BiteSMS, one of the best jailbreak apps available for the iPhone and iPod touch, has recently been pushed out of beta to version 6.0 with full support for iOS 5. The update brings along a number of new features as well — here’s the full change log:

Version 6.0

16 December 2011

• iOS 5 compatibility, works on iPhone and iPod devices. Fully integrated with all iOS 5 features including iMessaging and Notification Center.
• NEW Look Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
• NEW Passcode lock feature inside Quick Reply.
• NEW Ability to use the native Messages icon instead of the biteSMS one.

Note: For iOS 4 users, in effect you are installing Release 5.5 of biteSMS and don’t get any new features.

The update is now in the BigBoss repo, which means there’s no longer a need to add a custom Cydia repository in order to get in on the action. Give it a try and let us know how it’s working for you on iOS 5!

As always, If you need more help or run into any problems getting things setup, check out our TiPb jailbreak forums!

• $9.99 – Cydia Link

Source: BiteSMS

If you are a fan of the original Fruit Ninja game then you are in for a bit of a treat with the newly announced Fruit Ninja Puss in Boots. Fruit Ninja Puss in Boots is a game with a tie in to a movie, this time it is DreamWorks Puss in Boots movie.

Before you go off and assume that this will be the same game with a few cat references, it looks to be much more than that. It is actually a good upgrade to the original game, with more blades and backgrounds, new magic bean powered Desperado Mode and much more.

Even better is the price, it will only be $0.99 for the iPhone and iPod touch version but you will still need to pay extra for the iPad version; which comes in at $1.99. Fruit Ninja Puss in Boots should arrive in the App Store on October 20^th. Take a look at the trailer below!

Source: touchArcade

We kid you not — a man described by security as wearing a white ninja suit crashed his car through the Greensboro Apple Store before fleeing on foot.

Greensboro police received a call around 4:43 a.m. after a dark gray or blue Honda crashed into the store. According to police, the man crashed into the store in a robbery attempt.

The store will remain closed today, of course, while they see to damages. (And perhaps look into hiring some samurai to increase security?)

[MyFox8. Thanks @spencefos]

Jailbroken and wondering how you can automatically respond to SMS messages? Have you ever been in a meeting and have gotten a text from someone and was not able to respond right away? Did they get mad because they thought you were ignoring them? The AutoResponder tweak from Cydia allows you to take control of your SMS messages and we’ll show you how after the break!

Auto responder let’s you enable your phone to send pre-written texts to people who text you when you are busy and do not have time to respond. To use it you have to have a Jailbroken iPhone. If you don’t and you want to, make your way over to our jailbreak guide for a step by step walkthrough on how to jailbreak your iPhone. Otherwise, on with the tip!

1. Launch Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone
2. Search for AutoResponder
3. Download the tweak.
4. Once the tweak is installed there will be no physical app icon on your springboard. All you have to do is make your way to the Settings app on your phone and scroll down until you see the auto responder option.
5. Next, you have the option to enable the tweak and pick which message you want to send out. It comes preloaded with a few of the standard responses, but it also gives you the option to set up a custom response.

One other nice feature about this tweak is you also have the ability to download an SBSettings toggle along with it! When you search for AutoResponder in Cydia the toggle for SBSettings comes up with it as well.

Do you find this tweak useful? Have you ever had to catch the wrath from a friend or coworker when you forgot to respond to their text? I know I have! Let us know what you think in the comments.

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iOS 4.2 is in the house! We’ll save the iPad stuff for Sunday but we’re talking all about, AirView, find in Safari, and AirPrint — except for iPhone 3G. Plus, Steve Jobs, Cupertino Ninja, Unreal UDK out for iOS, free iPhone case programs a changing!

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Bloomberg is reporting on the claims of a Japanese tabloid magazine SPA! saying that the Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was stopped back in July by airport security at the Kansai International Airport in Japan. Jobs was reportedly trying to transport Ninja throwing stars onto his private plane before heading back to the United States from his family vacation.

“A security scan at Kansai International Airport, near Osaka, detected the weapons inside the executive’s carry-on luggage in July as he was returning home to the U.S. from a family vacation in Kyoto, the Japanese magazine reported, citing unidentified officials at the airport and the transportation ministry. Jobs said it wouldn’t make sense for a person to try to hijack his own plane, according to the report. He then told officials he would never visit Japan again, the magazine reported. Apple declined to comment.”

An airport spokesperson did confirm that a similar incident did take place at the end of July but would not name the persons involved. They did state that the passenger did discard the throwing stars and noted that both private and public passengers are subject to the same security measures throughout the airport.

