Hi Rob,
I am new to jailbreaking (less than an hour ago). And I was wondering what are some of the Jailbreak apps you or your listeners have recommended and why.
Thanks
Steve D in Iowa
Hi Steve,
There are many Jailbreak apps that have been talked about on the shows in the past. Whenever I talk about one I put it in the show notes and put "cydia" after the App name - so all you have to do is search for "Cydia" at the home page to see which episodes a specific app was talked about. That all said here is my current list of Apps I or listeners have recently recoomended and the issues they fix / solve.
iUser - Allows for Multiple logins - Just on the iPad. Warning - uninstalling can be difficult.
PDAnet - Allows you to turn your iPhone into a WiFi Hotspot and has an option to hide how the data is being used - ie AT&T can not tell you are creating a hot spot to tether your laptop to it. Free trial for about 10 days.
Notified - Similar to the new Notifications Center in iOS 5.
WiFi Sync - Similar to the new Wifi Sync in iOS 5. Yes Apple took the App name and features and almost the same icon.
PhoneitiPad - Turns a 3G iPad into a Phone. Because the HTC Evo is just not big enough as a phone already.
Xpandr - Autotext shortcut expander - similar to the new feature in iOS 5.
Auto3G - Turns off 3G when not in use - helps save precious battery life and should have been a feature in iOS 5 but is not.
Backgrounder - True backgrounding of apps - so they can keep running in the background. Nice for IM apps and iOS devices not running iOS 4.x
3G Unrestrictor - Tricks Apps into thinking the iOS device is on Wifi - for those that require wifi connections.
Five Icon Dock - Allows 5 items in the dock - not for iPad (does bad bad things to the iPad)
SpoofApp - Allows for Recording of Phone Calls
ScreenSplitr - Mirror iPhone on to Computer. Nice for doing screen casts of your app in action.
Multiflow - Scroll left or right to other open apps (required backgrounder)
Lockdown - Password Protect specific Apps - Also should have been a feature in iOS 5 - guess there is always iOS 6.
These are by no means all the great apps for Jailbreaking just some of those I hear from listeners on a regulare basis that they love and that I also really like.
Please add in your favorite Jailbreak Apps in the comments below and why you like said apps.
Rob W
