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LiveClock App Updated for iOS 4.0

simonivan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:37:21 +0000

Here’s a neat little jailbreak tweak that’s finally jumped on the 4.0 bandwagon. LiveClock makes your home screen clock icon – you guessed it – live! The second-hand ticks along, and the icon displays your current time rather than it being eternally 10:15 on the dot.

It might be tiny but it’s accurate, and that’s what counts! It looks pretty sharp on the Retina Display, too… Read More

NowPlayingPandora Makes it That Much Easier to Share Your Barry Manilow Crush

tanloc2t — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:37:20 +0000

NowPlayingPandora is an ActionMenu plugin that makes it easy to tell the world what you’re listening to. All that it takes is a quick copy and paste, and just like that, all of your twitter followers will know just how much you adore you know who.

It’s refreshing to see that one of the best jailbreak apps ever — ActionMenu — is still receiving support on the developer end. The latest plugin to arrive on the scene is appropriately entitled, NowPlayingPandora…

Another Great Jailbreak App Falls by the Wayside: QuickReply for SMS is “Depreciated” but not “Dead”

nhiepphong — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:04:19 +0000

After jailbreaking with Limera1n, one of the first apps I went to reinstall was QuickReply for SMS. QR is an app that allows you to reply to incoming text messages no matter where you are on your phone — without ever having to leave the current app.

I was disappointed to see the headline in the app description (now about a month old) that QuickReply is “depreciated, not dead, depreciated.” Author Gaurav Khanna goes on to explain that he’s dropped all support for QuickReply for SMS, meaning the bugs and problems with it are here to stay. Read More

Mark Read Helps Keep Your iPhone’s Inbox Looking Good

husain — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:04:17 +0000

Answer me this, how many times have you risen from a night’s slumber, only to find your email inbox littered with stuff that you don’t want to deal with at the moment? Or, what about mail that you just don’t need to read at all?

In times like these, it would be nice if the iPhone featured a “Mark As” feature to quickly mark email as being read or unread. I’m sure Apple will eventually get on the ball and add this strangely absent feature, but for those who are jailbroken, the future is now…

Your Top 5 Cydia Minimalist Essentials

simonivan — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:44:41 +0000

We all know the story. There’s so many can’t-live-without apps in Cydia. But once you install everything, your iPhone becomes a mess of apps competing for (system) power.

A few months later, you’ve sacrificed speed for functionality. Here’s my list of the 5 Cydia downloads that I could be happy with… Read More