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If you're looking for a nerdy but cool wallpaper for your iPhone or iPad then WallpaperLog - a jailbreak tweak fits the bill.

WallpaperLog essentially shows the syslog of your iOS device in real time as the background wallpaper.

WallpaperLog jailbreak tweak is developed by Filippo Bigarella - developer of popular jailbreak apps such as Springtomize 2.

You can check out the screenshot of the jailbreak tweak in action on an iPhone and iPad below:

WallpaperLog will be available for free on Cydia. Filippo has submitted the jailbreak tweak to Cydia and should be available soon.

We'll let you know as soon as it is available.

[via @FilippoBiga]

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Looking for an easier way to move the cursor by a single character to the left or right? Then there is a jailbreak tweak for it called SwipeShiftCaret.

SwipeShiftCaret is a jailbreak tweak that allows jailbroken iOS device users to move the cursor by a single character to left or right by simply swiping on the virtual keyboard.

The nifty little jailbreak tweak does not add an icon or provide any settings in the Settings app, but as you can see in the demo video below, after you've installed this jailbreak tweak, swiping to the right will move the cursor by one character to the right and swiping to left will move it to the left by one character.

SwipeShiftCaret is available for free on Cydia.

Based on our testing, it works quite well in most apps except the Messages app. Hope the incompatibility with the Messages app is addressed soon.

Do you think this is a easier method to move the iOS cursor by a single character?

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If you’re like me, you depend on your iOS device to wake you up on time everyday, thanks to its built-in alarm clock, which is part of the Clock app, which has been built into iOS since the very beginning. Yet, iOS only allows pre-defined tones to be played as the alarm tone; why not play some soothing music instead?

Enter PlayAwake; a new jailbreak tweak that lets users assign any audio file from their music library to ring as an alarm. In order to do achieve this, this tweak adds a new panel to the Clock app that allows users to choose between the standard sounds, such as the well-known ‘Marimba’ one, or a song from the local iOS library of songs, which you synced from iTunes of course. Choosing the latter will bring up the whole library, allowing users to pick the song of their choice, as you can see below.

This tweak doesn’t add any icon to the homescreen, making no changes to how iOS operates other than the new entry in the aforementioned Clock app. Yet, respringing the device might be necessary before this tweak takes effect, yet no further action is required after that.

This tweak is available for $1.99 from the BigBoss repository. In Cydia, just search for PlayAwake and select the first result to install this tweak, unless you have other repos punched in already. For nearly $2, the price might be steep for a tweak that simply adds a small feature that should be available in iOS by default, and perhaps someday Apple might just implement it as default. But, if you’re looking to wake up to your favorite song instead of a boring built-in tone, PlayAwake is meant for you.

This tweak requires iOS 4.0 or above, just like most tweaks being created today, and also requires you to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch. You can follow our step by step guide posted here to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on iOS 4.3.5 using Redsn0w (or PwnageTool), or on iOS 4.3.3 using Redsn0w, PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze and JailbreakMe (that last one being the easiest).

Although the steps mentioned in these guides are easy to follow, it’s recommended that you have some knowledge on iOS diagnostic tasks, such as entering DFU and restoring your device if you ever wish to undo your jailbreak. Don’t worry, you probably won’t want to.

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The native Maps app that comes built into iOS is fairly powerful on its own, but over the last few weeks jailbreak developers have created plug-ins to enhance it: namely Speed for Maps and Compass For Maps, which added an on-screen speedometer and a compass to said app, respectively.

This new tweak, Dashboard for Maps, combines both of the aforementioned tweaks very elegantly, with the bonus of displaying elevation as well. Just like Speed for Maps and Compass for Maps, this tweak doesn’t add any icon to the homescreen. Instead, it simply displays the indicators, which are reminiscent of a car’s dashboard, right on top of the Maps app, as you can see from the screenshot below.

The indicators, as expected, change in real time, similar to what happens on similar tweaks. Yet, Dashboard for Maps also has a degree of user-friendliness that sets it apart from its predecessors. In order to temporarily hide the dashboard, users simply need to click on the Options button of the Maps app, located at the bottom-right corner, and select Hide Dashboard, as shown below.

For additional tweaking, there are quite a few options as well and all of them can be accessed by navigation to a Dashboard for Maps‘ section on the Settings app. From there, users are able to disable the tweak altogether or change its behavior in several ways, ranging from choosing to use a simple speedometer instead of the analog one to adjusting the dashboard’s transparency. It’s also possible to choose which units should be displayed on the speedometer and the altimeter, which can come in handy for use those who might not be familiar with the US unit system.

In order to install this tweak, you first must jailbreak your iPhone. You can follow our step by step guide posted here to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on iOS 4.3.5 using Redsn0w (or PwnageTool), or on iOS 4.3.3 using Redsn0w, PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze & JailbreakMe (that last one being the easiest).

