The innovation, dedication and commitment to user experience of the jailbreak development community never ceases to amaze us. It was only yesterday when a concept video did the rounds which showed a more user friendly method of highlighting, selecting and editing text on the iPad. In a community where time seems to stand still when developers are pushing out tweaks, a quick thinking coder has pushed out his SwipeSelection tweak to Cydia that mimics the exact functionality that was shown in the concept video.
Apple products are renowned for being in sync with each other in a harmonious, seamless fashion. The Cupertino company places much emphasis on getting things done with less and less wires, buttons, and optical drives, and designer Ishac Bertran has created a wonderful concept in keeping with that motif.
Often, if you try and bring up the subject of jailbreaking to the uninitiated, you'll find yourself abruptly rebuffed, usually accompanied by predictable comments such as "it can mess up your device," "it voids your warranty," or, my personal favorite, "it's not legal."
Besides the obviously buttery-smooth scrolling, tight integration with iTunes and lack of customizability (without jailbreak), the first thing I noticed when I shifted to the iPhone camp was the sheer abundance of well-designed apps especially those in the Photography category. Camera+, Photosynth, SloPro and Instagram are good, established examples of this.
According to one analyst, a mobile payment service - likely incorporating NFC technology - is in the offing from Apple, and will be implemented into both the iPad and iPhone in the not-so-distant future.
In a day which has been dominated by the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S III, a little jailbreak update has just come in via Twitter. Pod2g, one of the most influential members of the Cydia community, has revealed that he today managed to jailbreak his iPhone 4 untethered on iOS 5.1.
Slide To Unlock is arguably the most recognizable feature of iOS. Although Apple was only granted the patent for the feature late last year, it has been an omni-present feature of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch ever since each device made its respective introduction.
New details have emerged courtesy of Apple blog iLounge suggesting the next iPhone will not follow the rumored teardrop design, but instead follow a more conventional form factor seen in both the iPhone 4 and 4S.
If you missed last month's $0.99 sale of Chair's iconic Infinity Blade title, you'll be pleased to know that the sale is once again on, and those partial to an epic swordfighter (or games that simply look phenomenal), can grab the game for that same low price right now.
The recently released Image Grabber tweak that has just hit Cydia is a tool that affords users the ability to extract any image from within any web view that is found within iOS. The tweak itself is effectively a fully-featured image extraction tool that integrates into Apple's mobile operating system to give users some additional power to handle displayed media.
