From the category archives:

Jailbreak App Tips

Seven jailbreak methods for organizing your iPhone apps

March 13, 2010

One of the best reasons to jailbreak has to be because the default Springboard just sucks at organizing hundreds of applications. I’d say there are seven major ways to organize your home screens using 3rd party applications: some can require extensive set-up, but some are as easy as installing and playing. Most of these apps [...]

Read the full article →

Are you switching between the same two iPhone apps often? Try LastApp! [Tips and Tricks]

March 3, 2010

LastApp is a jailbreak utility by ashikase that uses Activator and Backgrounder to help you toggle between the two most recently used apps on your iPhone. This can be a real timesaver for situations where you want to tweet a link from Safari mobile, or when you want to send a quick browser link to [...]

Read the full article →

How does my iPhone Homescreen Stack up?

November 5, 2009

[This setup requires jailbreak]
Two nights ago I decided that my method of hiding unused icons and accessing them by Spotlight was just far too clumsy. Yes, it looked clean from the outside, but uninstalling was a real pain in the apps. I’d have to load SBSettings, un-hide the icon, wait for a respring, and then [...]

Read the full article →

Jailbreak iPhone App Combo: mQuickDo + iRealQuickSMS to call or text from any screen

October 28, 2009

Here’s a little combo that I’ve been using lately that lets me quickly text or call anyone from any iPhone screen.
mQuickDo ($6.99) is essentially an app launcher, but it can also be used to bring up the volume dialogue with a simple on-screen gesture. iRealQuickSMS ($7.99) is a fantastic SMS app that lets me answer [...]

Read the full article →

Homescreen re-organizing: using Stacks to group similar apps

October 21, 2009

[Ed: this is the first post from Diego Petrucci, our new writer hailing from Italy. Cheers!]
There are many ways to organize your Home Screens like using PogoPlank, Orbit and stuff like that. One that we haven’t covered yet is grouping related apps with Stacks, an alpha (but quite stable) app available on Cydia.
This app creates [...]

Read the full article →

Quick iPhone Tip: Don’t hide your YouTube app icon

October 16, 2009

I haven’t had time to test this with many other apps because of work but I know for sure now that hiding the YouTube app icon (via SBSettings) will kill links to it. This means that apps like Tweetie and Safari will no longer be able to call upon YT for sweet, mobilicious video. I [...]

Read the full article →

mQuickDo Icon Problem & a Quick, Easy Fix

August 25, 2009

Here’s a quick – and quite obvious – tip for use with my current favorite jailbreak app, mQuickDo. I use – and love – mQuickDo for its slick app switching capabilities. As you can see in the screencap above, this lets me very rapidly switch to any of my 5 most used apps from almost [...]

Read the full article →