iLostFinder Cydia Tweak Takes iPhone Thief Picture And Email The Picture

iLostFinder Cydia tweak. Having an iPhone can be risk, because thief are out there waiting for our slovenliness, once they have a chance they won't think twice to use. Our iPhone is gone! But there is something we can do to face such unwanted situation, we can use a Cydia tweak namely iLostFinder.

iLostFinder will take a picture of a thief of your iPhone, if the thief enter the incorrect password and then email the picture to us.

iLostFinder can be found under Bigboss Repository and considerred as good security tweak for our iOS devices. Therefore, to prepare ourselves from the unwanted and unexpected situation I mentioned on the first paragraph, we don't you grab this tweak.

Hope this post helps and see you in the next posts.

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Make Google Chrome Default Browser On iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Last month Google released Google Chrome browser for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. But unfortunately, there is no option to make the browser to be our default browser, because Apple won't allow that happen.

But don't worry, because this post will share the steps to make Google Chrome as iPhone or iPad default browser. However the steps are for jailbroken iPhone or iPad. Sorry for those who have not jailbroken their iOS devices. Because we will use a Cydia tweak, namely BrowserChooser.

BrowserChooser is a new born jailbreak tweak, Ryan Petrich the one who is developing it. Once it's installed then you can make Google Chrome to be your iOS device default browser. And this what Ryan says about his reason to release the tweak.

BrowserChooser is up on rpetri.ch/repo. Loving Chrome for iOS so much that it had to be built.

How to Make Chrome Default Browser on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Anyway to use BrowserChooser, your iOS device must be jailbroken first. But don't worry you can visit our jailbreak iOS devices page to jailbreak your devices.

1. Firstly download Chrome app on App Store: here is the link.
2. Now it's time to get BrowserChooser for your jailbroken devices, therefore launch Cydia;
Go to: Manage > Source > Edit > Add;
3. Add the following URL: rpetri.ch/repo. Then tap;
4. Use the Search tab to search for the BrowserChooser, once you found it then install it.
5. After you have it installed, then you can make Google Chrome as your default browser from the stock Settings app.

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How To Have iOS 6 Twitter Widget On iOS 5 Device

Do you want to have iOS 6 Twitter widget on iOS 5 device of yours, you can! That's a good news, especially for those who don't own developer account (UDID) to which unable to download and install iOS 6 beta 1, at least currently.

Well, at WWDC Apple introduced iOS 6 with all the features included. One of which is the advancement in social sharing, like you can share to Twitter form Notification Center.

Albeit Twitter Widget is not a new thing in jailbreak realm, but since the Apple showed his own with all the aesthetics and design, has provoked an iOS developer to juggle his own version that almost similar with what Apple's offer.

And now we are going to grab a tweak from Cydia in order to achieve that. The tweak's name is iOS 6 Twitter Widget for Notification Center, currently stored under BigBoss repository and it's free! Supports iOS 5 or newer.

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How To Install Cydia On Jailbroken iOS 6 Beta 1 Device

How to install cydia on jailbroken iOS 6 beta 1 device. iOS 6 beta 1 is already jailbreakable, but only tether jailbreak method is currently available.

But that does not stop many iOS 6 device owners to jailbreak their iOS 6 device.

Unfortunately what they have found is not what they wanted at the first place, because the existing iOS firmware doesn't support Cydia which means the non-Apple app store can't be installed on their device.

Why we need to jailbreak our device, if there is no Cydia within? We are on the same boat on this matter. Luckily there is a workaround to get us all out from the said condition. Yes! Cydia can be installed on jailbroken iOS 6 beta 1 and thanks to IDB for finding the trick.

Well in this post I would like to elaborate the steps to install Cydia on iOS 6 device. Let's get into the steps gentlemen and ladies!

How To Install Cydia On iOS 6 Beta On iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

How to install Cydia on iOS 6 Beta

Step 1. First thing first, if you haven't, jailbreak your iOS 6 beta 1 using RedSn0w 0.9.13dev1.

