The Best Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 6

With the new jailbreak for iOS 6, it's time to start playing around with all the great apps and tweaks on your newly freed device. Here's a look at some of our favorites available in Cydia for iOS 6.

Jailbreaking has changed a lot over the years, and while it's a little less exciting (and arguably less needed) than it used to be, jailbreaking is still a great way to get the apps Apple doesn't want you to have. It's not just apps though: jailbreaking is also the best way to quit the Apple ecosystem and get the functionality you want from third party apps and add smaller tweaks. You can get rid of the annoying password request from the App Store, or add push notifications to email apps like Sparrow. For many, solving those annoyances are reason enough to jailbreak.

Note: If you're new to jailbreaking, check out our guide to Cydia to learn how to search for and install apps and tweaks.

Customize Your UI with Dreamboard or Winterboard

iOS theming isn't nearly as popular as it is on Android, but Dreamboard is the app that makes possible. With Dreamboard you canmake your iPhone look like Android, or evenMac OS X Lion.

Dreamboard isn't the only skinning app out there, WinterBoard is excellent as well, and seems to use a little less memory than Dreamboard. It's also an excellent tool for changing the look of minor things like your lock screen or dock if you don't want to mess around with appearance of iOS. You'll find plenty of themes in Cydia, but you can also install them directly with iExplorer oriFunBox by copying themes to the theme directory on your phone.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for Dreamboard to download and install it for free.

Activator

Activator was one of the first jailbreak apps, and it's still one of the best. Activator allows you to customize button and multitouch functionality on your iOS device. On its own, Activator is a great way to customize your buttons and gestures, but it's also the backbone of a lot of other apps and tweaks, making it a required install for just about everything that features custom gestures.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for Activator to download and install it for free.

Tune and Automate Your Settings with SBSettings and SBProfiles

SBSettings is another longtime favorite tweak that has been around nearly as long as jailbreaking. It essentially offers a quick way to access all the settings on your device like power, refreshing, respringing, Bluetooth, and tons more. It also offers up data like your IP address, disk space available, and more right in Notification Center. We're also including SBProfiles here, which allows you to for your iPhone to read your mind. If SBSettings is a little too crazy for you,NCSettings is a simplified version that adds the same toggles to the Notification Center.

Want these jailbreak hacks? Search Cydia for SBSettings and SBProfiles to download and install them for free.

Speed Up Your Web Browsing with Nitrous

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Nitrous is a tweak that provides a huge speed boost to JavaScript. Typically, the Nitro Javascript engine is restricted to Apple's apps like Safari or iBooks, but Nitrous gives that boost to any app that uses WebKit, including Chrome. In our tests, it brought Chrome's speed up to par with Safari, which is a huge improvement. If you're using a third-party browser, Nitrous is well worth the 99¢ to add a little speed.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for Nitrous to download and install it for 99¢.

Flex

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Flex is one of the most interesting new apps we've come across. It makes it possible to create your own minor tweaks for any of your apps—no programming expertise required. You can do all types of things with it, including getting rid of annoyances like Chrome's side-swipe tab browser, or add images to text messages. It's incredibly versatile and can do a bunch of different things. While it's pretty easy to get started with Flex, it's not for the faint of heart, and you will (probably) screw a few things up when you're messing around with settings. Thankfully, it's easy to disable any tweaks you make in Flex, and when you uninstall it from Cydia it fixes everything you messed up.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for Flex to download and install it for $3.99.

Trick Out Your App Switcher with Auxo

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Auxo is easily the best app switcher for iOS. Auxo works just like multi-tasking usually does: double-tap the home button, and Auxo pops up. However, instead of just showing you an icon, it displays a preview of the app's current state. That in itself is cool, but what makes Auxo really handy is that when you swipe to the right it displays all types of quick toggles to functions like Bluetooth, 3G, lock rotation, and even the flashlight. All of this combined makes Auxo a brilliant little app switcher that does just about everything you'd want it to.

Of course, Auxo's not your only option. A few other great apps that rethink multitasking are out there, including: Zephyr, Switchy, CardSwitcher, Quasar (for iPad, not compatible with iOS 6 yet, but should be soon), or Aero.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for Auxo to download and install it for $1.99.

Get Voice Search with Google and NowNow

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If you have an older jailbroken device and you wish you had something similar to Siri,NowNow is a pretty good replacement that utilizes the Google Search app to search for anything by voice. It's not nearly as integrated as Siri in controlling your device, but if you only use Siri for searching the web, NowNow (and Google Search) is far more worthwhile than Siri. You can look up just about anything, get directions, and more with just a few words.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for NowNow to download and install it for free.

Supercharge Your Text Messaging with biteSMS

BiteSMS is one of the rare apps that people jailbreak just to use. BiteSMS is essentially an app that supercharges your messaging, allowing you to easily reply to incoming texts from anywhere in iOS, mark messages to read later, and plenty more so it operates as a full-blown messages replacement for your iOS device.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia forbiteSMS to download and install it for free (although some features are paid).

