The famed RetroArch emulator, which emulates a large number of consoles from SNES to Genesis, was released for iOS today. As you can find on the developer’s website, the emulator has been ported to iOS, sits currently at version 0.9.9, and is now publicly available for download. (more…)
PreferenceOrganizer is a new jailbreak tweak for iOS that divides Cydia and App Store preferences within the Settings app by placing them into two separate folders. Unfortunately, it was rejected from the BigBoss repository on Cydia because it may confuse unassuming, third-party users. (more…)
Apple’s most recent iPhone ad campaign is pretty awesome in my opinion, but their latest iPad ads were lackluster in comparison. The music that Apple used in the latter set of ads was apparently just catchy enough for Alex Soto however, a YouTube user who decided to make some similar ads for jailbreaking. Unlike Apple’s own, these are pretty awesome–especially considering they’re a first for the jailbreak world. (more…)
AltKeyboard is an upcoming jailbreak tweak for iOS that will allow users to type alternate or shifted characters by sliding or flicking up on keys. The tweak, developed by Newar (@Sentry_NC) and Alan (@tweakcc), will be submitted to Cydia in the near future. Little else is known about AltKeyboard yet, outside of the teaser screenshot shown above. Sentry is an interface designer best known for Auxo, Luna and Axis, while Alan is an iOS developer behind Tap to Widgets, BrowseInApp and StatusTab.
This is really cool. Well-known developer Adam Bell, creator of popular jailbreak tweaks Stride and Cascade, has managed to port systemwide iOS notifications to Google Glass. The following video demo details how the process works, and it’s pretty awesome even in its infancy.
This neat hack brings push notifications to Google Glass from across your iPhone, no matter which app they are coming from: Messages, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or you name it. Due to the closed nature of iOS software, this implementation requires a jailbroken device. (more…)
Badger is an arguably game-changing tweak that brings some fairly simple functionality to iOS. Using a configurable activation method, you can bring up the Badger window which shows any app’s notifications. From there, you can swipe to delete notifications, open them, and even quick reply to texts and iMessages.
In short, Badger is a notification center replacement of sorts that allows you to view notifications directly from the SpringBoard. One could argue that this tweak is similar to Velox in functionality, but I have found Badger to be far less buggy and to have a much more streamlined feel. It may not have all the functionality of Velox, but who really needs to add notes from the SpringBoard anyway?
The full Cydia description as well as a video and more information can be found after the break. (more…)
SMS GV Extension, a popular jailbreak tweak that merges Google Voice SMS messaging capability with the Messages app, has at last received unofficial iOS 6 support. The tweak enables iPhone users to send SMS through Google Voice alongside the built-in MobileSMS module, the latter delivered by cellular carrier.
The jailbreak package is available on Cydia for iOS 6 by adding the repository http://cydia.angelxwind.net/ under Manage > Sources > Edit > Add, at least until it appears on the mainstream ModMyi or BigBoss repositories. The tweak has no icon, but rather is configured through Settings. A reboot is required after installation.
Google finally introduced Google Now for iOS a couple of week ago, and I’m personally still waiting on a native tweak adoption of the feature. In the meantime, however, a developer by the name of MattCMultimedia has released a tweak called Googiri. As its cheesily clever name suggests, the tweak attempts to integrate the two services with one simple activator action. (more…)
iFans member Karen Tsai, known by her alias angelXwind, has posted an official discussion thread for her Nintendo DS emulator (nds4ios) within the forums. Within, you can find known issues, user-contributed bug reports, performance rates by device, upcoming features and more regarding the popular emulator.
Emulators seem to be the latest craze within the jailbreaking community, as fellow iOS emulator developer ZodTTD publicly released the highly-anticipated gpSPhone 8 for emulating Gameboy Advance late last month. Let us know what classic games you are playing within the comments.
iOS developer ZodTTD has posted a Controller Skin Creation Guide for gpSPhone 8.0, just prior to the emulator going public on Cydia as a free download. For those unfamiliar, gpSPhone is a Gameboy Advance emulator for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that finally supports iOS 6 or later. ZodTTD has been collaborating with the iFans community during the beta testing period, and the emulator is now ready to go live for the rest of the jailbreaking world.
The Controller Skin Creation Guide will allow users to create custom skins for the gpSPhone controller, with step-by-step instructions provided by ZodTTD himself. There are three default skins provided with the public version of gPSPhone 8.0, and ZodTTD recommends that they be used as an initial template to make new themes. If you have any questions or comments, be sure to voice them in the discussion thread.