Step 2. Then SSH your iPhone. If you are using Windows use Putty or if you are on the Mac OS, there is Coda.SSH username = "root" SSH password = "alpine".

Step 3. You can now execute this command via SSH:

wget -q -O /tmp/cyinstall.sh http://wyndrepo.googlecode.com/files/cyinstall.sh && chmod 755 /tmp/cyinstall.sh && /tmp/cyinstall.sh

Step 4. Now you should see that your device is respring and then Cydia icon appears on the home screen.

Step 5. Tap on Cydia now for it to prepare filesystem.Cydia and to take another respring. When it's done. You can use Cydia.

Keep in mind: iOS 6 is a beta release therefore expect bugs. In case you can't stand the misery of using it you can downgrade from iOS 6 beta 1 to iOS 5.1.1.

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How To Save iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs With Cydia And TinyUmbrella

How to save iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs Cydia TinyUmbrella. This post will elaborate the steps to save iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs using Cydia server and TinyUmbrella, the reason for saving iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs is obvious.

Having SHSH Blobs will make you able to downgrade your iOS to the said firmware version once Apple pushed the new firmware (iOS 5.1.2 perhaps) out and then stop signing iOS 5.1.1. Who knows mistake happen, you accidentally update your firmware version newer thant iOS 5.1.1. In that situaion, you can downgrade your iOS anytime without worry.

How To Save iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs with Cydia.

This is for those who owns Cydia icon on their device's homescreen or in other words for jailbroken iPhone, iPad also iPod touch. You can launch Cydia to find out whether Cydia has stored your SHSH Blobs of iOS 5.1.1.

Do so by launching Cydia and see SHSH with number of firmware versions that are saved by Cydia. See if the iOS 5.1.1 is included there. In case you don't see it, then close Cydia and re-launch it, you will find that Cydia should be saving iOS 5.1.1 blobs now.

Save IOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs With TinyUmbrella

The second method you can utilize to save iOS 5.1.1 SHSH Blobs is using TinyUmbrella. TinyUmbrella has superiority method because it can grab SHSH blobs from Cydia servers or Apple servers. And you don't need to jailbreak your iPhone to use TinyUmbrella. Beside of the said usefulness, you can backup blobs in cloud services, like Sky Drive or Dropbox.

• Download TinyUmbrella for Mac OS
• DownloadTinyUmbrella for Windows

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How To Customize iPhone Slide To Unlock (Lock Screen) With FaceSlideR

Want to know how to customize your iPhone's Slide To Unlock (Lock Screen)? But before it. Read this. There is a Cydia package I regard cool and amazing, namely FaceSlideR which is to customize our iOS device lock screen, and juggle it into very different look.

You can almost entirely alter the look and behavior of your "Slide to Unlock Text" into the imagination of yours. You can place your words into text to unlock or put an icon of your choice, whether from the icons that are already stored on your device, or take a picture and measure its size to match with the overall look of your slider.

The good thing about FaceSlideR is that you don't need computer, all can be done directly from your iPhone.

Features offered by FaceSlideR:

• Use your Camera To Capture Pictures to use as SlideRs
• Real Time image Processing Allows you to Edit your SlideRs till perfect!
• Import Pictures from Your Camera Roll and Use them As SlideRs!
• Save the Sliders you Create and Share them with Friends!
• Change your Slide to Unlock Text -Right From FaceSlideR!
• Add-on Packs allow you to Choose from Pre-made SlideRs!
• Comes with Add-on "Tech Pack" Featuring Pre made SlideRs from Tech Sites and Dev Teams and more!

Currently FaceSlideR can be downloaded via MacCity repository, however it's not a free package, it costs $2.99 and an additional requirements to use it is iOS 4 or higher.

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iCleaner To Clean iPhone Junk And Obsolete Files

There is Cydia package, named iCleaner, judging only by its name it was designed to clean your iPhone's stomach which is probably filled with files that you don't need. As time goes on, more and more files whatever they are, might be are occupying our iPhone space.

