New Cydia App: 'VPlayer Video Player' The Best Video Player For iOS

-VPlayer Video Player



Description: The best video player for iOS.

Version: 0.0.5

Author: VPlayer Support (This author only has one package.)

Repo: BigBoss

Section: Multimedia

Compatible: iOS 4.3 and higher.

Price: FREE

 

Google's Chrome App Updated For iOS

Google has been hard at work updating their iOS apps. They have even made a new app called "YouTube Capture". About 30 minutes ago they decided to update the Chrome app. Only two days ago they updated it with a feature that allows you to play music in the background while browsing the web. This update is just an update with bug fixes for the audio feature.



Name: Chrome

Author: Google Inc.

Change Log:

*Fixes for audio bugs.

The Sectrets of "SBSettings"

SBSettings is an essential Cydia utility for many jailbreakers, because it gives us immediate access to Settings toggles we use every day. It's theme-able, its expandable, but it also is a utility that contains more depth and power than most users realize. The More button menu contains many hidden tools that advanced users should know about, but many of us don’t.

Basic Functions: The basic functions of SBSettings are features you are probably already familiar with, so we won’t go into too much detail here. Most users think of SBSettings as the dropdown window or the toggle panel that appears in notifications. This is the panel where you can install and enable additional toggles through Cydia. You can also pin applications to the SBSettings panel, respring, reboot, and activate Safe Mode. You can set themes, set activation methods though activation, and even manage different lists for the Dropdown Window and Notification Center.
There’s also an unassuming SBSettings Options menu under the SBSettings Setup header. Along with the settings you would expect for centering the dropdown window or disabling the dropdown animation, there’s a section for Statusbar Options that allows for displaying the date, free RAM, your IP Address and WiFi SSD, all through the status bar–it can even change the clock to military time.
But that’s not where the functionality ends. SBSettings contains advanced ‘System Wide Options’ header, which you might not have known were there–but can be incredibly helpful.

Hide Icons: SBSettings contains a built-in menu that allows you to hide unwanted items from the SpringBoard. Never use the default calculator, calendar, or stocks pages? You might not be able to delete them normally, but you can take them out of sight and out of mind.

Mobile Substrate Addons: If you have a lot of tweaks on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and you know one of them are acting up, but you don’t know which one, you can save yourself the trouble of installing and uninstalling everything and disable groups of tweaks directly from the ‘Mobile Substrate Addons’ list–even tweaks that don’t have toggles in Settings. Keep in mind that this tool is expressly for debugging purposes only–it should not be used as your day-to-day toggles panel, as you can screw up your phone if you’re careless. WARNING: You should always make sure the tweaks in this panel are switched ON when you’re uninstalling.

SYS Options: This page contains random features and toggles, but there are three items of interest. 1) There’s a button that will set user permissions in Library and Media to 755–that you should not press, 2) a Custom Carrier button for the status bar, and more toggles. One of the toggles includes 3) the ability to disable Apple’s Killswitch, which Apple could otherwise activate to disable any App Store app. (Although the Apple Killswitch is a concern, as far as we know it’s never been used to deactivate either legitimate or malicious apps.)

App Folders: By default, iOS’ App Folders are an arcane mess of randomized hexadecimal gibberish which could take you hours to manually navigate through. Just click on any app on the list and you’ll get the path to its application folder that you can look for in iFile or over a FTP client like WinSCP.

As you’ve seen, SBSettings isn’t just a handy shortcut panel. The utility contains essential tools for jailbreak power users, some of which you might not have even realized were there.

Tweaks of the Week 11/17/2012

This week we have some great tweaks. Most of them I use on a regular basis now.
Lets start off with...

InstaSafe: This tweak is handy for iOS 6 because a lot of the tweaks on Cydia don't work on iOS 6 and I personally get in respring loops all the time and this tweak is great for fixing that. Basically what this tweak does is it puts a little button on your springboard that says "SafeMode", once you tap this button it sends you straight into Safe Mode so you can delete the problematic download. This tweak is great and handy but there is one problem  that it has... the button is very easy to hit on accident. But other than that iMast777 did a great job with this tweak.


