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While the multitasking App Switcher is wonderfully easy to use, Apple never gave it support for landscape orientation for when you are in an application that wants you to have your iDevice sideways. This makes using the App Switcher awkward at times. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed SwitcherLand by iOS developer BTPankow will give you a landscape orientation App Switcher if you want it.

This isn’t to say there has never been a tweak that allows landscape orientation ...

iMessage has always been bogged down to sending only messages or photo and video files. iOS developers Ryan Petrich and Nikos Lykousas have been collaborating to create a new jailbreak tweak duo, dubbed SendAny and ReceiveAny. These two jailbreak tweaks work together to make it so you can send or receive any file through the Messages application using iMessage. It is compatible with Messages for Mac as well as the iOS version. ReceiveAny is free, however SendAny will set you back $1.99 – both are currently available in the BigBoss repository.

The tweak replaces the camera ...

Do you feel like the iPhone’s signal indicator is too liberal on its readings? Does the signal strength seem a little too high for the cellular performance you’re getting? A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Bars by iOS developer phoenix3200 promises more accurate signal strength indicator readings by allowing fractions of the bars to appear to indicate more precise and conservative readings.

As you can see pretty clearly from the images above, not the entire ...

CmdTab is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer coffeejay, which is an attempt at bringing a Mac OS X-like quick switcher to iOS. You can see screenshots of the tweak in action above. If you own a Mac, then you know tapping Command+Tab opens up a menu like the one below:



The current version of CmdTab has a total of seven different buttons. The first six of them yields an application in iOS, however the last option that looks like a Mac OS X Terminal icon opens up an ...

Are you one of those people that don’t check the App Store regularly for updates for the applications on your iDevice? A new jailbreak tweak dubbed AppUpdateNotifier by iOS development firm S2 IT Consulting LLC will integrate seamlessly with iOS 5’s notification system to alert you when updates for your applications are live in the App Store without the need for launching the App Store and checking for yourself.

The alerts for updates on the lock screen, shown above, tell you the name of ...

I love audio. I've been playing live music for almost 15 years, and I love everything about the musical process. And of course, like most of us do... I always have music playing around the house and while working. So I was excited to take a look at Focal's high-end stereo powered speaker set.

Focal has been creating high fidelity loudspeakers for over 30 years, out of their single production site in Saint-Etienne, France. They're a cool company - everything they do from design to production is completed in-house. Not something a lot of companies can say these days.



In the Box

In the box with these speakers are three separate power cables (depending on your ...

In iOS, when you hold down the sleep button for a couple of seconds, a slide to power down slider appears. With that slider is a very dark interface that blacks out everything behind it. iOS developer greensnow has created a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PowerDown Clear so that the interface will not black out everything behind it anymore. The screenshot above helps illustrate how it looks after the tweak is installed.

The developer ...

One thing most smartphone owners, Android owners inclusive, have to keep an eye out for is going over their monthly data cap limits. There are still a handful of people who are on unlimited data plans, but a majority is not. For that purpose, iOS developer Elias Limneos has devised a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Data Usage Monitor so you can view how much of your data is being used in real time from the status bar as you can see from the screenshot above.

Data usage monitor also comes ...

The iPad has a very large screen compared to the iPhone and iPod touch, however one thing that just doesn’t make sense is the small iPhone and iPod touch-sized slide to unlock slider bar on the lock screen of the iPad. To help you take advantage of the iPad’s wide screen, iOS developer rvirajm created a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed LongSlide for iPad to make that slide to unlock bar just a bit wider to make it more realistic with the iPad’s screen size. ...