Regardless of you opinions on Apple's Siri voice-guided digital assistant that comes with a number of iOS devices, you have to admit that it has been used to perform some extremely interesting tasks since it was first created. After undergoing recent changes as part of iOS 6, Siri has also become a lot more useful to the average user now that it can provide information to worldwide users about businesses, sports scores and points of interests like local restaurants. But what if we could somehow hook Siri up on a date with a Raspberry Pi and make them work together to open our garage door at will? Step forward SiriProxy.
Upon his untimely passing last year to pancreatic cancer, it was no secret that Steve Jobs died a wealthy man. Depending on which source you read, his net worth was said to have been in the region of seven billion dollars. Yet, the former CEO of the world's valuable company was never renowned for living lavishly. At keynote speeches, a bespectacled Jobs was seen in Levi Strauss 501 jeans, a polo neck, and New Balance trainers, so it may come as something of a surprise that he commissioned the building of a yacht in Amsterdam. As reported by Reuters today however, said yacht Steve Jobs has now been impounded in the Dutch capital, with designer Philippe Starck claiming he has not been paid all of his dues.
Regular Facebook users have become accustomed to receiving user interface and functionality based updates on their accounts during the course of 2012. Although Facebook has added a number of different treats and tweaked the web interface visually a number of times, it looks like they aren't quite done for this calendar year just yet. Users will begin to notice that their accounts are starting to receive an interface based update that affects the publisher box and allows those signed-in to drag-and-drop multiple photographs to initiate a bulk image upload process.
There are tons of little neat tips and tricks scattered throughout iOS just waiting to be discovered. One of these little nuggets is being able to add a direct dial extension number to a Contacts entry to save time when calling someone that can only be reached by dialing an additional extension number. Although this has been possible for quite some time in iOS, the whole process is a lot simpler now than it used to be.
If you own a Samsung branded Windows Phone 7.5 device, then we have some great news for you - you're getting a software update! The upgrade path for Windows Phones has been something of a black hole of information for the platform's users. Those who picked up one of Samsung’s Windows Phone 7.5 devices not too long ago have found themselves fearing the worst after learning that their relatively new handsets would not be updated to the all-singing, all-dancing Windows Phone 8 platform. But what about Windows Phone 7.8, it's slightly smaller, less exciting brother?
Square Enix is one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, and the company's Final Fantasy IV has now made its way to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Apple's Safari browser takes pride of place on every single Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the market, and although it is perhaps not as strong in terms of features as the likes of Google's Chrome or Firefox by Mozilla, it's the Web-surfing utility of choice to many. The thought process behind the naming makes complete sense, as it offers users something of a Safari across adventurous - sometimes dangerous - but immensely informative medium of the World Wide Web. It has emerged, however, that Apple's flagship browser was frighteningly close to being given the less flattering name of "Freedom" which, as well as alluding to countless famous songs, might well have rendered Apple the subject of ridicule.
Flipboard is lauded in the mobile industry as a prime example of how the touch interface can make the gathering and reading of content as pleasurable as possible. The app flows like a magazine both aesthetically and functionally, and while Apple's iPad has been supported from the get-go, Flipboard has dragged its heels in bringing support for those on a wide selection of Android tablets. Today, however, the wait is over, and having only recently launched a series of new features for its iOS app, Flipboard has now been tailored to those wielding a tablet of the Google software variety.
If you are into fast cars, and regularly find yourself tuning into the Formula 1 races taking place across the globe, there's a high chance you also enjoy playing F1 games on your console, computer, or mobile device. If you're an F1 fan whom happens also to be in possession of a Mac, you're in luck, as Feral Interactive - the firm behind the annual F1 titles on a variety of platforms - has announced that F1 2012 is now available to those on OS X, which was announced back in October.
Whenever Apple take the opportunity to add new frameworks and features into iOS, it always opens the door for jailbreak developers to build new and interesting tweaks that take advantage of the new additions. The release of iOS 6 saw Apple extend their initial Twitter integration to support Facebook and Sina Weibo as part of the new Social framework within the iOS SDK, a move that has resulted in the creation of the QuickShare for ActionMenu package available now on the Cydia store.
