New in Xpandr 1.0.2: Enable / Disable Xpandr in secure (password) textfields. Need a default reply for mails? Sick of typing this long text over and over again? Constantly making the same typo? Xpandr will fix this for you. Xpandr is a shortcut expander for the iPhone / iPod touch. It allows you to define [...]

Categories v2.29 is released tonight. This should fix the issue (that was very hard to reproduce) where icons were duplicated for some people and not removed off springboard.

I plan to rewrite the icon selector screen next to show pages of icons rather than load them all at once. The way it currently is takes up too much memory. For now, you will have to use “edit” to change your icon until this is done.

Right now, I am focusing on stability releases. I believe most the internal rewrite is completed and changes will not be as radical as have been for 2.25-2.28.

New in v1.1.0: Can now apply filters based on Calendar and Availability CalendarPro (Profiles) is a highly configurable ring profile manager that lets you use your Calendar events to control how your phone will ring or vibrate for notifications ranging from phone calls to push notifications. CalendarPro offers seamless integration into the normal Calendar application [...]

We have another version of Categories with more internal changes for testing for any testers. Install instructions are:

1) Download the deb
2) Copy to iPhone via ssh into /tmp and install with dpkg -i /tmp/categories_2.27.90.deb

The major changes from Ashikase:
- Categories now support non-English character names; this includes punctuation
- All category creation/deletion/updating is handled by new CategoryTool
- Categories no longer runs as root

Other notes:
- As part of the non-English support, newly created categories use a
generic /Applications/Category### directory name. To help themers,
Categories.app now lists the path below the name of each category.

- CategoryTool is designed to be used by end-users as well, if they want
to use it. It includes a built-in help that describes the options. (Would require command line support in SSH).

After the big release a few days ago, some issues have arisen that we thought we should fix urgently. So here is: Fixed issue where text was lost when phone is locked, then unlocked Fixed various problems when biteSMS is running and Quick Replying on lock screen Fixed issue where contact picture was lost when [...]

We glad to introduce EasyWakeup Plus – smart alarm clock. This is Enchanced EasyWakeup! Just to remind you: EasyWakeup is an advanced alarm clock for iPhone/ iPod Touch. Based on the natural sleep-phases we go through every night, the app senses when it’s most appropriate to wake you. Just set a time when you have to [...]

Developer ashikase is helping out with updating categories app. ashikase is the author of the springboard addon CategoriesSB (as well as Backgrounder and other stuff).

Anyways, what we have here is a pretty heavy internal rewrite. The modifications are going to allow for some cool features in upcoming versions. The changes in this version are:

1. Internal rewrite of the config app
2. Transitions added in GUI
3. Reworked how folders are layed out internally. This will allow for apps like taptap 2 and taptap 3 to both be put into folders (hopefully).

We are posting the deb for beta testing for anyone that wants to test it.

Note that if you have CategoriesSB installed you should not try this beta. While the final version will work fine and be released with a CategoriesSB update, the beta does not support current CategoriesSB.

To use this beta, you must know how to use SSH. If you do not understand any of these steps (which are purposely sparse) you should wait for a release version rather than using this beta.

• Get categories beta here.
• SSH it to /tmp on your iPhone
• as root, run dpkg -i /tmp/categories_2.26.6.deb
• Manually respring or the ‘i button won’t work.

This beta will convert your existing category folders into a new format. If you uninstall the beta and reinstall categories from main repository, you will have to set up your folders from scratch again (or just wait for this to be final in the repository in which case you will not have to re-set up folders).

Added Quick Reply in lock screen mode!!! Added landscape support for Quick Reply and Quick Compose. Quick Reply now grows to be as large as the screen (as required) to display as much of the incoming message text as possible. The intent is to minimize the scrolling required to read large messages. Works the same [...]

Decide yourself, Security for your iPhone and iPod touch Firewall iP is now available on CydiaStore for only $1.99. Firewall iP allows you to block outgoing connections (TCP & UDP). It hooks into applications from AppStore and Cydia. Firewall iP will alert you if the app wants to establish a connection to a host and [...]

Decide yourself, Security for your iPhone and iPod touch

Firewall iP is now available on CydiaStore for only $1.99.

Firewall iP allows you to block outgoing connections (TCP & UDP). It hooks into applications from AppStore and Cydia. Firewall iP will alert you if the app wants to establish a connection to a host and shows you the hostname. Then you have the options to allow/deny the connection once/always or allow/deny all connections for the application.

