With a new jailbreak tweak from Ron Melkhior, you can put your shut down, reboot, respring your iPhone or put it into safe mode, all with the touch of a button. PowerIcons adds buttons for each of those functions on your jailbroken device’s springboard.
“While Apple is admittedly adding new features, and tweaking old ones as it goes about its business of bumping the old iOS revision numbers, there are still one or two things that are AWOL,” writes Oliver Haslam for Redmond Pie. “One prime example of a feature that …

iOS 5’s Notification Center was built as a place for push notifications and weather updates, but with new jailbreak tweak WeeCompose, users can send emails and text messages from inside the new feature. The tweak is the latest in a large influx of add-ons that make Notification Center the place to be in jailbroken iPhone 4Ses.
“Originally designed by Apple to offer a new home for push notifications, email messages and anything else that pops up on-screen, Notification Center is also home to a Stocks and Weather widget as standard. The …

iOS 5 includes a new dictionary feature that allows users to look up words and phrases from anywhere inside the mobile operating system, and thanks to new jailbreak tweak DictGoogle, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners can perform Google searches if Merriam-Webster doesn’t provide enough information.
“The built in dictionary is probably one of my favorite new features in iOS 5. It’s so incredibly handy, and it can be used across any app at any time,” writes Jeff Benjamin for iDownloadBlog. “Wouldn’t it be nice if you could search Google in …

Allowing iPhone 4S users to make calls, set reminders and find nearby locksmiths via state-of-the-art voice-recognition technology, Siri is certainly the iPhone 4S’ most impressive new feature. But how useful will the personal assistant application be once the novelty wears off, when users are tired of asking Siri to marry them?
“I experimented with the previous iPhones’ Voice Control on numerous occasions, giving up each time. I only found it useful for initiating phone calls while on the road,” writes Scott Stein in a comprehensive review of Siri for CNET. “Siri’s …

It can become very tedious to close all of your iOS applications one by one, but new jailbreak tweak WeeKillBackground is coming to the rescue. The iOS 5-only tweak allows jailbreakers to kill all of their open apps at once via a button that’s added to the top of Notification Center.
“If the lack of an untethered jailbreak solution hasn’t stopped you ‘liberating’ your iOS 5 device, consider downloading “WeeKillBackground” – a new Notification Center widget that allows users to easily kill all applications on their iOS device,” writes Joe White …

Allowing users to stream movies, television shows and music to their TV, the AppleTV digital media receiver has been a profitable niche item ever since Apple debuted it in 2006. Having made a successful entry into this market, Apple is now planning to produce its own television sets, according to a Monday blog post on the CNN Money blog.
“In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster seizes on remarks attributed to Steve Jobs in the biography published overnight as “another data point” to support a thesis he’s …

The iPhone 4S already includes several applications capable of taking notes, but jailbreakers who haven’t upgraded to the iPhone 4S or don’t want to take the time to initiate the Siri personal assistant app should look into QuickMemo, a new jailbreak tweak lets users take notes inside Notification Center.
“If you have an iPhone 4S, you could always rely on Siri, but what if you don’t?
A simple solution would be QuickMemo — a Notification Center widget for jailbroken iOS 5 devices, which allows you to jot down notes with a simple …

Apple has been touting the iPhone 4S’ improved battery life as one of its most significant upgrades. Going off a recent study by CNET’s Eric Franklin and Kent German, the 4S does have a pretty powerful battery. While Apple’s estimates put the new smartphone’s battery life eight hours, the pair of researchers got nine hours and 18 minutes out of the device when using it on Sprint’s 3G EV-DO Rev. A network.
“Battery life is terribly important, as any smartphone owner knows, and we wanted to make sure Apple’s promises weren’t …

The brand-new iPhone 4S has been breaking sales records for Apple and its mobile providers and creating tons of positive buzz along the way, but it looks like free is still wining the battle against state-of-the-art. While the 4S is dramtically faster and includes support for the much-hyped Siri artificial intelligence application, AT&T is seeing “tremendous demand” for the two-year-old iPhone 3GS, offered at no cost when customers sign a two-year service agreement.
“We have another device that I think is going to dramatically change those people that are on smartphones …

If you’ve ever wanted to find out the name of the song coming through your iPhone headphones but didn’t feel like going into your music library, you should be able to get a lot of mileage out of jailbreak tweak NowListening, which adds a banner notification that displays artist and song names in iOS 5.
“If you often listen to music in “Shuffle” mode, you’ll find this tweak incredibly useful – the notifications appear when a new song within the Music app starts playing, meaning you can quickly check your iPhone …