Category Archives: Tutorials
How To Take Pre-Cropped Screenshots On iPhone
We take a lot of screenshots here at iPhoneFirmware.com. We take screenshots of Macs, and we take screenshots of Windows.
We take screenshots of Android phones and we take screenshots of iOS devices. No matter what the device, or what operating system it is running though, we seem to always end up with the image in some sort of photo editor just so that we can crop it.
While there are a plethora of ways to take pre-cropped screenshots on both the PC and Mac, iOS in particular is devoid of a way to select what is captured in an impending screenshot. If you just want to take a screenshot of a status bar for example, then it gets a little bit irritating. Thankfully, we’ve just found the perfect jailbreak tweak that should do the trick, and it’s called ScreenshotPlus.
How To Initiate A Voice Call, FaceTime Call, Or Send Messages From Anywhere In iOS
QuickCall, a new tweak just made available over at the BigBoss repository, essentially allows you to throw up your contacts in an impromptu fashion using an activation method of your desire, before skimming through your contacts and making a call, starting a FaceTime call, or sending a message.
Not only is this insanely useful if you don’t wish to jump back through the home screen and between apps if you want to do different things, but the interface itself is very aesthetically pleasing. More details can be found right after the break!
Since Facebook came through with its promising (if unrefined) Facebook Home launcher replacement for Android complete with the cross-platform Chat Heads feature, scores of developers have sought to make our favorite ecosystems better at dealing with the social, multi-app digital world we find ourselves in.
With most accustomed to using several different utilities to keep in touch with different members of their family and friendship groups, things have gotten a little out of hand, but implementations like Home are certainly a step in the right direction.
Plex media server on Apple TV … without jailbreaking [video]
So, you want access to Plex on your Apple TV but don’t want to jailbreak the little black box to do so?
Never fear — a hack created by Plex users Baa, roidy and f00b4r called PlexConnect makes the popular media server software available to Apple TV owners without the need to jailbreak.
Like most workarounds, PlexConnect does involve a little deviousness. Users hoping to use PlexConnect run a program on a computer connected to the Apple TV that pretends to be Apple’s own Trailers app.
How To Boost iPhone Earpiece Volume By Up To 200%
If you find the speaker volume of your iPhone to be a little on the quiet side, help is at hand thanks to a jailbreak tweak by the name of Volume Amplifier.
Just released over at the BigBoss repository, it delivers fairly impressive results, and if you want to give your Apple smartphone’s volume a little kick up the backside, check out the details below!
Since the release of the Evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 6, the community surrounding Cydia has gone from strength to strength, and on an almost hourly basis, new tweaks, themes and apps are released for jailbroken iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices which aim to make using the said devices much better.
How To Customize iOS Banner Notifications / Alerts With Color Styles And Background Images
There have been plenty of hits and a fair few misses in the last couple of revisions of iOS with regards to the new features, but the consensus of the iOS notification banners introduced with iOS 5 seems to be one of positivity.
Their unobtrusive nature allows iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to continue their task in hand without being interrupted, but despite their discreet demeanor, they are rather bland and one dimensional. Looking to invigorate some life into these plain white banners is Bailey Seymour, a jailbreak developer who has come through with a theming tweak for this particular iOS element called BannerImage.
As well as allowing you to set just about any custom image as the background of your notification banners, it also allows you to mess around with the colors of text using those familiar RGB sliders.
