A ten-year-old artist, athlete, girl scout and now “hacker” nicknamed CyFi has figured out a way to speed through time-based iPhone and Android games and showed it off on Sunday at DefCon Kids, part of the hacking-oriented DefCon 19 conference. While simple in its nature, this exploit works with many mobile games.
Once you stumble upon a gem from Apple's App Store, it is extremely easy to share the app with your buddies. Send over a URL and the job is done, and they too can enjoy your wondrous discovery. Be it an addictive game or a great reference app, there are fast approaching half a million to choose from, so recommendations are a good way of cutting corners.
As many in the tech world have been expecting, iOS 5 Beta 5 has just been released to registered Apple developers. While we haven’t yet been able to test out the new build, it’s expected to include minor enhancements to Apple’s next-generation mobile operating system as it gets closer and closer to its September release.
When Apple introduced the App Store way back then, and later the whole notification system that has caused such uproar among iOS users, somewhere along the way ended up with notification badges.
What mobile operating system is more popular in your state: iOS, BlackBerry or Android? Not only enthusiasts have been asking themselves that question, advertising research firms have too. Jumptap, one of those agencies, was nice enough to release a map of the United States laying out which states have more Android, BlackBerry and iOS users.
If you’re familiar with iOS and iOS devices, you’re likely looking forward to iOS 5, the upcoming release of Apple’s mobile operating system. Some users were so eager to try out the new operating system that they resorted to download the OS without Apple’s permission. The company’s response to those users is “we’re after you”.
The iOS built-in Maps app is considered by many as the most comprehensive and nicest-looking Google Maps client in a mobile device. Yet, it lacks a feature many had been yearning for ever since the iPhone was first introduced: a speedometer.
With any modern version of iOS, in order to downgrade a device to a previous version of the system, users must have a backed up SHSH blob of the version they’re trying to upgrade/downgrade to, otherwise the process will just fail. This is done to protect devices from vulnerabilities present in earlier versions of iOS but it also stops jailbreakers from applying tweaks that might not be available on the current iOS.
Score one up for the iPhone! The App Store has exclusively received a new and a very different kind of photo-sharing app today: it’s called GLMPS and it records a video clip of the moments before an actual photograph is taken.
The App Store has long-since been a commercial juggernaut, underpinning the ever-increasing success of Apple's iDevice range. It contains many great apps which undoubtedly make life a whole lot easier, but you have to filter out a lot of the junk in order to find those worthwhile additions to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
