Jailbreak app to greatly extend your iphone battery life. BattSaver So before we start, let it be known I have not tried this. I have pretty good habits when it comes to keeping my phone charged so its pretty much a non issue. However, I know of plenty of people who always seems to be at 18% or something when I look at their phones. … Read More
Tiananmen Square? Siri is silent on the matter. At the recent World Wide Developers Conference, one of the new feature shown off the expansion of Siri’s language capabilities to Mandarin and Cantonese. Must reviews are fairly mixed; noting the sounds is mechanical and comprehension is limited to fairly basic sentences. Tienanmen Square. From VentureBeat. As China Real Time says, Siri responds to questions… Read More
fixing the lockdown error when jailbreaking 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0.2 I finally got around to jailbreaking my iphone4 running iOS 5.1.1. I used Absinthe 2.0.2 for windows. It went well enough till it locked up on me. I ran it again and this time got this error. Could not connect to lockdown There is a similar error called lockdown error -5. Both errors are really… Read More
Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 is out! Absinthe 2.0.1 , 2.0.2 We have been waiting, and as promised, iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak is out called Absinthe 2.0. Its already up to 2.0.2, so check the site before updating. {update: be sure to use Absinth 2.0.2 Absinthe v2.0.2 (Win) Absinthe v2.0.2 (Mac) Absinthe v2.0.2 (Linux) } Today’s release supports all iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches except for… Read More
Facebook claims its current vulnerability is because of jailbreak. Oh really? The news has been moving around the interwebs on how Gareth Wright found a security issue with Facebook on the iphone. Seems the key information needed to request and hold a token to Facebook is stored unencrypted in a plist file. Facebook claims that this is not a security risk since its stored in a… Read More
How to know if you should upgrade to the new iPad 3 HD or whatever its called So whats new with the ipad 3, or ipad HD? Unless you have been under a rock, you know that ‘The New iPad’ launched yesterday. There were no surprises this time, pretty much what the rumor mill said would be there, was there and nothing more. So, should you upgrade to the new iPad, and… Read More
By the time you read this, iOS 5.1 will be on iTunes; too late jailbreakers If you are like me and have not bothered to update to 5.0.1 because 4.x.x is working find and you do not feel like re jailbreaking your phone and installing and setting up things, well you just missed your easy bus. I decided to do that iTunes update, *yes I know I will lose unlock,… Read More
Jailbreaking the iPad HD – It ‘should’ come within a few weeks. Wed the iPad HD should be out and in a few days or a week, we should have a working jailbreak. Although there has been evidence that there is an iOS6 out there somewhere, I’m not sure they would want to release a new OS on a non number release. Odds are we will see… Read More
Bubble Scoop: A Cute Multiplatform Game for iOS and Kindle Fire Mobile developer Qubop Inc. has just released a new casual game called Bubble Scoop, described as an “ice-cream themed puzzle shooter”. The object is to match ice cream scoops of the same color by firing them from a moving truck, and watching them vanish in a shower of particle effects. Each level is completed by… Read More
How to Create Rage Face (F7U12) comics on iPhone iPad Ok you rage comic writers, Rage Comic Generator is now in version 1.1 with the added ability to paint you comics as well. (I have a bad feeling about this new feature) However, since I missed 1.0, I thought I would at least post it now. This does the basics you would expect; take the… Read More
Microsoft, Google Docs and now onLive Desktop plus. The rush for business on the tablet is on and MS is at a disadvantage Yesterday, there were rumors of a Microsoft project to create apps for tablets that will allow greater access to MS Office applications. Next comes the release of an upgraded Google Documents for Android that provides document editing and real-time collaboration, and now comes onLive upgraded iOS app that provides a windows 7 desktop on the… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
How to edit the language in your iOS app This is more of an FYI then anything I guess. I just got this in my email box from Apple, so I figured I would pass it out. Although as I type this, I’m sure everyone who is already coding got this too. 🙂 You can now edit the default language of your app’s metadata… Read More
Siri ipod nano watch. Actually, it could work This is an older rumor, older as in 2 weeks ago. (iphone4jailbreak.org) Seems Apple is working on an adding Siri to the ipod Nano such that it can work as a watch / personal communicator. Imagine having a watch that is mostly controlled through voice and performs voice to text for output.. I’m sure it’s… Read More
OS X LION Port on IPHONE 5, 4, 3GS. Mind Blown Want to get OS X Lion on your iphone? Well this latest port will blow your mind. I have seen lots of ‘ports’ before, but its been little more then some nice skinning and little UI tricks. Check more screenshots from gdeluxe. OS X Lion Ultimatum has to be the best Lion user experience I… Read More
A USB Flash drive for iPhone, iPad. Wireless. No Jailbreak needed. I’m just walking out the door but wanted to post this up really quick. Check the Vid below.. It does not connect directly but instead connects wirelessly, so its going to be a bit more then a normal Flash drive. $99, but if you need to move docs, music or vids back and forth or… Read More
Defense Zone – New Tower Defense Game for iOS Artem Kotov released version 1.0 of their new game Defense Zone for the Apple iTunes App store on December 19. While not without some minor flaws, this tower defense game puts its mark down as one of the stronger games you can purchase for your iPhone, iPad, or iTouch today. While I’m not a huge… Read More
The top 10 or 20 apps you need to get for your new ipad 2 End of year holidays are coming and that means one thing. Lots of new iPads. There are even some that have got them early. So now that you have a new ipad, what apps should you put on it? Well, normally I would give a top 10, however, not everyone will use the ipad the… Read More
jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 SEEMS to be out .. maybe This new jailbreak for iphone4 and 4s came out today via jailbreakiphone4s. However, I have never used this service and I have not heard anything else from my normal sources on this jailbreak being tested and ready to go, so I would not download it right now, but instead keep my ears open for the… Read More
System Monitor for iOS5 without jailbreak For jailbreakers, we have had access to system info for quite awhile now using SBSettings, and although this new app still does not have all the capabilities of SBSettings, at least its something; CPU, Memory and Battery Status. Before iOS4 users would not have to worry about such information. But now that more and more… Read More