How to Check App Size & Installation Date on iPhone

Want to know how much space an app is occupying on your iOS device ? Though you can see the total space left on your device by going to settings, but you can’t see the size of an app currently installed. AppSize is an app that lets you check app size and installation date. The good thing about this app is that, it does not occupy any space on your iPhone screen, as no icon is added after installation.

To check the app size follow the steps below.

1. First Install AppSize from Cydia.

2. Once the app is installed, hold your Home button and tap the app for which you want to check the size.

3. A pop-up notification showing the App Info, which includes, App Name, Size and the installation date will appear on the screen.

This app is available at Cydia free of cost and will allow you to check over your app’s size, which becomes handy when you are short of space and want to delete some of your apps. Do let us know how do you find this app !

More about → How to Check App Size & Installation Date on iPhone

Break the Limit of 140 Characters in Twitter for iPhone [Cydia Tweak]

Here is another tweak for today. If you use Twitter you should know that you can’t Tweet anything that exceeds 140 characters. So this tweak will let you break the 140 characters limit in Twitter for iPhone. All you have to do is to download and install ’140Plus for Twitter’. Without any settings this will add a new feature to the Twitter app for iPhone. Open the Twitter App and type anything that exceeds 140 characters. The picture below has been taken from iPhoneitalia, showing a longer tweet.

After typing in your tweet just tap ‘Send’. Now you can choose to fit your tweet within 140 characters or you can publish your tweet (140+ characters) by tapping ‘Paste’. You and your followers can view the entire tweet. Below is the picture showing the tweet with 140+ characters being submitted.

Sometimes you might have felt that 140 characters are not enough to share your tweets with others, but now you can tweet anything you want to, no matter if its greater than 140 characters. You can download ’140plus for Twitter’ from the BigBoss repository. You will need to jailbreak in order to use this app. To jailbreak your iPhone via sn0wbreeze follow this guide and for Redsn0w follow the guide posted here.

More about → Break the Limit of 140 Characters in Twitter for iPhone [Cydia Tweak]

Re-Jailbreak by Backing up your App Data in a DropBox

Now you don’t need to save any files via iPhone Explorer or SSH because there is an alternate and an easy way to backup your app data. DataDeposit is an app that allows you to save all your app data in your DropBox account, if you don’t have it then you might have to create one. Before performing a restore or a jailbreak on your iPhone you can back up all the app data via this app and after you have jailbreaked your iPhone you can restore it.

To use this app you need to have a jailbroken device. If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone yet, follow the guide posted here.

Below are the steps on how to backup your data and then to restore it.

1. Go to Cydia and search for ‘Data Deposit’. Download this app.

2. Before performing a backup make sure that there are no apps running on the background.

3. Open DataDeposit, select ‘Backup My Save Data’. Now you will have to sign into your DropBox account.

4. Once you have signed in, a list of of apps that are installed on your iPhone will come in front of you.

5. Select those apps for which you would like to create a backup.

6. After selecting all the apps, select Backup.

Before starting with the jailbreak process, make sure that your apps are in the DropBox. For Mac users, you can check it from the DropBox if you have installed it.

1. Once you have restored/jailbreaked your iPhone you can restore your app data. Download DataDeposit from Cydia and launch it.

2. Tap the ‘Restore From DropBox’ option from the DropBox.

3. Sit back for a while and eat some snacks. Data Deposit will restore all your app data from your DropBox account.

4. Once the restoring process is completed, you will be informed.

If you face any problem during backup process go to change settings and change HTTPS option.

[via Redsn0w]

More about → Re-Jailbreak by Backing up your App Data in a DropBox

Add Timer Delay and Rapid Shot Feature to iPhone Camera

If you are iPhone user you should know that Apple does not provide any add-on features in the native iPhone camera app such as rapid shot and time delay. You can add these features by purchasing an app known as PictureMe. PictureMe is an app that add these add-ons, with this app installed on your iPhone you can set the timer delay between 0 and 25 seconds. The rapid shot feature allows you to set the number of pictures to be taken (max 5 in a row).

The video below shows that how the app works:

This app is available at Cydia under BigBoss repository for $1.99. You will need to jailbreak in order to use this app. To jailbreak your iPhone via sn0wbreeze follow this guide and for Redsn0w follow the guide posted here.

 

More about → Add Timer Delay and Rapid Shot Feature to iPhone Camera

Speed Up Now Your iPhone with Speed Intensifier

If your iPhone is working slow and you want it to work faster, off course you can wait and get iPhone 5, but that’s not coming before this summer. But, there is an app that could speed up your iPhone. ‘ Speed Intensifier‘ is an app that speed up the performance of your iPhone by removing or making iOS animations short. To use this app you need to have a jailbroken device.

To install Speed Intensifier on your iPhone.

1. Go to Cydia->Manage

2. Select Sources->Edit and add a source “http://repo.insanelyi.com”

3. Search for Speed Intensifier.

4. Install the app and the Add-on.

Here is what the Add-on does, according to the iPhone Download Blog:

The add-on’s description states that it breaks the limitations that Apple imposes on the device to save your battery. It will make your iPhone’s processors operate as if it is plugged into the wall charging. The add-on should show up in Winterboard as 3 options: SI Underclock, Si Speedup, and Si overclock.

Speed of iPhone can be adjusted from the Setting app. You can also disable the app.

More about → Speed Up Now Your iPhone with Speed Intensifier

How To Speed up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod internet [Jailbreak Tweak]

Looking for faster internet speeds out of your iPhone, iPod or even iPad? Well thanks to a new jailbreak tweak called TCP Optimizer you can see a noticeable difference in your iOS load times. Stream faster youtube videos, load faster internet pages and so on! Who says jailbreaking is not needed anymore?

The TCP Optimizer simply modifies a few of the iOS default settings such as receive buffer to 131072 to 292000, disabling TCP delayed ACK’s, allowing a maximum of 16 un-ACK’d packets instead of 8 and set the default package size to 1460 instead of 512. This also will improve your wifi connection on top of faster 3g speeds. The developers are the same people who brought you PushFix the push notificaton fix for users with ‘un-allowed’ SIM cards. Tested by ourselves iPhoneSpies and we are yet to see any issues. If any let us know and we can forward to the developer.

More about → How To Speed up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod internet [Jailbreak Tweak]