Attacher is an alternative to the ReceiveAny tweak that we covered previously. It allows you to open previously unsupported files directly from within iMessage.
Although you can't use Attacher to send unsupported files, it's still a great free solution for those cases when someone insists on sending one to you...
PowerDown Clear is a free jailbreak tweak that allows you to multitask while on your power down screen.
All you need to do is hold the sleep/power button to power down your device like normal. Once the "slide to power off" message is presented, you will notice that you can still interact with whatever app is running in the background.
Check out our full video walkthrough inside...
Jailbreak community owes a lot to adept hackers who find and exploit weaknesses in the design of iOS mobile operating system, thus allowing Apple's mobile gadgets to run unsanctioned software. It's more often than not a neverending cat-and-mouse game between Apple and hackers that at the end benefits jailbreakers the most.
Say you're an expert hacker who just figured an exploit in one of Apple's products. You could report your findings directly to Apple and help them plug those holes with a software update.
But did you know you could also hand over this valuable information to an exploit broker who will sell it to a government agency and net you a decent profit, minus the broker's commission? A U.S. government agency, to be precise...
Have you recently been having problems with your Apple TV not downloading iTunes content? Well if so, you're not alone. TheNextWeb is reporting that Apple has just confirmed that it is experiencing some issues with its iTunes service.
The problem is accompanied by an error message that reads "this item cannot be downloaded on this network, you must be connected to a Wi-Fi network," and is preventing folks from downloading or streaming content to their Apple TVs...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce that we have selected the winner for our new iPad giveaway.
Special thanks to all that entered! The feedback has been insane, and it's truly great to know that there are so many fans of iDB out there.
As we've stated before, we really wish we had the means to provide all of you with a new iPad, but there can only be one grand prize winner...
Asian trade publication DigiTimes reported this morning that both Sharp and LG Display are set to increase their respective manufacturing output of Retina displays for the new iPad. The news follows a recent report by the same publication that Sharp shipped 2.71 million iPad Retina panels to Apple.
This might mean that production issues have finally been sorted out after both firms had reportedly failed to meet Apple's exact quality requirements. Something tells me Samsung won't like this. As you know, Apple is clever enough not to put all eggs in one basket, so to speak.
As a result of LG Display and Sharp jumping on the Retina bandwagon, Apple should be able to achieve a significant increase in iPad shipments for the next quarter and onwards...
Back in 2008, Apple made the decision to allow Best Buy to carry and sell its beloved handset. And that choice is proving to be a fantastic one today as reports are coming in regarding the retailers' iPhone sales.
Citing a study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, AllThingsD reported this morning that Best Buy outlets have been selling almost as many iPhones as Apple itself...
When the iPad 2 came out last year, it was like I had fallen in love all over again with Apple's tablet. It was such an improvement over the first iPad that I couldn't let go of it for more than a few instants. Of course, the novelty stir wore off, and after a few weeks, I started dreaming about what the iPad 3 could look like or what new features it would come loaded with. Surely, Apple would awe me again.
The Retina display was without a doubt the number one feature I expected from the iPad 3, so you can imagine my excitement when Apple confirmed the new iPad would come with a 2048x1536 display, packing more than 3 million pixels. After all, I don't need much from a tablet. All I do with it is browse the web, read news, reply to emails, tweet, and my new hobby, editing pictures shot with my iPhone. So really the Retina display is all I wanted, although I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect Apple to amaze me with features I hadn't even thought of.
And maybe that's one of the problems we have with every Apple product launch. We expect too much. The company has set the bar so high, so quickly, that we're always waiting for them to give us more, more, more, and more. We're expecting the unexpectable.
Did I, like many others, expect too much from the new iPad?
Let me share with you my thoughts about Apple's new tablet, now that I've been using it for a week. And for those of you thinking this is going to be the same old review you've read 27 times praising the merits of the new iPad, you're wrong. You've heard every possible compliment about the new iPad, so I'll try to give you a more captious point of view...
Trading of Apple shares has been briefly halted this morning. According to Business Insider, an errant trade caused the stock to crash a whopping nine percent, hitting a low of $542.80. Trading's been resumed and AAPL opened at $598.39. The Apple stock trades on Nasdaq under the AAPL symbol...
Ahead of the original iPad introduction in the April of 2010, the blogosphere had been abuzz over an unnamed Hollywood exec who allegedly saw a prototype in person and claimed the product would be awesome for watching movies. It ended up being quite enjoyable for this purpose, but hardly awesome due its modest 1024-by-768 pixel resolution.
Fast-forward to today and the new iPad, which has a million more pixels than an HDTV, is perfect for watching Hollywood movies in all their 1080 glory. As developers of popular apps update their offerings with Retina support, Apple isn't wasting time neither. Yesterday, the company issued an update to its iTunes Movie Trailers app, basically a pretty-fied frontend to its movie trailers page released last October.
At the same time, Netflix pushed an update to its video streaming client for iOS with support for Retina graphics. Though the program does not enable high-definition video streaming yet, it's in the works and should follow "soon"...
One could easily opine there are only so many ways to design a tablet or a smartphone. The argument has its merits and isn't far from truth. With today's mobile gadgets increasingly becoming basically a piece of glass framed by a bezel of sorts, the question of who's copying who gets muddied.
As you know, Apple filed the first in a series of “look-and-feel” lawsuits against Samsung in April 2011 over the design of the iPhone and iPad, forcing the South Korean consumer electronics conglomerate to fire back with infringement allegations of its own.
As both companies remain entangled in a complicated web of lawsuits in courts around the world, Samsung Mobile’s vice president of design Lee Min-hyuk has gone on the record to say he did not rip off the iPhone when designing the original Galaxy S smartphone...
Although iOS is considered to be one of the safest mobile operating systems on the market, it's not perfect. This is something that those of us in the jailbreak community know all too well.
With that in mind, it's not terribly surprising that another security bug has recently been discovered in Apple's software. Reports are surfacing today that an exploit has been found inside mobile Safari...