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iOS has a very nice contacts organization system, however maybe it’s just a little too organized and requires too much digging to get to the contact you want. You have to launch the Contacts application, find the contact you want, tap on them, and then look for the buttons for sending a message, launching a FaceTime call, or launching a Phone call. That's a lot of steps, huh?

iOS developer yeahwangy has released a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Homescreen Contacts ...

Battery information is always a mystery with iOS. The iPhone and iPad offer battery percentage indicator options and the iPod touch does not. Jailbreaking brings the battery percentage indicator option to the iPod touch, but does it really say enough about the battery? There are applications in the App Store that can also offer more information about the battery, such as helpful tips for keeping the battery in its best shape and also letting you know how long ...

Is SpringBoard too sunny for you? Add some rain to it! As the old saying goes, 'April showers bring May flowers.' April has come and gone and it's May now. If you miss the rain, then iOS developer VincenzoBB has just released a new free jailbreak tweak on the Cydia store dubbed RainBoard. The tweak ultimately gives you the ability to toggle raindrops on your home screen using some buttons. As indicated by the animated screenshot above, the raindrops are animated and they ...

Siri is a powerful tool that accompanies all iPhone 4S devices and many jailbroken iOS 5 devices. The voice assistant can do almost anything, from setting reminders, to giving directions, to sending messages, and then some. Unfortunately, most of Siri’s location-based functionality is limited to the United States, as asking her to look for something when you are in a foreign country yields the following message: “I can only look for businesses, maps, and traffic in the United States, ...

While the iOS pass code system can be quite secure as long as people don’t see you type it in, it still becomes a pain having to enter it when you’re in a safe situation where there is no chance of anyone getting into your iOS device. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed AutoProtect by iOS developer FlloTouch will make the pass code system more intelligent so you don’t have to enter it at every waking moment of your life that you try to use your iOS device. ...

You’re laying down comfortably on your bed, about to fall asleep – all of a sudden a notification fires off on your iPhone, which is laying on the nightstand next to your bed and disrupts you from dozing off. Does this sound familiar? It happens all too often to several people. Are you about to delete some of your Facebook friends because they keep commenting back and forth on your photo and keep blowing up your iPhone with notifications? Don’t! – At least not yet. There’s ...

TwitkaFly is an amazing Tweet-from-anywhere tweak by iOS developer Moeseth. You simply invoke an Activator action and then you’re suddenly got an interface at your fingertips for a quick-Tweet. However, since iOS 5 has a function like this already, it was widely requested that Moeseth add Facebook functionality to TwitkaFly. With a new plugin for TwitkaFly that Moeseth has just released, dubbed TwitkaFly Facebook Plugin, you can now post status updates ...

iOS 5’s Notification Center system is amazing, however wouldn’t it be cool if you could customize any application notification sound, the color of your banners, and have the ability to set custom animations for when the banners appear on your screen? Now that idea is a reality with a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Chip by iOS developers Davide Mainas and Nicolo Ciraci. The screenshot above demonstrates the use of color changes with Chip.

Unlike most jailbreak tweaks, which put a preferences pane right in the first Window of the Settings ...

Right before iOS 5 was launched, the echo of, “Oh my gosh! Notification Center looks amazing” could be heard from all around the world. Now that iOS 5 is out, people seem to dislike the fact that Notification Center houses not only notifications, but also widgets. It gets very crowded when you throw all the third party jailbreak widgets into the mix.

To help bring the name, “Notification Center” to a more true level, iOS developer Ori Kadosh is introducing Dashboard X, a new jailbreak tweak that allows you ...