12 February 2010 Templates!! Scheduled SMS – Ability to schedule an SMS message for a future date and time, say your partners Birthday!! For Quick Compose, you can now configure your “Button Display Order”, “Displayed or Not” and “Gesture” preferences for the existing Open, Call and Send buttons. For Quick Compose, you can now also [...]

Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got an update to 1.39 The changes are all in the background, but massive. It improves stability, memory usage and speed. The beta testers are all impressed how quick it is now, and you will be too. Changelog 1.39: – significantly improved speed – reduced memory ussage [...]

Now Available in CYDIA STORE! So Paypal & Amazon payments accepted! Changelog 3.0.1: fix – Templates / drafts bug caused by iPhoneDelivery conflict. fix – QuickReply when touching area between keyboard and QuickReply popup, sometimes resulting in unintentional hiding of keyboard. new – QuickReply keyboard toggle for more intuitive functionality (now you can also tap [...]

_ Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got a new update to 1.35. This update brings you new features along with some stability fixes. Firewall iP is the only security app of it’s kind and offers many advance features like getting WhoIs-informations about the host. Block outgoing TCP & UDP connections selectively Shows you [...]

Backgrounder + ProSwitcher

I realize this isn’t new news, but I just had to write it because ProSwitcher is just awesome. (And yes, it’s totally free). I have updated my why jailbreak iPhone page adding ProSwitcher. ProSwitcher is written by developers rpetrich and chpwn and backgrounder is written by ashikase.

There are severe limitations imposed on AppStore apps. One of these is “no background processes.” This means that if you have an app, such as an instant messenger app, every time you press home to go to something else, the app is closed out. You are disconnected. You get no messages, no notification, nothing.

Backgrounder is an attempt to fix this. Backgrounder allows you to select an app that you want to allow to run in the background. Then when you press home, that app will keep running. Perfect for an IRC app (try flowchat + backgrounder) or such that you do not want to get disconnected everytime you tap the home key. This adds critical functionality that you cannot get unless you jailbreak! On 3gs, you have plenty of memory to use this fully!

Combine this with ProSwitcher and you have a beautiful and simple interface into backgrounding one app and starting another. Activate ProSwitcher (in my case I have it to activate by double tapping status bar) and you get a coverflow view of all your running processes:

With this you can background and kill apps easily. While composing an email, quickly look something up on the web without closing your email program. Uses are endless.

3g / 2g users: you don’t have enough memory to really background a lot of apps, use it sparingly. 3gs users, you are in for a treat!

Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got a new update to 1.30. This update brings you new features along with some stability fixes. Firewall iP is the only security app of it’s kind and offers many advance features like getting WhoIs-informations about the host. Block outgoing TCP & UDP connections selectively [...]

— — OverBoard, my SpringBoard expose extension got a major update. New for version 1.1.4 is page reordering, badge support, many new activation methods via libactivator, the ability to become home screen, a numbered theme, sounds courtesy of WiFone, and speed enhancements/memory-use reductions! Available on the Cydia Store for $1.99 ProSwitcher is a task switcher [...]

Yet another great reason to JailBreak your device. Normally Apple only allows one Exchange server to be used on the device, but now with MultiExchange this restriction is removed and you can add and sync with how many servers you want.

Ever want to fake your device into believing it’s anywhere in the world? Now you can, with Location Spoofer available on Cydia Store! Location Spoofer allows you to get around all of the location specific locks that some apps put in place to prevent you from viewing content in certain regions, as well as creating [...]

Want more from your Messaging App? Do you love your iPhone but hate the limited Messages app? Frustrated that your missing basic functions that are available on most other cell phones? iRealSMS 3.0 fills the gap, and then some with features such as QuickReply, QuickSend, Contact Pics, Smileys, Templates, Forward/Reply via Mail, Privacy Settings, Password [...]

With this app called BTstack Keyboard from Matthias Ringwald, jailbroken iPhone users can now use a bluetooth keyboard for text entry in your iPhone. Great for college or taking notes in a class or meeting at work! The app should work with most any bluetooth keyboard available. For more details see Ringwald’s product page.

The keyboard is available for $5 on Cydia Store. Added to reasons to jailbreak!

The Spoof project is a cool utility that allows iPhone users to change there Caller ID so the person you’re calling sees on his Caller ID display the number you chose. The use of the app is very simple, all you need to do is set a CallerID and the number you want to call [...]

Interestingly enough, within one day apart from each other, two developers have released a tethering toggle for SBSettings. Yesterday “Tethering” toggle was released by Filipe Pina. Today, rpetrich released a VPN and Tethering toggle caleld “Tether”. Both tethering toggles work well although they both take a different approach on how to make the actual changes. Rpetrich’s toggle uses the preferences frameworks and calls the functions that the settings app calls. Filipe Pina’s version makes the changes to the files that the preferences framework makes and then restarts the internet service. In both case, you can tether with usb or bluetooth. If you want to tether with bluetooth, you must enable bluetooth in sbsettings separately.

Rpetrich released also a VPN toggle. I believe these two toggles were the most requested. Many thanks to the two mentioned developers.

15 December 2009 NEW Cool Searching feature.. Ability to Cancel a message while it’s sending! Added a toggle for SBSettings – called “SMS Alerts”. Great for privacy, or while you are busy and don’t want to be disturbed. Improved call handling, so that Quick Compose and Quick Reply interact in a much better fashion with [...]

New in Music Controls 1.1.0: -Lockscreen swipe controls – swipe or tap to skip songs or pause your music (works on album artwork and the date bar) -Global timeout – kill music apps if they’re paused for too long -Miscellaneous backgrounding-related bugfixes Music Controls is the software for music lovers! Not only does it background [...]