Released just two days, Google Chrome has quickly become the jailbreak enthusiast’s favorite browser. It’s fast, it syncs beautifully with your desktop Chrome browser and, thanks to a tweak called BrowserChooser, Chrome for iOS can be set as default browser. I quickly switched to Chrome as soon as BrowserChooser was released and my experience so far has been pretty smooth.
Whenever a company is looking to design and push out a new version or an entirely new model smartphone or tablet, it stands to reason that they are looking to implement the next big design feature or piece of functionality that will set their product apart from the competition. When Apple released the iPhone 4S at the back end of last year, they genuinely believed that the voice controlled Siri assistant would separate their product from the rest, a sentiment that Samsung and Google have subsequently bought into.
When Google took the wrapper off Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, the company unleashed a raft of new features, improvements and changes that has left the Android community either clamoring to buy the new Nexus 7 tablet, or to port the new release to their current smartphone. If you're a Galaxy Nexus owner then you're probably in luck, but if not you can still get a little taste of Jelly Bean on your Ice Cream Sandwich phone right now.
If you haven’t opened up the Cydia store recently then you might be taken aback with shock when you realize that Thor - a new package - has just been released. Unfortunately, we aren't seeing the Norse god of thunder and lightning taking up residency in the jailbreak world, but instead, a new tweak from ClausCartel brings some additional Wi-Fi related options to users.
Popular Android root control app, Superuser, has seen an update recently, taking the app version number up to the heady heights of version 3.1. Security improvements are included, along with a raft of other changes that may or may not be of use to most of us in the Android hacking community.
SloPro for iPhone 4S has been updated and now allows film makers to record video at an amazing 1000 frames per second, according to the people behind the app.
Remember when Apple's Mac operating system - OS X - was thought to be all-but impervious to attack from malware and viruses? Well, it seems that those days are well and truly coming to an end with the news that a new Tibet malware variant has appeared, ready to wreak havoc on Macs the world over.
The Nexus 7 hasn’t even been released yet, and the developer community has already achieved root on it thanks to the handy work of developer birdman and friends over on RootzWiki. We’ve written down a step-by-step guide on not just how to root your Nexus 7, but also how to unlock its bootloader and flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Check it out after the jump!
The Google Glass demo at Google I/O 2012 was undoubtedly the highlight of the keynote. It showed a bunch of skydivers skydiving and BMXers biking their way down to Moscone Center where they joined Google co-founder Sergey Brin to wrap up the day 1 keynote. The demo was widely talked about on the blogosphere and on social networks like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter.
Not sure about you guys residing in various parts of the world, but here in the UK, the weather is quite a big deal - primarily because summer usually occurs for a few hours each year, while the cold, wet and dark period is an almost permanent fixture.
