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Just last week, we gave you a look at the new Velox jailbreak tweak by Apex Tweaks, which allows you to actually use your applications right from the home screen. While many applications were supported, not all of them were. On the other hand, third-party developers have the ability to create their own plugins for Velox to make it do more.

One such plugin is Stopwatch for Velox by iOS developer Max Katzmann. As shown above, ...

Notification Center is used for getting quick access to Notifications… and a few conveniently placed widgets. Most of the time we don’t spend more than a couple of seconds there, so having a Status Bar isn’t absolutely necessary; getting rid of it would not only reduce clutter, but make more room for third-party widgets from Cydia.

A new free jailbreak tweak called RemoveNCStatusBar by iOS developer magn2o allows you to completely remove ...

Those of you that are into customization will want to check out a new jailbreak tweak called Athena by iOS developer SuperDev.

Athena allows the user to apply color schemes to application icons without the use of WinterBoard themes. It comes with many different colorizing options, as well as blending options, and intensity options. All of the tweak's preferences are configured in the preferences pane in the Settings application:



You’ll be able to enable or disable color ...

For those of you looking to remove the loading circle from the Status Bar whenever you’re loading data on the Internet, you can use a new free jailbreak tweak called NoActivity by iOS developer c0redev.

Whenever you load a Web page in Mobile Safari, or access Internet data from any other application, a loading circle shows in the Status Bar to indicate that data is being transferred. For some, this is a friendly reminder; ...

If you’re looking for a cool way to control your music from anywhere, look no further than a new jailbreak tewak called MiniPlayer by iOS developer MPow and graphic designer Surenix.

As shown above, MiniPlayer is a music controller that can be shown or hidden at any time, from anywhere. You can access the Music MiniPlayer from the lock screen, within applications, and even from the home screen:



You will notice the little grabbers at the right and left of the MiniPlayer. ...

Those of you looking to add a percentage indicator to the Messages application that indicate the send status of your outgoing messages will want to check out a new free jailbreak tweak in Cydia’s ModMyi repository called Message Send Percent by iOS developer greensnow.

Message Send Percent, as shown above, adds a percentage indicator to the label above the send bar the shows the current progress. The actual percentage appears next ...

Those of you looking to improve upon the stock App Switcher without replacing it with an App Switcher alternative should check out a new free jailbreak tweak called Slide2Kill by iOS developer Suu.

As the name implies, you will be able to slide down on application icons that display in the iOS App Switcher to remove them from the multitasking tray. You merely grab the icon and flick it down, just like you do in the ...

We’ve all been in the situation where we’ve typed out something rather long and have to sit there holding down on the backspace button to clear it out. While some text fields in iOS have a little ‘x’ button in them for easily clearing out the text, the Messages application text field isn’t one of them, and holding the backspace button to clear text is quite the time-consuming way to get rid of unwanted text in the text field.
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For those of you that like to share with the world the music that you listen to, a new jailbreak tweak called I’m Listening by iOS developer Merlin may interest you. I’m Listening gives you multiple sharing options, including text message, Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, e-mail, and clipboard for showing the world what you’re listening to on your iOS device.

Operating the tweak is very easy. There are multiple ways to share music, such as the method above, where you tap and hold on the play/pause button ...