14 Ingenious iOS 5 Tweaks That Will Make You Want To Jailbreak Your iPhone (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider Oct 25 11
Apple's iOS 5 has only been out in the wild for two weeks, but clever hackers have already come up with some pretty amazing tweaks for it.
You'll need to jailbreak your iPhone in order to access these tweaks, but unfortunately, there's no jailbreak available yet for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S.
If you have an older iPhone, use these instructions to jailbreak it, a non-destructive process that can be undone at any point.
Also, thanks to iDownloadBlog.com for scoping some of these out!
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