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. 

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. 

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.