FaceOff 7: New ways to lock and unlock your device

    FaceOff 7 will allow you to lock and unlock your device using methods other then the obvious sleep/wake button. You'll be able to just put your phone in your pocket and it will lock itself. When you go to pull it out of your pocket it will automatically unlock. It does this by using the proximity sensor to tell when the app has been placed in your pocket or pulled out of it. 

    This tweak comes with customizations to make it behave to your liking. You'll also be able to lay your phone face down to lock it and unlock it by picking it up. This is very useful if you cannot be bothered always having to lock your device when you put it away. Including a flip switchtoggle and the ability to blacklist the tweak in curtain apps. It's available on the BigBoss repo for $0.99. 

HideHomeTime: Remove status bar time on your homescreen

The status bar on iOS have a lot of useful information that is helpful to all users, but some people think it's too cluttered. Thanks to 'HideHomeTime' you can make that status bar less cluttered. 

The status bar before the tweak installed, and below is after it's installed. 

As you can see all this does it remove the time on the status bar, some may think this is useful, and others might think differently. If you have a widget for your time on the homescreen then this tweak would be perfect for you. 

This tweak is available on the BigBoss repo for free and is developed by Julian Weiss, aka insanj. 

If you have any comments or suggestions please leave them down below. 

iOS 7.0.5 released, jailbreakers stay clear for now

    Apple released an update on 1/29/14 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Jailbroken users are urged to stay away from the update as it may patch Evasi0n. Popular iPhone hacker MuscleNerd has urged users to want to keep their jailbreak to stay away from the update and "Just say no!"

    Some people on the jailbreak subreddit say that 7.0.5 is still able to be Jailbroken through Evasi0n but until someone officially says it's not patched it's best to stay away from the update. 

    The update included a fix to correct network provisioning in China for some iPhone 5s and 5c models sold in China. While the update says only China 7.0.5 can be downloaded globally. 

    iPhone hacker I0n1c confirmed that 7.0.5 is not pached but Evasi0n would need to update their binary to accept it. This is unlikely to happen considering 7.0.5 is not a significant update. Unfortunately iOS 7.1 is patched but hopefully Evasi0n has a few tricks up their sleeve.  

SameStatus adding consistency on the lock screen

    If you haven't noticed already the lock screen status bar is a bit bigger than the home screen. Displaying items a bit larger which to some, like me, will find this annoying. 

    Here is a lock screen without SameStatus and a home screen to compare items in the status bar. 

    The difference is not much but when you look at the battery percent you can tell that the numbers are a bit bigger on the lock screen. 

    After SameStatus has been installed the lock screen status bar is now consistent with the home screen. Making everything the same scale how it should of been in the first place. 

    SameStatus is available on the BigBoss repo for free and is compatible with 32 bit and 64 bit devices. 

TinyBar vs. DietBulletin

DietBulletin was introduced to the Jailbreak community in August of 2012, instantly becoming one of the 'must have' tweaks not only of that year but of all time. 

Confining notification banners to just the height and placement of the status bar must have sounded fairly bizarre at the time (perhaps even now if there's anybody left who hasn't heard of it). 

Some no doubt questioned how it would be possible to squeeze an entire notification into a bar barely two and a half inches across, scrolling was the key and ultimately the key to the tweaks success ad-infinitum. 

There's always been a huge market for system-wide tweaks and DietBulletin certainly fits nicely into that category, whether it be text, Facebook, Twitter or even email - all were compatible and all scrolled for easy reading. 

That was way back on late iOS5, early iOS6 and here we are now on iOS7. It's always nice to see community support for long running tweaks and DietBulletin has a huge, almost cult following. 

So much so is the community spirit, presumably he also uses it personally, that the infamous developer Ryan Petrich has added it to his already huge list of tweaks to update. 

Petrich is a prolific updater, it seems that he genuinely feels dissatisfied if the cummunity isn't happy and he knows exactly how to make that happen - by keeping much adored tweaks fully updated. 

This is where TinyBar comes in, a tweak I personally use while Petrich keeps working. 

TinyBar has the same basic features as DietBulletin, the status bar arrangement, the scrolling - even stickying notifications to the bar until you've physically removed them. 

It is a nice alternative, it works well and is certainly worth praise for what it does. But it's not DietBulletin. It's not as refined or as smooth and something feels a bit like it's not as well integrated as it could've been. 

That being said, it's a perfectly acceptable alternative to DietBulletin for the time being - you definitely want the precision and finess of the Petrich tweak when it becomes available however. 

Petrichs update list can be found here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AhDe5xBEmmv0dEJsVi1YU0JYYVpvbHlnaEdVaTBFMXc&usp=drive_web

You can find TinyBar under Alex Zielenski's repo by adding the following source - repo.alexzielenski.com

Couria beta is an alternative to biteSMS

   

    While many people boast how biteSMS is the best at what it does a new app currently in beta called Couria is going to give biteSMS some competition. 

