WebSpot Replaces Your Spotlight Search With Web Page

Spotlight search is one of the best thing Apple has ever invented for quick searching. But a lot of people literally hate the spotlight search in iOS devices and most people have replaced it with other things like SpotTweet. I also don’t like the spotlight search since I don’t use it quite often and because I could not find anything else to fit there, so I kept the spotlight search as default. For those who don’t know, Spotlight Search is actually a quick option provided by the fruit company to search your whole device at a glance. The spotlight search was first introduced in Mac OS X.

Today, a new tweak called WebSpot developed by a Russian developer named Vladislav Korotnev has been released in Cydia store which can replace your default spotlight search with a web page. You can literally choose any web page you want to appear instead of spotlight search and make your spotlight search to be more like a web browser. Follow our easy steps below to find out how you can get WebSpot and how to configure it.

How to setup WebSpot

1. Install WebSpot from the BigBoss repo for free.
2. No Homescreen icons would be added, but there would be options to configure in the Settings.app
3. Go to your Settings and find WebSpot.
4. Inside WebSpot settings you would see Web-URL, Autoreload, Show toolbar and Show Address Bar.
5. Go and enter the URL with which you want to replace the spotlight search.
6. Also enable toolbar which is very essential as it lets you go back and forward in your Web-Page, You can also enable Address Bar if you want, it will let you change the site you are currently accessing and you would be able to use it as full fledged Safari.
7. Now you are done and ready to use WebSpot.

Please note that WebSpot was recently updated by developer and he has added a lot of new features that were not present before like the auto-reload, toolbar and address bar. This release is pretty stable than the last one since it used to re-spring and crash devices. No known bug has been reported yet but we will surely let you guys know if we stumble-upon any.

WebSpot is available to download in the Cydia store under the BigBoss repository for free. If you’re a newbie your should follow our aforementioned steps, but if you’re an advanced user you can download the tweak from the direct link provided below and SSH it using WinSCP for Windows or Cyberduck for Mac.

Of course, you will need to jailbreak your device in order to install this tweak. To jailbreak your device on iOS 5.1, please follow our complete step-by-step instructions posted here. Please note that iOS 5.1 is currently available as a tethered jailbreak which means that you will have to boot tethered every time you reboot your device.

Download Webspot [Direct Link]

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