Add Sound Effects to Your iPhone With iSounds

You can now make your iPhone even more lively with the new jailbreak tweak iSounds. The iSounds app allows you to apply sound effects to your iOS interface. Once downloaded and installed you can choose from themes like Deadspace, Mac OS 9 and Windows XP. Your iPhone will then make a sound every time you open an app, boot your device, or change the volume. The iSounds "combiner" allows you to apply different sounds to different actions like deleting an app, opening a folder and so on.

Cydia Tweaks

Swipe Through Your Emails With New Jailbreak Tweak

A new jailbreak tweak called Swipe For Mail makes reading multiple emails as easy as swiping your finger. Once installed the tweak allows you to navigate through your emails by swiping left or right instead of hitting the up or down arrows. The original method of sifting through your inbox isn't that difficult, but a lot of iPhone owners prefer swiping gestures to tapping buttons.

Cydia Tweaks

Apple Improving iPhone Water Damage Sensors?

Hoping for a waterproof iPhone 5 later this summer? A recent patent uncovered by AppleInsider could mean that Apple is throwing cold water on the concept. New immersion detection sensors are described that would more accurately determine when a device was damaged by water.

Apple patent immersion indicator

Current Liquid Submersion Indicators found on Apple products simply turn red after they come into contact with water. This has caused problems as even a high level of humidity can sometimes trigger the indicator to turn a different color. The patent describes an improved method that would use water-soluble glue.

Unlock iPhone 4S With R-SIM (iOS 5 / 5.01)

Another hardware unlock solution has appeared, the R-SIM from Each Supplier. This SIM interposer works with the iPhone 4S running iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1 making it possible to use the device on any compatible GSM carrier network.

iPhone 4S iOS 5 unlock

iPhone Dev-Team has not made recent announcements regarding updates to ultrasn0w, the software unlock solution for jailbreakers. One advantage of the R-SIM is that the product does not require a jailbroken iPhone to unlock the device.

Apple Offers $10k Prize for 25 Billionth App Download

Once again, Apple is offering one lucky winner a $10,000 iTunes gift card for simply downloading an iOS app. Of course timing will determine who wins, with the 25 billionth app marking the winner and another milestone in the 3.5 year history of the App Store.

Apple App Store 25 billion gift card

Apple ran a similar contest when the App Store hit 10 billion downloads in January of last year. As of this writing there are less than 700 million apps remaining to be downloaded according to the Apple contest page.

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