UPDATE: Apple has responded:

“Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon.”

[Bloomberg, response via Digital Daily]

My latest favorite iPhone game is Fruit Ninja. The premise of Fruit Ninja is simple; slice fruit, don’t miss any and don’t slice a bomb by mistake. Sound easy? Think again grasshopper! After beginning a game, fruit flies up from the bottom of the screen. You use your finger (or fingers) to slice the fruit. If a fruit falls back off the screen without being sliced, you receive an X. Three X’s and it’s game over. To make things interesting, bombs are thrown into the mix as well. So, not only are you trying to slice a lot of fruit coming at you and not missing any, you have bombs that shoot up as well. The challenge is, if you slice the bomb, it’s instant game-over.

When it comes to difficulty with this game, it is a nice and smooth curve. The issue is that once you get good at it, it would be nice to start at a higher difficulty. However, Fruit Ninja always starts you back at the beginning. Your efforts are not at a loss though, the game has plenty of achievements via Open Feint and unlockables. Different colored swords and backgrounds can be unlocked if you have the dedication and skill of a true ninja.

Fruit Ninja also has two different play modes. First is Classic. This is the primary play mode I have described above. Score points by slicing fruit while avoiding the bombs. Zen mode is fun and fast. There are no bombs, but you have a time limit to slice as many fruits as you can. This is not hard, what is hard to is to slice with combos to rack up more points. Check out the Open Feint leaderboards and you will see what I am talking about.

I can’t say enough about this game. It has great art direction, animation and fun. When you lose, it even gives you facts about fruit. This is a near-perfect game, I love it!

[$0.99- iTunes Link]

Pros

• Fun gameplay
• Great graphics
• Unlockable content

Cons

• No option to start at a higher difficulty

The jailbreak community offers an abundance of tools that allow you to make your iPhone fit your personality and mood.  If you’re anything like me, I can be pretty picky about layouts and exactly how my phone is set up.  I want all my most frequently used apps in one place, neat and tidy, and ready to use.

For some iPhone users, that plain black background and all the stock icons get pretty boring.  I change my theme on my iPhone a couple times a month, if not more.  There are several jailbreak tools that can help turn your iPhone from boring, to brilliant.

There’s always one problem with paid and free themes, you get what the theme developer gives you.  There may be some theme elements you don’t like at all, or ones that are missing that you’d like to add.  There are several ways to edit themes and customize them to fit you individually. Today, we’ll show you how to do just that.

There’s a couple things you’ll need in order to do this:

1. Winterboard – Free via Cydia and Rock
2. Custom theme – This can be your choice, paid or free. I chose iTopSB for this tutorial by ToyVan, available in Cydia and Rock for $1.99
3. OpenSSH – Free via Cydia and Rock
4. SBSettings – Convenient to toggle SSH and other settings on and off, Free via Cydia and Rock
5. iWipeCache – Clears your springboard cache for you instead of having to do it manually, Free via Cydia and Rock
6. SSHClient – Several free and paid available for PC and Mac. Here’s an earlier article that links to popular choices
7. Optional installs: iBlank, FontSwap, CategoriesSB (there is a free version but I highly recommend CategoriesSB over plain Categories, it’s worth the $0.99), FiveiRows, FiveIconDock (I say optional as these are totally user preference and not neccessary if you don’t want them – they’re all free so give them a try, you can always disable and they’ll be there later if you want to use them with a different theme at some other point).

First thing I recommend doing is going into your iPhone’s settings and turn the auto-lock to never. You can do this by going to Settings, General, Auto-Lock, and check Never.  Sometimes if your phone goes to sleep while you’re making changes to the file system via SSH, it’ll disconnect you and certain files may not transfer.  I also recommend having your phone charging throughout the SSH process. Using SSH and having the backlight on constantly will deplete your battery pretty quick.

Next, toggle SSH on via SBSettings if you haven’t already.

Now you’ll need to open your SSH client on your computer and SSH into your phone. If you aren’t sure how to do this, read this article first. Your iPhone’s IP address is also easily found via SBSettings as seen in the above screenshot.

After you have gotten into the main file system of your iPhone, you’ll need to go into your Themes folder. The easiest way to do this is with the shortcuts in the main directory.  Just go to Library, Themes.

