Check out this interactive iPhone 5S and iOS 7 simulator

Apple will be unveiling iOS 7, the next generation mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad.

According to rumors, iOS 7 codenamed Innsbruck will feature a “fresh look” with a “black, white, and flat all over” design instead of the heavy textures that iOS users are accustomed to.

Based on these leaks, folks at Recombu, the product comparison site have created an interactive iPhone 5S and iOS 7 simulator to give us a glimpse of what it will look like.

Here are some of the things you can do with the interactive simulator:

• It allows you to turn on or turn off the iPhone by clicking on the Power button. 
• Drag the slide to unlock slider button to unlock the iPhone.
• Click on the status bar to access the Notification Center.
• Launch the revamped Messages, Camera, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Phone, Music, Safari and Mail apps.
• You can navigate back to the Home screen by clicking on the Home button.

And here’s what you should look out for:

• The slightly modified slide to unlock button.
• The flat Home screen app icons.

• Notification Center with system settings toggles.
• The revamped alert popup.
• The revamped Messages, Camera, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Phone, Music, Safari and Mail apps featuring the flat interface.
• iPhone 5S mockup in various colors

So head over to Recombu’s website to interact with the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 simulator and let us know what you think.

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Categories: iOS 7, iOS Concepts

Auxo for iPad will be released on June 6

We’ve an update for Auxo fans who have been eagerly waiting for the jailbreak tweak to be released for the iPad.

Back in April, A3tweaks, developers ofAuxo – the awesome replacement for the iOS app switcher and one of the most popular jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone had announced thatAuxo for iPad would be released in May. Unfortunately, you will have to wait a little longer.

They’ve just updated their website to announce that Auxo for iPad will be released on June 6th. They’ve also given us a sneak peak of what it will look like on the iPad:

Auxo replaces the app icons in the app switcher with a card-like screenshot of the current state of the app. The app cards makes it easier to identify the app you want to launch from the app switcher.

It allows you to remove apps from the app switcher by swiping down on the app and kill multiple apps by using multiple fingers.

The developers have also re-imagined the music playback controls page in the app switcher with improved music playback controls, a full-sized album artwork and more details about the song that’s now playing.

It also gives you quick access to frequently used Settings toggles like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, orientation lock, Airplane mode etc.

Customise iPhone app icons without jailbreaking by using this webapp(source--iphonehacks)

If you’re a fan of changing the look of your iPhone’s home screen, but don’t want to or can’t jailbreak it, tooliphone.net is a great webapp that lets you set icons of your own choice for your favorite apps.

It does this by creating webclips with URL schemes for apps instead of the usual http link, a technique we’ve covered here before. However, the web app packages the whole process into a neat tool called “iCustom,” not requiring a PC or Mac.

When you visit tooliphone.net on your iOS device, you’ll see a webpage telling you to choose either between a blank or a custom icon. Once you select “custom icon”, you choose which app icon you’d like to customise from a pre-defined list. One cool thing is that you can not only create icons for apps, but also make icons for actions like calling, texting or emailing.

You then proceed to enter the image, which can either be in the form of a URL (hard to extract from mobile Safari) or an image uploaded from your device, which sadly didn’t work for us. Once you’re done with all these steps, you’d finally be told to add the page as a bookmark on your homescreen. Since the icon is actually a bookmarklet, it’ll redirect you to the chosen app, and not straight out replace the icon like WinterBoard themes.

AltKeyboard: Upcoming tweak to let you type alternate characters by swiping up on keys(source--iphonehacks)

AltKeyboard is an upcoming jailbreak tweak that will let users type alternate characters on the keyboard by swiping up on the keys so you don’t have to keep switching between keyboards to enter numbers, and some punctuations and symbols on your iPhone.

The jailbreak tweak is being developed by Newar (@Sentry_NC) and Alan (@tweakcc) of the Auxo fame.

It seems like another cool tweak by the Auxo developers and kind-of reminds me of the Blackberry 10keyboard/Octopus Keyboard tweak(though in case of the BlackBerry 10 Keyboard it allows you to select suggested words by swipin up on top of the keys).

There is no firm release date, but the developers have indicated that it will be available on Cydia anytime soon. We’ll let you know as soon as it is available on Cydia.

Volume Amplifier boosts your iPhone’s volume all the way upto 200%

A new tweak on Cydia called Volume Amplifier boosts the iPhone speaker’s volume by 200 percent, which can come in handy when talking to someone on the phone and the voice on the opposite end isn’t audible.

Volume Amplifier directly manipulates the audio stream rather than messing around with system config files, and hence works similarly with the earpiece, the speaker as well as headphones. Strangely, the tweak is only compatible with the iPhone 5 and works only with phone calls.

While you’re on a call you can simply use the the volume up/down buttons like you normally would, except that you’ll notice a new overlay and that the volume goes beyond 100 percent.