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How to Disable iPhone Battery Icon and Show Battery in Percentage

by Simon Ng on August 13, 2009

About a month ago, I have covered a hack using SBSettings to show battery meter in percentage on iPhone 3G & 2G. Another iPhone developer, David Ashman, has created an alternative hack to offer finer control over the battery status. The hacked application is called “Battery Control” and it is now available on Cydia for [...]

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Download YouTube Video to iPhone with YourTube

by Simon Ng on August 1, 2009

Do you still remember MxTube? I have covered MxTube very long time ago. For starter, MxTube is a cydia application that lets you download video from YouTube and view it offline on iPhone.
Recently, a new iPhone application known as YourTube is available on Cydia Store. Same as MxTube, it allows you to download YouTube [...]

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iPhone Jailbreak Terms: QuickPwn, PwnageTool, Redsn0w, Yellowsn0w, Ultrasn0w Explained

by Simon Ng on July 26, 2009

If you’re new to iPhone jailbreak, you may be confused by all the terms such as QuickPwn, Yellowsn0w, Ultrasn0w, etc. That was one of the popular questions I received for iPhone new comers. So, instead of answering the question one by one, the best is to put up a post to address this common question.
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GPower Hack Adds Reboot and Respring to iPhone

by Simon Ng on July 24, 2009

On PC or Mac, you can easily reboot it using a couple of mouse click. But there is no direct way to reboot your iPhone. A hack called GPower targets to On top of the built-in “Slide to Power” function, GPower is a new cydia application that adds “Slide to Reboot” and “Slide to [...]

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Stack 3.0 for iPhone Will Soon be Available

by Simon Ng on July 8, 2009

The Stack feature on Mac OS X will soon be ported to iPhone 3.0. Steven Troughton-Smith, the developer behind Stack 3.0 for iPhone, has posted a video preview of this application.
If you do not have Mac background, you probably haven’t heard of Stack. Stack is simply a quick-launch menu in the Dock that lets [...]

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Icy for iPhone Updated to v1.1.1

by Simon Ng on April 6, 2009

RipDev has updated its Icy, the alternative to Cydia, to v1.1.1 that comes a number of bug fixes and new features. If you’ve not heard of Icy, it’s a new installer application for jailbroken iPhone that lets you download and install Cydia applications.
The first version of Icy was released a few days ago. But [...]

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Icy for iPhone: An Alternative to Cydia

by Simon Ng on March 31, 2009

Do you think Cydia is slow? As a regular user of Cydia, I agree. For most of the time, it takes over 30s (sometimes even a minute) to launch Cydia. Even though Cydia offers some great jailbreak applications, it’s a bit annoying for its slowness.
RipDev, the development teams behind Installer app, plans to challenge Cydia [...]

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A Walkthrough of Cydia Store – How to Purchase Cydia Application

by Simon Ng on March 29, 2009

Cydia Store has been opened for business for around three weeks. Have anyone purchased any Cydia application from Cydia Store? I bought the first paid application – Cyntact from Cydia Store. The shopping experience from Cydia Store is very different from App Store. And, here I’d like to walk you through how you can purchase [...]

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How to Uninstall Cydia Application Directly from Springboard

by Simon Ng on March 27, 2009

I expect everyone of you have used Cydia to download iPhone apps for your jailbroken iPhone. Cydia is great but one thing I dislike is I cannot uninstall Cydia application directly from home screen (or what so called springboard). In order to remove a Cydia app, you’ll need to launch Cydia and go to package [...]

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