Most of us have come across a third-party app from the App Store at one time or another that has been built on an extremely confusing navigation structure and has managed to leave us all baffled. Does the app require a swipe to go back a step or does it have a simple back button on the navigation bar? Sometimes developers do get carried away and it can become confusing. Thankfully, Apple's native apps don't have this issue and seem to be extremely intuitive with the consistent placement of a back button on the left-hand side of the navigation bar that carries the title of the originating page.
A couple of days back, we showed you how Espier Screen Locker could make your Android smartphone's lock screen look just like an iPhone's, and following on from this, Espier has just released a beta version of an app to bring the iOS Notification Center to Google handsets. Not to everybody's taste, I might add, but from the company that also has a launcher offering the iOS home screen to those on Android, it seems Espier studios is on a mission to bring as much of iOS's UI over to Android as it possibly can.
CyanogenMod 10.1 nightly builds based upon the very latest Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean can now be installed on your Galaxy S III (GT-i9300). If you own this particular model, and wish to check out the latest nightlies, please check out our step-by-step tutorial after the break.
SBSettings is, in my opinion, one of the best jailbreak tweaks on offer over at the Cydia Store. Through different revisions of iOS and on numerous devices, it has always been the very first tweak I have installed following a jailbreak, and when I am lucky enough to have it running on a jailbroken device, I’d say it saves me an average of ten minutes a day. Dragi, a new tweak over at the BigBoss repository, takes the power of SBSettings and its various toggles to the next level by allowing you to use the lock screen's slider to trigger custom actions.
As we would fully expect from a new flagship release from Samsung, the Galaxy S4 has not only added a bunch of new and impressive hardware to the fray, but also a hatful of intriguing software features bound to make our life that tad bit easier. During the announcement of the device a couple of weeks back, the company made much of the Dual Shot feature, which allows both front and rear-facing cameras to operate simultaneously to capture images or video. Such a feature is useful, for example, if you want to capture your environment as well as your reaction to it, and although this feature is exclusive to Galaxy S4 users for the time being, it hasn't taken long for a similar offering to reach the iTunes App Store.
iOS and Mac fans heavily lamented Google’s acquisition of the popular Sparrow app last year, for the first move made under the new ownership was to discontinue any further support for those particular versions of the app. Such was the height of the regard in which Sparrow was held that nowadays, near enough every new mail app is immediately compared with Sparrow. Thus, it would seem a matter of formality that we’d pit Mailbird, a new, Windows-only Gmail app, against the old favorite. But aside from the fact that email power users refer back to Sparrow as a matter of habit, Mailbird, which is currently in public beta, bears a number of striking similarities to an app which strongly influenced the way we deal emails in the modern day.
For many Mac users, using Windows is a necessity, for running Windows apps and playing games that are unavailable for OS X. The recent release of the OS X 10.8.3 update introduced official support for Windows 8 in Boot Camp, meaning that it is now possible to dual-boot both operating systems on any Mac running OS X. And we have a complete guide on how to install Windows 8 on a Mac running OS X 10.8.3, check it out after the jump.
Apple's Messages app does a reasonable job when it comes to quick communication, but functionality wise, it could certainly use a couple of improvements. As we continue to wait in hope, the jailbreak scene offers a multitude of options to enhance the experience, and a new tweak by the name of Messages (yes, confusing I know), helps you quickly and efficiently reply to, or compose, messages from anywhere on your device.
Want to check warranty or expiry date of repairs and service coverage of Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac? Turns out there is an easy way to check it all online. Full details after the jump.
The Secret “Now Playing” package is one of the latest jailbreak tweaks to make itself at home on the BigBoss servers and could prove to be a must have package for those secretive music lovers amongst us. Everyone loves a bit of mystery in their lives, especially those who secretly harbor a terrible taste in music and want to hide the fact that they are bouncing their leg to a bit of Justin Bieber when on the train home from work or college. Secretly Now Playing means that your lock screen visuals no longer need to give away the monstrosities that you are listening to.