Unfortunately not all of those files stored inside our iPhone are useful, in many cases we don't use them anymore simply because we don't need right now as we did before, or facing technical reasons like the files are not updated by developers to which are not compatible with the current OS, or it's overwhelmed with cache, browser history and cookies produced by our browsing activities.

iCleaner is a free Cydia app developed by Exile.90 that clean those unused and obsolete files which collected over time. As the result it effects to your iPhone's performance, like its speedy and of course your iPhone's space. This application reminds us with the Windows or Mac OS X cleaner app, namely CCleaner to cleans junk files that are collected time-by-time and eat our free and valuable space.

And these are the files that iCleaner cleans or is capable to remove:

• Safari cookies, browsing history, cache files
• Application WebClip caches, cookies, temporary files, snapshots, in-depth application file cleanup (useful/important information isn't touched)
• Log files and crash reports
• System cache files and databases
• System temporary files

Aside of the above abilities, iCleaner is also armed with a smart scanner that can smartly detect certain applications installed on your iOS device, like Twitter and Facebook also Instagram, to constantly place fair share of files to your iPhone's space. It will cleanse the unused in-depth files from those apps, which increasing loading speeds.

Once this iCleaner app installed, an new app will appear on your Springboard, in order for a quick launching by clicking on it. And after it is entirely finished cleaning the obsolete files, you will be recommended to respring your iPhone upon completion.

Interested? You can grab iCleaner for free under the BigBoss repository now!

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Speaker SBSettings Toggle To Quickly Switch Incoming Call Mode To Speaker

There is a Cydia tweak, namely Speaker SBSettings Toggle that is created to cater the need of iPhone users whose their hands are busy driving car wheels to which they are not in the safe condition to answering the phone call (or make one) by holding the phone with hand. Or other reasons that put them in the situation that "it's better not use your hand".

Actually iPhone understands such situation, therefore the company provides an option to answer incoming calls with speaker. That option can be set by navigating to Settings > Accessibility -> Incoming Calls, and there are options available to be selected which are Default, Headset and Speaker.

This feature can also be utilized by defected people, beside to those who are described in the first paragraph. However there is a problem that you might dislike, because you get to make a repetitive press the speaker button each time there is an incoming call, while keeping your hands free.

To solve the problem, Speaker SBSettings Toggle is your rescuer to deal with the situation. After you have this Cydia app installed, you can immediately and automatically answer a phone call using speakerphone after you've set the toggle ON.

This tweak is free and currently available and listed under BigBoss repository for free. To make it enable, simply choose the more option in SBSettings pane, then select the Set Windows Toggles option to get access into the iOS 5+ Notification center pane or the Dropdown Windows, and set this tweak to on. And if you want to switch back to normal behavior simply turn this tweak to OFF.

How about icon, will Speaker SBSettings Toggle adds icon to home screen? Don't worry, there will be no icon added to your iPhone's springboard.

Interested with Speaker SBSettings Toggle package? Head to Cydia and then grab it under BigBoss repository to install Speaker SBSettings Toggle for free of charge. However tell me what you think about this package, does it serve you well?

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Download Mobile Substrate 0.9.3997 To Entirely Disable Mobile Substrate

Download Mobile Substrate 0.9.3997 now, that is the latest version of Cydia Tweak Mobile Substrate and updated by Jay Freeman (Saurik). You can now disable Mobile Substrate together simply by holding down the volume up button, so it will make you able to skip a horrible broken extension -- that prevents you from starting up at all -- so you launch Cydia to uninstall them.

And for the device that does not own a Volume Up button like iPod touch 1G, there is a workaround for it, simply hold down the Clicker button from your earphones or headset!

Mobile Substrate 0.9.3997 Features

• Mobile Safe Mode
• No Need to reboot your device for installing or upgrading
• Protect from faulty extension
• Code Insertion Platform
• Provides a simple platform for deploying code
• Supports Activator, Five Icon Dock and Winterboard
• Error handling and fallback support

Download Mobile Substrate 0.9.3997.

