Jailbreak Tweak Roundup: Vibe, Almpoum, quickCam, Daily Dash, IfFound

Here’s another jailbreak tweak roundup for those of you that are looking for some more useful tweaks. We have 5 new tweaks that you might want to check out, so let’s go ahead and jump right in.

This is a pretty unique and free tweak that will tell you the time without having to take your iPhone out of your pocket. If you need to know the time when it’s not kosher to pull out your iPhone, such as while you’re in a meeting or on on a date, then you may want to check out Vibe. Vibe uses a gesture that you can activate while in your pocket and it will vibrate the time. Check out the video for a walkthrough of the tweak.

Here is a free tweak that will allow you to manage your screenshots. There a few options that you can configure in the settings, like automatically saving to a clipboard, saving to your camera roll, or both. Check out the video below for a detailed walkthrough of the tweak.

quickCam

This tweak isn’t very original and I think it’s good to know when to not to check out a tweak as well, especially when it’s a paid one. This tweak is $1.99 and allows you to set an activator gesture to open up the camera. It has some limited functionality compared to the actual camera app and the tweak can basically be duplicated just by adding a gesture in Activator to open up the camera app. Check out the video for the full review.

Daily Dash

If you use Twitter, than you might want to check out this free Cydget. What this Cydget does is give you what the top three things are that are trending on Twitter right on your lock screen. After installing, just make sure you enable it in Settings>Cydget>Lock Cydget Order and you’re good to go.

IfFound

This is a pretty awesome tweak that will help you retrieve your lost iPhone. IfFound is a $0.99 tweak that puts a button on your lock screen that will present the finder of your iPhone with all of your contact information so the finder can get it back to you very easily. It has two separate options to choose from, which are simple and detailed. Select your option, fill in the required information, and give the person who finds your iPhone to do the right thing.

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Verbatim: New Tweak is a Modern Text-Based Lock Screen Replacement

A new jailbreak tweak by the name of Verbatim was released to the public today, and it brings a classy, clean, and modern text-based lock screen to replace the default. By way of Cydget, this tweak presents a variety of information on your lock screen including missed calls, charge status, weather information, and more.

As you can see in the screenshots above, the tweak’s easily readable text lock screen includes a redesigned clock which shows the seconds as well as many lines of valuable information regarding the current status of your device. Similar in concept to the text-based lock screen clock Timely that we covered recently, Verbatim is a verbal display of unread email count, unread text and iMessage count, the number of apps that need be updated, the current charge status or your device, and basic temperature information.

Unless you already have Cydget installed, installing the tweak and respringing will present you with a new lock screen and a Cydget welcome message. The first step to getting started with Verbatim is to head over to the Settings app and reorganize your Cydgets. Open the Cydget settings panel and tap “Lock Cydget Order” to access a menu that will let you put Verbatim on the top. Disable the other options, leaving Verbatim the only item enabled.

Head back to the Settings main page and tap the “Verbatim” section. To get started, you need to input a weather code for your region. To find this, head over to this weather location code finder and type in your city. After you’ve found your code, insert it in the “Weather City Code” box. Below this you’ll see an option to choose Celsius or Fahrenheit, an option for the text display animation, and a toggle to choose between 12 and 24 hour format time.

Additionally, there are options to hide a variety of lock screen elements including the Status Bar, Grabbers, the “Slide to Unlock” text, as well as the ability to set a custom slide to unlock text string. Finally, there’s a slider for selecting the lock screen dimming time. After you have the tweak configured, you might want to use a tweak such as HideMe7 to hide even more lock screen elements to ensure a clean and glitch-free experience.

You can get Verbatim on the Cydia Store for $1.99, and it’s compatible with both iPhone and iPad. Would you prefer Verbatim over the default lock screen?

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DailyPaper: Upcoming Tweak automatically sets a new Wallpaper on your iPhone every day

I change my iOS device wallpaper fairly often because they get stale quickly and changing them (especially with iOS 7 transparency) breathes life into the UI. A new tweak called DailyPaper from jailbreak development group HASHBANG Productions has been announced, which brings the ability to automatically give your device a new wallpaper every night. Wallpapers are pulled from Bing, Microsoft’s search engine which famously gets fresh coat of paint every day with a fantastic, high quality image.

Bing may not be useful for much, but whoever is in charge of curating their wallpaper selection does a great job. This tweak takes advantage of that, and does so in a user-friendly and convenient way. After you enable the tweak, you have a variety of options to choose from so that DailyPaper works the way you want it to. If you’re limited on data, there’s an option to only download a new wallpaper if your device is connected to Wi-Fi. For similar reasons, there’s an option to allow you to disable high quality wallpapers. Turning off this option makes most sense if your device doesn’t have a retina display.

Also, there are a couple more options at the bottom of the tweak’s settings panel which let you further customize the wallpapers that are downloaded and what the tweak does with them. First, you can select which screens you would like the wallpapers to be applied to; assumably, the home screen, the lock screen and both screens will all be options within this panel. You can also select which Bing region you would like to download from, with the default being the “Worldwide” site.

To get an idea of what kind of wallpapers you’ll be seeing on your device once you have DailyPaper, head over to the unofficial Bing wallpaper archive. While you wait for DailyPaper, you can head to that site on your iOS device and download those wallpapers at your own discretion.

As you can see in the tweet embedded above, we don’t have much information regarding the price or release date of DailyPaper. There’s no way of knowing what HASHBANG plans to charge (or not charge) for the tweak, and the only information we have as to when it will drop on Cydia is the single word “Soon.”

Is this a tweak you would use?

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