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Listen to YouTube and Safari background audio in iOS 6
If you update your iOS device from iOS 5 to iOS 6, 6.1, or 6.1.2, apart from native Google apps like YouTube and Maps, you’ll notice that videos from websites like YouTube on Safari will no longer play the audio in the background. Although music apps such as Pandora and Spotify play background audio fine, Apple disabled background audio playback from any video played on the web browser. This…
10 Best Cydia apps and tweaks for iPhone 5 and iOS 6
If it’s your first time jailbreaking an iPhone you probably don’t know many Cydia tweaks and apps and won’t find Cydia or jailbreaking that useful. There are many ways you can customize your device after jailbreaking it. You can install themes, change icons, resize icons and do much more. Many restrictions can be eliminated from the device after jailbreaking it. Before doing any of this customization, once you install Cydia, apps and…
Auxo, reinvented iOS multitasking, now available in Cydia for iOS 5.1
Auxo, the jailbreak tweak that brings a different multitasking system to iOS, is now available in Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices running iOS 5 or later. The tweak was first released for iOS 6 devices, but not many users were able to get it due to the lack of jailbreak for most iOS 6 compatible devices like the iPhone 5. This video from MyJailbreakMovies shows what Auxo can to the iOS apps…
Auxo jailbreak tweak reinvented multitasking on iOS (video)
The first time iOS received multitasking was back in 2010 when Apple introduced the iPhone 4 – that’s two iOS versions ago. Ever since it was released, iOS users can say that Apple has not added any major improvements to the multitask system in iOS, even in the iPhone 5 multitasking is almost the same as the iPhone 4 with iOS 4. Back in early October member of The Verge’s forums…
Improve your iPhone, iPad security with these Cydia apps
By Apple patching all jailbreak releases, many people believe that by jailbreaking their iOS device it will make the device completely insecure. This is not true unless you are Barrack Obama. You can actually make your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch more secure by jailbreaking it, if FindMyiPhone is not enough for you. After jailbreaking your device, in Cydia you can find many tweaks and apps that…
Scroll wallpaper on your iPhone with Go Desk (Cydia tweak)
Android has more customization than a stock iPhone does. But a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia can be customized as much as an Android device. One of the customization Android offer out-of-the-box is scrolling wallpaper. When scrolling the home screen on an Android device (from left-to-right or righ- to-left), the wallpaper scrolls as well. There no option to do this with stock iOS. But for jailbroken iOS users, there’s now an option to…
Redirect YouTube links to the new YouTube iPhone app with YTOpener
Last week, Google released its own native YouTube app in the App Store for iPhone and iOS devices. Although this is the YouTube native app now, YouTube links from Safari, text messages or other places will open up in the stock (old) YouTube app. But thanks to Cydia, if you have a jailbroken device, you can open YouTube links or videos in the new YouTube app by just downloading…
Turn on iPhone flashlight from the LockScreen with Torch (Cydia tweak)
Using the iPhone 4S or 4 camera LED requires you to download either a free or paid flashlight app from the App Store. Then to use the LED as a flashlight you have to launch the app from the home screen, requiring the iPhone’s LED and screen to be on at the same time-consuming the battery faster. It doesn’t have to be like this if your iPhone is jailbroken. A…
Set Chrome as default browser on your iPhone, iPad with BrowserChooser
Not so long after Google Chrome made it way to the App Store, hackers of the jailbreak community are making tweak for it and putting it in Cydia. Thanks to iOS hacker Ryan Petrich, we can now set Google Chrome as the default web browser in iOS. Petrich has developed a Cydia tweak called ‘BrowserChooser’ which allows you to ‘switch default web browsers between Chrome, Opera Mini, iCab Mobile, Dolphin Browser, Atomic Browser and Safari.’ The tweak works…
Add iOS 6 photos sharing menu on iOS 5 right now (video)
It’s ridiculous how time consuming is to share a photo on social website like Facebook using iOS 5,with the exception of Twitter. On iOS 5 to share/post a photo to a social website — other than Twitter because iOS 5 has a tweet button — you need to download the application, you cannot do it from Safari or within the Photos.app. Apple added a photo sharing menu in iOS 6 which includes…
