If you're a fan of third party iOS web browsers and are tired of manually opening links to avoid using Safari, then you're in luck. Now there is a free jailbreak tweak that allows you to change the default web browser in iOS.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Last month we brought you a proposed new way for Apple to handle notifications and popups inside iOS. Designed by Shawn Hickman, the system used the Spotlight page to list notifications ready for taking action on. We liked it, and we hoped Apple would use it when revamping notifications in iOS 5. But now there's a new kid on the block - and it's lovely.
It's a funny time in the world of Windows Phone 7. So much is going on right now, with NoDo bringing copy & paste to the platform and multitasking not far away, yet it's almost like people don't even know it's there. One thing we do know is there is one random build of the operating system, apparently installed on an Italian LG Optimus 7 is floating around in the wild.
The guys over at MyGreatFest have put together a short video showing off the venue for the world's first iOS and jailbreaking convention, to be held in London on September 17th 2011.
Back when iOS 4.3 was in its beta days, all the fuss was about its fancy new multitouch gestures for switching between apps as well as returning to the home screen on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Well that took longer than any of us really expected. Mark today in your calendars folks, for this is the day iOS saw its first key logger to be released onto Cydia.
Microsoft might be working on creating a rival tablet operating system but that hasn't stopped the boys from Redmond bringing its Bing app to Apple's iPad. This is the fifth app which has come out of Microsoft for the iPhone/iOS platform, the other four being OneNote for iPhone, Bing for iPhone, Seadragon Mobile, and Microsoft Tag.
With Windows 8 screenshots now starting to leak out, it was only a matter of time before the Windows modding community set about their task of bringing as many Windows 8 features to Windows 7 as possible. That process has begun with the release of TaskBar UserTile.
Ah, Fring. Love them or hate them, they're one of the few real VoIP competitors to Skype and that makes them important. Now the plucky challenger is looking to get one over its larger competitor by being the first to offer group video chat from mobile devices.
Breaking news coming out of BGR today, with the blog claiming Apple will be releasing iOS 4.3.2 in just two weeks. Citing a source inside Apple, BGR says the next update to Apple's mobile OS will sport bug fixes as well as plugging security holes.
