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If you are first-time iPhone jailbreaker or you have done this before, here are some useful information for you. Some of you may be waiting for the jailbreak, or got some information about when it will be available, so the wait is over. This synopsis should help you discover some interesting new and classic jailbreak applications or tweaks that you could install on your iPhone 4S to improve upon its already endless functionality.

Here are some very useful and interesting free jailbreak applications and tweaks:

Mobile Substrate Appliation

The most important and the first application which install automatically about any tweak that you install from Cydia is the Mobile Substrate. The application was developed by Jay Freeman (saurik) to keep your iPhone from getting damaged if something that you install from Cydia goes terribly wrong. It put iPhone in “Safe Mode” if something goes wrong.

Activator

Ryan Petrich, an iOS developer has created the Activator to help make accessing iOS functions and invokable tweaks easier. It a free application which includes touch gesture actions, motion actions, and screen-location-based actions. The best thing about Activator is its integration into SBSettings which is used to open the status bar. Other functionalities include screenshots, composing Twitter tweets, and invoking biteSMS/Messages+ compositions.

SBSettings

A well-known application developed BigBoss which is used to put common iOS toggles right in an easy-to-reach location is called SBSettings.

It can be used in two ways:

• Classic ‘swipe the status bar’ method which brings up a separate window
• With iOS 5, integrated it into Notification Center

Other tool includes hiding applications and disabling Mobile Substrate tweaks which can be used for many intuitive reasons.

Action Menu

Ryan Petrich developed a classic jailbreak application called action menu. It adds more settings to your iOS copy and paste menu. Also, another application related to Action menu is developed by Ryan Petrich called Action Menu Plus Pack extension. It is also a free application which adds more features to action menu.

Winter Board

WinterBoard is a classic jailbreak application by Jay Freeman (saurik) that lets you apply themes to your iPhone. It is one of the oldest applications that add countless themes to Cydia to support the iPhone. Almost 20,000 themes are in circulation that works with WinterBoard. You can get the theme according to your requirement, some of the them are free and some are paid. If you want to have different looking icons than everyone else, then WinterBoard is something to take a look at. After installation of WinterBoard, reboot the iPhone.

Dream Board

DreamBoard is another newer theming platform application developed by Andrew Liu. This application is used for more advanced theming. It is used to apply animated differences such as widgets and interactive GUI (graphical user interfaces) that are completely different than iOS.

Some themes are free and some are paid, but DreamBoard comes with a complementary copy of Endroid which is a mock up of Android.

Groove-shark

Groove-shark is a music application similar to Spotify that never quite made it into the App Store. Since then, it has been released on Cydia. It’s a monthly service, but the application is free and includes a trial that you can test. It’s absolutely great. You can stream any song that you want from anywhere simply by searching for it and tapping play. Need I say more?

Webscrollian

Webscrollian is a free jailbreak tweak by iOS hacker and developer chpwn that lets you scroll through Safari Web content much faster than you ever could before. If you read through a lot of sites that are extremely long such as the front page of Modmyi news, then you will find a tweak like Webscrollian to be very helpful. It increases the inertial scrolling speed so that one swipe will keep on scrolling for a long time. Normally when you swipe to scroll it only goes a short way.

PasswordPilot

PasswordPilot is used to store Apple ID password to make your life easier. It’s a free jailbreak tweak developed by iOS developer Filippo Bigarella. After installation go to application settings and it allows you to input your password. Once you do that, any time you are prompted to enter your Apple ID password such as when you purchase an application, sign into iCloud, or any other instance – that prompt will be pre-filled with your password. Filippo took steps to make sure that your password is encrypted, so there is little chance that anyone can steal your password. However, if you don’t have a pass code enabled, it can be easy for someone to make unwanted purchases on your iPhone. I use it every day and highly recommend it

Pull To Dismiss

A new free jailbreak tweak developed by Ryan Petrich is Pull To Dismiss. Its a handy application that lets you pull the keyboard out of your way when you are reading content such as on Twitter or in your Notes application. It is used to pull the keyboard from view and use the entire screen to read your content or write notes because some it is really annoying when you are writing a message and half of the screen is covered by the screen keyboard. So by using this application you can dismiss the onscreen keyboard.