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Search Tilt to Find Safari Easter Egg

Douglas — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:05:59 +0000

If you search for the word “tilt” in the Safari browser for the iPhone your search results page will be tilted slightly to the right. This also works for the word “askew”. Not sure if this is something Apple did or Google. This works on any iPhone even if it’s not jailbroken. Try it! Here’s some screenshots of what it looks like:

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Pull To Refresh Safari – Another Sweet Hack

Brooke — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:41:49 +0000

If you read my previous article about the Pull to Refresh For Mail hack… then you probably already know my feelings about Pull to Refresh Safari. I LOVE it! I don’t know if I’m a “pull to refresh” addict or what but I just love these hacks!

As the title suggests, this hack adds the ability to “pull to refresh” in the stock Safari application. To use the hack you just pull the Safari page down past the address bar and your page will automatically refresh.

The app is instantly activated when you install it in Cydia. There is no icon or settings for this hack. To deactivate the hack, you would need to uninstall it in Cydia (or use SBSettings Mobile Substrate Addon feature)… but seriously why would you need to deactivate it! I had no issues when I tested the app and like Pull to Refresh For Mail, it has officially been added to my “must-have” list. The best part is that it’s free! You can get Pull To Refresh Safari via the BigBoss source.

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

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Quickly Clear Cache, History and Tabs in Safari

Brooke — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:16:10 +0000

Reset Safari for SBSettings is an SBSetting toggle that allows you to quickly clear Safari’s cache, history and remove all tabs. Once the app is installed, you will need to go into SBSettings and then the More option and turn the toggle on. Once it has been set as one of your toggles, it’s pretty simple to use… just tap the ResetSafari toggle and it clears everything. It does not actually toggle on or off… you just tap it and it instantly deletes everything. If you use the toggle while Safari is open, it will close the app in-order to reset it.

When I tested the app… it worked just as I expected. All my Safari history and tabs had been removed and my cache cleared. I didn’t catch any glitches with the app… let me know in the comments if you did. You can get Reset Safari for SBSettings via the BigBoss source.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

FullScreen for Safari

Douglas — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:38:37 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: $1.49

This super sweet hack is just as the title sounds, a full screen feature for the stock Safari app. This means no address bar and no toolbar at the bottom. Don’t worry, it’s not an all or nothing option. You can use a variety of gestures to initiate full screen mode. There are also other gestures for things like back and scrolling up. This only works on iOS 4 but it works really well. It ran very smooth for us and it’s definitely a keeper! Can’t wait for it to work with the iPad (as of now it’s not compatible)

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Temporary Fix For Gowalla & Jailbroken iPhones

Douglas — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:54:32 +0000

When the jailbreak came out for the iPhone 4 I was very excited. I was even more excited when a lot of my favorite jailbreak apps became available. Then I noticed Gowalla, an App Store app for check in to locations, had stopped working. When you opened the app it would just crash right away. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it just kept doing it. Eventually I found out it was a problem with having my iPhone jailbroken and specifically having Winterboard installed. Here’s a recent @reply from @gowalla:

What’s good about this is there an update coming soon. Until then there’s a easy workaround. Just visit m.gowalla.com and then add it to your homescreen. It makes an icon and one of those sweet fullscreen web apps. Here’s some screenshots:

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A quick shoutout and thanks to my buddy Justin shared with me about Gowalla’s mobile site. Just just recently switched to an iPhone 4 after a long time using BlackBerries. Congrats man! And thanks!

Tab+ – Increase the Number of Tabs Allowed in Safari on iPhone, iPod touch & iPad

Brooke — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:17:37 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Tab+ is a nice little hack that allows you to have more than eight tabs open at a time in Safari on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (allows iPad to have more than nine tabs open at a time). There is not much to this one… just install the application via Cydia, respring your device, open Safari and voilà… you can have more than eight tabs at a time.

The only issue I have noticed with this hack is that if you go over the stock eight tabs, you no longer get the number of tabs on the little icon on the bottom. However, if you go back down to eight tabs, the number comes back. Other than that… this hack worked great for both Doug and I. The highest number of tabs we got up to was 14. You will have to let us know if you surpass that and how it does.

You can get Tab+ via the BigBoss source.

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jQTouch – What You Can Really Do With Safari On The iPhone

Douglas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:21:24 +0000

The Developers of jQTouch describe it as “A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.” In English, that means they have a sweet development kit to help web app developers create awesome interfaces in Safari. There isn’t an easy way to describe it all so here are a bunch of great videos demoing what can be done with jQTouch in Safari.

Learn more at jqtouch.com or find it on Google Code.

Jailbroken iPhone Beats New Droid Phone in Browser Speed Test

Douglas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:30:57 +0000

The newest device to run the Google Android software is being released on November 6th. Engadget has been posting video reviews of the device and in this video, shows a browser speed test. The iPhone wins even after being jailbroken which can cause the iPhone to run slower than stock.

QuickScroll Now Available in Cydia

Brooke — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:23:06 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

QuickScroll is now available in Cydia. QuickScroll is an application that allows you to quickly scroll in a page. We did a pre-release review of this application a few days ago… you can see it HERE.

The app is pretty easy to use. Once installed, you hold one finger on the page and then triple tap with another finger. This will bring up the box that displays where you are on the page and allows the ability to quickly scroll to another section of the page (by dragging the green box). QuickScroll also allows scrolling in PDF’s:

1. In a PDF file, triple tap on anywhere (hold one finger and triple tap the other to avoid resizing).
2. A dialog will appear. Enter the page number and press “Go” to jump to that page.
3. Press “Scroller” to scroll around.

You can view the full User Manual HERE.

The only issue I have found with this application is that you have to hold your finger on a spot on the page that is not “clickable” and then triple tap in a another spot that is not “clickable.” This can prove to be a challenge on some pages! You can get QuickScroll via the BigBoss source.

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Find In Page – Safari Bookmark for Searching Webpages

Brooke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:22:25 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Find In Page (FindInPage for 2.x firmware), a Safari bookmark that allows you to search a web page, has been updated to work specifically with the 3.0 firmware. This mod does not add an icon to your SpringBoard but instead adds a bookmark in Safari. To use the Find In Page bookmark, go to a web page in Safari, then select the icon on the lower menu bar that looks like a book. This will bring up a list of your bookmarks. Just tap on the Find In Page bookmark.

Once you select the Find In Page bookmark, you will get a pop-up where you can type in the word (or words) you would like to search the page for. It will then give you a pop-up displaying how many matches it found on the page. The matches will be highlighted in yellow on the page.

If you would like to remove the bookmark, you will need to remove it in Safari like you would any other bookmark (go into your bookmarks, select Edit and then delete the bookmark). Uninstalling the Find In Page application via Cydia will not delete the bookmark out of Safari…you have to do that via Safari.

Overall, this is a handy little bookmark that works well. One thing I did notice, like in the previous version, once you have searched for the a word in a page it will keep that word highlighted even if you go back out and search for a new word. Not a huge deal, just something to note. You can get Find In Page via the BigBoss source.

Note: If you would like to have this app on the 2.x firmware, be sure you install the FindInPage app instead of the Find In Page app.