iCleaner: Clean/Remove Junk Files On iPhone [Cydia]

iCleaner is to iOS what CCleaner is to Windows and Mac OS X – that is, to clean up junk files. Read on after the break to learn more about this app available for free on the Cydia store.

iCleaner is pretty straight forward to use once it’s installed. Running the app, you will be prompted with whether to clean certain types of junk files or not, one prompt after another. The app is designed to remove the following types of files:

• Safari cache, cookies and history.
• Application caches, cookies, temporary files, snapshots.
• Log files and crash reports.
• System cache files and databases.
• System temporary files.

The app also removes in depth data from apps such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc. thereby decreasing loading times of these apps and increasing overall performance. Once you have all the junk on your device deleted, you will be asked to respring the device. So do that in order to confirm the removal and well, avoid any mishaps. The app has aesthetics that make it look like a proper app rather than some run of the mill app. Even better, it gets the job done rightly and quickly, without creating errors or stuff.

You can find this app in Cydia in the Bigboss repo for free.

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6GB Of Free Cloud Storage To PC, Android & iOS Brought by Maxthon Skyfile

Skyfile brings an initial offer of 6GB of free cloud storage space to anyone who registers for a new account. The desktop client lets you keep selective Skyfile folders in sync with your PC at all times while the Android & iOS clients allow remote access to all your Skyfile cloud content. However, more than any other aspect, it’s the advanced and secure file sharing features of Skyfile that deserve to be commended. More after the break.

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Real-Time Photo Sharing & Syncing Across PC, Mac, Android & iOS With Familiar

Familiar – a free app for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS that connects you to your close ones so that you can easily share photos with each other over the internet. Regardless of the devices or OS that your contacts are using, Familiar lets you share images with each other through slideshows. In essence, it’s a private social network comprising only your most important contacts, and lets you like, comment on and save all the photos that you’ve shared with each other. Apart from real-time syncing of shared photos, the app keeps you apprised of the addition of new photos to your contacts’ albums via push notifications.

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A Social Network For Parents & Scrapbook For Baby Photos : Kidfolio [iPhone]

KidFolio is a newly released iOS app that acts both as a scrapbook for baby photos, and a social network where you can share said scrapbook with anyone you want. The app also provides its users with useful parenting tips, and a place where you can meet other parents to discuss your problems. An impressive Aviary-powered photo editor within the app provides all the essential editing and styling features that one may require.

Although it is possible to browse through some areas of Kidfolio without creating an app account, but that takes away the whole purpose of the app. So, it is better if you sign up for an account before doing anything. To do so, users can link their Facebook account with Kidfolio, or create an account from scratch using their email ID. Once the sign up procedure is complete, you will be taken to the main feed of Kidfolio, which can be sorted based on recent or popular posts. You can also choose to view photos of babies belonging to a certain age group. Only public photos are displayed in this feed, so you need not worry about privacy issues. Your friends can comment on your photos even if they are not on Kidfolio, as long as you have linked your Facebook account with the app.

The big camera button on the bar at the bottom can be used to snap or edit photos in impressive detail. Kidfolio comes with an Aviary-powered photo editor, which provides a respectable number of photo effects, and options to alter the brightness, hue, saturation, colors and dimensions of photos. The option to add text to your photos is provided by Kidfolio itself within the bar at the bottom of the main interface.

The Parenting section lists articles that can help new parents through every stage their child goes through. If you find an article really useful, you can share it over Facebook or Twitter as well. For help regarding specific topics, you can head over to the Kidfolio forums located in the Groups section of the app.

Much like the new timeline feature in Facebook, Kidfolio has a good system of highlighting the important moments in a newborn’s life. This is done through badges that can be attached to photos of said moments. In short, if you own an iOS device, and are a parent, Kidfolio is a must-have.

The app is available for free in the App Store, and can be downloaded from the link provided below.

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Avoid Accidental Launch Of Notification Center While Playing Games On Your iPhone

No one likes to be disturbed while they are annihilating zombies on their iPhone, or attacking pigs with livid birds on iPad. However, the fact remains that no matter how hard you try, there is always something ready to nag you during your game time. If not from an external source, your iDevice might decide to troll you all of a sudden. One occurrence which has annoyed users ever since iOS 5 was released is the accidental launch of Notification Center while playing games on their iPhone. This leads to a disruption of your flow, and if you are playing online, you will most probably be disconnected from the server. Finally, one developer over at the Cydia store has resolved this problem with the release of a new SBSettings toggle named DisableNC. With this tweak, you can make sure that NC never rears its rather handsome head while you are playing a game.

DisableNC is available in the BigBoss repo of the Cydia store, but before you download it, make sure that your device has got SBSettings installed. The toggle, once installed, won’t make any changes to to the Springboard or Settings app of your iDevice. To configure DisableNC, follow these steps.

1.Launch SBSettings.

2.Tap the More button in from among the options in the bottom row.

3.Here, enable the DisableNC toggle.

4.The new button will now appear in the main menu of SBSettings, and by enabling the DisableNC toggle, you can ensure that NC stays put when you are in full screen mode within a game.

