It is always a good idea to keep a backup copy of all your Cydia applications. At times when you update your firmware, you don’t have to install each package manually, you can do an automatic restore. Here is a Cydia app to back up all your Cydia apps in one go. (more…)

So you, like many others who are aspiring to jailbreak and unlock their iPhones or iPod Touches, are completely clueless as to whether your device can be tethered or unlocked? Well, you don’t have to do all the research yourself. Now you get the answers in a jiffy, thanks to f0recast, a tool released by the iH8sn0w team. Yes, they are the same guys who have helped us jailbreak iPhone 2G/3G/3GS 3.1.3 with Sn0wbreeze. (more…)

After you have jailbroken your iPhone firmware 3.1.3 3G/3GS with Sn0wbreeze, the next step is to unlock it. Here are the steps to unlock your iPhone 3.1.3 using Ultrasn0w 0.92. Note that T-Mobile users, as always, should disable 3G before proceeding with this unlocking. In case you have iPhone 3.1.3 2G, you can jailbreak and unlock it at one go using redsn0w 0.9.4. (more…)

‘iTunes Preview‘ is a newly added interface by Apple, which lets you browse all iPhone apps in your browser. Earlier, you could browse iPhone and iPod Touch apps only in iTunes. We all know how restricting it is, considering the fact that not all PCs can be installed with iTunes, and also not every one likes to have the high resource intensive iTunes on their computer. (more…)

Meebo, the popular social networking platform has finally come to the iPhone. An all-in-one instant messenger, Meebo lets you connect to any of the IM services such as AOL/AIM, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ, Jabber, and many more from a single interface. (more…)

Something that is badly missing on your iPhone is the Bluetooth file transfer feature. Earlier,  iBluetooth a Cydia app has bridged the Bluetooth gap between your iPhone and other devices. Now iBluetooth has a successor, called iBlueNova for all jailbroken iPhones. (more…)

As your video collection grows, it becomes more and more painful to keep moving the video files between your PC and your iPhone or iPod Touch. Not only the time it takes to keep your library synchronized is way too long, but also space is a big constraint on your portable device. A free iPhone app, Air Video can stream videos from your Computer to your iPhone, ridding you of all the copying and moving actions. (more…)

Now here is an app that works exactly opposite of Apple’s Remote app. Called Bowtie (no clue as to the name!), this $0.99 app lets you control the music player on your iPhone or iPod Touch from your computer. (more…)

iPhone users, if you are bored of the built-in Apple Safari browser, take a look at some of the popular alternatives. We have already posted on Mercury web browser which has some intuitive features such as multiple tabs, private as well as offline browsing, PreBrowser, a jailbreak app (Cydia) which brings Palm Pre style browsing with full screen, tabs to iPhone. If everything goes fine, Opera Mini could be available soon in the App Store. (more…)

Guess what? iTunes song downloads are soon going to hit the 10 Billion number! Yes, the counting has started around 7 years back, when iTunes songs were first available for purchase. Apple is holding a contest on this occasion, giving away a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to the winner. (more…)