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Install SiriPort To Bring Siri To iOS 5.1 iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G

Remember about SiriPort? With SiriPort you can install a fully functional Siri to devices older than iPhone 4s without Siri Proxy Server an without having or borrowing the 4s. If you do, here is a good news. Because the developer of this candy has made an update to support the iOS 5.1 firmware.

Now SiriPort is in 1.5-0 version, and it works only to  jaibroken iOS devices running on iOS 5.1 ( won't work with firmware versions outside this one). According to its developer, in this version you will find few changes to its proxy server in order to taking care of the request but with not frequent connectivity problems.

One more thing, SiriPort doesn't take Spire tweak, therefore if your device having Spire installed, remove it before going to install SiriPort 1.5-0. Let's install it to your jailbroken iOS devices, anyway below is a list of device's models are supported by SiriPort 1.5-0:

• iPad
• iPod Touch 4G
• iPhone 4 (CDMA)
• iPhone 3Gs

How to install SiriPort 1.5-0 to iOs 5.1 devices older than iPhone 4s without Siri Proxy Server.

Step 1: If you haven't, then tethered jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 5.1 first.

Step 2: Launch Cydia, and then add this repository url:

http://repo.siriport.ru

Step 3: Then install SiriPort for iOS 5.1. However if you use iFile, then you need to install mobilesubstrate first.

Step 4: Reboot the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Step 5: Now visit this url: siriport.ru/1.crt to download iPhone 4s certificate file. You can send the email containing the certificate file to yourself to open the email from your iPhone.

Step 6: Again, reboot the iPhone. Afterward you need to turn ON Siri in Settings area.

Step 7: This is the best part, now it's time to activate Siri then say helo to her: "Hi Siri". If in this first attempt, you find no luck. Then try again after waiting for about 5 minutes. Then say "Hi Siri" again. Doing it repetitively until you get a response from her, once you get, you will get and enjoy a fully functional Siri for your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPad.

Hope this post helps and see you in another posts!

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Install SiriPort iOS 5.1.1 iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, 3G To Get Siri

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iLettars To Control Device Animation Speed And Duration

There a tweak in Cydia namely iLettars that will give the ability to control your device animation, like its speed and to delay it.

For delaying the animation, you are given an option to alter the delay or duration of your Animation entirely or individually. To do so you need to use the Activatior in order to select the activation method.

And each time you change in the settings of iLettras, then you are required to invoke the activation method in order to apply the changes.

Let's see iLettars in action

Currently the iLettars's price is $1.59, available in Cydia under the ModMyi repository.

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Download, Install Activator 1.6.2 For iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Activator 1.6.2 is a Cydia tweak you can use to manage all your button, shortcut also gesture on your iPhone, iPad also iPod Touch. And the Activator 1.6.2 is the latest version which is released this month by its developer Ryan Petrich, and currently available on Cydia under BigBoss repository.

Beside of the said abilities, Activator 1.6.2 also offers you the ability to call apps at lockscreen, and using less CPU also less memory. And Activator 1.6.2 version supports the latest iOS 5 and higher which means iOS 5.1 is supported too.

Below are a newly added features in Activator 1.6.2:

• Added support for iOS 5.1
• Added Pause and Play actions
• Added icons to menus
• Added Headset Connected/Disconnected Events
• Improved localizations
• Fixed all reported bugs

Install Activator 1.6.2:

- Open Cydia,
- To “Changes” tab, then tap on “Refresh” button.
- You will be asked to upgrade.
- Install Activator v1.6.2 for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
- If you never installed this tweak before, then use Search tab feature to search Activator in Cydia’s in order install Activator v1.6.2.

See the activator in action.

Interested? Then download Activator 1.6.2.

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How To Manually Uninstall Unstable Cydia Tweak App Without Opening Cydia

If your iPhone is experiencing a constantly crashing Springboard and Cydia can't be opened, well the situation is likely to happen frequently when you installed a Cydia app or tweak that is not compatible with your device model or an iOS firmware your device is running on. And you need to uninstall the app that creates the mess.

