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If you are one of the many people who wanted Sparrow because it looks and works nicer than Apple’s Mail application, however you were disappointed because it didn’t support push notifications, then a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Sparrow Push by iOS developer Kim Streich might be something you want to install to increase your satisfaction with the Sparrow application. Note: You will still need to pay for the Sparrow application – a $2.99 cost.

Sparrow Push makes it so you ...

Do you find SpotLight useless? Many people do – with the addition of Siri and with jailbreak tweaks making accessing iOS easier than ever, SpotLight has lost most of its luster. If you want to replace SpotLight with something else, then a new jailbreak tweak dubbed WebSpot by iOS developer Vladislav Korotnev might fit your tastes better. It puts a Web site of your choice where SpotLight would normally load up.

WebSpot, once installed, adds a preferences ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of March 12th until today, March 18th as per the opinion of our staff.

1. Deck - $1.99

Deck is an amazing shortcut menu tweak for iOS by iOS developer SBCoders. The tweak is meant to bring a new interface to iOS with features such as application shortcuts, system shortcuts, system toggles, and more. Deck is a great replacement for SBSettings or IntelliScreenX (if you only used it for toggles). Deck is invoked with Activator and has customizable shortcuts ...

Are you one of the many people having a hard time managing your time when you are lost in a good game? Does it cause you to get back to work too late by mistake? A new jailbreak tweak dubbed Gamer will help you manage your time with gaming by keeping you on a time limit. The tweak will set you back $1.50 to reserve your copy, but it has some really cool features any avid iOS gamers will have to try out.

The tweak works like an alarm clock; you set a time for which ...

There are a handful of tweaks in Cydia allowing you to query Siri about your battery percentage, however chances are you have the battery percentage on your status bar already, so it’s not too helpful. In an attempt to make Siri more useful when conveying battery information, BatteryLevelAE by iOS developer Bilal S. Sayed Ahmad was born. It is an AssistantExtensions add-on, and therefore installing it will require the installation of AssistantExtensions as a dependency.
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One thing iOS’s great Mobile Safari browser lacks is the ability to set a home page and having a convenient button for getting to it. There have been jailbreak tweaks in the past to help us roll past these obstacles, however they cost money – Home Page in Safari allows us to add a home page to Safari, as the name suggests and Home Button in Safari adds a button to the Action Menu from Safari allowing us to enter the home page from any Web site we might be viewing in ...

Have you ever wanted to hide your dock on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch just like you can on your Mac? A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed DockHide by iOS developer Pathkiller29 will let you hide the dock and all of the applications on it very quickly and easily. As shown by the screenshots above, you can tell there are some different options to toy around with and those options are shown below:



The options can be configured from ...

If you’re a Chuck Norris fan and you also happen to be a proud owner of a Siri-capable iOS device, then you may enjoy this new AssistantExtensions add-on, which will give Siri the ability to spit out random facts about Chuck Norris every time you say his name. The add-on is called Chuck Norris Facts for ChatBot/Siri by iOS developer iPodHacks142 and it is currently available for free in the Cydia store today.

Chuck Norris Facts for Siri ...

If you have been able to try out OS X Mountain Lion yet, then you may have noticed the Reader button in the URL bar of Safari 5.2, which helps bring text out of all the clutter of images and ads, is always visible whether it can be used or not. In iOS 5 and in Mac OS X Lion, the Reader button is only available in the Safari URL bar when a page is capable of being displayed in Reader view. If you want iOS to react more like the current build of OS X ...

Let’s face it. Sometimes our kids get bored and it quickly becomes annoying for the parent(s). If you are in need of some convenient and quick entertainment for them and you have an iOS device with Siri capability, then you might be in luck. A new AssistantExtensions add-on dubbed iJokes for Siri by iOS developer iPodHacks142 will help keep them entertained for a long while. Even if you don't have kids, you might find this new add-on to be quite the ...

iOS comes with a pretty straightforward and easy to use multitasking system – an App Switcher, which is invoked by pressing the home button twice or if you use Activator instead, a different method. The App Switcher in all of its easy to use glory, sacrifices functionality to stay simplistic. iOS developer Akhil Tolani has decided to make a new multitasking solution dubbed Imperium with even more options and functionality built into it than the multitasking App Switcher. As illustrated by the screenshots ...