    Offering extensions and themes to customize the way you send text messages it will enhance your device in the same way biteSMS but for free. Some extensions and themes made by others may ask for a price but the main part to be able to quickly reply to a text is what the app is all about. When selecting a message from notification center will invoke the app for a quick reply so going to the messages app itself will no longer be needed. A passcode may be set to lock the extension so nobody can just pick up your device and quick reply to someone. 

    Quickly reply by tapping the notification banner to reply from anywhere making it much more easier to reply to messages. Setting an activator command to invoke Couria will allow you to search for someone to message and send from anywhere on your device. 

    Couria is available on Q's repo at http://cydia.qusic.me/ along with some extensions for the app itself. 

Coono FlagPaint Alternative!

  As most of us know FlagPaint has not been updated for iOS 7. FlagPaint used to be able to "paint" notification banners. A tweak by the creator of Dock Shift NG, brings you a tweak called Coono allows you to do this aswell!  As you can see Coono colors the banner with the dominant color of the notifications' icon. 

      "This feature expands over banners, lockscreen notifications, and headers in the notification center. Preconfigured to bring you the best aesthetics"

  Coono gives you the options to configure the settings such as saturation, brightness, transparency and many more! There is also a show test banner option which lets you see how your banner will look after you apply the changes! 

 Coono is a great alternative for FlagPaint. It can be found on the Bigboss repo for $1.50 It's well worth it if you miss FlagPaint features on iOS 7! 

Eclipse - The Definitive Guide (NightMode iOS7)

Inspired largely by an iOS Reddit client, Alien Blue, and numerous Reddit posts requesting for a 'night mode' system-wide for devices running iOS7, Eclipse was conceived.

Alien Blue is a hugely popular client that features almost total control of ones Reddit account, from posting to moderation and, notably, a 'night mode' feature. 

Similar to iOS's own 'Invert Colours' option, available in the Accesibility settings, the 'night mode' we speak of basically turns shades of white to shades of black in-app, giving a much nicer user interface - especially at night, hence the name. 

The idea of being able to have a system wide variation of this feature is, frankly, incredible. Extremely difficult to imagine how one would go about coding this into a tweak that wouldn't merely invert the screen colours, as Apples feature does. 

Developer Guillermo Morán (@fr0st) almost immediately began work on turning this request into reality - it's likely of course that he himself felt this was a 'necessary' tweak. 

Initial screenshots by the developer showed great promise, the whites were now black and the blacks were now white. Indeed the greens hadn't turned to orange or red as they would have by merely inverting colours. 

From those early screenshots some Twitter followers and Reddit users had pointed out that a better UI could be gained by having a dark grey as opposed to black and greyish text returned to a lighter shade, or even white itself. 

Morán took all such feedback and incorporated them all, producing an even more superior version. At this point one does wonder why Apple couldn't have created something just as beautiful and given users another reason why they need not Jailbreak to begin with. 

It was felt for some time, with dozens (if not totalling hundreds) of tweets, Reddit and Facebook posts, that Morán should be 'left alone' while he worked. Not only was it no doubt irritating to him to receive so many questions asking when the tweak would be released but it's also highly counterproductive - the more replies he had to type, the more time it would take to create after all. 

Despite this and other setbacks, such as a 'rival' developer attempting to "beat him to it", Morán upped his game and amazed everybody by completely version 1.0 of Eclipse in record time. 

The first update is already being planned with functionality similar to F.lux, in that the UI would slowly change throughout the day. 

Indeed the tweak is now available from BigBoss for a minuscule $0.99. 

Flex 2 comes out of beta

John Coates recently had a beta ongoing for his popular and powerful app Flex 2 which allows users to maximize their potential of their device. 

Flex 2 can make the apps you have do what you would like them to do, with a little bit of coding experince of corse. 

Changes to apps can come in the form to simple UI tweaks such as hiding the status bar to functionality boosts allowing you to have no ads in YouTube and play in HD quality over cellular. 

All tweaks can be done yourself or installed from the cloud. Users upload their tweaks to the cloud for others to obtain and use to their liking. 

Flex 2 has been rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 7 while still having support for iOS 5 and 6. Available for $3.99 or $1.99 upgrade for existing users of flex on the BigBoss repo. 

Flex 2 is a major improvement from flex allowing users to have the ability to modify any argument a function is passed. Flex 2 will be updated and maintained to give the user the best streamline experince. 

Safari Tabulation on iOS7

We all know that it's the small things that make life easier and few more than Jailbreakers know that best. 

Our strive as Jailbreakers is not only to customize our devices to 'look' how we want them to look, but also to have the functionality we want. 

iOS7 brought many changes to the mobile UI envoirement, some good, some bad and many others hotly debated. Nobody can deny that many of the new elements bring a nice, fresh experience. 

