Top 10 Best / Essential iPad (and iPhone) Apps – that are actually useful

I had an old list of some of my favorite iPhone apps but for the last few months I’ve been using an iPad 2 and have been paying attention to what apps I am actually using. There have been a lot of great iPad apps released so far. Here is a list of my 10 [...]

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Guide to Installing Frash (Flash 10.1) on your iPhone through Cydia

Being able to see Flash banner ads isn’t exactly necessary, but there are still some sites out there with unpassable Flash intro and the like where being able to view Flash if you want to would be helpful. If you want Flash running on your iPhone, Comex (creator of the Spirit and JailbreakMe hacks) has been [...]

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Circuitous – another great multitasking app for the iPhone

Following in the footsteps of Kirikae, Multifl0w and ProSwitcher, Circuitous is another great new innovation in multitasking for the iPhone. Like the others, it provides a useful interface for Backgrounder’s multitasking capabilities. Kirikae does it like a processes list screen, and Multifl0w and ProSwitcher did it like the Palm Pre’s Cards implementation. Circuitous does it [...]

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Top 15 Best Jailbroken Apps for the iPhone (pre 4.0)

Jailbreaking an iPhone is essential. Without all of the jailbroken apps the phone would be severely limited in functionality and usability compared to most other smartphones. Apple’s restrictions on what you can install is THE major problem with the iPhone. Jailbreaking is the solution around their limitations. There are many apps available now through Cydia [...]

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LockInfo 2.0 – How the iPhone Lockscreen Should Be

LockInfo has been a mainstay on my iPhone’s Lockscreen for a few months now and it’s creator David Ashman (aka @Stimpy5050) has been working on a major update for awhile and it has finally been released. He maintains a good connection with the jailbreak community through his twitter, and has even commented on this blog [...]

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Great New LockInfo (iPhone lockscreen extension) Theme by ame235 (emulates teehan+lax)

My original post on LockInfo here: http://jordandev.info/?p=148 You may be familiar with teehan+lax’s mock photos of what they consider to be what the iPhone desperately needs, a new lockscreen. It looked suspiciously like a better looking LockInfo. Well ame235 took it upon himself to take their idea and create a new theme for LockInfo with [...]

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Windows 7 Media Center with Media Browser

I recently decided to try out Windows Media Center. Instead of spending money on a cheap, small HTPC and setting up Windows Media Center, XBMC, or something else I figured the easiest way would just be to use my Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender. So I went about finally setting up Windows Media [...]

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CategoriesSB – improving on Categories for iPhone

CategoriesSB – Cydia – 99 cents An new jailbreak addon came out awhile ago that I recently got around to trying. CategoriesSB is an extension for Categories. If you use Categories then you need CategoriesSB. It’s that good. Features: Loading time to open a folder is reduced to almost nothing. This makes it so that [...]

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LockInfo – great iPhone Lockscreen improvement

I recently purchased LockInfo, a great Lockscreen app available on Cydia/RockApp for $5. I had the trial for a few days to see if I would like it better than Intelliscreen and liked it so much I now use it instead. What does it do? It let’s you view your email, SMS, Calendar, todo, weather, [...]

Adblock for iPhone – A cleaner mobile web

Up until now, I hadn’t really thought about ads on my iPhone. A lot of sites I use have a mobile or iPhone specific version that are usually very sparse on the ads if there are even any at all. But then sometimes you run across that annoying site that has a bunch of ads [...]

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