If you’ve used jailbreak application directory Cydia’s website, you know that finding the iPhone app you’re looking for takes longer than it should. Whereas a search bar isn’t readily apparent at Cydia, a new desktop widget, Cydia Search, makes up for the oversight.
The program, officially released in late April by Planet-iPhones, certainly makes the jailbreak app download process much easier. “Cydia Search is a comprehensive database of all the many software packages, themes, hacks/tweaks, and everything else Cydia has to offer; fully searchable while comfortably seated at your computer – …

Some of you out there have probably heard of one of Cydia’s apps. It’s called PkgBackup. And it’s pretty much what it sounds like – a way for iPhone and iPad users to take backups of jailbreak apps and other little exploits that may have been downloaded.
Doubtless you know already about how changes to the iOS can change your ability to use these apps, and the hassle that follows. They’re useful, another practical innovation from Cydia.
Also, it costs $8. And that’s kind of a problem. Especially if you don’t want …

Cydia’s popular iPhone jailbreak application store will have some competition in the near future, as the Infini Dev Team readies its Mobile Safari-based Lima, which should make it harder to pirate jailbreaks apps. Infini is also in the process of bringing back its similar Icy program, which is still in the beta testing stage.
The work of iOS developers has always been subject to piracy, so unlike Cydia, Lima won’t allow bootlegged apps to be distributed through its service. “Its developers have made an impressive stance against piracy by blocking the …

Business Insider has posted its list of top applications iPhone users can enjoy once they’ve jailbroken their smartphones. Among the honorees: the Safari Download Manager and a more-sophisticated spell-check app.
Safari’s Download Manager ($5 from the Cydia store, which specializes in jailbreak apps) is a welcome addition for anyone who uses their iPhone more like a computer than a cell phone, allowing users to download multiple items to their phone at a time and sync them up with a computer. “Something Mobile Safari should’ve had all along,” says Insider.
Meanwhile, Inspell ($2.99) …

iPhone and iPad users have been the apple of Apple’s eye, at least for the last 10 months. As multiple sources reported Wednesday, the company has been secretly tracking the locations of its customers through the iOS 4 mobile operating system for nearly a year.
The hidden tracking code installed on iPhones and iPads was discovered by hackers Peter Warden and Alasdair Allen and first reported by the latter in an O’Reilly Radar blog post Wednesday. The unencrypted, unprotected coding is also transferred to any computer used to sync iOS 4 …

On Wednesday, iPhone blog iSmashPhone posted its list of top applications and themes for jailbroken iPhones, all of which are available through jailbreak directory Cydia. Among the site’s favorite add-ons not approved by Apple are a keyboard customizer, a program that takes out the iPhone dock’s reflection, a media stream application and several customized themes.
ColorKeyboard, available for $1.99, allows iPhone users to change the color theme of the device’s touch-screen keyboard, which is used in texting, web surfing and other functions. A wide array of color schemes are available.
Meanwhile, the …