Install Siri On iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPod touch With Twitter & Facebook Integration Using Free WordJelly Siri Server [VIDEO]

The Apple iPhone 4S has been with us for about seven months now, which means that we have also had the fabulous Siri personal assistant organizing our digital lives for the same amount of time. For those non iPhone 4S owners the lack of official Siri support has been

AlwaysArrange For iPhone Allows You To Rearrange App Icons Without Entering Wiggle Mode

For those of you who think that using a smartphone should require the minimal amount of effort possible to operate, then having to arrange icons on the iPhone’s home screen may involve more effort than some are willing to expend. Thankfully, those who are jailbroken, and pay regular visits to the Cydia store will more than likely have managed to find some packages to automate certain processes.

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.

 

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Control Your iOS Device’s Brightness By Swiping Your Thumb On The Status Bar With SwipeBright

If you are anything like me, then you will appreciate the little Cydia tweaks that bring small changes to the way iOS operates, as well as finding yourself drawn to extensions that enhance the visual appearance of the OS in subtle but noticeable ways. Don’t get me wrong here, the larger more-in-your-face tweaks obviously have their benefits, and can be extremely helpful to some people, but it tends to be the more intricate, small and useful packages that stand the test of time. The SwipeBright tweak that has found its way onto Cydia is a prime example of one of these simple but extremely useful tweaks and is an implementation of the brightness controls that I personally have been waiting for. When installed, SwipeBright simply allows the user to control the level of the display’s brightness by making a simple left and right swipe gesture directly onto the status bar at the top of the display. The gestures are there to represent an actual swipe on the brightness slider, meaning that a right-hand (left to right) swipe on the status bar will increase the brightness whereas a left (right to left) swipe will produce the opposite result and dim the display’s brightness. Although not really required, SwipeBright installs with its own configurable preferences bundle directly within the native Settings app. The first of these settings allows the user to simply toggle the tweak on or off, something which I am an advocate for and believe all Cydia tweaks should come with. The second option allows users to restrict the tweak to the home screenonly, meaning that SwipeBright would only be active when one of the user’s home screen is visible. If this option is set to off then the tweak can be invoked via the status bar whilst inside an app and at the device’s lock screen, as well. The third and final option relates to the tweak’s Deadzone sensitivity, and refers to how sensitive the status bar actually is to sliding. When the sensitivity slider is set to a higher level, the user will need to slide their finger more to invoke the tweak and vice versa. SwipeBright is one of those useful but minimalistic tweaks that looks to be very well implemented and something most users will find useful. The only issue that I experienced, was needing to set an alternative Activator option for SBSettings due to the fact that it used a left swipe on the status bar to activate the drop down. SwipeBright is available from the BigBoss repository at a cost of $0.99 and is compatible with iOS 4 and above.

Redsn0w Jailbreak Tool For Windows And Mac Updated To v0.9.10b7

While the jailbreak loving world has been waiting patiently for the next iOS jailbreak, and have their eyes firmly fixed on any updated regarding it from Pod2g, the iPhone Dev Team have been hard at work as usual implementing additional features and updates to their popular Redsn0w jailbreak tool.

The Dev Team have pushed out the seventh beta of the current Redsn0w release, taking the tool to version 0.9.10b7, meaning that it now comes packed with an array of new features, as well as preliminary support for a very exciting new aspect of the tool, hopefully to come in the next release. The Dev Team have announced their intentions to include built-in support for firmware restores which will negate the need for users to restore their devices through Apple’s iTunes software, meaning that users will be able to handle all of their jailbroken needs from within one application.

The 0.9.10b7 release also brings with it the implementation of the Corona A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, as long as they are running iOS 5.0.1. The Redsn0w improvements also includes the ability for users to re-install the aforementioned jailbreak for those who have managed to accidentally uninstall the untether. One of the biggest aspects of Redsn0w is the ability to stitch together a custom firmware bundle, which is an aspect that has also been improved upon with the new ability to grab saved blobs directly from Cydia.

Finally, the latest Redsn0w beta will now provide additional information about the connected device. The example used by the Dev Team relates to the iPhone 3G and 3GS, claiming that it will now display whether or not the 3G has a vulnerable baseband boot loader or whether the 3GS has an old exploitable bootrom. The updated Redsn0w is definitely good news for those A5 users who are sitting on iOS 5.0.1, but the big news has to be the planned restore feature that will hopefully come with the next Redsn0w release.

For the full official release notes, head on over to the Dev Team blog and read update number 2. Alternatively, you can download the latest Redsn0w for Mac and Windows from the links give at the end. When running the Windows version of the software, be sure to run it in Administrator mode to eradicate any issues.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.10b7 [Windows / Mac]

 

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