Cydia tweaks: listen to Youtube on your screen locked iPhone

Youtube is an amazing repository of interesting stuff, shorter or longer videos of every possible topic you could imagine. And yes it does contain many songs which are quite popular nowadays. Who doesn’t enjoy listening to his favorite band or singer while doing something else like running or doing some homework? The problem with this approach is that you need to keep your iPhone in an active state, and this isn’t easy or desirable if your iPhone is in tucked in your pocket. To help with this issue, there is a new iPhone app which will allow you to listen to Youtube videos even if your iPhone is securely resting in your pocket or anywhere else.

Best App repositories to add

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone and make the best use of the jailbreak you will need to learn a bit about Cydia repositories. Repositories are servers accessible online, offering a large number of iOS apps and tweaks for iPhone users. Besides apps and tweaks these repos also offer other useful stuff like ringtones, wallpapers and much more.  Here is the top five list of the best repositories you can use to improve your iPhone or iPad.

Saurik on jailbreaking and legality of it

Recently the tech freedom activists behind Electronic Frontier Foundation asked for help in the fight for keeping jailbreaking a legal act. People from EFF wanted their supporters to leave comments on the website of US Copyright office in support of jailbreaking. The comments section on their website was shut down ten days ago, and following this, Copyright office shared the posted comments online. There were only 700 recorded posts made, but some real big names in the iOS jailbreak world were adding their weight to this fight. One of those important figures from the jailbreak community was the famous Saurik, owner and maintainer of Cydia, the unofficial app store for iOS. Jay Freeman, which is the real name of Saurik, added more than 5 pages of his thoughts and facts on why the jailbreaking is legal and why it needs to stay legal in the future.

Almost like Siri: Cydia app Sara for other iPhone models

One of the most valued advantages of iPhone 4S is certainly it’s Siri voice control app. Since iPhone 4S is now a jailbreak friendly device thanks to hard work from the jailbreak community, many different Siri related tweaks are becoming available. Among them, a number of apps which are Siri like or enable Siri on iOS devices other than iPhone 4S have been released recently. So far the most popular alternative to Siri is being delivered through Spire. But Sara is a tweak which will enable Siri even on older iOS devices. Yes it is true, it will work even on iPhone 3G!

Cydia tweaks: Customize Siri background

As always jailbreaking your new iPhone 4S and any other iOS device by the way, can give you a lot of fun and make your iPhone better and different than your friends devices. This time we present you a simple tweak which is capable of modifying the slightly boring background of the standard Siri voice assistant. Siri is as you know a superb voice control and interface app which was launched first time with iOS 5 on iPhone 4S, but was later hacked by jailbreak developers and introduced on some other iPhone models.

Cydia apps: DisplayRecorder updated to version 1.2.5

DisplayRecorder, is a Cydia app created by well known jailbreak dev Ryan Petrich has just being upgraded to version 1.2.5. If you haven’t used this app before, DisplayRecorder is an app which allows you to record any activity on your iPhone screen. You can also save the video of the activity as .avi file which can be later used for different purposes like publishing it on Youtube, Facebook or any other social network. It contains a large scale of different options and customizations. You can easily enable custom gestures which will activate the app, you can choose the quality settings of your video and so on. All preferences of this app can be adjusted in iOS settings app.

Jailbreak tweak: how to forward your text messages to your email

If this is what you need by some chance, here is to solve the problem.

iForward is a great Cydia jailbreak tweak which will redirect your SMS messages to your email. There are different reasons you would want to do something like this. Perhaps it is your privacy you want to protect? If so, iForward could be an ideal solution for your needs. You can fetch this jailbreak tweak from Cydia app store. Of course, before you can get it and use it, you need to jailbreak your device with RedSn0w, Sn0wbreeze or some other jailbreak tool for iOS devices. This app was developed and launched by Ryan Conigliaro, who made it compatible with both iOS 4.x and iOS 5. Any configuration setting you need to adjust, can be done inside the standard iOS settings app. Afterwards, all new SMS will be efficiently delivered to your email inbox. Nice, isn’t it?

Cydia saves SHSH blobs for your iPhone iOS 5.0.1

Your favorite jailbreak app and jailbreak app store, Cydia made and maintained by Saurik aka Jay Freeman has introduces some nice new features. Most important for iPhone and iPad users is probably the ability to save SHSH blobs. SHSH blobs are immensely important for jailbreakers, since SHSH blobs are needed if you ever want to restore your device to some previous IOS version. This is especially useful for jailbreaking as older iOS versions are usually much easier to jailbreak as the tool are already available. This is the reason Apple does not want to you to get back on previous versions of the firmware.

Siri0us app which emulated Siri on iOS devices removed from Cydia app store

We have recently seen many interesting Siri based apps which have a great potential for revolutionizing iOS and mobile computing. One of them called Siri0us was released only a couple of days ago, but it seems that it wasn’t meant to last. Siri0us was about enabling Siri dictation on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, and while not as great as Siri itself it was an interesting addition especially as it helped with voice based Search and Note apps. Since it didn’t had access to official Siri servers, it had to relay completely on Nuance API. The problem was that Nuance didn’t authorize the use of their software for these purposes. And to avoid further confrontation and possible lawsuits, Eric Dean, the developer of Siri0us has decided to pull out this app from Cydia altogether.

iPhone Jailbreak tweaks: Infinifolders updated to suport iOS 5

@Chpwn has just upgraded his jailbreak tweak  Infinifolders in order to make it fully compatible with the latest firmware version, iOS 5.  Infinifolders version 1.4.0 now fixes bugs and gets small improvements.

For those of you who didn’t know, Infinifolders enable jailbreak users to enjoy unlimited number of icons on their devices. Here are the most interesting features of this fabulous jailbreak tweak.

Add as many icons as you need.
Browse your additional icons by swiping up or down.
Circumvent Apple’s limitation to 12 apps only.
Numerous customization options
And much more.