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One can only use the limited applications that Apple provides stock for so long before starting to peruse the App Store for better alternatives that include new features, which are vital for the application to work elegantly. Or, if you’re a jailbreaker, you can simply go to Cydia and find what you’re looking for. A new jailbreak tweak will add text-formatting effects to the stock Notes application on all iOS devices for just a dollar. The tweak is called NotesEnhancer ...

One important piece of information that Apple tucks away in the Settings application that users really need to have in their face all the time is how much Internet data they are really using. It serves as a constant reminder that many phone companies are capping our data and that we need to spend less time on our magic boxes and more time outside.

A new free widget is now live in Cydia for free called NetMeterWidget for NC by iOS developer Fairylabs. The widget will display any data ...

If you love playing games on iOS so much that you beat the games quickly and then end up getting bored with them, then you should take a look at a new jailbreak tweak called Underachiever by iOS developer Ingmar Stein. With it, you can reset your in-game achievement progress so that you can try earning all of the achievements all over again instead of playing a pointless game where you’ve already earned all the achievements.

The tweak comes in with quite a practical ...

Some of us thought it would never come; others knew it was just a matter of time. For those that thought it was just a matter of time, chalk one up on the blackboard because you have scored a point. The guys over at Tapbots have been working on Tweetbot for Mac, and today, they have unveiled a free public alpha version that everyone can try out for themselves (if you have a Mac, that is). The free public alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac can ...

If you like Google’s popular new Google Chrome Web browser for iOS, then chances are that you wish there were just a couple extra features to push it over the top. A new jailbreak tweak dubbed BetterChrome by iOS developer Nobita.ZZZ does just that by adding a couple of essential features to Google Chrome that it didn’t have before. The extra options are added to the Google Chrome menu button as shown above.

BetterChrome adds two new buttons to Google Chrome’s options ...

It has been a little while since Twitter updated their logo by rotating their bird icon just a few degrees counter-clockwise. iOS 6 beta 2 came with an updated icon for the integrated Twitter support, but Twitter’s iOS application lagged behind without an icon change. Today, Twitter 4.3 is live in the App Store with not only an updated icon with the new Twitter logo, but also with some new features. The new application ...

If you like getting back to the basics and keeping things clean and simple without using screen swipes, motion, or button gestures to perform boot actions, then a new free jailbreak tweak called MultiBoot by iOS developer Theo is available in Cydia today. MultiBoot gives you booting options right from your home screen with an elegant application icon and an elegant, easy-to-use interface.

MultiBoot adds an application icon to the home screen that blends ...

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to copy and paste multiple separated excerpts from different applications or sources, but didn’t want to go through the cumbersome process of switching between iOS applications to copy and paste each individual part? A new jailbreak tweak dubbed Clips by iOS developer Samball has been released into the BigBoss repository of Cydia today to fix this problem.

So what does Clips do? It offers you a better clipboard solution in iOS. Normally, you can only have one object ...

OS X Mountain Lion’s golden master version was released today, signaling that the release of OS X Mountain Lion to the public is very near. OS X Mountain Lion will be available in the Mac App Store as a digital download for $19.99 sometime this July. In preparation for the nearing deadline for Apple’s new Mac-exclusive operating system, developers need to make sure that their applications will be compatible with the latest version ...

Are you excited for Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps application with turn by turn navigation, 3D maps, and Flyover view? You should be, because it’s awesome and it brings you a whole new perspective of the world around you. Unfortunately, Apple is only bringing some of these heavy duty features to the newer iOS devices such as the new iPad and the iPhone 4S.

An iOS Developer from New Zealand named Cody Cooper ...

Apple’s Mail application for iOS devices is a good, clean mail client, but even with iOS 6’s improved Mail application on the horizon, Apple continues to miss out on some important features that every mail client should have. One of these features is the ability to select more than one e-mail message at once from your inbox – an annoyance where Apple's Mail application requires you to select each and every message one-by-one and can be disturbingly cumbersome if you ...