But unfortunately you are unable to launch Cydia to uninstall the unstable and unsupported app or tweak, but don't worry there is a workaround for that problem. You can manually uninstall the incompatible tweak package in safe mode. Below is the steps to do so.

Manually uninstall Unstable Cydia Tweak or App without opening Cydia.

Go to SBSettings, then click on power on the bottom-right, you are opened up to
reboot
power off
"safe mode"
and lock.

And the SBSettings can be opened on the lockscreen too, therefore you don't have to unlock the iPhone or iPod anyway.

Hope this post helps and see you again in another posts.

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How To Display 4G Indicator Like AT&T iPhone On iOS 5.1

Do you want to display 4G indicator on your iPhone, the indicator that is exclusively for AT&T iPhone users? If your iPhone 4 or 4s running on iOS 5.1 but you are not a subscriber of AT&T network means you are not a lucky guy (really?) that could enjoy the appearance of 4G indicator appears on your device screen, because this indicator only available for AT&T network phone subscribers due to licensing agreement.

But there is a workaround for that, yes your non AT&T iPhone can get this 4G indicator to replace the 3G indicator and again Cydia is a rescuer to deal with the situation. You can install 4G for iPhone package that it's currently stored in ModMyi repository, but firstly this package requires you to install Saurik’s theming platform. Once you've installed this free of charge tweak you will be seeing 4G indicator like in the following picture.

Keep in mind the indicator it is simply a visual indicator and replacement of 3G indicator, does not offer to increase the speed of your connectivity. Interested? Then launch Cydia to grab the 4G for iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s.

Hope this post useful !

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How To Set Video Youtube To Be Ringtone For iPhone

How to set video Youtube to be ringtone for iPhone. There is a Cydia tweak that allow you to set Youtube video to be your iPhone ringtones, the tweak I am talking about is Vuziq that is supporting iOS 5.0 and higher.

With Vuziq you can have video ringtones for your iPhone and set the video rigntone for both your individual contacts or all contacts, the choice is yours to take. If you are interested to have video ringtones for your contacts in your iOS device you can grab and install Vuziq from Cydia, once you launch Cydia then search for VUZIQ and then install the tweak.

After Vuziq is installed on your device, then launch it and then go to the download tab, continued with search the video you wish to set for contact ringtone. After your found the right video, then select download (not preview) in order to download the video by clicking the download option.

Go to the video calls tab after the video is downloaded, and then tap on the switch next to the video. You now see the option to set in where part of the video to be the starter for your ringtone. And end the step by hitting the Save button.

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How to install Spite on iPhone 4 iOS 5.1, 5.0.1, 5.0

Updating to the latest iOS firmware are a general mistake if the firmware is a newly released because your unlock and jailbreak utility will no longer work. And your baseband is changed too, to which makes your iPhone locked to the one GSM carrier, for example you are stuck in Baseband 2.0.10, luckily you can unlock it.

In case you have mistakenly updated your iOS to iOS 5.1, Spire will stop to work as this Siri port is not updated by its developer, chpwn, to keep up with iOS 5.1. But fortunately there is a solution for the said problem. You can grab Spite, the Spire's alternative that can be used by iPhone running on iOS 5.1 firmware.

Spite is a Cydia tweak created and developed by TechNetec and it's still in beta stage, therefore don't expect too much. And to install it, a tethered jailbreak is required. Currently Spite is in version 2.2. The updated version of the software allows for an uninstall without restoring in iTunes.

How to install Spite on iPhone 4 iOS 5.1 / 5.0.1 / 5.0 (or on iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPad).

Step 1: Tethered jailbreak your iPhone, iPod, iPad first using Redsn0w, to verify the version of iOS your iPhone is running.


Step 2: Now add the Technetec's url repo --- Manage > Sources > Edit > Add:

http://repo.technetec.com/beta/

Step 3: Afterward, now search the Spite 2.2 and then install the app. The total size of the Spite is 150Mb.

Step 4: Reboot your device.

Step 5: To make Spite works, you still need a Siri proxy, therefore find one on the internet or borrow from your friend that owns iPhone 4s.

