Monday, March 23, 2015

The Best Tweaks of the Week (March 17 – March 23)

This week in the best tweaks of the week, were going to be taking a look at several free tweaks that aren’t insanely groundbreaking, but they’re more of a “nice to have” kind of tweak, which I never mind to have on my device. The cherry on top is that almost all of them are free.

Couria (beta) â€" Free

This is a tweak that will allow you quick compose as well as quick reply. The quick compose is a feature missing from iOS 8, but the quick reply isn’t. So Couria takes quick reply a step further and gives you the ability to swipe down on the notificaiton at the top to bring down the entire conversation so you can scroll through for context, if you need to. You’ll need to add http://cydia.qusic.me in order to try out the beta.

Couria

TypeTab â€" Free

It can become a tedious job to tap on the url bar when you open new tabs in Safari if you do it a lot on a daily basis. This tweak fixes that. When you open a new tab, the keyboard is invoked and your cursor is already in the url bar ready and waiting.

Speed Intensifier â€" Free

speedintensifier

This is an older tweak that got updated for iOS 8. In a nutshell, it speeds up animations on your device. You have 3 modes to choose from, Simple, Fusion, and Advanced. Simple only speeds up opening and closing apps, Advanced speeds up all animations on the device. Fusion will be a combination of the 2 in which it will speed up opening and closing of apps and animations within apps, but not some animations including slide to unlock text, or loading indicators.

LockBlur â€" Free

lockblur

Something I do a lot of is have one wallpaper for my homescreen and lock screen. I’ll blur one (in Photoshop), keep the other one clear/sharp and use one on my homes screen and the other on my lock screen. Well, now you don’t have to do that manually if you want to blur the lockscreen, you can do it with LockBlur. This tweak gives you the ability to choose the amount of blur you want within the settings.

AKMessages â€" Free

This is a tweak that has the exact same functionality as TypeTab except it’s for your Messages app. So when you open up the Messages app and click on a conversation, the keyboard is invoked and you’re already ready to type.

DockWare 2 â€" Free upgrade or $0.99

dockware2

DockWare 2 is a tweak that will allow you to access your dock anywhere on your device. You can select from several animations to customize how you want it to appear/dismiss, but the cool thing about this is that you’ll have the ability to access any of your apps that are in your dock at anytime.

If you want to check out these tweaks in action be sure to check out the video walkthrough below:

Let us know what you think about these tweaks in the comments!

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