Last week I introduce you some of the best productivity apps for jailbroken iPhones. This week, I’ll show you more of them.

Note that all the apps of this list are 3.0 compatible.

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Utilities

SBSettings (free)

What is SBSettings? Its a HUD interface that’s available from any screen thus almost all applications. To activate the HUD you simple swipe your finger across the status bar, left or right, or even down from it. The HUD will then smoothly slide from the top of the screen to give you lots of information and toggles.

SBSettings is all about providing quick and easy control so you can maximize efficiency.

As well as giving basic information about your phone (IP addresses, memory usage, free space), you can configure which toggles you want to display, and other developers can write their own toggles that interface with it.

To my opinion, more convenient toggles are : 3G (to save your battery), Wifi, autolock and SSH. And there are also : calculator, fast note, brightness, auto-correction and more.

There are many nice-looking SBSettings themes available.

Orbit ($1,99)

On Macs, you can use Exposé and Spaces, which give you a visual overview of open apps and virtual desktops, respectively. Orbit gives you something very similar. By tapping the icon, it shows a small preview of each of the home screens. Tapping on a screen preview will take you to that home screen.

And that’s it. It’s a simple idea, and well executed. There is the occasional tiny lag in drawing the preview, but we’re talking a split-second delay rather than anything grating.

Orbit does takes some getting used to, because it’s a new way of interacting with your iPhone. For all the finger-swiping to get to that last screen, I’m very used to it now, and it’s pretty quick.

Orbit is really useful for people having a lots of applications, and even if it’s not perfect, it’s a great app.

Five Icon Dock (free)

Here’s an interesting app. If you ever felt the need for another icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch’s dock then your need has been fulfilled.

Just go to Cydia and search for “Five Icon Dock” and install it. After the program is installed, just drag any icon and drop it to the dock and you’re done. You now have 5 icon on the dock!

This can’t be simpler. And now instead of having to choose the 4 apps that will have the honor to be in your dock, you’ll have to choose 5 of them… It’s still not much

You can even change the look adding a cover flow like style to the dock.

Search (free)

iPhone spotlight is a good tool, but Search is an even better one.

It’s an amazing app for searching everything on your iPhone, including e-mails!

It’s a lot like the Sherlock of old : type a search term, hit enter, and it starts digging through Contacts, SMS, Notes, Events, Safari Bookmarks and Safari History.

Tap any search result, and you go straight to that app.

In addition, the user interface is slick and simple and the app is fast. Inevitably, this app took one of the 5 slots in my dock.

PDANet (free)

PDANet is a great application that turns the iPhone in a Wi-Fi router. It works with Mac and PC.

Using it allows you to escape the expensive cost of iPhone “official” tethering with most TSP (for example, in France it cost 30€ a month to have “unlimited” tethering, in addition to an already expensive rate plan).

It’s really straightforward to use, just create a local Wi-Fi network with your computer and let PDANet handle everything for you.

In addition, there are some neat features like an “insomnia” mode so that you can turn off your iphone and still use the Internet connection. You can also ssh your iphone when it’s connected with PDANet. And PDANet runs in background so that you can still use your iPhone for everything else.

iPhone Delivery (free)

Though Apple has improved it native SMS app by adding features such as SMS forwarding, single SMS deletion and multiple SMS, it still lacks one common feature of getting delivery reports.

iPhone Delivery app fill the gap by adding delivery reports to iPhone SMS application.

Once installed, you have to activated it in the Messages pref pane and from here, you’ll receive delivery reports when your SMS will be read by recipient.

The delivery report is displayed on your lockscreen like a common SMS, and is also displayed in the conversation flow in the SMS app.

iFile (free)

iFile is probably the best file system navigator available for the iPhone.

Those available on the AppStore (Air Sharing, FileAid, …) don’t allow to navigate in the whole iPhone file structure. iFile does.

iFile allows multiple file deletion, it’s a file viewer (for most common file type) and it’s even a media player.

It supports landscape mode and you can share files with your PC or Mac through Wi-Fi.

Finally, iFile even allows you to create archive and to attach files to mails !

StatusNotifier (free)

StatusNotifier is a great iPhone utility that will display Email, Call, SMS or Voicemail notifications in the status bar.

Icons are clean and fit well with the iPhone user interface.

In addition, StatusNotifier can be use to display a few datas on lockscreen, but it’s far form other lockscreen apps.

And you, do you use some other apps for jailbroken iPhone ? Do I miss any of them ?

- Geoffrey

Related posts:

1. Must have productivity Apps for jailbroken iPhone – Part 1
2. Top 15 Productivity Apps for iPhone – Part 3
3. Top 15 Productivity Apps for iPhone – Part 1
4. Top 15 Productivity Apps for iPhone – Part 2
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