SwitchrPlus is a free Cydia tweak that allows you to use all the multitasking goodness of your iPhone even in the lock screen mode. The tweak lets you activate or deactivate the camera LED (iPhone 4 only) directly from the multitasking tray. Note that this tweak is for iOS 4 only. (more…)

Ever since iOS 4.1 has been released with some awesome features including HDR photos, every one has been wanting to upgrade to this free firmware update from Apple. However be aware that iOS 4.1 brings a baseband update 2.10.04 with which you end up losing your unlock. (more…)

Every other day there is a new tweak in Cydia, giving more and more control over your iDevice. For all those avid browsers, you can now set a URL as your Home Page in Safari browser on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Of course, you need to jailbreak for getting this Cydia tweak. (more…)

iPod Touch users who have long missed the Usage statistics on their device can now enable it with a free Cydia tweak, Enable Usage IPT. By enabling this tweak, you can see for how long your iPod Touch is running on battery.  The time since last full recharge is shown in minutes. (more…)

Here is yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4 or iOS 4.0.1. With the multitasking capabilities of the latest iPhone OS, you can now get all information of a song playing in the media player, on your multitasking bar (also called task switcher tray). That is if you install MultiMusicInfo, a $1 Cydia tweak. (more…)

Bored of the classic row and column layout of icons on your iPhone springboard? Here is a small Cydia tweak called GridLock which lets you freely arrange icons any where you like. Just drag and drop the icons to their new place. GridLock is available in BigBoss repository of Cydia at a price of just $0.99. (more…)

Users who are using an unlocked iPhone 4, on unofficial carriers (such as T-Mobile in the US) will find that FaceTime is no longer working. For those of you who are looking to fix this problem and activate FaceTime calling after unlocking iPhone 4, MiTime is a Cydia app which costs you 5.99 USD. (more…)

JailbreakMe 2.0 Star, the userland jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, 3G on iOS 4.0.1 and iPad 3.2.1 relies on a PDF exploit in Mobile Safari browser. In case you have already jailbroken your iPhone, then it is recommended to fix this security vulnerability to avoid any malicious code being installed on your iDevice. (more…)

Finally the popular Cydia app YourTube that lets you download and save YouTube videos has arrived for the jailbroken iPad. Called YourTube HD, this app is similar to FirstClip, the video downloading app, albeit only for YouTube. (more…)

For the unaware, SHSH blobs or ECID SHSH is a unique signature given by Apple for each firmware. While restoring firmware on your iPhone or iPod Touch, iTunes checks the ECID SHSH of your device, and compares it with Apple’s servers. Should they be not matching, iTunes does not allow the firmware restoration. (more…)