Grant Paul (@Chpwn)—the homebrew developer behind numerous interface tweaks including Infiniapps lineup, Proswitcher, and the Siri port “Spire“—revealed an early glimpse at a new interface tweak for the Notification Center on Twitter today. iOS 5 introduced the Notification Center, which is a pane that integrates notifications for missed phone calls, voice mail messages, and even social network alerts. By [...]
Siri is a fine personal assistant (and by, “personal assistant,” I mean, “glorified search engine shortcut,”) but she isn’t too worldly. If you live in the United States and have an iPhone 4S (or if you’ve installed Siri through other means) you can ask where nearby restaurants are, and Siri will pull up a list. [...]
Do you like the idea of having a password on your iPhone but find entering the password a bit silly when it’s sitting safely inside your house? AutoProtect has a clever method of determining whether or not your phone is on your property, the idea is you set the program to your home’s WiFi Network. [...]
We’ve covered Tor-capable browsers like Covert and Onion Browser in the past, but being restricted to just one app for anonymous internet use limits the utility of those apps. Suppose you’re a human rights activist in an unfriendly country and you want to send an email to a sympathetic journalist without being traced by the [...]
This is an article about a data tethering issue (aka Personal Hotspot) and not about tethered unlocks or jailbreaks. You may have noticed that some of my recent screenshots have been, well, squished by Apple’s double-wide Personal Hotspot status bar. The double-wide bar is a perfect example of why Apple should not muck around with [...]
For those of you who updated your unlocked iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS to the iOS 5.1.1 firmware and are Jailbroken tethered you were probably in for a shock when UltraSn0w was not able to be installed. This is because the iPhone Dev-Team need to update UltraSn0w to be compatible with the iOS 5.1.1 firmware. [...]
