Sparrow for iPhone debuted earlier this year as one of the first third-party email clients to ever land in the App Store. While it's received a lot of praise for its UI, it continues to be criticized for its lack of features.
The jailbreak community has managed to help out with that a bit. But thanks to today's update, stock iPhone users can too cross a major feature off their wish lists. Sparrow 1.3 now supports POP email accounts...
As Scott Forstall rattled off a list of Siri's new capabilities in iOS 6, there was one particular feature that really stood out: Eyes Free. Apple will be teaming up with auto-makers to take its digital assistant act on the road.
But outside of a list of manufacturing partners, and a brief explanation of how Eyes Free will work, not much else has been said about the new feature. How will it be implemented? And when can we expect to see it?
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Here's your viral video for today. Apparently engineer Evan Long has managed to combine Square's credit card reader hooked up to an iPod touch to play back reel-to-reel audio from an old-school cassette player. We're down in the comments...
The social networking behemoth Facebook just announced in a post over at its Facebook Developers blog that it is working on a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that will launch "soon".
The company also confirmed its acquisition of the Face.com startup that should result in a more accurate facial recognition when you upload and share your photos...
It looks like Tim Cook wasn't joking underscoring Apple would "double down on secrecy" during his fireside chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D10: All Things D conference. As noted by TUAW, the latest beta of iOS 6 lacks certain references to future Apple devices that have long been the staple of the rumor mill's crystal ball peering. Not like this changes anything, mind you...
Despite what Google's Eric Schmidt would have you believe, developers still prefer Apple's iOS platform over any other mobile operating system. More importantly, the vast majority of programmers don't think a rumored introduction of a taller iPhone this fall will complicate their life as adapting their apps to a larger canvas shouldn't be a biggie...
AppCent is a new jailbreak tweak that adds a percentage value beneath the app currently being installed on your iOS device. It's a very simple tweak, and for smaller sized apps you probably won't derive much value, but it's nice to have for larger apps that take a long time to download.
Although a progress bar indicating your download percentage already exists in iOS, there's something to be said for having actual numerical values that you can see and identify with...
You'll wanna act on this one right now. Display Recorder, an app by Bugun Software which lets you record your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad screen in real time, has just hit the App Store, priced at two bucks a pop (not to be confused with Ryan Petrich's app of the same name available for jailbroken devices). If I were you, I'd act now: Apple's likely to pull Display Recorder at a moment's notice...
In another hint that Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known in the Western world as Foxconn, could be gearing up for mass production of a rumored Apple television set, Reuters now reports that Foxconn is in talks with the Japanese multinational corporation Sharp about increasing its stake.
This is interesting development as Foxconn in March bought an eleven percent stake in Sharp worth $844 million. The two companies now run Sharp’s cutting-edge display plant in Sakai, Osaka, leading some to speculate that Foxconn made the move on behalf of its biggest customer, Apple of California, which has long been rumored to be readying production of a full-blown television set, which Foxconn publicly denied...
Here's another small but useful tweak in iOS 6 which went under our radar: the virtual keyboard is now clever enough to capitalize after quotes and emoji.
Previously, when you started or ended a quote or ended your sentence with emoji followed by a period, the keyboard wouldn't switch to capitals.
iOS 6 tweaks its virtual keyboard's behavior, now capitalizing after quotes and emojis, just as you'd expect...
Verizon Wireless, the nation's #2 carrier, today announced crazy fast FiOS broadband offering which promises data speeds up to 300Mbps for $210 a month. The new speeds are available in a range of double- and triple-play bundles, as well as a standalone service...
Last week a tethered jailbreak was released for iOS 6 running on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4th generation. While it was great to have a jailbreak so soon, the jailbreak didn't include any GUI tools like Cydia, only SSH and afc2 support were added.
Fortunately, now that we have SSH access, we can transfer and install pretty much anything on our jailbroken iOS 6 devices, including Cydia.
Check inside for the full video tutorial that shows you how to install Cydia on iOS 6 beta...