If you’re looking for the best set of status indicators for the Maps app, spending $1 to buy this tweak might be worth it. Yet, since Dashboard for Maps makes use of GPS hardware, it’s not available on the iPad.

Dashboard for Maps is available from Cydia’s BigBoss repository.

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Just a few days ago, the jailbreaking community was taken by surprise when one of its most prominent figure, Comex, joined Apple as an intern. Many have wondered whether he’ll continue developing jailbreaking tools in the future and whether his current ones would be kept.

As most regular readers are likely aware, Comex is the developer of the easiest jailbreaking solution available: JailbreakMe. Using this tool, which works with iOS 4.3.3 and below, any iOS device, including the iPad 2, can be easily jailbroken in a matter of minutes. This is a fully untethered jailbreak that uses a PDF exploit in Mobile Safari to load itself onto any device, requiring no connection to a computer whatsoever.

Now that Comex has crossed over to the white side (or the black side, depending on how you look at things), there’s no doubt that his relationship with the jailbreaking world will change. He will no longer be able to create further jailbreaking tools, as he made it clear in his Q&A over at Reddit. Instead, he will assist Apple at finding exploits, although he believes that others will pick up the slack and develop other tools:

There are a lot of smart people working for Apple already; maybe I can help, but I doubt I can stop people from finding exploits.

As for current tool, JailbreakMe, Comex promises not to modify or take them down. Instead, he’s handing it over to other prominent members of the jailbreaking community who will hopefully continue to develop them:

I’ll hand them over to MuscleNerd or chpwn or whoever will take care of them.

At the beginning of this month, Comex was profiled by Forbes, revealing some of his personal details for his first time, including the fact that he was on leave from University in order to pursue an internship (which he has now obtained). Despite the success he has achieved developing jailbreak tools, which will likely continue throughout his stay at Apple, Comex plans to return to University once the internship is over, even if the Cupertino company offers him a permanent job:

I don’t know if I’d want to do that- I’ve never had a job before and I don’t know what it’s like- and I intend to go back to college soon.
Mostly with congratulations.

Nonetheless, Comex plans to continue jailbreaking his iPhone even though he won’t develop tools personally:

I’ll want to jailbreak my phone, so I hope someone finds them [vulnerabilities]

Here is a snippet from the Q&A:

Did you always set out to be a hacker or was it just something that interested you and found you had a [knack] for?

Comex: I never wanted to be a black hat hacker, but I did enjoy hacking (originally SQL injection and crap) as a natural extension of programming.

Your thoughts on Steve Jobs’ departure?

Comex: Really a shame; I was hoping to meet him some day, and, company direction aside, keynotes won’t be as entertaining without him.

Have you made any money from the jb scene?

Comex: I’ve made a good amount of money through donations, which is mostly being used to help pay for college. JailbreakMe 2.0 was like $40,000; 3.0 was $15,000 (not quite sure why it decreased).

Have you met Steve Jobs?

Comex: I wish.

Can you give any insight on how apple views the Jailbreak communitiesmods?

Comex: I have no idea.

As a huge open book for them to steal take ideas from.

Comex: I certainly don’t mind. Jailbreak community puts an idea in front of people with a crappy implemenation; Apple polishes it to the point where it can be an OS feature. I don’t know whether Apple actually pays attention to jailbreak apps, but see App Store, copy and paste, multitasking, etc…

Firstly, why did you choose to get involved in specifically the iPhone jailbreaking scene, what was it attracted you to the iPhone? Secondly, did you always set out to be a hacker or was it just something that interested you and found you had a nack for? Finally, in regards to the PDF bug used for the JailbreakMe.com jailbreak, where on earth did you get the brilliant idea for it?

Comex: I had one… and it was a device that (a) had a lot of functionality, (b) had a nice and flexible UNIX OS, (c) already had an active homebrew community, and (d) was really cool. :p

I never wanted to be a black hat hacker, but I did enjoy hacking (originally SQL injection and crap) as a natural extension of programming.

FreeType was one of the less studied open source components of iOS.

Do you have any regrets?

Comex: I should have worked on these jailbreaks more consistently, and released them more quickly; I’ve had several exploits fixed on me that could have been used in a jailbreak if I was quicker at packaging.

What, besides money, made you flip to the other side?

Comex: It’s not about money. A large part of my motivation to jailbreak was always the challenge; the internship will be a new sort of challenge.

It’s still unclear what the future will look like after this move, but many feel we haven’t heard last from Comex. Yet, he’ll likely work under the extreme secrecy Apple is known for throughout his internship.

As we’ve mentioned before, this is definitely not the first time that such a huge company has hired someone from the jailbreaking community. Geohot for example was snagged by Facebook a while back, and apart from that, jailbreak developer Peter Hajas, the man behind the famous jailbreak tweak MobileNotifier was also hired by Apple, and his most prominent work with Apple? The Notification Center in iOS 5.

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