I’ve been developing a new tweak for iPads called Quasar. Quasar is a tweak that allows you to run your apps in windows in your iPad. Just like in a window-based operating system, you can resize, move, close or full-screen windows. Quasar is available in Cydia Store for US$9.99.

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Introduction

iMatte v5 HD will certainly be a theme remembered for a long time.  There is 5 months in the making (full-time work, I’m dedicated 100% to this, that is making the theme and supporting it).

I first made a complete version, with ColorKeyboard, SBSettings, etc, was going to do all the extensions I support, then I realized it wasn’t up to my expectations.

I threw everything I had to the garbage bin, and restarted from scratch, and here is the result.

How can I describe iMatte without having you read this for half an hour?  Impossible, so I’ll do my best!

If you enjoy and use iMatte, you can offer me a little coffee in order to keep me motivated to pursue my work! (If you don’t live in Sherbrooke, QC area, a little donation will do the same ;))

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Requirements

Technically, you can run iMatte v5 HD without any extra extension, that is beside Winterboard and it’s dependencies.

For optimal use, I highly suggest you install the following extensions:

• (free) Wallpaper JPEGifier, this one is actually a necessity if you want to be able to easily change the wallpaper used for the springboard html layouts
• (free) WeatherIcon, this one is only needed if you want to use the Native Weather Springboard or Lockscreen theme
• (free) Bytafont, if you want to use the default font bundled with iMatte, or any other fonts
• (free) Zeppelin, if you want to change the Carrier Icon/Name to the custom iMatte logo or something else
• (free) SliderWidth, if you want a slim slider for the lockscreen (you can adjust to any size you want)
• (paid) Gridlock, if you don’t want to deal with iBlanks and make nice layouts with the PerpageHTML+ widgets, this is highly recommended
• (paid) PerpageHTML+, again, this is only if you want to use the many widgets that are made to customize your springboard beyond what Winterboard can do
• (paid) ColorKeyboard, if you want to have the iOS keyboard themed, this is needed

Package Summary

• Fully themed stock iOS UI
• Full Siri theme with most of the assistants themed
• Full notification center theme
• Static springboard/lockscreen theme with digital clock+weather widget
• Native weather springboard/lockscreen theme (original by Subywrex, modded by me)
• Springboard slideshow with the same digital clock widget
• 3 minimal lockscreen layouts (by Zooropalg and I)
• 2 linear date springboard layouts (by Zooropalg and I)
• 1 old school springboard layouts (made by fif7y, ported by zoo, fixed by me)
• 2 springboard pages theme (yay, it’s been a while, winterboard last supported pages on iOS3.x)
• 2 icon mask themes
• 45(!! yes you heard right) different sets of custom made fabric icons with glyphs.  Different colors, ribbons style and sizes, and without ribbons.  For now, the sets includes 59 icons.
• Many handmade wallpapers + lots of hand-picked pictures for slideshows
• Customized ColorKeyboard theme with Siri support
• SBSettings theme with 37 toggles
• Full Intelliscreen (with QuickSettings) and LockInfo theme
• Auto-generating icons for AppStore apps, and lots of icons for Cydia apps included (the auto-generate doesn’t work with the 45 glyph icon sets..)
• Custom loading screens for all stock iOS apps, + a few Cydia/AppStore one as well. A fallback loading screen takes care of the rest.
• Lots of paid and free Cydia tweaks’s settings icon and sbsettings toggle done
• Customized fonts included
• PSDs included for icons, loading screens and overlays and most of the ui effects, to allow you create anything that will look great with iMatte.

There is so much more, Tweetbot, WhatsApp, Instagram and Foursquare are also themed.

Plus a bunch of cydia extensions like: AndroidLoader, AndroidLockXT, Anicons, BiteSMS, CallBar, ColorBanner, -Deck, Dock, Folder Enhancer, FolderIcons, Firewall IP, iPodControls, Move2Unlock, MusicBarExtended, PowerCenter Pro, QuickDo, Scrollingboard, SlideAway, SnowCover 4, Twitkafly, WeeToolBox, Zeppelin

More??

Happy that you asked! Sure there is!

By now, you should already be downloading and installing iMatte!

And there is so much more to it…

*** TO ALL MODDERS, if you need anything that I didn’t included in the package to create a mod for iMatte, let me know. I will provide you with whatever you need to do your thing. Thank you much!

I’d like to thank @Zooropalg, this guy may have never released a theme of his own, but he certainly contributed to the success of many themes, iMatte included. If you would ever leave buddy, you would be dearly missed by many. I’m sure if you ever release a theme, it will be a monster success!

Hope you all enjoy iMatte as much as I enjoyed making it!

