iOS 5 brought with it a change in how users can zoom when taking a picture within the Camera app. In iOS 4, zooming was accomplished by double tapping the screen and bringing up the zoom bar, but iOS 5 instead implemented pinch to zoom. Some users have been unhappy with this change, and if that’s the case with you, you can bring back the older method of zooming (as long as your iDevice is jailbroken) with developer Itay’s ZoomIsBack! tweak in Cydia.

Developers of both App Store and unofficial Cydia applications have been hard at work updating their work to support the newly released iOS 5. A popular free Cydia tweak that is well-known among jailbreakers, called “Activator,” has joined many other Cydia packages in now being fully iOS 5 compatible, even adding support for iOS 5′s new features.

Unsanity has created Shapeshifter, WindowShade X, Menu Master and more, but have been rather quiet since the release of Leopard broke their “Application Enhancers” that are used for all of their apps. Well, that technology may not quite be working, some of the developers have made a new enhancer that is a “Mobile Enhancer” technology more »

Erica Sadun is currently working on writing a book on the iPhone. While she was tinkering and playing around, she creates a great iPhone app. She brings Coverflow to your iPhone, so you can browse all of your apps using AppFlow. It is an interface for installing apps and icons. Simply install the app on more »