Having the ability to change the Springboard wallpaper on Apple's iOS devices was an addition that was certainly welcomed by users when the Cupertino company introduced iOS 4 in 2010. In the following two years not a great deal has changed when it comes to giving users options or abilities relating to being able to customize or personalize their displays.
Once of the most hotly anticipated announcements expected tomorrow at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is the next major release of their mobile operating system iOS 6. While we are still almost 24 hours away from the start of the event, we’ve received news of a potential beta release of iOS 6 that will be released right after the keynote tomorrow. Check out the details after the jump!
One of the biggest reasons why people jailbreak their iPhone is to get it unlocked for use on unauthorized wireless networks. Although there are other unlocking solutions available, Ultrasn0w is the de-facto standard when it comes down to it because of one very simple reason: it’s stupid-easy to unlock an iPhone with it (unlike Gevey SIM), At least for an iPhone with a supported baseband.
Quite some time has passed since we visited the Changes section of Cydia and found a well made Siri-based tweak that actually provides some useful functionality. The stock implementation of Siri by Apple is impressive, with the intelligent assistant being able to interact with a number of important and useful parts of iOS, meaning that any third-party enhancement for jailbroken devices need to try really hard to bring some real-world improvements.
Google's Nexus movement is set to get into sixth gear later this year, with reports suggesting five different smartphones landing on November 5th. To add to the rumor mill, images have surfaced which claim to depict a Nexus tablet.
In some circumstances, the simplest apps and tweaks are often the best and most successful ones. One of the underlying concepts of mobile software is that simpler is usually better, and in my own experience I have found that packages that are overly complex and unnecessarily in-depth often just get removed and are never used again.
Isn't it annoying when you go to watch a video on Hulu, YouTube, or GrooveShark, only to realize that video has been blocked because you don't reside in a supported region? It's a pet peeve of many a streaming content fan, although that nagging issue may be no more, thanks to a browser extension by the name of ProxMate.
There can be no denying the fact that the Instagram app has been insanely successful since its launch onto the iOS platform. What started out as a simple service allowing users to take a photograph, apply some filters and upload it to the Instagram network ultimately ended up with the social networks’ biggest player, Facebook, stepping in and slapping $1 billion in cash and stocks on the table to buy it.
Although not everybody is a keen adopter, many a smartphone and tablet user nowadays loves the idea of sharing images socially. You only have to take a one look at the likes of Instagram to see just how fond mobile device users are of allowing others to comment and like images - no matter how significant or seemingly pointless said image may be, really.
Here at Redmond Pie, many apps are brought to our attention on a daily basis, and while most are what we'd consider clones of an already established (and often, much better) offering, sometimes a new one arrives with its own unique twist.
