iOS X Ultimatum Theme Brings OS X Mountain Lion Desktop Experience To iPhone

Although we love the iOS jailbreaking community and regularly cover the latest and greatest tweaks and enhancements that land on Cydia, you will notice that we don’t

How To Enable Handwriting Recognition In Apps On iOS

If you actually stand back and think about it, some of the most popular apps on an iOS device are centered around text input for storage of information

How To Replace Volume HUD On iPhone With A Percentage Indicator

Apple’s iOS does a pretty good job at performing as an excellent mobile operating system and is debatably one of the best options available, if not the best. With that said,

How To Enable Siri Location Based Searches, Maps And Directions In Unsupported Countries

Regardless of whether you love it or hate it, Apple has pumped a lot of time, money and resources into the development and release of the Siri virtual assistant. And with rumors

Make Free Voice Calls Via Bluetooth on iPhone

Did you know that Bluetooth is the Anglicized version of the name given to Kind Harald I of Denmark who was well-known for uniting various tribes in Denmark into one single Kingdom? Not exactly relevant to the iBluetooth Call app, but still it’s worth knowing that our technology names are steeped in history.

So, the iBluetooth Call jailbreak app that is currently running at version 1.3 is something which I would describe as a “novelty” which allows users to connect to other jailbroken devices through Bluetooth for the purpose of initiating local voice chats that are passed between the wireless technology. By calling this app a novelty, I don’t want to deter from the fact that it is actually a fairly decent idea and a very good implementation, it is just that it doesn’t really provide any real-life benefits due to the limitations of Bluetooth.

To make effective use of this app, a number of people in a group need to install it upon their jailbroken device and invoke a chat session by connecting their devices through the supplied app. Anyone who intends to use iBluetooth Call will obviously need to have a device with Bluetooth capabilities as well as a built-in microphone. Considering the app is compatible with iOS 3.0 and above, hence there is a possibility that users of the old second-gen iPod touch could install this tweak and join the Bluetooth voice convo party. In other words, a device running iOS 3.0 and above, tagged along with a built-in microphone (or a wired headset with a microphone) is all what it needs to kick off this app.

The idea of being able to talk in a small group through Bluetooth is quite an attractive one, and as the developer points out, it could be a nice little thing to use in a small party or with friends. However, in real-world situations, the connectivity limitations of the Bluetooth technology make this a tweak of form and novelty over mass function.

iBluetooth Call is available as a free of charge download from the BigBoss repository and is compatible with Bluetooth enabled devices which are running iOS 3.0 and above, and have a built-in microphone or an attached compatible headset.

Here’s How You Can Record Skype Voice Calls On Your iPhone

It seems that all things relating to Microsoft’s Skype service has been top of the gossip over the last couple of days, with the company releasing an additional mobile version of the app for Windows Phone, as well as bringing the Skype experience for the first time to a portable gaming device with their free of charge PlayStation Vita app.

iOS developer dmarinov has turned the tables, bringing the attention back to jailbroken iOS devices with the release of his aptly named Call Recorder for Skype tweak that has hit Cydia during the course of the last day. The primary purpose of the package is fairly simple and self explanatory; allowing users to record voice Skype calls directly on to their device as a plain audio file.

Having the ability to record those Skype calls is likely to be a feature that will prove very useful to a lot of people, especially those who use Skype on a daily basis for business-based conversations. After all, it is always good to have that extra bit of backup if anything that was discussed during the call gets disputed at a later date.

After installation, the Call Recorder for Skype tweak does not install any additional home screen icons, but instead, does most of its work from directly within the official Skype app that is available from the App Store, but also comes with a preferences bundle within the native Settings app. The functionality is as simple and efficient as giving or denying the tweak permission to record calls and is operated through the toggle of a simple Boolean value.

When accessing the Settings bundle, users can opt to either turn Skype recording on or off. Obviously, if the toggle is flipped to on then each time a call is placed or received through the Skype application, it will be recorded and saved directly to the device with the information being displayed in the Audio Recordings tab in Settings. The developer has also left a little tip in the description within Cydia. If the Skype account in question has available credit, then the tweak will enable the ability to record standard phone calls. It is worth noting that you should never record a conversation without informing the recipient of the call that they are being recorded.

Call Recorder for Skype is available to download from the ModMyi repository at a cost of $6.99 and requires iOS 4.0 or above. The tweak works on a one-off payment basis and requires no on-going subscription charges.

Prevent People From Deleting Photos From Your iPhone’s Camera Roll With PhotoProtect

One of the most sensitive sections of a smartphone has to be the media gallery, or in the case of an iPhone, the Camera Roll, where all photos get saved to when the camera hardware is used to capture videos or still images. Having my iPhone fall into the hands of one of my mischievous and them deleting some of my important images is always something that concerns me, but thankfully the jailbreak development community has us covered, once again.

The PhotoProtect tweak has been around on Cydia for quite some time, but often gets overlooked by users who are looking for a tweak that offers the functionality of preventing photos from being deleted. Developed by Aaron Ash, probably more well known for his Barrel and Multifl0w tweaks, PhotoProtect makes use of the standard UIAlertView to inform the end-user that the photo that they have tried to delete could not be removed.

After installation, PhotoProtect does not offer any additional home screen icons but does come with its own configurable options which can be found in the native iPhone Settings app. The PhotoProtect preferences contain the all important on or off toggle switch, which in my humble opinion all mobile substrate tweaks should come with as standard, as well as options to customize the title and message body of the pop-up alert that is presented on-screen when a photo is tried to be deleted.

From the device content security point of view, the tweak isn’t fool proof and can easily be turned off through the Settings bundle, leaving users free to delete photos at will after that. However, as a novelty tweak, it is a quick deterrent to those who would give up after a failed first attempt, the PhotoProtect tweak actually proves to be a very useful package.

PhotoProtect was obviously built and launched well before Apple allowed us to create our own albums of images from Camera Roll photographs and for that reason it doesn’t intercept the delete request for images that are also stored in an album, meaning if you attempt to delete an album image; it will be removed regardless of the tweak being active or not.

PhotoProtect is available as a free of charge download from the BigBoss repository. If the tweak doesn’t seem to work right away, I personally found that a device reboot solves the issue.

 

Source: RedmondPie(DOT)com