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Cydia back up after multi-day outage

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 25th, 2011)

Good news for the jailbreak community as Cydia is now back up and running. Along with many other companies, the alternative app store for iOS devices has been down for several days due to Amazon's highly-publicized E2C Cloudfront server outage. During this downtime, Cydia suspended all ...

New Cydia release makes re-jailbreaking easier

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 21st, 2011)

Saurik is releasing a major update to Cydia that includes a new Manage Account feature. Though it won't help you jailbreak your device, the new version of Cydia will make it easier when you need to re-install your favorite jailbreak applications. Similar to the Mac App Store, this Cydia account lets ...

Alliance of the jailbreakers: Cydia acquires Rock

by Steven Sande (Sep 11th, 2010)

It's official: the two largest jailbreak app stores for the iOS platform, Cydia and Rock, are getting together. ModMyi is reporting that Jay Freeman (AKA Saurik) and Mario Ciabarra (AKA psuskeels) have been working through an acquisition of Rock Your Phone, Inc. by SaurikIT, LLC for several ...

hacksugar: Mirror your jailbroken iPad display with DisplayOut

by Erica Sadun (May 21st, 2010)

Ryan Petrich's latest utility for jailbroken iPads just hit the Cydia store. DisplayOut for iPad sells for US$1.99. It allows you to mirror the iPad's screen out to an external display via an attached VGA or component/composite cable. Similar to earlier iPhone solutions like TV Out and ...

Using a Wireless Keyboard with an iPhone using BTstack Keyboard

by Joachim Bean (Dec 26th, 2009)

A few days ago, the BTStack keyboard package was released to Cydia. This package, which we posted about recently, allows owners of jailbroken iPhones to use a Bluetooth keyboard with their iPhone 3G or 3GS, or 2nd generation or later iPod touch. The package is available for US$5.00 from Cydia. ...

Quicker tweets with qTweeter

by Kevin Harter (Aug 22nd, 2009)

There's no shortage of Twitter apps in the App Store. Even more surprising is the number of GOOD apps that connect to the popular microblogging platform. I like each for a different reason: Tweetie has a clean user interface, TweetDeck offers multiple columns that sync with its desktop counterpart, ...