In their endless pursuit to satisfy its customers, Apple has missed out some elements that have been seen as fundamental mistakes. One such loss, while transferring from iOS6 to iOS7, was a rather simple thing. 

Safari is Apples premier app, simple, clean and above all, fast - taking advantage of their own 'Nitrous Engine', after which the Jailbreak tweak was named. Safari is not feature packed, it's not a rival to Google's Chrome and isn't aesthetically pleasing as Atomic's browser. Safari has one job in Apples opinion - display web pages, that's all. 

It seems then, given it's simplicity, that Safari should have been 'easy' to design and bring over at least one tiny feature that previous iOS's had. A number. 

That teeny little number that indicated to us users how many tabs we have open, it seems small right? Kinda like it doesn't actually matter? Imagine the frustration however, which if you're running iOS7 you likely already have, when you open Safari and a dozen old tabs reload because you forgot to close out of them previously, because that darned tab doesn't tell you that you have any tabs open!

This is where a new tweak, SafariTabCount, comes in. With the original iOS6 design but with an iOS7 styled aesthetic, this tweak is golden. Small, uncomplicated, smooth and above all fills that irritating gap in Apples design. 

The tweak is free and hosted on the default 'Mod My I' repo (at the time of writing its version 1.0), it's certainly worth a try and only if you uninstall it will you realise just how much this tiny tweak adds to your iDevice experience. 

Subtle lock (iOS 7) will show off your lock screen

Be able to see your lock screen background in superior clarity with subtle lock (iOS 7). Whilst being a refreshing change to the UI, it still maintains the iOS 7 minimal look, available for $1 on the BigBoss repo. 

The functionality of the application allows you to change different settings to display or hide elements of the lock screen to your personal preference. More changes are likely to come with future updates.

Cheap UDID registrations

As many of you know by now, you must be a developer to get access to Apple's beta softwares, but there is a way for everyon to become a developer with have to pay the overly priced $99.  You can get you device registered with a developer for a small fee.  Theres a new company out there that wants to emerge into this market, and they go by the name of Apple Beta Serices, or ABS for short.

ABS Header

The guys over at ABS want to make it cheap and easy for anyone and everyone with an ios device to be able to get it registered with apple, that way they can use the betas.  So for their starting point, they are going to be selling their UDID registrations for $3.99.  As far as they know, and we agree, that's THE cheapest and best offer on the internet.

They aren't ready to start yet though, as they don't have the developer account ready, but you can jump ahead and give them a follow on twitter and like their facebook page also.

We will keep you guys updated on their progress, if you want instant updates make sure to follow them.

How to get GBA4IOS on your iPhone and iPod Touch

So I'm sure everyone knows what GBA4IOS is.  If not its a Game Boy Advance emulator for your ios device!

Its really easy to install, just click on the link below and that's it.  Follow these instructions and done. 

Step one: change date to 2012

Step two: click link below to install

Step three: after opening app once change date back to 2014

Enjoy. 

Tip: those of you that are jailbroken and happen to have AppSync installed don't need to set their date back, only those that aren't jailbroken. 

GBA4IOS

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Preview: Convergence

Ever since iOS 7 was unveiled the new lockscreen mesmerized everyone. It was sleek, elegant and simply beautiful. Who could have thought it can get any better? 

Well, someone did. Introducing Convergence. 

This tweak will bring a whole new experience to the user on the lockscreen. Ofcourse, this is just the preview, so I wont be showing you everything just yet.

Starting with the elegant lockscreen: 

Convergence will blur your wallpaper. This brings a neat clean look to your device. Of course, you can tweak the blur amount through the settings!

Lets talk about some of its features. First off, you may have noticed 2 swipe gesture buttons on the right and left. These buttons will take you to either the camera or a new section, quick toggles! No need for control center on the lockscreen.

Here, once you swipe to the left, the camera will appear for your quick convenience. This is me swiping half way:

When you swipe to the right however you get something totally beautiful and surprising. Quick toggles! There is no need for Control Center anymore. And thats a plus for me.

This is just the preview, so I wont tell you everything. Everything gets covered in the review. Oh, and that top button to slide down like Notification center? Yeah, thats not notification center at all. Its something so much better. Stay tuned.

Let me just say, this tweak has so much customizability options in the settings pane, its fantastic.

I cant wait until everyone can get their hands on this. Its a must have tweak, and its worth the wait. Meanwhile, please do give a follow to the developer of this tweak! 

RePower: Add functionality to your "Power Down" view

We all know what the iOS 7 power down screen looks like.  It's plain and simple, not much to it.  But if you want to add some more to that, then look no further than RePower. 

This is a nice jailbreak tweak that adds just a little bit more to your power down screen.  For example you can reboot and respring your device from there.  There is one toggle in the settings for this tweak, it sets it to where you must double tap on reboot or respring for it to work, that way you don't accidentally reboot your phone. 

And this is what it looks like in action:

Tell us what you think about this tweak in the comments section below.