The Cydia platform is an extremely popular playground for those jailbroken iOS device owners who wish to download tweaks and extensions to modify their installed operating system. But while Cydia does contain a massive number of tweaks, it is also packed to the rafters with themes which digital artists and designers have created to amend the look of iOS.
Custom widgets are a significant aspect of Android, and one of the pull factors as to why somebody would purchase a device running Google's mobile operating system. Thus, most people have widgets on their home screens, and although the range of widgets available is pretty broad, as anybody who likes to perfect the look of their device can vouch - there are always those occasions where you're left wishing you could create a specific one that hasn't already been made and released.
Apple has a knack for supporting one-generation-old devices, mainly because they focus more on the end user-experience rather than forcing people to go for new hardware, which by the way is, not entirely true. Sticking true to their laurels, Apple has - moments ago - silently pushed out a small update for the GSM version of iPhone 4 only.
With the release of the shiny new untether for 5.1.1, there are now a lot more jailbroken iOS devices just waiting to be modified and enhanced through the installation of various Cydia packages. With the Cydia store being so vast and containing thousands and thousands of offerings, it can often be difficult for inexperienced users to find what they are looking for.
Facebook's IPO just a week ago has been surrounded by controversy ever since, with the consensus being that the social network was grossly over-valued, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been accused of not being wholly transparent with the numbers.
Although Apple's iPad appears to have the untouchable magic formula that Android vendors have thus far failed miserably to replicate, there's certainly a feeling of optimism regarding future Windows 8 tablets. Given that the Metro interface of Microsoft's much-lauded universal OS seems to be the perfect suitor to the post-PC devices, the Redmond-based software outfit is regarded by many as a major threat to Apple's dominance in the market it started only two years back.
In Google's Project Glass augmented reality technology, we're seeing things only usually showcased conceptually, and having recently made its first television appearance, our inner geek is captivated by this project, which the Google Glass team reckons to be the natural progression of today's technologies.
Whenever we talk about the jailbreaking of Apple devices, we're invariably referring to the portable iOS gadgets, i.e. the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. However, Apple TV - the Cupertino company's little black box of streaming media - can also be jailbroken, and Seas0nPass has now been updated to offer an untethered jailbreak on the latest firmware.
We are once again sitting right in the middle of that beautiful time period when updated jailbreaking tools are available, which allow us to free our iOS devices from their technical shackles. For those who have been sitting with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Apple's iOS 5.1.1 firmware, you will no doubt be aware that after weeks of hard work and research, Pod2g and his team have released an untethered jailbreak for all existing iOS devices, excluding the third-generation Apple TV.
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, we have hit that time once again in the jailbreak cycle when we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief and raise a glass to the jailbreak producers while we overload their servers attempting to download the new and shiny utility that will provide our devices with freedom. Yes, that is right, I am indeed talking about downloading Absinthe 2.0, the latest version of the Chronic Dev Team tool that brings an untethered jailbreak to the majority of our iOS 5.1.1 devices.
