‘LockLauncher’ Adds App Shortcuts to Your Lockscreen

by Jeff Benjamin on Jul 25, 2011

One of the much anticipated features of iOS 5 is the ability to launch the camera app directly from your lockscreen.

That featured spawned the popular jailbreak tweak entitled CameraLock — a tweak that mimicked the functionality featured in iOS 5.

Now, it appears that CameraLock has gone on to inspire its own derivative of sorts, a jailbreak tweak entitled LockLauncher, which enables you to launch apps directly from the lockscreen.

But it’s not just the ability to launch apps that makes LockLauncher special; no, it’s the ability to launch multiple apps sequentially that really makes this tweak stand out… Read More

 

Verizon Getting Ready for iPhone 5 by Clearing Out iPhone 4 Inventory

by Oliver Haslam on Jul 25, 2011

We’re all waiting for the next iPhone announcement, with the smart money on a release date of late August to late September, depending on which rumor you subscribe to. The latest information coming out of the Apple rumor mill points to the same release window, with news that Verizon is beginning to clear out inventory to make way for the new handset.

We’re always skeptical about trusted tipsters, but the guys at Phone Arena seem to think this one is legit, and if it is, Verizon obviously knows something that we don’t…. Read More

 

Apple Hiring Extra Employees This August for iPhone 5 Launch

by Oliver Haslam on Jul 25, 2011

Hot on the heels of reports that Apple Retail UK has been recruiting new staff for an unknown event in the next couple months, new claims have surfaced that Apple is undergoing a similar recruitment drive in the United States.

According to MacRumors, Apple has, in the past, turned to ex-employees to fill the gaps created by staff holidays, and it isn’t unknown for them to be used during big product launches, too.  Now, one such ex-employee says they have been asked to do just that for what is believed to be the launch of the next iPhone…

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Facebook for iPad Hidden Within iPhone App, Here’s How to Get it Right Now

by Zech TesfaYohannes on Jul 25, 2011

TechCrunch has reported that the rumored Facebook for iPad app is hidden within the iPhone app. How so?

A Twitter user by the name of Marvin Bernal found that changing the “UIDeviceFamily” from 1 to 2 in the info.plist of the iPhone app will display a hidden Facebook iPad app. This also hints that hidden app will become a universal application, meaning that the same app can be downloaded on both an iPhone and an iPad.

Here’s how to get the secret Facebook for iPad app on your own iPad right now… Read More

 

CellScope Accessory Turns iPhone into Microscope

by Cody on Jul 25, 2011

The iPhone accessory arena has to be one of the largest in all of electronics. iDevice add-ons enable your gadgets to do anything from receive TV broadcasts to detecting cataracts, and everything in between.

Now we can add the CellScope to the iPhone’s list of interesting attachments. TUAW highlights the accessory, which turns your iPhone 4′s camera into a microscope… Read More

 

Internalizer: Add Custom Text to the Lockscreen

by Cody on Jul 25, 2011

Do you remember the photos of a T-Mobile-branded iPhone BGR published a few months ago? The device was believed to be an internal Apple test unit for a couple of reasons, one of them being the custom “Confidential and Proprietary” text on the lock screen.

Well now, jailbreakers can add custom text to their lockscreens too, thanks to Internalizer. Chpwn’s latest TweakWeek entry allows you to place text on your lockscreen to use as a reminder or display contact info in case your device is lost… Read More

 

‘HUD Controls Plus’ Allows You to Launch Apps Straight From Your Heads Up Display

by Jeff Benjamin on Jul 25, 2011

Over the years, many a jailbreak tweak has taken advantage of the heads up display that appears when you press one of your iPhone’s volume keys; for instance, biteSMS allows you to invoke quick compose for SMS messages by simply tapping the HUD when it appears.

While most tweaks that use the HUD only utilize it for some auxiliary function, HUD Controls Plus focuses solely on the HUD.

With that in mind, it’s appropriate to refer to HUD Controls Plus as a supercharger for your iPhone’s heads up display… Read More

 

New iPad TV Ad: We’ll Always

by Sebastien on Jul 24, 2011

Apple just launched a new TV commercial for the iPad 2. Nothing really original here as Apple is still trying to touch our emotions, and of course they succeed.

This ad is titled “We’ll Always,” and it shows that we’ll never stop doing the things we love, but with the iPad we’ll do them in amazing new ways… Read More

 

Add a Free Landscape App Switcher to Your iPhone With ‘Switcherscape’

by Jeff Benjamin on Jul 24, 2011

If you’ve ever wanted to open up your app switcher in landscape mode like you can do on the iPad, then your only choice is to jailbreak your iPhone.

Up until now, the jailbreak tweaks that enable the landscape app switcher on the iPhone have all been paid tweaks.

Thank’s to @chpwn, there is now a free option to enable the landscape app switcher, and that option is aptly entitled, Switcherscape… Read More

 

iPhone Hacker ‘MuscleNerd’ Suspended From Google+ for Not Providing Real Name

by Alex Heath on Jul 24, 2011

Google’s latest attempt at a social network is Google+. After only a few weeks of being in a private beta, there are already 18+ million people registered on the network.

On Google+, Google requires that you provide your real, full name when making your account. While this may not prove to be a problem for most users, those under the internt’s limelight that don’t want their real name out there for all to see may find this requirement of Google’s to be a dilemma.

Legendary unlock wizard and jailbreak hacker, MuscleNerd, has run into this problem with Google, and the results are that his Google+ account has been suspended…

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