Get Homescreen Widgets with Dashboard X

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It's no secret that iOS users have been clamoring for live widgets on their homescreens for a long while. Dashboard Xbrings fully customizable widgets to iOS that are dead simple to install and use. This means you can add a clock to your homescreen, live weather stats, and plenty more. Once you download Dashboard X,you'll find a ton of different free widgets to fully customize your iOS experience. Sure, widgets will likely kill your battery, but if you want live updates on what's happening, Dashboard X is the way to go.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia forDashboard X to download and install it for $1.99.

Fix Text Editing with SwipeSelection

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Selecting text on iOS is terrible.SwipeSelection makes the process of selecting text and moving around text a lot easier. You can slide one finger on the keyboard to move the cursor around, or hold down the shift key and slide to select a block of text. Check out this video to see it in action. SwipeSelection is most useful on the iPad, but it's still rather handy on the iPhone as well.

Want this jailbreak hack? Search Cydia for SwipeSelection to download and install it for free.

The Best Minor Tweaks and Extras

Sometimes the best reason to jailbreak is to force Apple's default apps by the wayside and make your favorites easier to use. Jailbreaking also makes fixing minor annoyances incredibly simple. With that in mind, here are a few of our favorite smaller tweaks and older apps we still love.

• Springtomize: Springtomize is the swiss army knife of visual customization. With it you can control how many apps appear on the home screen, the look of Notification Center, icons, and more.
• MapsOpener: Prefer Google Maps for all your mapping needs? MapsOpener opens the map links you come across from text messages, online, and in select other apps directly in Google Maps. For turn-by-turn junkies, we also love Navigate from Maps, which puts turn-by-turn navigation one tap away.
• CallBar: When you get a call on your iPhone, it annoying interrupts what you're doing with a call screen. CallBar replaces that call screen with an unobtrusive notification bar, and adds a bunch of other cool phone features.
• Password Pilot: The fact that Apple requires your password every time you download an app is incredibly annoying. Password Pilot enters it for you automatically.
• Sparrow+: Even though it's not likely Sparrow will get updated again, we still love it as a fantastic mail client on iOS. But one of the complaints against it is the lack of push notifications. Sparrow+ adds push notifications, and makes Sparrow your default mail app when you open mail links in other apps.
• Plugication: Plugication is simple: when you connect your headphones to your iOS device, it automatically resumes your music. It's simple, but incredibly useful.
• Intelliscreen: Intelliscreen has long been the best way to supercharge your lock screen with information. It's $10, but it does a ton of great stuff.
• F.lux: We love F.lux on pretty much every device. It does one simple thing: reduces eyestrain by turning the screen an orangish color as it gets later in the day.
• CleverPin: CleverPin makes it possible to customize when your iPhone's passcode appears. On your home Wi-Fi network? No need for a password. On 3G? It requires a password.
• Zephyr: Zephyr adds all kinds of multitasking gestures to your device allowing you to quickly switch between apps. Check out this video for a breakdown on how it works.
• AnyLockApp: The camera grabber on your lock screen is great, but if you don't use the default camera app it's pretty useless. AnyLockApp lets you select any app you want to appear there (like Camera+).
• Emblem: Let's face it, notifications on the iPad are pretty poorly designed because they're just up-sized versions of what you get on the iPhone. Emblem makes them more like the banners you see on OS X, and they look fantastic on the bigger iPad screen.

Search for any of the above names in Cydia to find and download them.

We couldn't cover every single jailbreak app and tweak we love, and last years iOS 5 rounduphas plenty more options for awesome jailbreak apps.

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5 important rules about your new smartphone

You can figure out a lot of the features just by fiddling, but there are a few general concepts that might not seem clear. Have no fear: I'm here to help you learn the important smartphone basics.

1. Battery life will disappoint
The hard truth: You'll be lucky to get a day or two of smartphone runtime before needing to recharge. Want to stretch battery life as far as possible? Start by dropping the screen brightness to around 50 percent. You'll hardly notice the difference.
Next, disable Bluetooth if you're not using it, and think very hard about turning off push e-mail (automated mail retrieval at regular intervals, and a major power-suck).
iPhone users should check out Sharon Vaknin's "How to give your iPhone's battery life a serious boost." I followed her tips, and my iPhone 4S runtime improved dramatically.
If you're an Android user, turn off those cool but battery-draining animated wallpapers, then install an app like JuiceDefender. It's free, and in my experience it works really well.
2. Tap the screen, don't stab it
I always see smartphone novices stabbing at their screens, or holding their finger down much longer than necessary. To launch an app, just lightly tap its icon with the pad of your finger. (A fingernail won't work, as touch screens require a capacitive--i.e. fingertip--touch.)
On an iPhone, tapping and holding on an icon will make all the icons start shaking. That's intentional: you can rearrange your icons (by dragging and dropping them) while in this mode. Press either the Home or Power button to stop the shaking.
On Android phones, you tap, hold, and drag icons to rearrange them; there's no special "mode" like on the iPhone.
But remember: when you want to run an app or swipe the screen, use a quick, light touch.
3. The difference between off and standby
When you're not actually using your phone, it stands to reason it should be off, right? Wrong: "off" means actually powering down the phone, much like you do with your computer. When it's off, you can't make calls, run apps, or do anything else. Because, well, it's off!
Instead, when you're not actually using your phone, you want it to retreat to standby mode--meaning only the screen shuts off. This happens one of two ways: automatically, after a set period of inactivity; or by pressing (but not holding!) the power button. You should get in the habit of doing the latter before sticking the phone back in your pocket or bag, if only to preserve battery life--but also to prevent accidental dialing or app launching.