Pierre-André Leclair

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• FINALLY! Added Camera and Photo icon (via biteSMS pop-up menu) so you can easily send photo’s in Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
• Added an ‘Opt Out’ of a conversation feature. Ideal for spam or group messages or even keeping a ‘quiet’ conversation. Long holding on a conversation toggles notification alerts on or off.
• Added a ‘Copy to Clipboard’ feature. Ever wanted to copy an entire conversation and then for example email a copy of it. It’s easy now using biteSMS, go into any conversation (tap the status bar to go to top of convo) then tap [Copy to Clipboard].
• Tapping the biteSMS status bar icon now launches Quick Reply if there’s just one pending message (otherwise slides open the Notification Center).
• Added Orientation Lock for Quick Compose and Quick Reply. See biteSMS > Settings > More Stuff.
• Added ability to specify a group message contact pic. See biteSMS > Settings > More Stuff > Contact Pics.
• Much better integration with Siri for iPhone 4S devices.
• Now compliant with iOS 5.1.
• Added some simple theme support. There is a file you can create and edit to specify the color of the QR and QC text fields. Only create the file and add details for fields you want to change.

The file is /Applications/biteSMS.app/QR-theme.plist (this file is not there as we don’t want to overwrite it for each release).
You need to create it for your own purposes. However there is a QR-theme.example for reference purposes).

• Bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements.

HOT NEWS: For the month of April we are offering a 40% discount on biteSMS licenses! So please consider supporting us. See biteSMS > Settings > Buy License

Note: For iOS 4 users, in effect you are installing Release 5.5 of biteSMS and don’t get any new features.

Note: For iOS 3 users, in effect you are installing Release 4.8 of biteSMS and don’t get any new features.

Apple has released 5.1. This is either being pushed out now or will be shortly. This has some bigger-than-normal impacts for jailbreakers. Please read this carefully.

There is no untethered jailbreak for 5.1. Do not update to it. You will lose your jailbreak, cydia, and all your tweaks..

Absolutely, do not use the onboard iphone software update to update your device. This will most likely render your device unbootable and you will be forced to restore to 5.1.

1) If you are on an iphone 4s or iPad 2, updating to 5.1 is one-way. (This may also be the case for iphone 4 users). You cannot revert back. If you try 5.1 you will be stuck there forever. You will not be able to jailbreak until a new jailbreak is released.

2) If you are on an iPhone 4 or ipad 1 or similar device, you will be able to jailbreak tethered, then install semitether to get a semitethered jailbreak. In short, this will be jailbroken but when you reboot, you will lose your jailbreak until you get back to your computer and rerun redsn0w.

3) If you are on an old 3gs, like always, you can jailbreak untethered.

Finally, some other issues to be concerned with. If you install something in cydia that causes your device to not boot, you have to restore, you will be stuck updating to 5.1. Therefore, I suggest you get SSH installed and learn how to use it. If your device is in an unbootable state, you can fix it via SSH. With SSH installed, you can get further help in our irc channel (irc.thebigboss.org, #ios).

Troubleshooting your device without restore:
If you encounter issues on your device like things are not running stably or such, rather than restoring, try to debug the issue. Here are my suggestions:
1) In cydia uninstall mobile substrate. This will remove many things. Allow that. Reboot the device.
2) After this, test the device. Is it stable? If so, move to step 3.
3) Reinstall one tweak of your choice. Only one. This will reinstall mobile substrate as well.
4) Test with just that one tweak until you’re satisfied your device is stable.
5) Repeat steps 3 & 4 with one tweak at a time until you find one that makes the device unstable. Remove that one only and continue on.

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A new tweak is now available in the CydiaStore: RingerX VIP

RingerX VIP offers you many outstanding options to configure the ring and vibrate behaviour for calls and messages (SMS, MMS, iMessage).
It contains an Activator-enabled Temporary Mute feature which allows you to mute your iPhone for a defined period of time after which all tones are turned back on again. You’ll never forget to re-enable the ringer (switch on the left side of your iPhone) after a meeting or going to the movies because RingerX VIP automatically takes care of that.

RingerX VIP includes extremely useful features for individual contacts and groups and can seperately be set for calls and messages.

The following features can be assigned to individual Contacts or Groups

Automatically silent your iPhone when a certain contact calls. This is almost like blacklisting the contact/group but you’ll be able to see who calls/ed.

Set a custom volume for when the ringer is turned on. Make it ring at a low volume when an annyoing person calls.

Do you want to be reachable all the time by people such as your boss or girlfriend? Set RingerX VIP to ignore the ringer switch and always ring; you can even set a custom volume for each instance.

In addition, you can assign custom ring and textones to groups.

RingerX VIP fully integrates into iOS. The settings are located in the contact/group view of the Phone and Contacts application, so there’s no configuration needed from within Settings or through a SpringBoard application. Furthermore, icons in the rows with the contact names will indicate if you have important settings enabled.

Once installed, there will be a section in your Settings applications which allows to quickly disable RingerX VIP and offers additional information on usage.

A SBSettings Toggle is included.

• Temporary Mute Feature – never forget to to switch your iPhone back to loud again.

