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Mar 11, 2011
Rodney Potter

Cydia apps: Voice Activator for iPhone

Here is another interesting app which is available only for iPhones with a jailbreak. With this app you can increase the number of already available iPhone voice commands. Now you can do even more things with the help of your voice. This is app is developed by chpwn whose real name is Grant Paul. This app will be available soon and will be available for purchase in the Cydia store. It will enable you to make your own voice commands by typing the words which needs to be said to start some action. You can see the demo of this app in the Youtube video bellow where you can see the different feature of Voice Activator.

Mar 9, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone jailbreak apps: Infinifolder

Infinifolder is an app for your iPhone which enables you to have huge (limitless in fact) number of icons on your iPhone.

In iOS you are by default limited to only 12 icons for a folder. This can be improved on by this small app and you can add as many icons to your folders, And when you want to view all icons in a folder you have to only sweep up or down when you are in the folder to see all icons available in that folder.

Mar 9, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone to TV: how to connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your TV

HDTV

Did you ever wonder about connecting your iDevice to your TV? Apple has made this possible for standard TV as well as for high definition television sets. You can do this with the cables or even better through Wi-Fi connection.

Please keep in mind that different TV sets have different kind of ports and this will determine how will you connect them to your iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Mar 8, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone private surfing with Covert tweak from Cydia

Covert is another great tweak available in Cydia.

This time it is about private surfing on your iPhone or iPad. When you enable this tweak your Safari web browser wont collect any cookies history or other privacy diminishing data. After you download from Cydia and install this tweak please tap on the Tabs in your Safari and choose the Private Browsing option.

The look of Safari will change indicating that you are indeed in the private mode of use. To find this tweak you will need to add Big Boss repository in Cydia. This will work only if you jailbreak your iPhone. To jailbreak you can use Pwnage tools, RedSn0w or GreenPois0n tool.

Mar 8, 2011
Rodney Potter

Cydia apps of choice: OS Faker2

Here is another supper funny Cydia app which you could never find in your usual iTunes app store.
It is called OS FAker 2 and what it does is not that it somehow installs Android or Windows 7 on your beloved iPhone, but instead it just well, fakes, the other OS.

This app will work on your iPhone as any other regular app, the only difference is that it runs in a full screen and that it gives imporession that you are actually runing Android or Windows on your iPhone.

Mar 8, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone jailbreak apps review: Wi-Fi Sync

Connecting your iPhone in order to sync your data is one of those boring tasks which I always wanted to postpone and avoid if possible. I mean it takes time to plug in the iphone, find your USB cable etc. If this is similarly annoying to you, here is an briliant app which can help you make things easier and faster for you. With this app you will be able to sync your iPhone to your computer without any cables, as you will use the WiFi connection to do it instead.

Mar 5, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone lockscreen customization app

What we like most about the iPhone technology is that it is so unique and a increasingly a standard piece of equipment for most of us, yet it can be so nicely customised to reflect your personality and needs. This time we will point you to an interesting app that plays with the Lock Screen feature of your iPhone.

Did you ever thought about modifying your Lock Screen so it can show you some useful data while the iPhone is locked? Well you can do this now with the new app called Smart Lock Screen Creator.

Mar 5, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone 3G tip: increase its speed

iphone 3g

Many users of iPhone 3GS have upgraded as soon as Apple provided the iOS 4 upgrade. And many of them are indeed quite happy with the new update. Multitasking, spell checker and other new features have made it worthwhile. But at the same time things turned out differently for those having older models of iPhone 3G. Many users reported that it takes more than few seconds to fire up a simple app. Some apps run so slow that they are almost useless.

Mar 5, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone password problem

Did you ever forgot your password? If you are like rest of us you have certainly at some point forgot your email password, or some other safety password you must have in the Internet world. This can be particularly problematic if you for any reason happen to forget your iPhones password.

Until now the only way to solve this was to restore your iPhone as a new iPhone, but this is not really a good solution if you are like rest of us and have lot of personal data, emails, SMS and so on stored in your iPhone.

Mar 4, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone battery life tips and tricks

iPhone has slowly but surely transformed itself and its primary function as a mobile handset into ubiquitous handheld computing device used for almost any task imaginable, from business, science research, writing to using it as a medical device.

With this incredible array of uses, it simply has to be a energy hog, so battery life has become an important issue for iPhone users.

While iPhone 4 has an improved battery life when compared to older iPhone models (iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) it can still be easily drained out in a single day if used heavily. If you have ever encounter such a problem here are some tips which should be helpful to you.