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Cydget – Add Widget to Your iPhone Lock Screen

by Simon Ng on November 19, 2009

Even with the release of iPhone 3.1.2 OS, Apple does not add any new features or customization for iPhone’s lock screen. What you get for the lock screen are a digital clock, a customizable wallpaper and an “Unlock” slider. That’s it. However, we think we can make a better use of the lock screen.
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How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone From SSH Hack

by Simon Ng on November 10, 2009

By jailbreaking your iPhone, it opens up lots of opportunities to add some amazing features that you’ll never find on a normal iPhone. Just quote a few examples, jailbreaking lets you use Winterboard to change the iPhone theme. Or you can use Twidget to view your tweet on lock screen. And, jailbreaking opens the door [...]

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Orbit – The Expose for Jailbroken iPhone is Now Available

by Simon Ng on October 19, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Ocean Observations developed an interesting mockup that bring Mac’s Expose feature to iPhone. The design concept is to let you easily switch between pages in iPhone home screen. If you like the concept, here is the good news.
Steve Troughton-Smith, who has already developed several great iPhone apps, has turned [...]

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How to Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Using Blackra1n (For Windows)

by Simon Ng on October 13, 2009

As you know, GeoHot has released a jailbreak tool called blackra1n to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows. As claimed, blackra1n is an universal jailbreak solution for all models of iPhone and iPod touch. This guide will walk you through on how to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n on Windows.
Before you start, please read through [...]

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How to Enable Video Editing on iPhone 3G and 2G

by Simon Ng on September 14, 2009

Cycorder is one of the must-have applications for jailbroken iPhone 2G /3G. It simply empowers the iPhone camera with the video recording capability. It works pretty great. Some iPhone jailbreakers even said, you can just install Cycorder to turn your iPhone 3G into iPhone 3GS.
However, if you look into the video features of iPhone [...]

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Change iPhone SMS Background with Winterboard

by Simon Ng on September 6, 2009

Are you bored with the default SMS background and balloon color? For jailbroken iPhone user, you can actually use Winterboard to apply different themes to skin the Message application.
In Cydia, you can go to “Search” and then search for “sms”. You’ll locate ample cydia packages that allow you to change SMS background or bubbles. [...]

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iSpazio Repository for Cydia Updated

by Simon Ng on August 30, 2009

I got a number of queries why it can’t access iSpazio’s repository on Cydia recently. As confirmed by iSpazio, it was down for a few days but it should be already back again.
For those who encountered problems accessing the iSpazio repository, try to upgrade the repository to version 0.5. You can search “iSpazio” in the [...]

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How to Save Email Attachment on iPhone with Attachment Saver

by Simon Ng on August 17, 2009

Even with the release of iPhone 3.0, it lacks some well-expected features. Here is one complaint that I was told by some iPhone users:
How come I can’t save email attachment on iPhone?
On iPhone 3.0, it only allows you to save image in email attachment to photo library. But how about other types of attachment such [...]

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Another Great Winterboard Theme for iPhone – illumine

by Simon Ng on August 16, 2009

It’s been a long time I haven’t changed the Winterboard theme. I have used the awesome “Deep” theme since I picked it up.
Today, I finally make the switch to another great Winterboard theme called “illumine” to replace “Deep”.
Illumine is a beautiful Winterboard theme with approximately 1,800 application icons and it is also a [...]

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