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iPhone path for photos and videos.
Your files should be in one of
*APPLE dirs, under /var/mobile/Media/DCIM , in my example they were in 108APPLE :

patrues:~ mobile$ cd [color=blue]/var/mobile/Media/DCIM[/color]
patrues:~/Media/DCIM mobile$ ls -ls
total 0
0 drwx------ 2 mobile mobile  68 Sep 24  2011 100APPLE/
0 drwx------ 2 mobile mobile  68 Mar 14 19:56 101APPLE/
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile  68 Apr 22 15:13 106APPLE/
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile  68 May 19 22:40 107APPLE/
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile 510 Jun 11 15:50 108APPLE/
patrues:~/Media/DCIM mobile$ pwd
/var/mobile/Media/DCIM
patrues:~/Media/DCIM mobile$ cd 108APPLE/
patrues:~/Media/DCIM/108APPLE mobile$ ls -la
total 119876
drwxr-xr-x 2 mobile mobile      510 Jun 11 15:50 ./
drwxr-x--- 8 mobile mobile      272 May 17 17:09 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2093367 Jun  7 08:04 IMG_8477.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2254720 Jun  7 08:04 IMG_8478.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2268412 Jun  7 08:29 IMG_8479.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2475252 Jun  7 08:39 IMG_8480.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  1929194 Jun  7 08:48 IMG_8481.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2668228 Jun  8 19:47 IMG_8482.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  1625317 Jun 10 18:33 IMG_8483.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  2388887 Jun 10 18:34 IMG_8484.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  1936009 Jun 10 18:34 IMG_8485.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  1898497 Jun 11 13:05 IMG_8486.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile  3326363 Jun 11 13:05 IMG_8487.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile   889838 Jun 11 13:06 IMG_8488.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile 96971740 Jun 11 15:51 IMG_8489.MOV

iPhone path for AppCake:
Old: /private/var/mobile/Media/AppCake/Upload
New: /private/var/mobile/Media/AppCake/Download/

AppBackup's backups location:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/tarballs

iPhone path for Cydia Autoinstaller (you put your deb here and reboot the device - it will be automatically installed):
/var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall

iPhone 4.2.1 multitasking fix:
Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app and open up either N82AP or N72AP.plist.

Make sure Multitasking is enabled:

<key>multitasking</key>
<true/>

Find the section that says:

<key>opengles-1</key>
<true/>

Change it to:

<key>opengles-2</key>
<true/>

The 3xx version of MobileTerminal doesn't work on iOS 4.0 or greater so you will need a better version. I am not getting into the installation method here because it is written already, so enjoy: http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/wiki/Installation

Applications location in ios8:
/var/mobile/Containers/Bundle/Application/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/xxxx.app

Applications data locaton in ios8:
/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/

How to save a list of all cydia installed apps:
dpkg --get-selections > cydia_ios_packages.txt

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