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Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of November 12th until today, November 18th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. SLightEnhancerSearch – FREE

SLightEnhancerSearch is the reason to start using SpotLight. It supercharges the feature so that SpotLight can be used as a hub to search all kinds of things like the App Store, Cydia, YouTube, and a whole lot more. When you search for a Cydia tweak with SpotLight, for example, just hit enter and Cydia will launch and load up whatever ...

Quick reply for text messaging is something that iOS lacks. There have been many attempts in the past to make text messaging faster and more efficient, like biteSMS and Messages+, but they generally come with large price tags attached. A new jailbreak tweak dubbed ImmediateSend by iOS developer snakeninny allows us quickly reply to text messages without ever leaving the interface you’re in.

As shown above, when you receive a text message banner notification from someone, ...

With iOS 6, Apple introduced a new feature that shows ‘smart’ banners in Mobile Safari when you visit a mobile Web site that has an application in the App Store. Not only that, but if you do have the application for the service installed, then it just bugs you to open the application instead of using the Mobile Safari version. The idea seemed like a good idea at first, but when it comes right down to it, they become annoying really quick.

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One of the more popular media players in the market, VideoLAN’s VLC media player, may very well be returning to the App Store in the near future. Roughly two years ago, iOS developer Applidium brought VideoLAN’s VLC media player to the App Store. The app was available for free but shortly after its release, was removed due to a licensing issue. The issue mainly revolved around VLC’s general ...

One of China’s largest iOS device suppliers, Lanyou Shuma, was recently tried in court for evading taxes by smuggling iPhones into the country. It was discovered that over the past two years, Lanyou Shuma managed to smuggle over $80 million worth of iPhones into China. The most interesting part of it all is that they did all this by having what looked like typical housewives smuggle them into ...

Warner Bros. recently launched an iOS app that will help keep avid TV fans up to date with their favorite TV shows. The application is limited and may take some time to find its footing though. Day After US is marketed as the on-the-go option for those who want to watch the most current episodes of Warner Bros. and CBS series the day after they air. Users can catch up with shows like Gossip Girl, The ...

Unless you’ve been living in a cave without power, Internet, and iOS devices, you probably know about the rather popular new Game Center-based word and strategy game called Letterpress that everyone is playing now. It's free, with limited features, and includes a 99¢ in-app purchase that can unlock more content. The game has received its first update today to version 1.1.

To begin, the game now gives the user the ability ...

One of the most favorited and widely used jailbreak tweaks in Cydia is CallBar by Elias Limneos and Joshua Tucker. The tweak makes incoming and outgoing calls in iOS more intuitive. Today, an updated version of CallBar is out in Cydia and it adds not only new features, but it also brings support for iOS 6, meaning the tweak now has support stretching from iOS 4, all the way to Apple's newest mobile operating system.

The update also now integrates right in with iOS 6’s new message reply feature, which ...

Reports yesterday of Apple talking with cable operators about an “imminent” product launch may have mischaracterized the immediacy of Apple’s launch plans.

A reports today by All Things D confirms that Apple has indeed talked with large cable operators, but the launch is not imminent by any means. Jefferies and Co.’s James Kisner claimed only one major cable operator is still conducting tests to determine ...

U.S. Judge Paul S. Grewal recently granted requests from both Apple and Samsung to add additional products, like the companies’ flagship Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 handsets, to a patent dispute that is scheduled to begin hearings in 2014. It was noted that the additions were granted because both companies were “diligent in amending” their claims during the early stages of the lawsuit according to Reuters.
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This past week, CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman while at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara. One of the more interesting subjects that the two discussed between was Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform and how it compared to its two main rivals, Apple’s iOS platform and Google’s Android platform. As expected, Ballmer didn’t have good things to say about his competitors. ...