Hope this post helps and see you again!

Via TechNetec.

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Update To Or Install Cydia 1.1.6

Did you know that Saurik has update Cydia to version: 1.1.6, albeit there is no change-log released officially for us to study but the reason of the update is given, which is to get rid the obsolete code that Saurik created for Twitter-inspired Dickbar to welcome the April Fools’ 2011.

And in this post I would like to share to you on how to guide to install Cydia 1.1.6 or update to Cydia 1.1.6.

Step 1. Open Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

Step 2. Tap “Upgrade Essential” on the pop-up window that will likely appear when the upgrade is needed.

Step 3: Select “Confirm” on the next screen, then allow the Cydia upgrades to install.

Step 4: Now “Close Window” after the installation of the Cydia upgrades is entirely finished.

Step 5: Now press “Home” button to exit Cydia.

Step 6. Launch Cydia again.

Step 7. Done.

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Guide To Save SHSH Blobs For iOS 5.1 Using iSHSHit 1.0.14

This is a how to guide to save iOS 5.1 SHSH Blobs using iSHSHit 1.0.14. If you never heard about iSHSHit before here is a short explanation, this is a Cydia app developed by iOS developer Aaron Lindsay that is to save the iOS 5.1 SHSH Blobs directly from your iOS device for further downgrading.

It has similar offer like TinyUmbrella and iFaith, one thing that separates iSHSHit from the both is the ability to save the SHSH Blobs from iOS device and available in Cydia.

Now let's save iOS 5.1 SHSH Blobs with iSHSHit.

1. Jailbreak your iOS 5.1 device first if you haven't. (Follow this tutorial)

2. Search iSHSHit 1.0.14 in Cydia under BigBoss repository, once you found it then install it.

3. Your device will begin the installation, once it finishes, restart your device and you will then see iSHSHit icon on your Springboard, then open the app.

4. You will see your unique chip ID, and options like to change your model, select the SHSH blob you wish to save. Click Manage SHSH, you will be presented with a list containing all the SHSH Blobs you previously saved.

5. Select the option you wish in the settings pane, click the save button to start downloading and saving SHSH blobs to your iPhone.

6. After iSHSHit is done saving the iOS 5.1 SHSH blob, then click OK on the push notification message.

7.Finish.

Hope this post helps and see you in another posts.

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Ask Siri For iPhone Battery Life Using BatteryLevelAE

If you want to ask Siri about how much talk time do you have, standby time do you have or any questions related to your iPhone battery life, then there is an Addon for your questions, named BatteryLevelAE which available in Cydia and its price is $1.00. Your question will be answered through a rough estimate based on your iPhone battery life conditions or Apple official stats.

You can get BatteryLevelAE by launching Cydia and search this Addon, or go to Sections > Addons (Siri) and then BatteryLevelAE to begin the installation process.

There are two payment methods you can use to buy this Addon, by using Paypal or Amazon from the Cydia Store purchase system. After BatteryLevelAE is installed on your device it will be integrated to Siri, enable it from Settings and no settings is provided.

Hope this post helps you and see you in the next posts.

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Send And Receive Files Via iMessage With SendAny And ReceiveAny Tweaks

Do you want your iMessage to be more useful like what it is now, like sending files for example? If your answer is yes, then you can try these two tweaks that are currently available on Cydia, they are SendAny and ReceiveAny.

You can send and receive unsupported files via iMessage with SendAny and ReceiveAny. SendAny will allow you to send files to iMessage from iFile, DropBox also filesystem. Not only that, there is multiple files sending ability too that allow you to send multiple files as a Zip file or folders as a Zip.

And if your iOS devices or OS X beta have ReciveAny installed then you are able to receive files, like receive Microsoft Office document, iWork documents, PDF, RTF documents, also CSV file and Text files.

If you are interested with these tweaks, you can grab SendAny for $1.99 and ReceiveAny for free. They can be found under BigBoss repository for you to get and install them for your jailbroken iOs devices.

Hope this post helps you.

And see you again in another posts.

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