When Siri was introduced just last month, it didn’t take long for developers to tinker with the software and find innovating ways of using the feature.
We only very recently learned that Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and CEO for the majority of its existence, sought to revolutionize the consumer electronics market in three key areas.
Today has been a bit of a happening day for the jailbreaking community. A couple of hours ago, Chronic Dev Team released their Reporter program which sends crash reports to Chronic Dev Team servers (instead of Apple’s) so they can find exploits, and now we’ve received news of yet another jailbreaking tool. It’s called Ac1dSn0w and it jailbreaks iOS 5/iOS 5.0.1 tethered on OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. Check out the step-by-step guide after the jump!
Chronic Dev Team - the folks behind the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool which was used to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 - have announced and released an all new program which allows jailbreaking enthusiasts to send their iOS device crash reports straight to Chronic Dev Team instead of Apple. Why would you want to do this? Well, you’ll have to check the details after the jump!
When FaceTime was introduced back in 2010, it was rightfully considered to be, at least back then, an “empty” feature. There were two reasons for this, it only worked over WiFi and only between two iPhone 4’s. Since then, FaceTime has been brought to other Apple products and it now works on the iPad 2, iPod touch 4G as well as OS X and, because of this, it has actually become a pretty useful service for folks who stick to Apple for their computing needs. Its first limitation - that of being WiFi-only - was removed thanks to a jailbreak tweak called FaceBreak which enabled FaceTime over 3G. This tweak has now been updated to support jailbroken iOS devices on iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1. Details after the jump!
Let me start off by saying that voice control is nothing new. Apple didn’t invent the technology. What makes Siri different is how popular it has become. It is not limited to only phone related functions, but can pull valuable information from the web too. For a worthy contender to match its capabilities will take some serious horsepower.
When you think of the strengths of iTunes, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, you may think Smart Playlists, Siri, Notification Center or maybe, just maybe, iCloud.
With the battle between Apple's iOS and Google's Android beginning to mimic the Mac Vs. PC battle of the nineties, the same old debates are beginning to arise.
With the Thanksgiving turkey stuffed and ready to be carved across much of America, Black Friday, the tradition encouraging companies to drop prices for one day in order to increase business, has already commenced throughout parts of the world.
Despite having only launched 5 or so weeks ago along with the iPhone 4S, hacking Siri has already become something of a spectator sport, with a seemingly endless range of possibilities.
