Functioning and Legal Siri Port Finally Released in Cydia [Update]
27/12/2011 |
Since Apple unveiled Siri as an iPhone 4S-exclusive feature back in October, the entire jailbreak community has been waiting for it to be ported to older devices. We’ve seen videos of hackers running the digital assistant on non-4S hardware, but never a public release.
Tonight it would seem like the wait is finally over, as a new jailbreak app entitled Spire has just surfaced in Cydia. The utility, created by prominent jailbreak developers Ryan Petrich and Chpwn, is a tool for installing...
Discover places abroad with International Locations for Siri
While iPhone 4S owners in the U.S. enjoy a host of location-based Siri functions, folks outside the country are out of luck. Try going to the UK and asking Siri where the nearest McDonalds is, and you’re sure to get shot down.But as usual, the jailbreak community has figured out a way to ma...
KillBackground: Kill All Running Apps from Your Multitasking Bar
Although Apple took a couple of years to implement system-wide multitasking in iOS, it seems to do the trick. It’s easy to access the multitasking bar from any application, and for the most part, apps running in the background don’t slow you up.Note that I said for the most part. It s...
Shrink Siri's Interface Window With TinyAssistant
Folks who believe that Siri’s initial interface window takes up way more space than it needs will be happy to hear about this new jailbreak tweak.TinyAssistant, from developer Ron Melkhior, is a new utility that shrinks Siri’s interface window down to the size of your iOS app switcher...
iWindows: A Simple Windows 7 Simulator for Your iPhone
A lot of folksjailbreak their iDevices to add functionality to iOS. Maybe they do it to download SBSettings to access toggles quicker, or to install Xpander to save time typing. For the most part though, people tend to jailbreak for productive reasons.But Cydia also has a lot of non-productive ap...
Tutorial: How to Install the New Cydia for iOS 4.2
Cydia was recently updated to support Apple’s updated API’s in iOS 4.2. This particular Cydia update was quite the major overhaul, and there is no option available (yet) within Cydia to update to the newest version automatically.Besides iOS 4.2 support, there are several long-awaitedi...
'Safari Upload Enabler' Lets You Upload Files from Your iPhone
With jailbreak utilities like iFile and Safari Download Manager, your iDevice can seem more like an actual computer than a phone or MP3 player. The two apps allow you to manually download files, edit them, and move them around from folder to folder.However, there hasn’t been a convenient wa...
Customize Your Notification Banners With Vexillum
The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 5, brought a number of new features and improvements. One of the most welcomed changes was the revamped notifications system with unobtrusive banner alerts.But as usual, the jailbreaking community takes this feature a step farther. ...
iPhone 4S Battery Improvement Tweak Proven Fake
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot talk regarding a recently-released iPhone 4S jailbreak tweak that supposedly fixes the handset’s battery problem. We’ve neglected to mention the utility here on iDB for a couple reasons.One, the tweak has only been available on the insane...
Cookie: backup and restore your activation ticket right from your iPhone
We’ve shown you how to manually backup your iPhone’s unlock activation ticket. And then a new version of Red Sn0w came out that made the process even easier. Well now, thanks to a new jailbreak utility, you can do it right from your iPhone.Folks using the new SAM method to unlock thei...
AppSlide Gives Your iPhone a Back Button, Sort of [Video]
The iPhone’s all-touchscreen design caused Apple to make some steep compromises. The device lacks physical buttons that can be found on the simplest of phones. Though the list is long, it seems like the omission of a physical camera and standard back button sit at the top.Lucky for us, we h...
