This weekend at JailbreakCon 2012 the Cydia guru Ryan Petrich took the stage to talk about Cydia tweak development. His presentation's main focus was actually how to get into Cydia tweak development and how to program Cydia tweaks. Last year I wrote an in-depth article on how to develop a Cydia … [Read more...]
Ryan Petrich Successfully Ports Previous Version Of Google-Powered Maps App To iOS 6, Kind Of [VIDEO]
Jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich has successfully managed to port a working version of the old Google-powered Maps app to iOS 6. It's not 100 percent working yet, so you won't be able to get the older Maps app anytime soon. However, it will definitely be a better solution to the current problem that … [Read more...]
LiveClock Cydia Tweak Finally Updated With iOS 5 Support, Adds Animated Clock Icon To SpringBoard
LiveClock is a really old Cydia tweak, but also one of the coolest ones. It animates the Clock app on your iOS device and makes it show the current time, all with a moving second hand, minute and hour hand. This tweak was last updated in July 2009 to support iOS 3! The tweak comes from well-known … [Read more...]
Set Your Default iOS Browser As Chrome With BrowserChooser Cydia Tweak
By now, you must have heard about the Google Chrome browser making headlines in the iOS ecosystem. Google announced the availability of its Chrome browser on iOS yesterday at the Google I/O conference. Since then, the app has been downloaded numerous times and has already reached the number one spot … [Read more...]
The App Store’s Display Recorder Is Not Ryan Petrich’s App, Shouldn’t Be Possible In The App Store
Who would imagine there would be two jailbreak knockoff apps available in the iTunes App Store so soon together? The "Display Recorder" in the App Store is not the same as the Display Recorder application available through Cydia, and is also not associated with its creator, Ryan Petrich. For his … [Read more...]
Get iOS Notifications When Cydia Updates Are Pushed With Curiosa (Beta) Cydia Tweak
Wouldn't it be great if you could get Cydia updates pushed to your iOS device using Apple's built in notification system? Well, the well-know Cydia tweak developer Ryan Petrich definitely thought so because he is currently working on a tweak to do just this! His upcoming tweak is called Curiosa and i … [Read more...]
Download iPadRetinaSimulator To Test Apps On Next-Gen iPad Retina Display [Developers Only]
Earlier this week we told you that the developers of the game Food Chase shared what their game was going to look like on an iPad Retina display. If you took a look through that article then you would have realized the difference was quite substantial; as it should be. As if the next generation iPad … [Read more...]
IconRotator Cydia Tweak Rotates SpringBoard Icons With Your iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch [VIDEO]
Sometimes, a simple Cydia tweak can make a huge difference to your iOS device and make it look that much cooler! There are many such tweaks available in Cydia that do just that, make your homescreen, lockscreen, icons and font look better. Here's a new Cydia tweak from the famous Ryan Petrich called … [Read more...]
ContactPrivacy Cydia Tweak Notifies You When Apps Access Your Contacts
After the fiasco that Path caused yesterday, people have been very much concerned about their phone contacts being accessed without permission. It was found, by a Blogger, that Path secretly uploads all of its users mobile contacts and addresses to their servers. If that's not bad enough, the app … [Read more...]
Belfry, iEagleEye, iConBounce And xMessages Cydia Tweaks
Belfry: Install Weather.app, Calculator.app, Clock.app And More On Jailbroken iPad 2 Have you ever wondered why Apple did not include some of the stock iPhone apps like the Weather.app or Clock.app on the iPad? Well, if you have, and are currently looking for a solution to install the stock … [Read more...]