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There may come a time when Siri can help you buy a new flat-screen TV from the comfort of your bed, but for now the gal's capabilities are limited.

For the misfits and troublemakers who have jailbroken their iPhone 4S, there's a new app that promises to change that. It's called MyAssistant, and for 99 cents on third-party app market Cydia, it gives Siri much deeper access to your system settings and software than Apple offers out of the box.

How deep you might be wondering? Once installed it lets you do things like reboot your phone, take a photo, change the way Siri looks, and even launch applications with voice commands. Users can also train the voice assistant to offer up custom replies to questions, something that really may not be all that useful unless you're at a cocktail party and want to play a trick on your friends.

The software, which was profiled by the iDownloadblog yesterday, is the latest in a series of third-party tweaks to Siri. Earlier efforts include AssistantExtensions and ... [Read more]

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