Tweak Week #8
I’ve missed last week’s tweak week because we simply didn’t have any tweaks that really were good. But this week, we have some interesting tweaks, and some free pizza! (we really don’t have any free pizza).
First up we have Giffy, a tweak that should have been added into the iOS itself, made from IanP. Lets back up a second. When you save a picture from Safari, it saves it in Photos.app. But when you save a .gif file and when it goes into Photos.app, it is only the still image. But with Giffy, it saves the whole “video”. There isn’t a play button to watch it play, it just plays as soon as you tap on the pictures icon. If you think this is stupid, think again. This is what makes jailbreaking iDevices fun and exciting, being able to do something you wanted it to do from the start.
Giffy is $1.99 in Cydia.
Next up is Auto App Killer from ipodtouchmaster. Auto App Killer frees up apps that are taking up too much memory. Let’s say you have a some apps open, and you are playing a game like COD:BOZ. The iDevice will try and free as minimal as possible, allowing the game to run on minimum RAM and not maximum. But with Auto App Killer you can choose and decide when the iOS will kill an app. In Settings.app, there is a slider for the tweak that allows you to choose when apps should be killed when the RAM gets low or at a certain point. It’s really great when you have a device that doesn’t have a lot of RAM to begin with.
Auto App Killer is $1.49 in Cydia.
Lastly is SwipeSelection from iKy1e. SwipeSelection allows you to use gestures on the keyboard. I have yet to find all gestures, (if there are more than one). But now editing on your iDevice just gotten easier than cutting pie with a coat hanger. You can swipe back on the keyboard and your cursor will move back also and put on finger on the keyboard and another swipes back and it will highlight that text. Pretty neat-o.
SwipeSelection is free in Cydia.