Getting to Know Filza
I spent the last 3 weeks getting to know Filza on my iPhone 5, 5s, 6 and 6 plus. The first thing I noticed was how well it functioned on the listed devices. One of my major concerns was how it would look on the 6 plus as many apps and tweaks seem to not fair so well with such a large screen due to stretching and quality issues. However with Filza File manager it was clean and very well laid out for multiple iPhones. With this said the best selling point of Filza is just its ease of use and wide array of features for managing and using root access to the ultimate level.

Primary Features of Filza:

Summary
Overall Filza is a very powerful and in depth tool for your iOS file manager needs. Just using it for a few weeks I can tell you it is something that will stay in my iOS toolbox for a long time. It is exactly what you would want and expect when it comes to having a simple yet powerful way to manage and edit your iOS files and folders. Just the functionality for cutting down on steps through copying, and pasting or simply searching make this a worthwhile App to add. Filza costs $5.99 but comes with a free trail and I am betting like me you will happily make the switch and pay the $5.99 as it is worth every penny and will pay for itself just in time saved.

How to Get Filza
For Filza File managers primary website click Here. You can also go directly to cydia to download and install Filza, you will need your device jailbroken to do so(Need to jailbreak your device click here to start with what it is).

To follow the creators of Filza click here for their Twitter page(@tigisoftware) or click here for their Facebook page.

You can also check out Tigi softwares primary site for other apps and development by going to their main site by clicking here

So with this minor annoyance in mind I went out and found BioBoot, an App / Tweak available in cydia. Now this review was pretty easy going since it really just needed to do one thing, and that is not require the passcode on reboot. So without further ado I installed BioBoot on a iPhone 5s and 6. The instal and setup of BioBoot was very easy, upon re spring you put in your passcode. If you forget to do it on re spring just lock your device and unlock with passcode. Once this is completed you are passcode free on reboots.

Now if for any reason you have issues or require additional setting changes BioBoot does have one setting that can be adjusted. That is setting your devices estimated boot time. It defaults to 30 seconds, but if for any reason your device does not work with that setting it can be changed.

All in all this is a very good and annoyance fixing tweak / app available to you right from within cydia off our repo.

Some features of Signal 2.0 are-

Setting up Signal is super easy as well.

Signal is the easiest and best way I have seen to keep your conversations private, it is all open source and free. This is the private communication many of us have been waiting for. It doe’s all of this while giving you a clean yet attractive UI.

In closing Signal keeps encrypted communication simple and reliable for any user, it is openly available on the appstore so you don’t even need your device to be jailbroken. Click here to get it from the app store or visit whispers site here.

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I expect iOS developers to take advantage of this new increase, and with such it makes a 16gb iPhone soon to be just about worthless. So as you ponder and prepare for your next purchase of an iPhone 6s or 7 if you have not done so already its time to go for the 32gb version or higher. If you don’t you might only get to have a couple apps, photos and songs before running out of space.

“The size limit of an app package submitted through iTunes Connect has increased from 2 GB to 4 GB, so you can include more media in your submission and provide a more complete, rich user experience upon installation. Please keep in mind that this change does not affect the cellular network delivery size limit of 100 MB.”

Lets get down to it, heres how to easily and without any apps block those unwanted calls and messages.

How to Block calls on the iPhone:

Congratulations! you have now block that number from calling you again. If you need to unblock it for any reason follow the same steps but this time you will see it says “Unblock this caller”. Now lets move onto blocking annoying messages.

How to block messages on the iPhone:

There you have it, you have officially blocked that number from calling or messaging you. Thats how you can use the power of your iPhone and iOS to easily and effectively stop unwanted calls and messages.

The first thing to do is find out what apps are using the most power, most of the time its a new game you downloaded or an app running in the background you had no idea about.

To find out it’s simple, just go to Settings> General> Usage> Battery Usage> and behold a breakdown of battery usage by app over the last 24 hours and 7 days. You also have the ability to adjust the brightness settings to help save some more power. Now take this data and pair it with the next step.

With this information you can decide what apps if any you want to either delete or insure you kill immediately after using. If you don’t know how to kill an app in iOS 8 its simple just double tap the home button, your apps running will appear and you just swipe them up to kill. If you are so inclined you can kill up to three apps at once by placing a finger on all three and swiping up.

Now this is not a ultimate or in depth endeavor into saving battery life, but I have found that the above steps fix the meat of the issues and allow you to go on your way without wasting to much time trying to squeeze another 10 min out of your battery.

What is iAppLock: iAppLock from Think Yeah allows you to lock down any app on your iOS device using a passcode, pattern or touch ID. It allows you to lock anything from your messages, photo gallery and Facebook app to all others.

User Interface: The user interface and graphics were designed to be very user friendly, clean and beautiful. I must admit after using it from first use it was a very clean and beautiful design that made navigating and using the app very simple. iAppLocks interface allows it to be easily managed, it even features a section for upcoming updates and functions to the app.

Functionality: It does exactly what it says it will do and more. It worked flawlessly with any app I added the lock to. Above that there are added features that really help iAppLock stand out, and one is the ability to add trusted wifi networks.

When you have specified a trusted wifi network and you’re connected it disables all locking you have added to the specified apps. This becomes very helpful when your iPhone or iPad is used on a work related wifi network. For me I need the ability to get into various apps very quickly while at work and do not have time to mess about with a lock constantly on certain apps. However when I am at home there are many apps I don’t want being launched or used unless by me. The trusted wifi feature solves that issue completely.

There is also a delayed timeout option so that you can exit an app you have the lock on and not have it ask for touch id or a password if accessed again within a certain time period. One other added feature I found useful was requiring the passcode when trying to uninstall an app, I mean apple requires you to put in a passcode when you instal the app so why not for uninstalling it. This could save you some grief if your little one gets ahold of your iPhone.

In addition iAppLock has a custom lock screen option which is clean and well made. There are more features not mentioned and they are constantly updating and improving so you wont be dissatisfied with this app.

Primary Features:

Summary: All things considered after using iAppLock for 3 weeks I have no plans on ever removing it from my lineup. It was easy to use, worked as it should and has a lot of handy features. Not to mention all the upcoming updates and new features in the works to make it that much better. I have since added it to my iPads and other iPhones in the house and office, its just to useful not too. It is one of those features you don’t truly realize you needed until you have it. If for no other reason then the fact that it can deter and stop a major headache from happening go get it, you will use it.

How to get iAppLock: To get iAppLock click here for the main app page and link to it in cydia. You can also go directly to cydia to download and install iAppLock, you will need your device jailbroken to do so(Need to jailbreak your device click here to start with what it is). To follow iAppLocks creaters ThinkYeah click here for their Twitter page(@ThinkYeahApp).

Reveal allows you to view more content in notifications. Scroll horizontally on banners to see more of the message. On the lock screen, scroll vertically on notification bubbles and tap table cells to expand them.

Here’s the recap:

- Scrollable banners
- Scrollable lock screen bubbles
- Expandable lock screen cells

Grab your copy today in Cydia for only $1.99! Supports all iOS 5 devices. Check out our demo video here.

This tweak was created by Conrad Kramer and myself. Give us a follow on Twitter to stay up to date on Reveal and our other projects.

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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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