Vox: A minimalistic battery indicator for your jailbroken iPhone

Vox: A minimalistic battery indicator for your jailbroken iPhone

If you like to keep your iPhone’s status bar clean then you will like this new jailbreak tweak.

Vox is a new jailbreak tweak that has just hit Cydia, which merges the battery percentage with the battery status bar indicator into a minimalistic indicator in the form of a dot.

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AltKeyboard brings a cool new way to type alternate characters

AltKeyboard brings a cool new way to type alternate characters

Yesterday, we told you about AltKeyboard, a jailbreak tweak that was to bring a cool new way to type alternate characters on iPhone’s virtual keyboard.

The good news is AltKeyboard is now available on Cydia.

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LockToggle gives you quick access to System toggles from lock screen

LockToggle gives you quick access to System toggles from lock screen

LockToggle is a new jailbreak tweak, which as the name suggests adds System toggles to the Lock screen, so you can enable or disable them without unlocking your device.

While we’ve seen a number of tweaks that offer this functionality, I really liked the look of the toggle icons and the way it integrates with the lock screen. 

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MiniPlayer 2.2 adds seek bar and search feature to the awesome music widget

MiniPlayer 2.2 adds seek bar and search feature to the awesome music widget

Couple of weeks back, developer @ManzoPower & designer @Surenix had released MiniPlayer with an all-new design inspired by iTunes 11 mini player.

The developers have just released an update, which makes the awesome music widget for the jailbroken iOS device even better.

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Background Manager: Jailbreak tweak brings true multitasking to iOS 6

Background Manager: Jailbreak tweak brings true multitasking to iOS 6

When Apple introduced the multitasking feature in iOS 4, it enabled multitasking support only for certain types of apps due to concerns over the adverse impact it could have on battery life.

So if you wanted true multitasking on your iOS device, you had to jailbreak your device to install Backgrounder. It gave you the control to decide when an app should keep running and when it should quit.

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QuickGestures brings Android-style gestures to iPhone’s Contacts and Phone app

QuickGestures brings Android-style gestures to iPhone’s Contacts and Phone app

QuickGestures is a new jailbreak tweak that brings Android-style gestures to the Contact lists in the Phone and Contacts app.

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Peekly+: All-new settings app for the awesome 2-page WinterBoard theme now available on Cydia

Peekly+: All-new settings app for the awesome 2-page WinterBoard theme now available on Cydia

Couple of weeks back, we told you about Peekly 1.4, a major update for the awesome 2-page Winterboard theme that not only revamps the lock screen but also gives you quick access or “Peek” at the Weather and Calendar from the lock screen.

The update was also supposed to come with a new Settings app called Peekly+ that allowed users to configure the settings for the lock screen theme rather than having to edit the js file.

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Smartwatch+ brings weather, calendar, iPhone battery status and tons more functionality to Pebble smartwatch

Smartwatch+ brings weather, calendar, iPhone battery status and tons more functionality to Pebble smartwatch

When Pebble smartwatch hit Kickstarter, I was extremely excited and immediately backed the project. However, when it arrived couple of months, I was a little underwhelmed as it did not offer a lot of functionality.

However, tweaks like BTNotificationEnabler and RunKeeper app that added support for the Pebble smartwatch last week are slowly unlocking the potential of the smartwatch.

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JellyLock: An excellent lock screen launcher for your iPhone

JellyLock: An excellent lock screen launcher for your iPhone

Android’s looks have significantly improved over its last few versions, bringing it on par with, and in some cases even exceeding, iOS. I’ve really liked the lock screen on stock Android Jelly Bean.

So I was glad to see JellyLock, a new jailbreak tweak that brings the same experience to the iPhone.

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Axis: A new jailbreak tweak that lets you quickly launch apps from the lock screen

Axis: A new jailbreak tweak that lets you quickly launch apps from the lock screen

Back in January, Sentry, interface designer of Auxo fame had given us a glimpse of a jailbreak tweak that allows you to extend the functionality of the Lock screen camera grabber (Camera shortcut).

Ryan Petrich, developer of popular jailbreak tweaks such as ProSwitcherDeepEndColor Profiles Rotation Inhibitor etc. had released a jailbreak tweak called Grabby inspired by the concept.

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