Cydia

If your kid borrows your iPhone or iPad for watching your family video, you certainly wouldn’t want him to get access to social networking apps such as Twitter, Facebook or an IM client such as Fring or Yahoo Messenger. Lockdown is a free jailbreak app for iPhone and iPad that lets you set a password for any iPhone or iPad app. (more…)

Remember the Wi-Fi sync app that we wrote about a month ago, which lets you sync your iPhone or iPod Touch wirelessly with your Computer, thus putting an end to the old iTunes-USB cable syncing? Wi-Fi Sync was released a while ago in Cydia. (more…)

Installous, a popular jailbreak app for iPhone, iPod Touch which lets you browse and install cracked apps has now been updated to support iPad. The latest version, 3.1.2 lets you sync installed apps with iTunes and is currently available for download in Cydia. Before you go ahead and get Installous, you need to first jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.3 or iPad 3.2. (more…)

Say you want to bring your iPhone contacts to  another mobile device. An easy way to do this is to export your contact list as CSV file, and then import this into your other mobile device. CSV is most commonly used format, and is widely supported by many mobile handsets. (more…)

Recently Apple purged out WiFi scanner apps such as eWiFi from the App Store. According to Apple, these apps use undocumented, private APIs, and are therefore not legal. Following this action by Apple, many WiFi app developers started releasing their apps in Cydia, for jailbroken iPhones. (more…)

In case you have not updated your iPhone firmware to the latest 3.1.3 version, you will be unable to install some firmware 3.1.2 only apps from the App store. Also your iTunes continually keeps bothering you with messages asking you to update your iPhone firmware. You don’t have to put up with these annoyances any more. There are Cydia tweaks which fake firmware 3.1.3 on 3.1.2 devices. (more…)

The more applications that you add to your iPhone’s HomeScreen, the more cluttered it gets. What if you could add any number of icons to the SpringBoard? Infinidock, a Cydia tweak, lets you add as many icons you want to the iPhone SpringBoard, and scroll vertically. (more…)

Your one stop source for jailbreak apps has received an important upgrade. Saurik, the creator of Cydia, has uploaded a new version of APT, with an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing, resulting in Cydia performance improvement. (more…)

Auto rotation is one of those unique features of iPhone, and also one of the most popular. Your iPhone has a built-in accelerometer, which senses the device orientation using gravity and automatically switches between the landscape and the portrait modes. Many times this feature is of great use, but there are times, especially when you lay down in your bed and your iPhone turns sideways, you really wished you didn’t have the auto rotation. (more…)

Those of you who use the SBSettings Data Toggle to turn off Internet Data connection on your iPhone when not needed, here is a useful companion app, called SBSchedule. Unlike SBSettings, this one is not free, it costs you $2.99. You may wonder why you have to spend a few bucks on this Cydia app, when all it does it automate the SBSettings toggles. (more…)