If you ever take the time to sit and browse through Cydia you will find that the range of tweaks and modifications available for Jailbroken iOS devices is quite simple staggering. Cydia is a thriving platform that contains literally thousands of tweaks, modifications, themes and other utilities that can alter, enhance and generally improve your iOS experience.
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Don't you just love the rumor roundabout? We live in such an age where technology plays such a huge role in our everyday lives that the public is literally chomping at the bit to snap up the latest gadget or piece of kit, if not only in the hope that it can make our lives a bit easier, but to hold our heads high knowing we have the latest tech. The technology industry has been focusing on Cupertino based Apple in the last few weeks with iPad, iPhone and iTV murmurings floating about, but today is Microsoft's turn to get some of the rumor action.
As I mentioned in one of my earlier post, the Grand Theft Auto III game for Android and iOS devices is the game that keeps on giving. Not only is it a magnificent game which perfectly recreates the magic of the original ten years ago, not only was it available for a reduced price over the holiday period, not only is it possible to use PC modifications throughout the game, but if you are running the game on an Android device it is now possible to make certain changes to the default settings.
I recently wrote an article which covered the hype surrounding the development of MobileX for the Apple TV allowing iOS applications to run natively on the device. As a quick summary, developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working to enhance the functionality of the fantastic, but often under used Apple TV device by acquiring MobileX which is effectively a re-implementation of what we know as Springboard on other iOS devices.
App Store Analytics website Distimo has reported that the Google Android Market has breached the 400,000 applications barrier in a rise that has seen the total number of apps on the Market double since April 2011. In April of last year; the Market rose to have an approximate of 200,000 applications, with that figure rising to 300,000 in August 2011 taking four months to gain an additional 100,000 applications.
If the Charles Sale from the Daily Mail is to be believed, then Apple are planning to put together a package in order to try and win the rights to stream the next set of Barclays Premier League games. The tender package for the games is set to be released before the end of the current season, which ends in May.
The release of the Apple iPad in April 2010 brought about a major change in the way consumers went about their computing business. We started off with personal computers, laptops and netbooks. We even had personal digital assistants which came with a big ugly stylus and made us look like a bit of a snob when using them in public. All of these came with distinct advantages, but none of them quite fulfilled the need of people who wanted to do a bit of everything on the go.
The iOS community got a belated present two days after Christmas with the release of the untethered jailbreak for all A4 devices running iOS 5.0.1. The release of the jailbreak represented nearly two months of hard work and research by pod2g followed by efficient and swift work from the iPhone Dev and Chronic Dev Teams to package the jailbreak up for public consumption.
If you are a fan of gaming then you will of no doubt be aware of what the Steam portal has to offer you. The self titled ultimate online game platform, developed by the Valve Corporation is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform which is predominantly used to distribute video games and other related media items to the online community. The distributed content comes from a wide range of sources, ranging from small indie developers to large software organizations. When packaged together with the community features, automatic updating of games and the ability to use voice chat as an in game experience, Steam becomes an attractive platform for any gamer.
Facebook is a behemoth of a Social Network. With over 800 million active users, 50% of which use the service daily it is by far the largest social network in existence today, not bad for a company started by a group of college room mates. The company has also grown in size at an alarming rate in the last seven years, with more than three thousand employees and an estimated revenue of $4.2 billion in 2011.