Don't pay $20 for a basic bumper case when you can get one online for one-tenth the price.

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4. Avoid overpriced cases
A "naked" phone is susceptible to scuffs, scratches, and, should it have an untimely meeting with the pavement, shattered screens. That's why most folks wisely choose to wrap their phones in some kind of case.
Just one problem: the cases you find in most stores (especially Apple and carrier stores) cost a small fortune. If all you need is simple protection, look online.
For example, Meritline sells a basic black iPhone 4 bumper case for all of $1.99 shipped. And a quick search of eBay reveals all kinds of cases for all kinds of phones, most of them priced at $10 or less.
I'm not saying there's no place in the world for the $89.95 leather zip wallet, just that there are much more affordable alternatives available online. Worth a look.
5. Apps bring the 'smart'
Apps are what put the "smart" in "smartphone," so hit the app store to stock up. You'll find lots of good freebies, and plenty of other apps that cost only a buck or two.
Android phones come with Google's Android Market (which itself is an app), but you may want to consider installing Amazon's Appstore as well. Why bother? Amazon gives away a different paid app every single day.

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Android smartphones now targeted by cybercriminals

It's the dark side of success: smartphones running the popular Android operating system are being targeted by cybercriminals. The attackers use the fact that many users install apps on their phones without checking them out properly first - potentially with disastrous consequences.
The mobile device game Angry Birds offers the perfect disguise for cybercriminals. Millions of fans are anxiously waiting for the latest game with the vindictive birds. Who would expect something evil behind the brightly coloured comic facade?
But those with a smartphone running the Android operating system had better look a bit closer. That's because criminals have repeatedly used this platform and offered apps that look like the original game from Rovio - but ones that, in reality, spy on the unsuspecting users.
Data thieves and hackers are looking more and more at smartphones because the little do-it-all devices are also know-it-all devices, which people use not just for their telephone books, but also often for secret business mails and bank information.
In principle, all smartphone systems are threatened, but Android is a particularly worthwhile destination as 43 per cent of all new smartphones have Google software installed. And the system is vulnerable to attacks due to its openness.
Now, it cannot be said that Android is unsafe. Google stresses that the programs run in a 'sandbox' - a sealed off area. By default, applications cannot interact with one another and have limited access to the operating system, according to the company.
But there is a gateway for digital viruses. 'The fundamental problem is the apps,' said IT security expert Alexander Tsolkas, referring to the beloved small programs with which users enhance their device.
Prior to installation onto an Android device, every program lists what it can do on the device to which the user must confirm with 'accept and download.'
These warnings are designed to provide transparency, but they often just confuse many users. Must a game have 'unrestricted internet access'? Can an MP3 player access personal information such as the address book?
Many smartphone owners are overwhelmed by these detailed questions and just hit confirm without really looking into the details - like many have done with the faked version of Angry Birds.
'You should not leave the request of permission up to the users. Many do not understand it,' said Tsolkas.
The potential for abuse through harmful apps is large.
'It can result in data loss,' said Tsolkas. Hackers can read the address book, the browser history or the IMEI number which explicitly identifies every device. There are also financial risks, warned the expert: 'Spying programs can intercept the data from home banking or an app can send a fee-based text message to Russia.'
Harmful apps make their way into circulation because Google does not control the programmes offered by smartphone providers as strictly as Apple does with its iTunes App Store. The IT security company Symantec says the security hurdles that are in place can be bypassed relatively easily.
In addition, Android users can install apps that don't come from the official Google Apps Marketplace and therefore haven't been reviewed by Google. That isn't possible with Apple devices unless the user performs a 'jailbreak' on the device, which voids the guarantee.
One strength of the Android army of devices is simultaneously a weakness - the variety. The system can be used on various devices from dozens of manufacturers. When a software update comes out, not every provider offers it for all models. A statistic shows that only a small portion of the Android devices in the US have the current version included - with the consequence that some security holes remain open.
It's not clear how widespread the problem is. Google refuses to publish any numbers, but the security software manufacturer Kaspersky registered about 1,900 harmful programmes between January and October - that is half of all the viruses for all mobile devices, the company told dpa. That is still a small number compared to viruses and worms for PCs, but experts warn that the risk will increase in the coming years.
However, if a problem is found, Google has been good at reacting quickly. Malicious apps often are taken off the Android market within hours - like the fake Angry Birds. Still, by then a number of users had installed the programme - and the spy as well.

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