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Are you an iPhone camera power-user? An Instagram addict, perhaps? If so, then you can never have enough camera shortcuts. A new and free Notification Center add-on called Kamera by iOS developer ravirajm puts two new useful shortcuts in Notification Center.

The first shortcut is a button for getting to the front-facing camera on the iOS device. Since the front-facing camera is more often than not used for self-portraits, the icon resembles ...

Apple Monday released iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S to the public. The first beta of iOS 6.1.1 was released to developers last Wednesday. The update addresses cellular issues that were problematic in terms of performance and stability for some users. It’s a small update, and if you rely on a jailbreak, you shouldn’t update to it – yet.

iOS hacker planetbeing just announced via Twitter Monday ...

As MMi reported late last year, Apple is authorizing the use of payment plans to help prospective iPhone buyers secure
the Apple smartphone inside of India, one of the largest emerging markets for mobile in the world.

According to the latest industry data from IDC, the plan is working. iPhone sales have climbed three-fold in the last quarter. It's a reality made possible by the newfound ability of local customers ...

Early Monday morning, iOS hacker and developer Grant Paul (chpwn) introduced an update for Zephyr, the popular swipe-based multitasking jailbreak tweak for jailbroken iOS devices, to version 1.5, which adds some new features and a lot of stability improvements and bug fixes.

The most notable new feature is that users can now, for fun, take advantage of the iPad-style four-finger swipe gestures on the smaller displays ...

Alleged photographs of the upcoming iPhone 5S have been leaked out onto the Internet from sjbbs.zol.com.cn, a Chinese Web site. As expected, this alleged iPhone 5S looks pretty much exactly like the iPhone 5, as is customary with Apple’s 'S' iPhone upgrades, which usually include some beefed up hardware behind the same basic design as the non-'S' model.

Interestingly, there are some differences in this alleged ...

In case you've missed out on the new jailbreak tweaks Cydia has seen, this recap will highlight the tweaks we've shown you this week. These are in no specific order.

1. Rinngo – $4.99

Rinngo is a new jailbreak tweak that lets you convert songs in your own music library to ringtones. The tweak has a great interface for cropping the sound file and choosing the length. Rinngo also imports it to your ringtones library for you automatically without needing to use iTunes. After you make the ringtone, just pick it from the Settings application and you can use it for your phone calls.



2. FullForce for iPhone – 99¢

FullForce ...

Chances are that many of you like having custom ringtones on your iOS devices, rather than the built-in ringtones. Unfortunately, if you want a song, iTunes is going to charge you for the ringtone even though you already own the song. You can create your own ringtones manually with a few steps in iTunes, however a new app called Rinngo by iOS development team Cocoanuts lets you do everything right from your iOS device.

Rinngo uses the power of Action Menu to bring up the Rinngo ...

Back near the end of January, we showed you an upcoming jailbreak tweak called Pages+ by iOS developer SBCoders, which supercharged the home screen with different features, such as multi-page wallpapers, home screen cards, and lots of coloring options.

Pages+ became available for download in Cydia's the ModMyi repository on Saturday for $1.99. Pages+ is a great way to make your home screen look different than every body else’s and to give it some pop. Pages+ ...

A jailbreak tweak that allows users to pack more application icons per page called More Icons by phoenix3200, is now available in Cydia's BigBoss repository with full support for the iPhone 5 and for iOS 6.1.

Phoenix3200 just recently updated most of his other popular jailbreak tweaks for iOS 6.1 and the iPhone 5, however an ongoing bug in the private beta of More Icons delayed its public release. That bug is now gone, and the tweak ...

It’s not hard to forget that your iPhone is in silent mode. In fact, sometimes we might not even be reminded that we’re in silent mode until we miss an important call because we spend our time looking at the display and not the silent switch to notice that strip of orange. The solution? – Tell us that we’re in silent mode on the display!

A new free jailbreak tweak called MuteIcon by iOS developer La bla bla will do just that. ...

If you’re one of those Status Bar minimalists that hates having your Status Bar cluttered with a lot of information, then a new free jailbreak tweak called BatteryPeek by iOS developer Qusic might be for you.

BatteryPeek will hide the battery percentage from your Status Bar outright. Your battery icon will still show. When you invoke an Activator action of your choosing, BatteryPeek will quickly flash the numerical battery percentage on your Status Bar. It only stays ...