If you’ve tired of iOS’ standard blue and gray color scheme, then Color Profiles is the jailbreak tweak for you. Built by noted jailbreaker Ryan Petrich, the jailbreak tweak allows users of Apple’s mobile operating system to customize the color scheme of their iOS device.
“Color Profiles comes bundled with 19 different custom color themes that let you to radically change the look of your iPhone’s color palette and temperature,” writes Jeff Benjamin in an article posted Sunday at iDownloadBlog. “Petrich bundled quite a few custom profiles along with Color Profiles, …

In yet another futuristic innovation, Apple is now offering Apple Store customers a self-checkout option for purchases of accessories and other shelf items. Yes, if you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can forgo the entire checkout process with the Apple Store iOS application.
“Apple is planning to launch an update to its retail store iOS app that will allow consumers to utilize self-checkout for purchases of accessories and other shelf-stocked items at the company’s retail stores. According to our source, self-checkout purchases will be charged via theApple Store …

Intelliborn has finally released its much-anticipated IntelliScreenX jailbreak package, and just as expected, the flashy tweak is one of the sleekest jailbreak downloads available. IntelliScreenX adds a multitude of widgets to iOS 5’s Notification Center, making it the place to be inside Apple’s new mobile operating system.
“iOS 5 users now have another reason to jailbreak their iOS device,” writes Joe White for AppAdvice. “Among the features added is an SBSettings style widget, a Twitter timeline (you can even tweet from IntelliScreenX) and an RSS feed (which is compatible with Google …

The iPhone 4S battery drain problem perplexed Apple for a while, although it’s now known that constant time zone checks by the smartphone’s internal clock are likely to blame for the 4S’ low battery life. A recent International Business Times report details what users can do if they want to get even more life out of their battery, now that the draining mystery has been figured out.
“Constantly seeking the iPhone 4S’s location is a huge drain on the smartphone’s battery, because the software performing that function uses a combination of …

A beta update has been released for BigBoss’ SemiTether iOS 5 jailbreak, fixing some minor issues in the exploit, which allows jailbreakers to reboot their iOS 5 device and its jailbreak successfully without plugging it into a computer.
“Last weekend, BigBoss had released a new package on Cydia called SemiTether, which allowed users to reboot their tethered jailbroken iOS 5 device device without the need to connect it to the computer,” a Sunday iPhone Hacks article reads. “However, BigBoss’s solution had some limitations and number of users reported issues after using it. …

Comex’s JailbreakMe 3.0 is currently the only jailbreak to work with the iPad 2 computer tablet, but it looks like that exploit will have to make room for the iPhone Dev-Team’s upcoming iOS 5 jailbreak. Although there’s still “lots of work left,” the untethered exploit will support Apple’s second-generation tablet.
“The good news is that the iPhone Dev-Team is hard at work on developing a jailbreak solution for the iPad 2 under iOS 5… A second generation iPad running iOS 5 has indeed been jailbroken, though as MuscleNerd notes, this is …

The iPhone 4S has received plenty of press coverage over the past few weeks, with some pundits lauding its new Siri voice-recognition application and others trying to figure out why some units have such low battery life. Up until now, though, no one has written at length about the insurance plans that come with Apple’s latest smartphone. In a recent article, Digital Trends’ Kelly Montgomery has all you need to know about insuring your phone so that you’re covered if it gets lost or broken.
“The problem with the latest and …

The battery life problem that has plagued many iPhone 4S models has been a mystery for Apple and its customers over the past few weeks, its source elusive as the company searched for a cure. However, a new report suggests that constant time zone checks could be to blame for drained 4S batteries all over the globe.
“There may be light at the end of the tunnel. Switching one little toggle in iOS 5?s Settings app may hold the key to curing your iPhone 4S battery,” writes Oliver Haslam for iDownloadBlog. …

Those well-versed in the iPhone and all of its functions and capabilities are surely aware that double-tapping the home button while on the lock screen pulls up a window that allows users to control their music. New jailbreak tweak SuperMusic expands that feature, supplementing its standard buttons with several advanced functions.
“SuperMusic is a jailbreak tweak that aims to add more options to the music controls that appear on your Lock screen,” writes Jeff Benjamin in a recent review for iDownloadBlog. “In addition to the basic back, pause/play, and forward buttons, …

iPhone developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working on porting the iPhone 4S’ Siri personal assistant application to other Apple devices for a couple of weeks now, and the popular new feature can now be run successfully on the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch.
“On the iPhone 4S launch date just a couple of weeks ago, developer Steven Troughton-Smith successfully ported the Siri user-interface and some of the underlying code from the iPhone 4S onto the iPhone 4,” writes Mark Gurman for 9to5Mac. “The port was functional except for the most important …