and banners. This is probably the king of all Notification Center customization tweaks out there, because it lets you change so many things. Firstly, this tweak lets you change the look of the [...]

I reflexively dislike most things that contains the word “bro” that aren’t of the Super Mario variety, but I don’t hate Brotips: Brotips is a daily Tumblr blog that spouts general advice in a big letters on an image that range from genuine to humorous. Thanks to a new Notification Center plugin, redundantly named NCBrotips [...]

RSS readers are useful programs that can read special web pages and display the content as lists. Usually such technology is used in newsreader apps, which collect feeds generated by websites. Those feeds allow readers to track updates. (For example, here is ijailbreak’s RSS feed.) RSS feeds can also be used to follow forum conversations, [...]

Facebook is a convenient way to stay in touch with new acquaintances, but finding people on Facebook could always be easier. FacebookNC is a search widget for Notification Center that removes more friction when adding people on Facebook. Instead of firing up the Facebook app and fiddling with the app’s simplified search function, FacebookNC lets [...]

If you are a fan of tweaks and homebrew applications featured on iJailbreak, you might be interested in a faster way to track down the featured Cydia packages. Cydia-SearchNC makes searching for Cydia packages as convienant as possible by placing a search bar in the notifications pane. All you need to do is type the [...]