Go Native, lets you enable native fast app switching for those apps that do not yet support it. Enable native fast app switching for those apps that do not yet support it. Alternative to backgrounder if all you want to do is use native multitasking for all apps. Optionally allows overriding the explicit (dis)allowance of fast [...]
RetinaPad is a new jailbreak tweak that displays Retina-optimized iPhone apps in HD, when viewed on an iPad in “compatibility mode.” Currently, the tweak is available for $2.99 in the Cydia Store. RetinaPad is a great new tweak that effectively zooms up the resolution of Retina-ready iPhone-only apps when displayed on an iPad. The apps doesnt [...]
Mail Rules is a new Cydia tweak that finally lets you set rules for your incoming iPhone and iPad mail. The tweak is accessed via the “Rules…” page in Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings. No new icons are added to your home screen Supports matching on the following criteria: – Account – Headers – Recipient – Sender [...]
Cydia is actually named after a moth. Cydia pomonella is the scientific name for the “coddling moth,” or what we would most likely recognize as the stereotypical apple worm. The Wikipedia article on the Cydia pomonella is actually quite ironic in light of Apple’s iPhone: “[it] has proved to be a problematic pest on several fruit trees, including apples and pears. The caterpillars [...]
Following the runaway success of Cydia on iOS – with 10% of all iPhone users, about ten million people, having used the marketplace at least once – Jay “saurik” Freeman is planning to bring Cydia to the Mac OS X platform very soon. At the 360 MacDev conference yesterday, Jay said the new app store would [...]
Apple has removed its built in methods to help developers detect jailbroken devices from iOS 4.2, according to NetworkWorld. This detection API let the MDM applications in effect ask the operating system if it had been compromised. Jailbreak exploits typically change a number of operating system files, and exploit one or another low-level OS features [...]
Commenting on the release Saurik said, “some of my long term performance plans are ‘hitting pay dirt’, and Cydia is much faster than it was before; that said, it isn’t done yet: there’s one more thing that I think is going to make a huge difference that isn’t even in there yet but should be [...]