Now I can see a list of all my themes that I have installed via Winterboard.  Before continuing on, I think it’s imperative to explain a little about why Winterboard is such a powerful tool.  Some themes can be customized completely without even having to SSH into your iPhone with the use of Winterboard alone.  Lets say for example, I have a theme I bought through Cydia, but I don’t like the chat bubbles.  That’s something I can fix easily via Winterboard.  I can download chat bubbles I do like, select them in Winterboard, and just drag them higher up in Winterboard than the main theme. My chat bubbles will now override the chat bubbles in the theme.  That’s because Winterboard works as a hierarchy.  Things at the top take precedence over those further down in the list.

Use this to your advantage.  Sometimes I don’t like the sounds a theme comes with, so I’ll simply download a sound pack I do like, drag it higher than the theme in Winterboard, and it overrides the theme default sounds.  This is especially useful for times when you’re not near a computer and need a quick fix.  It doesn’t replace the power of actual editing via SSH, but it’s definitely useful.

Alright, now for editing a theme.  I chose iTopSB for this example.  This is a very beautiful and extensive theme but there are certain things that just don’t suit my taste in this theme, so I want to remove them.

These are the items I’m going to remove in this tutorial:

• Splash/loading screens
• Lock background
• Arrow UI elements inside the mail app

Another tip, I always copy the entire theme to my desktop on my iMac. Then I rename it something like “iTopSB Edited” and drag it back over.  That’s the copy I edit.  Then, when you receive updates via Rock and Cydia for a theme, you don’t have to do this process everytime.  It’ll update the main theme and not your edited theme.  Then you can go apply the main theme, see if there’s any new additions you’d like to bring over to your edit version, and do that if need be.  It makes life much easier than re-tweaking a theme everytime an update is issued.

Alright, first thing in our list is splash screens.  These always irritate me in themes. I know some people really like them, but to me, all they do is increase the time it takes for an app to load and be useful.  Therefore, I remove them.

Splash screens are typically located inside the main theme folder in a folder called “Folders”.  Inside that folder, you’ll fine typical stock and popular apps that the developer has made splash screens for. You’ll have to go into each of these folders and delete the splash screen PNG in order to get rid of them.  Depending on what you need/want from that folder, you can sometimes get away with just deleting the entire “Folders” folder with no damage to the theme but ridding yourself of splash screens and other extra UI tweaks that aren’t technically necessary.

Again, this is all a matter of personal preference.  Some people like extra UI images and tweaks.  To me, I may want my iPhone to look different, but I don’t want the UI bogged down. I still want a clean look, not cluttered.  This is why I always clean up themes to suit my personal taste.  I figure if anything, this process will teach some of you how to find what you’re looking for when deleting theme elements and get you more comfortable with the folder systems and where to find things inside a theme folder.

Alright, I’ve found my splash screens, and in my case, since there was nothing inside that specific folder I wanted, I’ve went ahead and deleted it completely in my edited theme.

Next we move to the lock background.  I typically like my own picture on my lockscreen.  So I’ll just go into the main theme folder and delete the file called LockBackground.png.  That’s it.  Pretty easy, eh?

For our final deletion, we’ll have to find what UI element is creating the little pesky arrows in the mail app that I’m just not to crazy about.  And keep in mind, you aren’t always going to know exactly where these elements are. There are a few different ways theme developers can form their file structure. So where I may put certain UI elements, another developer may choose another folder syntax.  For the most part, it’s universal, but certain things, such as Icons, can be done a few ways.  Most SSH clients have nice preview features that allow you to preview files and see if it’s what you’re looking for.

In my case, most of the culprits were always found in Library/Themes/”ThemeName”/Folders or Library/Themes/”ThemeName”/UIImages

You’ll probably have the most luck looking for things in those two locations.  Check out the video for a walkthrough and a couple other tips and tricks!

And as always, if there’s something you really can’t figure out or find, leave it below or in the forums!

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Ever wanted to know how to change the icons of a particularly ugly app? Well, if you’re Jailbroken and have SSH access you’re in luck! Resident theming genius, Ally (iMuggle on TiPb Forums and in the Twitter) has begun collecting her excellent tutorials into one easy to browse place. Here’s a sample:

you need to know how to do a few things in order to do this. After jailbreaking, you need to know how to SSH into your phone. If you’re not familiar with SSH, you need to get familiar with that first. *Note: Unless you feel completely comfortable doing this, I don’t recommend it. Point being, SSH’ing will give you access to ALL of your iPhone’s core files, so deleting/editing certain files could be disastrous if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you’re still reading, and you’re okay with all of this, continue on.

So, fair warning, that’s why we call these iPhone Ninja tips. They’re not for the casual user — hard core only.

If you’re interested and eager, however, give Ally’s tutorials a look and let her (and us!) know your results.