NoNewApp: NoNewApp is a simple but good tweak. This tweak removes the "New" banner on newly downloaded apps in iOS 6 or iOS 6.0.1. I'm currently running iOS 6.0.1 and i find this great because I hate badges and anything of that sort so this is my kinda tweak.

Facebook for Action Menu: Facebook for Action Menu is something that I'm surprised Apple didn't put into iOS 6 because it just goes perfectly with the Facebook integration. With this addon for "Action Menu" you can share any text throughout iOS to Facebook. To do this just select the text you want to share and tap the "Facebook" option in Action Menu. This is something that i think should already be in iOS 6 but who cares its in it now.
  
DateCarrier: DateCarrier allows you to have the date shown where your carrier should be. Its a very handy tweak that I'm definitely keeping. The only thing that is a downfall is that to update the date each day you have to respring, but I'm OK with that cause its a great tweak.

 

New Tweak "Facebook for Action Menu" Share Text Using iOS 6's Facebook Integration

 
So far there is only a tethered jailbreak for iOS 6.0 and 6.0.1, but there are still great tweaks out for iOS 6. This is a new plugin for a great app called Action Menu. This plugin allows you to share text from anywhere on iOS to Facebook. Using the plugin is easy, just highlight the text you want to share then from Action Menu press the Facebook button. You can enable and disable this plugin in the Action Menu part of Settings including any other option in "Action Menu".

Name: Facebook for Action Menu                     
Price: FREE
Rating: 10/10
Incredibly handy and go's perfectly with iOS 6.

"NowNow" Jailbreak Tweak

 With NowNow you can launch googles virtual assistant from anywhere in iOS, but of course you have to have the Google Search application.Once you have downloaded this tweak all you do is set it in activator and your off! Basically what this tweak does is opens the Google Search app from activator then loads the virtual assistant.

Name: NowNow
Price: FREE
Rating: 8/10
It is really fast, and although it only searches the web it is insanely handy. I never used Google Search app because you had to open it up and then use it and i just thought that i might as well use Safari, but this is great.It even works for iOS 6 and iOS 6.0.1

New Ideas from Jony Ive

As we probably all know by now Jony Ive is taking over for Scott Forstall. For full article click here. But anyway he has planned to do lots with iOS and OS X within this year.
New York Times said he will
"waste little time in putting his own stamp on the look of the company’s software, including iOS for mobile devices and OS X for Macs."
Which i personally cant wait for because of this very reason...

"You can be sure that the next generation of iOS and OS X will have Jony’s industrial design aesthetic all over them,” said an unnamed designer who works at Apple. “Clean edges, flat surfaces will likely replace the textures that are all over the place right now.”

iPad Mini a lot Like an iPod Touch

The new iPad Mini is more like an iPod Touch 5G than it other iPad family which i know sounds surprising but it is Apple.

Similarities
-iPad Mini casing is made from hand carved aluminum with rounded rear edges.
-Metal is also used for both the volume and mute buttons.
-Both have rear facing 5MP auto-focus camera, and a front facing FaceTime HD camera.
-Both powered by Apple's own 32nm A5 processor.

This doesn't have anything to do with the iPod 5G but the iPad Mini is the only iOS device to have stereo speakers...so far.

iOS Maker Scott Forstall Fired

Scott Forstall was the iOS chief, which means he made OS and iOS. He was fired for a ridiculous reason, he refused to sign a letter apologizing about iOS 6 maps. In my opinion it was ridiculous to fire him for that, but it was also ridiculous for him not to apologize about maps.

"Mr. Forstall's departure came after mounting tension with members of Apple's executive ranks. For years, senior executives had complained that he wasn't cooperative and showed off his close relationship with Mr. Jobs." - WSJ

In 2013 he will be replaced by Craig Federghi, but until then he will be replaced by Jonathan Ives. So plan to see some changes in both iOS and OS. I can't wait to see what they do with iOS 6 personaly considering it has so many bad changes that need to be fixed, also i think jailbreaker are holding in their exploits until iOS 6.0.1 so im wondering what theyre going to do know.

Comment below on what you think might happen.