You can decide if the application will send data. Developers will no longer be able to collect stats about you (UDID, phone number, usage statistics…) or even collect personal data. With Firewall iP you can cover all app analytic providers which aren’t in PrivaCy and also custom analytics.

You can block some content too. Now you are the one who decides!

In the control app you can edit the rules for each 3rd party application as well as add new applications to the list. It also offers a switch to disable Firewall iP and a SBSettingsToggle for the same purpose.

Cydia itself is excluded for obvious reasons.

• Block outgoing TCP & UDP connections selectively
• Shows you the hostname for the connection
• Block analytic providers which PrivaCy can’t
• Block unneeded content
• Easy to use interface & control app
• Edit the rules you did set
• Add apps manually
• Low memory & CPU consumption

After installation and a respring it will start to monitor outgoing connections.

Detailed usage instructions by iClarified: how to use Firewall iP

Developer Ashikase has written a Springboard add-on for Categories app. What this does is takes categories an moves the folders directly into springboard. The result is that everything loads very quickly, instantly more like. Also, the icons are rounded and badges are supported. Another interesting feature he has added is that if you make a category folder called “Recent” and leave it empty, it will track your last loaded applications. Pretty neat!

This extension to categories was not written by me. Ashikase has written other apps such as backgrounder. He is selling it for 99c in cydia store. If you are interested check it out. If you don’t want to fork out 99 cents, then you can still use categories as it is.

And yes, Categories is still in development and will remain free, but I have been distracted with other stuff recently. But there are plans to integrate some native support for this new extension in the GUI of categories app as well as a long list of things I’ve had planned since 1.1.x time frame…

Since the beginning of the iPhone, people have sought to categorize their applications. With Jailbreaking this has been possible thanks to the Categories application, but there were some limitations. Many found that the Categories application, however helpful it is, can be very time consuming to use. PogoPlank is the solution to this. PogoPlank ($1.99 in [...]

iTypeFastR version 1.1.4 is now compatible with firmware 3.1, so if you have upgraded you can finally enjoy it again. Thanks for your patience. Also, we have improved the keyboard. One of the most requested changes to the keyboard on our Uservoice forum was to swap the ‘L’ with the ‘Backspace’. Originally we have put [...]

A feature that exists on almost all other mobile phones, a counter which shows how many characters your SMS message has, was not deemed important enough by Apple to be included in it’s iPhone OS. Why is this feature important you ask ? Mainly, because when writing a long enough message, your mobile carrier can [...]

This is a tool that I whiped up to assist in the downgrade of firmware 3.1 to 3.0 (or if you’re lucky 3.0.1) using Saurik’s method. In order for his method to work you had to allow Cydia to store your 3Gs SHSH key. This tool is ONLY for 3Gs iPhones and is NOT a [...]

Saurik solves the 3.1 downgrade problem for iPhone 3gs users, “the Chosen” few that saved their ECID SHSH.

If you were one of the 50,000 folks that let Cydia store your information for you, you can now downgrade your 3.1 3gs to 3.0 or restore your 3.0 3gs to 3.0 – or downgrade your 3.0.1 3gs to 3.0. Why is this important?

Lets say you are happily on 3.0 jailbroken and you do something to mess things up and need a restore? As I wrote previously, Apple is no longer allowing restore to 3.0. Well, now if you were one of the folks that had cydia store your ECID SHSH information, you can restore and jailbreak.

Saurik writes a great article explaining how to downgrade or restore your 3.0. He also goes into a very interesting discussion (that I totally agree with) about how Apple is mistreating us as a community. It’s a must-read in my opinion even if you don’t have a 3gs. If you do have a 3gs, you want to read this to understand how you can be able to jailbreak forever at least your 3.0 version.

The downgrade steps are at the bottom of his post. I won’t go into too much detail here, but in short here are the steps. (These only make sense after you read his post, which I encourage you to do).

3.0 to 3.0 restore: Add the hosts entry, restore in itunes, jailbreak, you’re done

3.1 to 3.0 or 3.0.1 to 3.0: To downgrade to 3.0, restore in itunes, get error, restore in itunes, get error, use irecovery to boot device, jailbreak.

One last time, read his post for details. Out of well-deserved respect for Saurik, I am not copying the data here.

If you were not one of the few that saved your ECID in Cydia, dont feel too bad. It sounds like there is an exploit for 3.1 and you will be able to save your 3.1 ECID. Just make sure you do it as soon as it is available to do so.