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FullForce Stretches iPhone 4/4S Apps to Better Support the iPhone 5 Display

Andrew Grush — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:24:50 +0000

The iPhone 5 brings with it a larger display, but also creates a bit of a small annoyance along the way: the black bars for apps that aren’t optimized for its longer display. While the black bars at the top and bottom make using these apps perfectly functional, what if there was another way? There is if you happen to have a jailbroken iPhone 5. The new tweak called FullForce will take apps and stretch them to fill up the display.

The app is made by iOS developer Ryan Petrich and costs just $.99 through the BigBoss repository. According to the app developer, when you launch an unoptimized app you will be presented with a prompt asking if you want to stretch out the app or not.

Unfortunately, stretching isn’t going to work for all kinds of apps. The picture below shows a scenario where it works quite well, but in games and other instances it could great an uglier looking image. What do you think, is it worth a buck to you to have the ability to pick and choose whether to stretch apps or not? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Updated Cydia makes it easier to re-download your purchases

Michael Kwan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:17:25 +0000

Jailbreaking your iPhone isn’t exactly a permanent thing. Every time that the boys and girls in Cupertino push out a new version of iOS and you choose to hit the upgrade button, your once jailbroken iPhone gets back behind its Apple-branded bars.

Sure, you can re-jailbreak your iPhone when the newest solution hits the net, but then you’re stuck having to manually re-apply all the purchases and downloads that you made through the jailbroken scene. The newest version of Cydia will help you, if only a little, in that regard.

No, it won’t automatically provide a new jailbreak solution the moment a new iOS is released, but it will be able to track your purchases and downloads made through the Cydia store. You just need to link up your account with either your Google or Facebook account.

Then, when you manage to re-jailbreak your iDevice, you can hop on over to Cydia and quickly re-apply the jailbroken goods you had once installed on a free device not long before. It’s not perfect, but that’s the price you pay for going against the big Apple.

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