For Groups

• Custom ringtone
• Custom text tone

For Contacts and Groups

• Always Silent
• Custom volume for when ringer is enabled
• Ignore if your iPhone is muted
• Custom volume if the mute state is being ignored
• Always Vibrate

• Fully integrates into iOS
• Settings in the Phone and Contacts application
• Indicators to easily find important settings
• Section in Settings app with further information
• SBSettings Toggle

For users having no service after using sbsettings on your 5.x CDMA device, it is not caused by sbsettings but instead by the 3g toggle.

To fix it:
1) Disable the 3g toggle in the more app (don’t use it)
2) go to settings, general, reset, and reset your network settings.
3) Reboot.

I am pushing a new sbsettings with a 3g toggle that should detect and not run on CDMA. I don’t have a 4s on CDMA so I can only test my iphone 4 Verizon which it seems to work ok there.

Note: The greenpois0n website is too busy and down at the time of this writing. Wait and be patient.

Today, Chronic dev released Greenpois0n for your A5 devices (iPhone 4s and ipad 2). You can now do an untethered jailbreak on these devices assuming you are running either 5.0 or 5.0.1. If you are not running those FW versions, get onto one ASAP before Apple closes the update window and releases 5.1. As soon as Apple releases 5.1, you can expect that you cannot restore 5.0.1 again and unless you’re already on 5.0.1 you will be unable to jailbreak.

To jailbreak, just download the jailbreak app from greenpois0n web site (called “absinthe”), and run it. At the moment it is released only for OSX (Mac) but will soon have a windows version followed later today.

A short word on how the JB will work. You will attach your device to your mac, run the app, and wait. When it tells you to do something on your device, you can disconnect it and go run the web link “absinthe”. This will attempt to contact the greenpois0n web site and finish the jailbreak. The jailbreak will be completed when the device resprings and you find cydia. If the greenpois0n web site is down when you try to run the icon on the device, instead you can go to settings, vpn, and click “on”. The error “A configuration error occurred” should appear, shortly after the device should respring jailbroken.

Note: for those having problems, these steps worked for me on my “stubborn” device:
1) After the JB fails to do anything, reboot the iphone
2) Close absinthe on your mac
3) Rerun absinthe and it should detect the device and say that it noticed a jailbreak attempt failed and say it has “recovered”.
4) Reboot the device again, and close absinthe again
5) Rerun the jailbreak tool, it will rerun as it did in the first place.
6) After it’s done and says to tap the “jailbreak icon” do not do that! Instead go to your device, load settings, and click the “vpn” setting to “on”. Wait. The device should pop up and error and then respring about 30 seconds after the error.
7) If the device never resprings in step 6, repeat the steps above again until it works.

FullScreen for iPad – the popular tweak which not only offers a full screen mode for safari but also adds new gestures – is finally ready for iOS5.

FullScreen for iPad makes browsing the internet one your iPad one hundred times more comfortable. It adds <span style=”color: #ffff00;”><strong>new gestures</strong></span> which can be assigned to actions like reload, scroll down/up, next tab…

Examples: Swipe with 3 fingers to switch between tabs, open the bookmarks with a tripple tap or simply add the page as bookmark by tapping twice and holding down the finger for a second…. and much more.

FullScreen for iPad is available for USD 2.19 in the CydiaStore. Owners of the iPhone version can get it at a reduced price only USD 1.29.

Apple is due to release 5.1 soon. When that happens, they will stop signing 5.0.1. This means you will only be able to restore to 5.1. 5.1 breaks the upcoming jailbreak. If you are currently a 4s owner or an ipad 2 owner, you will want to get your device to 5.0.1 ASAP. This way when the jailbreak is released, you will be able to use it. If you do not restore to 5.0.1 now, in a few days when 5.1 is out, you may never be able to get from 5.0 to 5.0.1 and only option will be to wait again.

Music Controls Pro just got another update, and with it, I’m pushing the reset buttons on the five-day trials! So come back and see what’s new!

So what is new?

• AVRCP v1.3 integration. Track info from third-party apps can finally be shown on compatible Bluetooth displays!
• Notification Center plugin for Controls. This shows you your track info, including artwork. Swipe control integration makes it slim and compact, or, you can select a larger format from settings to get buttons.
• Notification Center plugin for Volume/Brightness. This control offers a switchable slider, as well as a button for quickly changing your output source.

Still curious for why you should get Music Controls Pro? Check out some of what you can do:

• Track info from 46 popular music apps is integrated into the OS.
• Swipe controls let you easily operate your music without looking at your display (or even turning on your screen!)
• Background video apps but keep the audio going. If you’ve got a video out cable, the video will even keep going! If you don’t have a video cable, check out Resupported!
• Remote service integration for wireless music control – repurpose your aging phone as a media center!
• Dock support so you can use your music apps with a capable stereo!
• Statusbar integration to always know what’s playing!

Music Controls Pro is available in Cydia for $5.99.