PassDial: speed dial on your passcode lock

    A different way to call those important people you need to get ahold of in a much quick fashion that going through unlocking or Siri. Set up through settings so assign a quick 4 diget code to speed dial someone on your lockscren passcode. Available on the BigBoss for free with a pro version for 2$ To allow you to have more numbers set. 

VirtualHome: no more pressing

    While the tweak may take some getting use to, VirtialHome is great if you want to limit the stress of your home button. It allows you to use the touch ID sensor to act as the home button allowing for the same function the home button does, just without the pressing of a button. 

    Holding your finger down on the sensor will invoke Siri for easier use. The action can also cause the device to vibrate if you choose to confirm a corporal press. You'll also be able to skip your lock screen and unlock just by using your touch ID. 

   VirtiralHome is available for free on the BigBoss repo and is a very effective way to ease the stress of pressing a home button all the time. 

    

TimePasscode: Use current time as your passcode number

    Make your device a little more secure by making it so your passcode changes every minute. Nobody else would know except for you, so even if they watch you enter your passcode it will be different the next time. You can still use your normal passcode if you desire alongside TimePasscode. It can also be set up to allow the reverse of the time to be entered as the passcode. 

    It has been submitted to ghe BigBoss repo and will be free and open-sourced. If you wish to aquire it now you'll need to add the devs repo: http://cydia.expetelek.com/

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.