The battle for supremacy in the cloud computing market is hotting up, and although Apple was the first of the big companies to push forth its iCloud service last year, Microsoft and Google have both joined the party in the last couple of months with their SkyDrive and Google Drive services respectively.
When talking about popular social networking-based tweaks, TwitkaFly is the one which pops into our minds at first, designed and developed by iOS developer Moeseth. The basis of the extension is quite simple when installed, it allows jailbroken users to invoke a modal pop-up window to quickly send out a tweet to the Twitter network.
It still seems like madness that in some cases, brand new Android powered smartphones and tablets don't get shipped with Google's latest version of the Android operating system installed upon them. If I was rushing to the store to purchase myself some of the latest hardware, I would expect it to ship with the latest and greatest software available in the market.
If you check out any technology lover’s arsenal of gadgets, I am pretty sure it will contain pieces of kit that cover all aspects of the consumer electronics spectrum. In today’s day and age it isn't uncommon to walk into a home office and see a desktop computer as well as a laptop or notebook, also accompanied by a smart mobile device such as Apple's 'Post-PC' iPad tablet as well as the a smartphone like the iPhone.
For those iOS device owning social networking fans out there, the time has come to head on over to the App Store and see for yourself the direction which Google has decided to take with their iOS version of the Google+ app. After already going through a number of updates since initial launch, Google haven't really wowed anyone with their Google+ mobile app, but version 2.0 of the said app will definitely up the game a bit.
Being an iOS user, if you want to have the best possible mobile experience, it may cause you a little concern to know that Android users have access to a number of handy little widgets which they can place at random locations on their device’s multiple home screens. If you have found yourself suffering from such a jealous curse, then worry not as a new tweak named Dashboard X will alleviate some of that pain.
The cat and mouse game between Apple's security team and the many hackers of the jailbreak scene is never more obvious when a new iteration of iOS is released. Only hours ago did the fruit company seed iOS 5.1.1 to the end-user, and already the various dev teams are bringing updates to their respective unlock and JB utilities.
Since arriving in October along with iOS 5, Siri has scarcely been out of the public eye, and while much of the coverage has shed Apple's system-wide voice assistant in a positive light, it has also yielded its fair share of skeptics and critics.
Over the course of the last six months or so, active developers in the jailbreak scene have paid particular attention to modifying, extending and enhancing the way notifications are handled on an iOS device. This focus has generally come from the fact that Apple added things like Notification Center in iOS 5, and changed the way notifications are displayed to the end user by adding a non-intrusive banner alert system.
Whenever I see the terms "time-lapse" or "stop-motion" in an app's description, it usually cues a lengthy, frustrating experience due to the fact that such apps never seem to fail to disappoint. Like face recognition technology, it always seems like a good idea, but, in reality, doesn't really reach the heights.
