One of the common modifications a lot of people like to do with a jailbroken iPhone is to change the look and feel of the dock. A person can remove or change the background blur, increase the amount of icons or even completely get rid it. Vinculum, by developer William Vabrinskas, adds a whole new dimension of functionality to the dock by tucking an Android-like app drawer neatly underneath it just a quick swipe away.

Within Vinculum there are a lot of options including hiding the grabber, changing the size of icons, and using a dark background which also changes your dock background. You can also set it to automatically activate search after swiping up, this makes it just like Spotlight and could replace it for some users. As with most jailbreak tweaks, users can customize the experience to suit their needs.

Vinculum was created to fulfill a request on Reddit and was initially going to be known by a different name, but was rejected due to possible copyright infringement.

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There are a lot of weather apps available on the App Store. They all offer a wide variety of features such as detailed forecasts, picture and video of local weather reports, and just about every weather metric one could think of. Bruhometer, by William Vabrinskas takes a slightly different approach to the this.

It’s an app that doesn’t take itself too seriously, hence the name and the fact that pretty much every sentence in the app has the word ‘bruh’ in it. He has a very organic inspiration for creating it, he and his brother were driving when they saw some clouds rolling in:

My motivations really stemmed from two sources. First was my brother and I were on a long trip heading to our family vacation and it was about to rain. You could see the dark clouds rolling in. I said to him: “I can feel the barometer changing, it’s going to rain pretty badly”. He knows I use the word bruh/bro a lot and he combined bruh and barometer and said “You can feel the Bruhometer changing”.

That’s when the idea hit me. We started talking about different sayings involving the word bruh to describe the weather. It just went from there. Second, I just wanted a weather app that was entertaining but also straight to the point. No need to ask anyone how the weather is because the app tells in plain English how it is.

You can also tap on the little up and down arrows to toggle between Celsius and Fahrenheit as well as tap the little calendar icon on the bottom to bring out the 5-day forecast. Better yet, there’s an easter egg if you tap anywhere eight times or more, I’ll leave this one as a surprise for anyone curios enough to check it out. He has also included a Notification Center widget which is pretty handy and just as real about the weather.

There you have it, a weather app that grew out of a simple idea and tells you the weather how it is, in plain English. It’s a breath of fresh air with all of the other serious apps we see nowadays. Simple, elegant and funny. Bruhometer is a free app available on the App Store go check it out today if you’d like a little levity in your weather. Continue reading this post ->

Return is a new tweak coming out soon by William Vabrinskas for $0.99 on the ModMyi repo through Cydia. Return will display the most recently opened apps above your Control Center for ease of access. Additionally, the tweak also allows you to clear them if you so choose. Every time you open a new app it will push the one at the very right out of the screen and shift the other three over to make room for the new one. It’s very simple and has a native feel.

There currently aren’t any options, but he’s got a preference pane and he plans on adding in some settings for choosing the amount of apps displayed, favorites and paging if it’s requested enough. I mentioned to him that it would be really cool if he could add in a button to go back to the home screen and he says he will look into it if people are interested in that enough as well. For now I made a home button shortcut with Polus to get me by. Continue reading this post ->

After a really in-depth part one interview with William Vabrinskas, developer of Shade and many jailbreak tweaks, we’re now here with part two. Just as you guessed it, part two is just as good as part one, if not better. This time we’ve got more questions to go through, however, the interview is just as long and covers a wider range of topics. For those who may have missed part one, Vabrinskas went into a lot of detail to describe how he got started with programming, some of his first tweaks, and what inspired him. Those who want to find out more can also check out an interview he did with Jailcast about a month ago. But without any further to do, be sure to read part two by clicking the following link. Continue reading this post ->

I normally write a little summary before the interview to give the article a little more meat and to summarize that the developer said, but here William did such a fantastic job of writing his story in his own words that I don’t think I could add anything. One thing I can mention is that this is a slightly old interview that I actually spaced on publishing here for various reasons and since then he’s started working on a new tweak called Return. It’s a very lightweight tweak that essentualy just puts a row of your recently used apps above the Control Center. I’ll be previewing it really soon so stay tuned! Lastly, he also just released an app on the App Store called Shade so go check that out! But without any further to do, be sure to check out the entire part one of the interview by clicking the following link. Continue reading this post ->