Top Ten Reasons For Jailbreaking Your iDevice
You don't know why people jailbreak their iPhones, iPods and iPads? Here's why:
- WeatherIcon
When I first saw the iPhone in 2007, I thought that the weather icon shows the real weather, just like the calendar shows the real date. I was kinda frustrated when I realized that it doesn't… Now I'm happy with this hack (: It supports any weather application.
- LiveClock
The same, but for the clock icon.
- Reminder
A thing that Apple forgot — status bar icons for mail, calendar, messages, missed calls, etc. Really useful — now I'll never miss an email when I'm reading my Twitter timeline with 0% sound volume.
- No Bookmarks
A small Safari patch that disables opening bookmarks automatically when opening Safari (not Fast App Switching to it).
- Covert
Private browsing for Safari. Even IE has it — is Safari any worse? Not now.
- Activator
Bind anything to any touch gesture or shaking the device. Finally you don't need to go the long way: Home → Settings → Wi-Fi → On/off. You can bind something like a swipe from top and enjoy.
- SBSettings
Quick settings. Just do an Activator gesture (e.g. swipe the top bar) and you can toggle WiFi, BT, SSH or something. Or you can adjust the brightness (!!!). It also includes an interface for libhide, so you can hide some icons on your Springboard.
- Winterboard
Tweak yo look! You can change every icon or just a few colors. Or hide the icon labels. There's a lot of themes in Cydia.
- Five Icon Dock
Or six icon dock. Or five icon Springboard.
- Flashlight
App Store apps can't change screen brightness automatically. Cydia has a flashlight that can. It also has a tweak for App Store flashlights which does the (b)right thing.
Well, iPhone users may also like MyWi, My3G and more phone-related stuff. I use an iPod touch so I haven't put them in the top ten :-)
P.S. The newest and coolest jailbreak for new devices: limera1n
