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Shrink for iPhone Lets You Reduce App Icon Size

by Simon Ng on February 5, 2010

There are a couple of ways to extend the 11-pages limit of iPhone apps. You can use Five Column Springboard to add an extra column of icons to the springboard and even install FiveIRows to add an extra row of icons. By applying both approaches together, the home screen can hold up to 25 icons [...]

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AndroidLock Lets You Use Pattern to Unlock iPhone Lock Screen

by Simon Ng on February 2, 2010

I guess everyone of you should know about Android, the mobile OS developed by Google and it’s one of the major competitors for iPhone. Personally, I still prefer iPhone OS over Google’s Android. I’m not going to list out the pros and cons of both OS. This is not a post for comparing these two [...]

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LockInfo Lets You Customize iPhone Lock Screen

by Simon Ng on January 26, 2010

While Apple may bring us a revamped lock screen for iPhone, there already exists a fair amount of tweaks available for customizing the lock screen. Among all the tweaks in Cydia, LockInfo is my personal favorite. Recently, the developer has rolled out an update version (i.e. 2.0) of LockInfo and adds more invaluable features.
LockInfo is [...]

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How To Fix Push Notification Issue on Jailbroken iPhone

by Simon Ng on January 18, 2010

For those who have followed the jailbreak guide and use blackra1n (or earlier version of jailbreak tool) to activate an unauthorized SIM card (i.e. Hacktivated) on iPhone OS 3.x, you may experience problem when using Push Notification.
Earlier, we have covered to use PushFix 1.0 to rectify the issue. However, the fix is not a [...]

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Infinidock Hack Adds More iPhone Dock Icons and Enables Horizontal Scrolling

by Simon Ng on January 13, 2010

For any iPhone user who want to add more than 4 icons in the dock, you can use the Five Icon Dock hack to add one more icon. However, what if you want to put more icons into the dock? How can you go beyond the limit?
A new hack named Infinidock has been released that [...]

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GlovePod – Hack to Control Music Playback on iPhone With Volume and Sleep Button

by Simon Ng on December 27, 2009

As you may know, there is a shortcut to access the iPod control without unlocking the lock screen. You can simply double click the home button and iPhone shows up a simplified version of iPod control, so that you can pause or skip songs. [For detailed of iPod shortcut, check out the tutorial here]
The iPod [...]

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The First iPhone Virus Targets Unsecured Jailbroken iPhone

by Simon Ng on November 11, 2009

In the previous post, I urged every jailbroken iPhone user to change the root password to avoid any malicious attack via SSH. Yesterday, it’s reported widely in the blogsphere that the world’s first iPhone virus debuts. And this virus targets to infect those unsecured jailbroken iPhones with SSH enabled and which are still using the [...]

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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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How to Show iPhone Battery Meter in Percentage

by Simon Ng on July 4, 2009

Other than those prominent features (e.g. video editing, voice control), iPhone 3GS has come with some minor but nice touches. One of them is the battery percentage switch in Settings that allows you to change the battery life indicator to percentage representation.
I’m sure not all of you are using iPhone 3GS or have any plan [...]

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