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.

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.

iPhone jailbreak removal

If you for any reason decide you don’t need the jailbreak any ore on your iPhone here is how you can do it. This will also work the same way on your iPod Touch and iPad.

Some users who jailbreak their iPhone proceed with installing massive amounts of apps and tweaks which in the end makes their device lagging slow and somewhat unstable. Or they just decide they have to take their iPhone to the Genius bar for some kind of repair.

So what should they do?

New Cydia tweak: Masks

Recently we have discovered a new and funny Cydia based tweak for your jailbroken iPhone. The tweak is called Masks. It was developed by Limneos. Thie tweak will change all your icons in predetermined shapes. You will still be able to clearly distinguish any icon but it will change the format of it.

This tweak comes with some interesting wallpapers and lockscreens. You will be bale to chose from more than 40 different masks. Masks come in different shapes, some of them look like Apple logo, interesting geometric shapes, snowboarders etc.

Cydia improvements

Jay Freeman also know as the hacker behind the Cydia app is working on a new improvement for all jailbreakers. This improvement comes in the shape of a “full package index”. This index will be a central database for Cydia apps and should contain all purchases you made through Cydia.

Jailbreaking, ebook reading and Apple

Apple is again busy to protecting its policies. The latest counter hack coming from Apple is a blow to ebook reading community. One of the main ebook reading apps in the Apple world is iBook. In case you didn’t know iBook is a free app available in the App Store, and you can purchase or even download for free, plenty of good books for your iPhone or iPad.

iBooks is where the Apple’s current counter attack is going on. They have designed a cunning countermeasure against jailbroken devices. But how did they do it?

How to use Open SSH to transfer music and video to your iPhone and iPad

Open SSH is a software that helps you to connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer and move files from the computer to your iPhone or iPad. Please note: when you install Open SSH you wont see any new icon on your screen.

Here are simple steps to use Open SSH on your iPad to install apps.

To install Open SSH your iPhone or iPad needs to be jailbroken. You can use the most current jailbreak tool available for untethered jailbreak which is Greenpois0n RC6.

Cydia servers blocked in UK, China and Ireland

Every day brings some new development in the jailbreak world.

Unfortunately we have just heard that some carriers in UK, Ireland and China are blocking access to Cydia servers. UK carrier Three after being contacted about this issue replied that this is so because they are blocking access to Cydia to prevent spread of adult content.

Three is well know for it harsh policies toward adult content and warez websites. So this blocking of Cydia is a direct result of their intentions of preventing adult and warez website from reaching iPhones in their network and not as a way of preventing iPhone jailbreaks.

Voice Notifications app from Cydia

As we always say, there are plenty of reasons to jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia.Our good friends Cydia developers, are always working hard to improve things and enhance the magic of your iPhone.

The newest tweak coming from a developer nicknamed infectionFX (aka Tyler Nettleton) is a jailbreak app branded as Voice Notifications. This app is designed with the goal to make the iPhone talk to you. With this app when you receive an SMS, call or get an email you will hear a voice notifying you about the event. You can choose and personalize what will the voice say to you. There wont be an icon on your sprinboard for this app. This is so because the developer wanted to preserve the space on your screen for your other, more important apps.

Prevent accidental upgrades of your jailbroken iPhone

One issue frequently occurring is accidentally upgrading of iOS versions. As with any other software the best option is almost always to have the newest version.

But this isn’t necessarily so in the iOS world, especially if you are interested in the jailbreak and the unlock.

Many users have had the nightmarish experience of connecting their iOS device to iTunes and after choosing the wrong option seeing how their previously jailbroken device is upgrading its firmware.If you are one of such users there is now a tool that can help you with this problem.