Author Archives: Justin McMahan

QuickContacts – Access your favorite contacts directly from Spotlight on jailbroken devices

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This post reviews QuickContacts, a jailbreak tweak that adds your favorite to Spotlight on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it be handy if you could quickly access your most frequently used contacts directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch’s home screen? QuickContacts is a jailbreak tweak that lets you do just that. With iOS 7, Apple changed the way you access Spotlight search. Instead of swiping over to access a page located to the left of your home screen, pulling down on the app icons and iOS will immediately launch a Spotlight search. QuickContacts replaces the Spotlight interface with Continue Reading →

Dark Sky Review – Incredibly accurate weather app for iPhone, iPad (Mini, Air), and iPod Touch

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This post reviews Dark Sky, an incredibly accurate weather app that notifies you, down to the minute, when it will rain or snow in your area. Dark Sky for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch quickly and proactively provides you with important weather information tailored to your precise location. Many weather apps, such as Yahoo! Weather (one of my personal favorites, check out our video review here) are focused on offering a ton of detailed information in order to provide you with a deep understanding of what the weather will be like in your area. Dark Sky, on the other hand, Continue Reading →

Forecast – Use live animated weather as wallpaper on jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch

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Forecast is a jailbreak tweak for iOS 7 that uses live, location based weather animations as your device’s wallpaper. This is a video review of Forecast, a beautifully designed jailbreak tweak for iOS 7 that uses live weather animations as wallpapers for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Check out the video below! For more information on jailbreaking, please see our series on the subject starting here. To find out how to jailbreak iOS 7, click here. Forecast is available for 99 cents. Use the Search tab in Cydia to find and purchase it or tap here.

Peek Calendar Review – An elegantly simple calendar for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This post reviews Peek Calendar, an elegantly simple calendar app that helps you focus on your schedule a day at a time while having some fun along the way. Most calendar applications for iOS try to pack as much useful information as possible onto the screen while still remaining attractive. This approach can be helpful for giving you a detailed view of your upcoming events, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. Peek calendar is a new calendar app that takes a different approach to displaying your schedule, one that focuses on simplicity and fun. Design & Features – That Continue Reading →

Quick Tip – Access extra buttons in Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch

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This post shows how to access the stock Calculator app’s hidden buttons by turning your device sideways. Some of the most useful apps in iOS are the simple ones. The stock Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch has been around since day one and is a great option for doing quick calculations on your device. However, sometimes the Calculator can be too simple. In fact, in iOS 7 Apple simplified the app even more by removing some buttons, including the memory buttons, from the Calculator’s main screen. Fortunately, these buttons and many more buttons that are typically included in Continue Reading →

Bloard – Use dark keyboard by default on jailbroken devices

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Bloard is a jailbreak tweak that uses iOS 7’s dark keyboard as the default keyboard throughout iOS. If you’ve been using iOS 7 for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that there are two different keyboards included with the OS – a light keyboard and a dark keyboard. Most often, iOS 7 opts for the light keyboard as it is more in line with its white design aesthetic. However, I remember that when I saw the dark keyboard slide on to the screen for the first time when using Spotlight search I thought, “Woah.” The dark keyboard matches my Continue Reading →

Tydlig Review – Great alternative calculator app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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This post reviews Tydlig, a great alternative calculator app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Sometimes you just need a calculator. I frequently pop open the stock calculator app on iOS to do quick calculations when I’m budgeting throughout the week or shopping for groceries. One of the best things about the stock calculator app is its simplicity. But there are some situations where I need more options. Of course, I could turn my iPhone into landscape mode to access a lot of extra features in the calculator app, but then the buttons are very small and somewhat difficult Continue Reading →

AR7 Review – Find beautiful wallpapers for your iPhone or iPod Touch

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This is a review of AR7, a recently released app that helps you find beautiful wallpapers for your iPhone or iPod Touch. One of the easiest ways to spruce up your iOS device is to change its wallpaper. AR7, which was recently released on the App Store, is a great, simple app that showcases the wallpaper designs of @AR72014, an Italian designer and developer. I found @AR72014’s wallpapers a few months back on Twitter and since then have frequently used them on my iPhone 5. He has a knack for designing beautiful, minimalistic wallpapers that enhance the look and feel Continue Reading →

Quick Tip – How to show timestamps in iOS 8 Messages app

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This post shows you how to see when you received each message in the iOS 7 Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. I don’t know about you, but of all the apps on my iPhone I probably use the Messages app the most. Text messaging has become so engrained in our society that it’s something that we don’t even really think about anymore. The Messages app in iOS has always been good about telling you when a conversation happened or, specifically with iMessages, telling you when a message you sent was received or read. But what if Continue Reading →

MiniPlayer – Jailbreak Tweak Review

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This post reviews MiniPlayer, a jailbreak tweak that brings the iTunes 11 MiniPlayer view to your iOS device and lets you control your music from anywhere. Recently, I published a post on TeachMeiOS describing how to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 7. If you’ve jailbroken your device, you’re likely looking for great tweaks to use on it. This will serve as the first full review of a jailbreak tweak on TeachMeiOS, and I’m very excited to share this one with you. I use this tweak on nearly a daily basis and it recently received a fresh Continue Reading →