Category Archives: iPhone Apps
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.
Change The Default iOS Theme Color On iPhone With ‘Accentify’
The so-called ‘walled garden’ of iOS is hardly renowned for its customizability, but thanks to the freedom brought about by a jailbreak, the look and feel of the Apple mobile OS can be morphed and manipulated in all manner of ways.
A new Cydia entry by the name of Accentify is one such tweak, sneaking into the iOS API and delivering universal changes to the entire, predominantly off-blue color scheme. If you’ve grown somewhat bored with the rather dull, uninspiring appearance of your iOS device, Accentify could be just the lick of paint needed to liven things up.
One you install the Accentify tweak onto your device, you must take a trip over the Settings app to configure it to your requirements.
Enable Facebook VoIP / Voice Calling In Messenger App For iPhone Right Now!
VoIP is quickly making the same kind of waves on mobile as it has done over the past decade at desktop level in providing a cheap way for folks to communicate in real time.
Calling long distances worldwide has long since been a monopoly, but thanks to services like Skype, we no longer have to pay a huge premium to hear the sound of another’s voice from anywhere in the world.
Facebook is currently dabbling in this technology, as is clear from the rollout of the VoIP feature within Facebook Messenger for iOS, but if your area has not yet been supported officially yet you wish to unlock and use the calling feature, there’s jailbreak tweak for that! Details, as usual, after the jump.
How To Trigger SBSettings Actions Using Slide To Unlock Slider On iPhone
SBSettings is, in my opinion, one of the best jailbreak tweaks on offer over at the Cydia Store.
Through different revisions of iOS and on numerous devices, it has always been the very first tweak I have installed following a jailbreak, and when I am lucky enough to have it running on a jailbroken device, I’d say it saves me an average of ten minutes a day. Dragi, a new tweak over at the BigBoss repository, takes the power of SBSettings and its various toggles to the next level by allowing you to use the lock screen’s slider to trigger custom actions.
How To Get Right-Click Like Behavior On iPhone Home Screen With Bunch Of Useful Options
Even with the jailbreak scene having thrived for a number of years, and many bases having been covered in terms of what Apple is missing by default, there’s still plenty of scope for innovation.
Every week, I am genuinely surprised by just how creative developers have been with ideas and execution, and a new tweak by the name of Icon Tool shows a great degree of invention. In essence, Icon Tool acts as something of a ‘right click’ for your home screen icons, providing a bunch of useful extras aside from the basic open/move/delete offered by Apple at stock level.
