Some apps smartly remove the status bar from the top of the screen when you are viewing a page full screen, allowing for the full use of your iPhone or iPad’s screen, but most display the status bar full-time. With Maximization you can choose a list of apps which will have the status bar removed, reserving all [...]

Quasar is a tweak that was impressive in its early, buggy stages, and continues to shine as it is refined. It’s a tweak that did the impossible: it turned the iPad’s fullscreen apps into windowed pages. Originally I just bought Quasar for the few tasks that really, really needed multitasking support (my halfling rogue thanks [...]

Pedro Franceschi has released an updated version of Quasar. As with the last update, version 1.2 contains both a new feature and a bug fix. The update removes the stretchy window glitch that sometimes appears when opening, closing, or rotating a window, and adds a feature where apps can be set to always run in [...]

Quasar is one of my favorite Cydia tweaks on the iPad. But one of the biggest complaints I had was with Quasar was its stability. Luckily, the newly released update not only adds new features but improves day-to-day stability as well. Certain apps which would freeze if immediately switched to fullscreen now work fine, even [...]

We recently reviewed Quasar, a window manager which enables true multitasking on the iPad. Quasar is a great interface tweak but its support for iPhone apps is limited. Features like window scaling, fullscreen mode, and landscape rotation only currently work with iPad applications. What’s more, iPhone apps seem to be the most vulnerable to Quasar’s bugs. [...]

Apps on iOS devices run as full screen applications by default, following a design philosophy where your phone becomes the app its running. While Apple’s approach made the iPhone iconic, there are some tasks where it just isn’t practical to flip back and forward between apps. If you jailbreak and have an iPad, you’ve may [...]

For the iPad to become a true computer competitor it has to be able to run multiple apps simultaneously in separate windows. It is no doubt that on a computer you can look at two or more applications at the same time, but on the iPad you can’t do this whatsoever. A new Cydia tweak released [...]