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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

Apple has rejected Grooveshark, and the company has decided to release their iPhone app in Cydia. Just in case you are not familiar with Grooveshark, this is a popular online music streaming service that lets you search and find music, listen to songs, and view recommendations of other Grooveshark users. Grooveshark for iPhone lets you connect to your online music library, and access your playlists. (more…)

A data toggle has now been added to the Cydia app, SBSettings, which lets you enable or disable EDGE/3G data connection. This data toggle seems to be working even on the latest iPhone 3.1.3 OS. By setting a bogus IP address of 1.1.1.0, SBSettings Data Toggle switches off your data connection, thus saving you bandwidth and keeping your iPhone running longer. (more…)