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Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of July 16th until today, July 22nd as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. Octopus Keyboard - $4.99

Octopus Keyboard is a great new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Mario Hros because it allows iOS to guess what you’re going to type next. When you see a word that you mean to spell, you can swipe up on the key that you see the word above to auto-insert the word without having to type it out. The ...

WolframAlpha is a very useful site where you can ask questions of all kinds and get intelligent, automatic answers. You can also almost anything – defining words, requesting to know how tall basketball players are, or even solving complex math problems. The site can be used from the Safari Web browser, through their App Store application ($1.99), or even through Siri if you have a Siri-enabled iOS device.

All of these solutions have a problem: Using ...

GameDock for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Devices

Amount Pledged: $44,930
Funding Goal: $50,000
Days To Go: 25

This. Needs. To. Come. Out. Now. The GameDock pummels users with a Mike Tyson like hook to the face of nostalgia as it turns your iDevice into a retro game console. The dock allows users to play any of their iCade games on their television in 1080p goodness. Well the games that support 1080p output anyway. For those interested a $125 pledge secures a GameDock. Each GameDock ...

The hacker behind the in-app iOS purchase hack has started focusing on bringing the hack to the Mac OS platform. And it works.




The Mac OS hack utilizes a similar work around on the user side involving the installations of specific security certificates on their machines. Unlike the iOS version though the hack requires the installation a helper program. The program is entitled “Grim Receiper.” ...

Back in the middle of February, ModMyi featured a KickStarter project called the Cellhelmet TPU (Thermoplastic polyurethane) rubber case for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The case is an American-made iPhone case and it protects every corner of your iPhone with a rigid, bumper-like design. Additionally, the case would come with a one-year guarantee that if your iPhone were to be harmed while inside of the Cellhelmet, cellhelmet.com would replace your iPhone with no questions asked – just pay the $50 handling fee.



Inside of the box you get your Cellhelmet case, two colored back plates ...

Sega recently announced that they are bringing Jet Set Radio HD to the iOS and the Android platform this summer. The game is a port of the classic Dreamcast platformer known as Jet Grind Radio in the United States. The game was previously announced for PCs and consoles but the fact that it is also being released for mobile devices makes it very exciting.

Jet Set Radio was previously praised ...

According to the first edition of Opera’s State of Mobile Advertising report, Apple’s iOS platform average the highest effect cost per mille (eCPM) of $2.85. Second in place was the Android platform with an eCPM of $2.10, with others trailing by below half the eCPM.

For those of you who didn’t know, marketing reports usually use the eCPM standard to measure the effectiveness of an ad or campaign by calculating ...

Apple on Friday recently issued a note to developers outlining a fix for an in-app purchasing exploit that allowed for the free download of content that you had to pay for. Alongside with this note, Apple also announced that the loophole will be plugged when iOS 6 is released this fall.

According to CNET, Apple recommended that’s app that feature in-app purchases should follow a set of guidelines ...

A small snafu present in the current developer edition of iOS 6 restricts the total number of apps users can install on their iDevices.

The number is insanely high. Users with 500 apps installed will begin to noticeably slow down, and engage in auto-reboots, while those who have as many as 1,000 apps will find their device not booting at all. Apparently the high threshold was of little concern to ...

Apple’s older iPhone 3GS, which currently sells in the U.S. for “free” when subsidized by an AT&T contract, is now being sold in India for just $181 (or 9,999 Rupees), when paired with a yearlong prepaid unlimited data plan (one that costs just $55). The new offer which is being promoted by Aircel as “unbelievable” supplies either “unlimited” 3G data (which slows down after certain usage) or a 2G plan ...

For those of you that hate when iOS makes the status bar double its original size in the middle of a phone call, FaceTime call, or when using the personal hotspot feature, iOS developer thekirbylover has a very simple and clean solution that will keep your application icons and application interfaces from being squished by the oversized status bar. The tweak is called MonoBar and as the name might suggest, it keeps your status bar from being any larger than one ...