Notification Center will, of course, continue to work in all other areas of iOS when you are not playing a game even if the DisableNC button is active. The tweak is an extremely handy one if you are an iOS gamer, and comes for free on top of that, so do give it a try and you just might find it a perfect addition to your SBSettings arsenal.

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Change The iOS Lock Screen Slider Size & Text With SliderWidth [Cydia]

SliderWidth Cydia tweak will let you change the width and text of the slider, and you can also tinker with the camera button on the lockscreen. Read on to find out what more can be done if you have SliderWidth on your iPhone.

One of the good things about SliderWidth is the fact that, unlike most Cydia tweaks these days, it is designed to deal with both the iPhone and iPad separately. The first option in the menu of SliderWidth is to let users adjust the width of the slider. A similar option exists for iPad just below the first one. To change the size of the slider, hit the enable button, and then resize using the slider below it. The higher the number on the slider, the smaller it gets in length. You can see the effect the changes have on the lockscreen without having to respring your iPhone. It is not advisable to touch the iPad option on iPhone or iPod touch, and vice versa.

In addition to width adjustment options, the tweak also has buttons to let you alter the lock slider text, Doing so requires you to hit the enable toggle for it and enter the text in the box below it. Make sure that the text matches the dimensions of the slider, otherwise it will be cutoff, or appear outside the slider area. Alternatively, it is possible to abandon the slider text altogether, and replace it with a shining Apple logo. Please note that the logo and text cannot be used simultaneously. The camera button options in SliderWidth allow users to remove the camera button from the lockscreen altogether, or use the iOS 5.1 button on an older version of iOS. This feature won’t work properly if you have Camera Grabber (review here) installed on your device, so it is better to disable it before you use SliderWidth.

SliderWidth is available in the ModMyi repo as a free download.

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Save iPhone SMS & iMessage Threads To PC With Decipher TextMessage

 Decipher TextMessage is one such cross-platform paid application that will allow you to view and export all your iPhone’s messaging threads (SMS, MMS and iMessage) as text or HTML files and save locally, along with a few other, highly useful options, such as recovering deleted messages.

Note: Decipher TextMessage is a paid app that will make your wallet lighter by $14.99. AddictiveTips is giving away 5 licenses for the Windows version of this app, details for which can be found at the end of this article.

The application is available for both Mac OS X and Windows, and works by extracting the messages from your iPhone’s iTunes backup. In essence, it employs the same sqlite manipulation that can be achieved through manual means, but not only is the process simplified thanks to the application’s GUI, but also much more refined. As Decipher works with the iTunes backup of your iPhone, it’s imperative that you have backed up the device at least once with your PC/Mac for the tool to work correctly.

When you launch the application, it will first look into the default iTunes device backup folder for all available backups, and extract the messaging information.

The main interface is a three-paned window with the left one listing all available device backups, the middle one populating the message threads by contact for the selected backup, while the right one displays any selected thread in its entirety. A row of buttons is available on the top, containing Export, Sort, Search, Recover, Hide, Print, Copy, Help and Check for Updates.

Usage is extremely simple. Viewing a message thread can be done within the app’s own interface, which includes a timestamp with each message, along with an indicator for whether it was incoming or outgoing. Sent and Received messages are also color-coded for visual differentiation. The end of each thread displays the total number of messages contained within.

Decipher TextMessage neither contains any menus for settings, and is controlled entirely through the buttons at the top of the interface. Export allows you either capture the selected conversation, all conversations on the device, or all checked threads. Messages can be exported as either text or HTML, where the latter will not only preserve the visual differentiation of the app’s own message viewer, but also include any multimedia content in messages (pictures, videos etc).

The next button, Sort, will change the order in which messages will be shown. Choices affect both the whole contact-based conversation list, as well as the threads themselves, and can be configured to show oldest first, newest first, or, for conversation list, in alphabetic order (which is the default selection). Further on, Search will allow you to look up any word within a thread.

Recover is a rather interesting feature of Decipher TextMessage. Suppose you delete a message thread from your iPhone. As with all operating systems, the space used by that particular thread is marked available, and not immediately overwritten. When iTunes backs up your device’s contents to your PC, it stores the complete sqlite database. The tool will, in this case, look for all messages within the backup that have been deleted but not yet overwritten, and will make it possible to recover those to your PC should you wish to do so. Highly useful for all those cases where you accidentally delete something and later find yourself needing it desperately.

Just launch the recovery console, select from the available options those that you wish to keep, and hit the Save button.

Decipher TextMessage is a wonderful tool for completely or selectively backing up/exporting your iPhone’s message threads to your PC or Mac, including all the multimedia content that might be there. It’s lightweight and fast, and has a pretty decent set of options, especially when compared to other offerings on the internet. Add to the mix the fact that it’s available for both Mac and PC, and you get a pretty good deal. The only thing I found missing was the support for exporting messages as PDFs, which would have doubly enhanced the app’s usefulness. Regardless, if you are an avid text message user on iPhone and want to keep your messages safe and viewable at any time, these would be 15 bucks you won’t regret spending.

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