Cydia's Top 10

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Continuing with our round of posts related to top of applications, now it is the turn of the most useful (and free) applications of Cydia.

We already talked about the 20 best apps on the AppStore, sorted by categories, as well as the top 9 apps for moviegoers. Now it is the turn to see which are the best applications available in Cydia. To do this, you will first need to have your iPhone / iPod Touch with it jailbreak fact.

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The following order of applications does not imply an order of importance. All the applications that we present below have, in our opinion, the same importance, since they serve different things.

Recorder

Recorder


Given that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), publishes that only its iPhone 3GS model captures video, with this application we can bypass this small restriction and record video from our 3G or even from our iPhone 2G.

Cycroder is free, although we will have to endure a small advertisement on one side of the screen (although it is nothing serious).

The application shows us the time we have available to record video, as well as the time we have been recording.

Finally, note that the quality will not be like the one we obtain in a 3GS model, although to get out of the way, the quality is more than decent.

backgrounder

backgrounder


As we have always heard [and even rumored to include it as a feature in the new firmware], one of the failures of the iPhone / iPod Touch is that it cannot support background applications.

Thanks to backgrounder, this is over. It will allow us to run any application in the background by simply pressing the button for a long time (for a couple of seconds). home of our device while the application is open.

This great application will also allow us to add a small symbol next to the applications that we have placed in the background in order to know the approximate amount of memory that we have available. Keep in mind that the more applications you put in the background, the more memory will be occupied, generally slowing down the system, in addition to consuming more battery.

Qik

Qik


This app is similar to Recorder, which will allow us to make video recordings. However, a nice feature that sets the difference from the first one is the ability to perform streaming of video, practically in real time, towards the servers of Qik. With this feature, Qik transform our devices into webcams.

With Qik, the video quality will depend mainly on the quality of the connection we have (if it is via WiFi, better than better).

mxtube

mxtube


Although in old firmware versions mxtube it was disabled, with the rest of the firmwares it works perfectly. Will allow us download YouTube videos in different formats, like 3GP and MP4.

In the new version that was launched, the possibility of performing streaming de videos, transforming it into an almost better application than YouTube's own that comes by default.

siphone

siphone


Thanks to the protocol SIP, Siphone will allow us to make calls through VoIP.

There are many companies that offer very affordable and competitive prices for VoIP calling services. If you get an account of this type, do not hesitate to take advantage of the possibility that siphone offers you.

There has been talk of applications of this type for a long time (almost since the launch of the iPhone), and in fact there are several, but after having tried many, siphone It is undoubtedly the easiest and easiest to use and configure.

TuneWiki

TuneWiki


This application brings us a true karaoke to our iPhone / iPod Touch.

It is responsible for downloading the lyrics of the songs and synchronizing them with the song that is currently playing. The lyrics database is very large, so it will be difficult to find a particular letter.

iMobileCinema

iMobileCinema


One of the great problems of the iPhone / iPod Touch is the incompatibility it has with the flash player format.

Everyone knows that in the browser Safari it is impossible to correctly view these types of videos. However, with iMobileCinema we will have a Plugin special that will provide you with support to access some sites such as mega video, directly from our browser Safari.

aptbackup

aptbackup


This simple application is not too complicated to use, but it is certainly very useful.

With aptbackup we can make a backup copy of the programs Cydia that we have installed. The backup is stored in a memory section that is saved when our iTunes makes a backup of our device.

When we install a new version of firmware and we want to restore the data, the Cydia applications that we have installed will be installed again without having to access each one of them separately. As I have already mentioned, one of my favorites.

SBSettings

SBSettings


This application is part of this list because it is essential. Who wouldn't want to be able to access the WiFi, 3G and restart the device (among others) directly from the main screen? With SBSettings we can do this and much more, sliding our finger across the upper status bar.

Winterboard

Winterboard


If you like to give your iPhone / iPod Touch a personal touch, Winterboard it cannot be missing from your list of applications.

There are currently several applications that allow us to modify design aspects of our device, but after having tried many, we are without a doubt with this one, since it is the most flexible and the one with the largest community of developers.

Thanks to Winterboard We can change almost any aspect of our iPhone / iPod Touch, from the battery icon to a complete theme, with icons included.

This is all up to here. I hope I have compiled the 10 applications that in general (there will always be exceptions) are worth having with a device released.

Once again, if you have any suggestions or favorite applications, use the comments section to send us your ideas and impressions.


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  1.   Sergi pujol said

    I think there are more interesting applications than TuneWiki, honestly. See Orbit or Overboard and ProSwitcher, just out today, and the like.

  2.   dirty said

    Congratulations for this top10, completely agree (only something necessary is missing but without an interface that is OpenSSH).

  3.   nanditoz said

    I think that instead of mxtube it would be yourtube, there are also other very good ones like iBluetooth, installous and iFile
    besides the small mods of the iphone like the status notifier, grip, battery control, cydelete, lock info, mquickdo, tonefx, I think the list of all good cydia applications would be very long

  4.   Jesus said

    @Nanditoz: «… now it's the turn of Cydia's most useful (and free) applications."

  5.   discover said

    Quick is a marvel, those of you who have 3GS can download it from the AppStore.

  6.   silon said

    tune wiki has been on the appstore for months

  7.   Cicero said

    Man, I think you can't miss bitesms, it's a very useful application and I think it can be put on top of some of those that have been published.