For those of you who are involved in the business of modifying, tweaking or tinkering with the Android operating system, you will more than likely be aware of certain recovery methods and solutions which make an attempt to use the touchscreen display of the device for navigation purposes. You will also more be aware that until now, the offerings out there don't exactly do a good job of touchscreen implementation.
Every so often an application comes along and drops into the App Store which catches our eye for one reason or another. It could be for a number of reasons, sometimes the app is unique and the first of its kind, sometimes it contains a beautiful user interface and sometimes it's just because it is plain cheeky.
Up until his recent return to the jailbreak scene, you had to go back to August 2010 to see any sign of public activity from legendary coder PlanetBeing. With French security researcher Pod2g having some issues with Apples sandbox, PlanetBeing stepped in to become a part of the jailbreak Dream Team, and in doing so brought himself back into the public eye and out of the wilderness.
The Original iPhone Film Festival set out to find the best movies shot using an iPhone throughout the year of 2011, and they have just announced the winners across a selection of categories.
Apple's iOS isn't exactly a cutesy operating system. Steve Jobs and co set out to make the iPhone, iPod and iPad OS as usable as possible without adding unnecessary bells and whistles. In the main part they succeeded, but it's hard to deny that there are a couple of areas where it could do with that personal touch - something to make the whole experience feel a little more like home.
If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of Apple's Cupertino campus then there has never been a better time. We've had the Steve Jobs biography of late, offering an insight into the man that built Apple. Twice. Now we've another book, this time going more in-depth at Apple itself, just as the title "Inside Apple" suggests.
Apple's recent announcement that it currently holds more cash than anyone else has led to much discussion of late, and that discussion has even spawned some pictorial jabberings.
After waiting for approximately three months, owners of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 rejoiced when hearing the news that iOS security researcher Pod2g and his development Dream Team had overcome all of the technical hurdles in front of them to get to a position where they could publicly distribute an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. The 'Corona' untether had previously been released for owners of older A4 powered devices, but the lack of a usable exploit on the newer, dual-core A5 devices meant that the team had no way of injecting the necessary files.
Google Maps and iOS devices have gone hand in hand ever since the original iPhone's release back in 2007, and Apple recently signed a new deal extension with the search giant, giving iOS further access to Google's Maps data.
Despite Apple maintaining a closed-source stance with its iOS mobile software, jailbreaks from the various dev-teams have allowed an abundance of useful, unregulated apps to be installed onto our beloved iDevices.
