For those of you who think that using a smartphone should require the minimal amount of effort possible to operate, then having to arrange icons on the iPhone’s home screen may involve more effort than some are willing to expend. Thankfully, those who are jailbroken, and pay regular visits to the Cydia store will more than likely have managed to find some packages to automate certain processes.
Fresh from its acquisition of the popular Instagram service, Facebook is continuing to take large strides in its mobile push, and according to sources close to 9to5mac, the social site is preparing a Messenger app native to iPad, as well as video chat capabilities for the iPad.
As avid followers of the jailbreak community, we're used to being teased by the modders, developers and exploiters regarding each new advance towards a jailbreak, and Pod2g has done exactly that in revealing that he's discovered two new vulnerabilities in the quest to fully disarm the latest version of IOS.
The popularity of social networking sites has resulted in some of the most popular mobile apps, being those that allow users to access their social accounts and timelines on the fly. For that very reason, applications such as Facebook and Twitter are just a couple of the most downloaded apps of all time and will always continue to be popular with users.
Although iOS 4 brought a multitasking experience to iOS per se, it's not exactly the most functional, and the fact that only one app can be viewed at any given time is much to the annoyance of many iDevice users, particularly those rocking the 9.7-inch display of the iPad.
Despite its imperfections, it's hard to fault Cydia - the nucleus of the open-source jailbreak community, and with such a wide range of tweaks available serving different purposes, it's quite easy to forget that actually, there isn't much in the way of an alternative.
Here at Redmond Pie, we dedicate a great deal of our time and resources to covering as much of the Cydia scene as possible, and while we're all more than aware of the many benefits a jailbreak can bring in terms of functionality and customization, we'd never have pitched it as a potential tool for aiding the disabled.
The Protect My Privacy tweak, available through the usual hub known as Cydia, is a package that exists to help users protect their personal information when using their jailbroken iPhone. Since the turn of the year, we have been treated to a number of mobile app scandals surrounding apps that accesses certain information on the device without asking the user for permission before doing so. In some instances, this is a breach of Apple's developer terms and conditions, but it is also a large breach of a user’s trust and in some instances the device owner doesn't even know what it being accessed by the app.
With the iPhone's camera having reached the wonderful level of clarity it stands at today - allied to the impressive Retina display - it's of little surprise that many of us are filling the Camera Roll album with hundreds upon hundreds of new entries every month.
Now that Apple's tablet device has been blessed with that "Resolutionary" display, images appear sharper, colors more vivid, and sliding through a photo album is an infinitely more pleasing experience.
