It’s certainly not as popular as social networks and services like Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, but Pinterest has a massive following and huge traffic, being ranked 38th in Alexa’s world’s most traffic-heavy websites. It’s a pinboard-style photo sharing website where users can share images of their interests, hobbies, they can go through other user’s profiles and re-pin their items on their own profile much like the re-blog feature on Tumblr.
Way back when, before Apple officially announced the iPad and speculation was rife as to what the iPhone maker would make of a tablet device, we all wondered whether we would get an iOS tablet, or a Mac-like slate. We really didn't know for sure, and many people hoped, even begged that Apple would bring OS X to the touch-screen market.
Fueled by the release of Siri last October, 2012 has become something of a battle between a number of fledgling voice-recognition services. Following Siri, Samsung's S Voice offering has certainly made an impression, while Google Now also looks fairly impressive as the major players in mobile space compete to bring forth the very best service.
If you are a regular user of any social networking services like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter and you haven't posted an embarrassing status update or an inflammatory tweet, then quite frankly, you are doing it wrong. The behemoth that is Facebook and the fast growing Twitter micro-blogging services are fantastic mediums to interact with people from all over the world, but I think at one point or another we have all been guilty of saying something in the heat of the moment that we later regret.
Although Apple devices like the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are handy and powerful communication tools that can be taken anywhere with us, they are also great photography devices with extremely powerful embedded cameras capable of taking very good quality still images and capturing high-definition video. The beautiful Retina display on the iPhone and third-generation iPad along with these advanced photography features make them perfect devices for impressive image-based apps.
Anyone who is a regular liberator of their iOS device will understand that removing the restrictions applied by Apple isn't always carried out just to install tweaks and modifications to control how the operating system works. The Cydia store is also saturated with a plethora of aesthetic modifications and full-fledged WinterBoard themes that change the entire look and feel of the running device by applying a set of custom-made images over the top of the native OS. By creating their own artwork that follow the same naming conventions which Apple have defined under the hood, theme artists can drastically change the device’s visuals, making it unrecognizable as an iOS device.
The last couple of days have brought some good news for iOS device owners who happen to love consuming visual media in their spare time. Yesterday we told you that Apple TV units in the United States went under a silent update to bring the Hulu Plus service to users, allowing specific content from network partners to be streamed through the unit to a connected HDTV. Amazon is never a company who want to be left behind or excluded and have released their Instant Video app for the iPad for immediate download.
It isn't really a great secret that some of the most popular apps for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad live within the Photography section on the App Store. Browsing through that particular category always manages to bring up multiple appealing apps with new offerings landing on Apple's servers on a daily basis. Apple has put a lot of effort into creating the iPhone, it has a beautiful Retina display and a great camera, something which developers have recognized by producing functioning apps that make use of the photographs taken with the device.
Just yesterday we discussed a five of, what we think, are the best alternatives to Mobile Safari on iOS: with its outstanding UI and tight integration with Google Accounts, Google Chrome was listed at the top, followed by Opera Mini with its equally awesome cloud syncing and Opera Turbo feature, Switch with its multiple user account support, Mercury with its mind-blowing number of features and Puffin with its best in class speed.
Anyone who is a regular jailbreaker of any of their iOS devices will ultimately have a set of must-have tweaks and installations which always manage to make it onto their device as soon as a new jailbreak is released for iOS. Sometimes those packages are installed because they offer something fun and and at times it is because they genuinely make using Apple's mobile operating system a lot better. Those packages that fall under the category of the latter generally tend to have a much longer shelf life than other offerings in Cydia, well, until Apple natively implements them that is.
