Make Syslog As Your iPhone’s Wallpaper With WallpaperLog [Jailbreak Tweak]
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]
SwipeShiftCaret: Jailbreak Tweak Allows You to Move Cursor by One Character With a Swipe
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.
Use Your iPod Music Library Songs As Alarm Clock Sound On Your iPhone With This Jailbreak Tweak
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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This Jailbreak Tweak Adds Compass, Elevation And Speedometer To The Maps App On iPhone
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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