Kill process (cnt-alt-del) for the iphone.. SBSettings gets cooler and cooler There is a good reason SBSettings is Ichiban for my 10 ten best iphone apps list, I use it daily. Really.. Daily! Mostly turning the 3G off and on. When 3G is on at my place, my odds of missing a call climbs to 20%. Well, whats really great about this app is other people… Read More
How to get iOS7 IU on your current iPhone via Jailbreak This is a bit late but I have been busy. So its pretty old news now that yes many of the ‘New’ UI improvements in iOS7 have been around for awhile. Many via Jailbreak. So say something you really liked in iOS7? Check out this list. Odds are you can have it. However, before we… Read More
New iOS7 UI as a jailbreaker. Apple shows some Metro love The rumors were true. Apple has finally overhauled its UI; and it looks like a combination of Metro and flaticons (Jailbreak). I guess that says something for the Metro design approach. The redesign is cleaner and more efficient, but somehow it just does not sit well. It feels like its trapped between Metro and the… Read More
If your thinking of Jailbreaking or have no idea!! So you just got an iDevice. Welcome to the club, pal. I dont mean it with any disrespect, but nowadays, every family has about 2 iDevices. And guess what? Only one third of them are jailbroken. And it’s kind of a mix between they dont know how, they dont trust it, or simply they have… Read More
System Monitor for iOS5 without jailbreak For jailbreakers, we have had access to system info for quite awhile now using SBSettings, and although this new app still does not have all the capabilities of SBSettings, at least its something; CPU, Memory and Battery Status. Before iOS4 users would not have to worry about such information. But now that more and more… Read More
iPhone Tip #27 Make your iphone 3G run a bit faster There are still a bunch of iPhone 3G users out there. I still use mine despite having access to quite a few phones now. However, my phone has been going slower and slower.. What gives. Well, since I run SBSettings I can monitor the memory usage of the phone, kinda of like task manager from… Read More
Top 10 ish iPad jailbreak applications The iPad just got its official jailbreak with ‘Spirit’ from MuscleNerd. WIN! Now many of my top jailbreak apps for the iphone does not make sense for this version of the ipad since it does not have a camera, but we all know the next version will. … Read More
Why you should jailbreak your iPad Jailbreak the ipad? Oh yea! From what I’ve heard, we should have a blackra1n or some other jailbreaking or pwning tool pretty soon after the ipad hits the street. I would guess the iPad is going to run some form of 3.1.3 or perhaps we should just call it 3.2 because you know they will… Read More
Will blackra1n jailbreak make my iphone more unstable? Actually, just the opposite I decided to update to my iphone to OS3.1.2 for no other reason then to just do it.. That and the LONG delay it takes for SMS to open could have been related to 3.0 or perhaps some jailbreak app I installed back in the day. Anyway, I decided to live with my mobile device… Read More
Four Tips to Reduce Dropped Calls for the iphone 3G… again I wrote this article for iphoneLife over 1/2 a year ago. For those who remember before the 2.1 update on the 3G, dropped calls was a continual pain. Well, I’m not sure what the story is; or if its just odd coincidence, I and others have been having issues with dropped calls once we did… Read More
How I upgraded my iphone 3G to 3.0 using Pwnage Tool First off, I’m not your typical user, and if you read my blog you would know this; I use jailbreak and LOVE it. However, I also cannot resist experimenting with the iPhone, so once I felt satisfied I heard the jailbreak for 3.0 was relatively stable, I decided to go for it. However, just as an… Read More
Another cool update to Backgrounder on the iphone. Icons showing active jobs! Coolness Ok, this is just cool. I updated SBSetting last night and now I get an icon for active threads. Now since I have folders, I do not see everything, but still, kinda cool. 🙂 That is all. {update} I was just made aware that this is part of backgrounder. Which makes sense when you think… Read More
What could multi threading ‘run in background’ support in iphone 3.0 look like? I was writing a post on the best way to use Pandora on the iphone (link to article) and it struck me that THIS is how we may see ‘run in background’ support working on the iphone and why we want it. First a few words on the Pro’s and Con’s of running an app… Read More
What can we hope for with iphone 3.0 OS update .. can we look towards jailbreak apps? I’m sure you have already heard, Apple is going to present iphone 3.0 OS on March 17. And ho yea, I will be watching. Since its only the 12th now, we have some time to think about what we might see in 3.0. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed or improved;… Read More
Kindle for the iphone is a touch buggy … at least for me .. I prefer Stanza I’m jailbroken, so when an app does not work, I tend to give it 50/50 odds that one of the jailbreak apps could be causing issues. But with the Amazon’s new Kindle, I’m beginning to think it could be more Kindle then jailbreak. When I first loaded the app, it locked up the OS forcing… Read More
How to upgrade to iphone 2.2 and then re jailbreak. I know I said I was not going to bother upgrading to 2.2, but the geek blood that flows just cannot resist trying it out and seeing what will happen. That and I feel this certain journalistic responsibility to find out for my readers… (hope this feeling goes away soon 🙂 So I thought I… Read More
SBSetting: The best wifi 3G switching application so far – jailbreak only I’ve been using BigBoss and it’s OK, and I don’t know if I’m the only one, but when I click on the icon it takes a few seconds to initialize. When I turn 3G on or off, I normally lose wifi. Odd bug. However, I found this on Cydia.. SBSettings! Its great! I swipe across… Read More