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How to Make Sure You Receive iMessages on All Your iDevices

Sébastien Page ∙ October 22, 2011

iMessage is one of my favorite new features in iOS 5. It's simple, fast, and most importantly integrated right into the Messages app, which makes it even more compelling, assuming you have friends with iDevices as well.

If you have an iPhone your iMessages are sent to your phone number by default, which acts like your iMessage ID, if you will. If you have an iPad, you can only receive iMessages sent to your registered email address. But what happens if you want to receive all your iMessages on all of your iDevices?

State of the iOS 5 Jailbreak

Cody Lee ∙ October 22, 2011

After 4 months of seeding developer betas, Apple finally released iOS 5 to the masses last week. The update introduced over 200 new features, including several that closely mirrored jailbreak utilities.

But instead of being discouraged by Apple's efforts, the jailbreak community has stepped up its game. Not only are there several iOS 5-compatible packages available, but a jailbreak for the software has been around since day one...

Google Voice is Back in the App Store

Sébastien Page ∙ October 21, 2011

Last Sunday, Google purposely pulled its Google Voice app from the App Store due to some bug that caused the app to crash at sign in.

Almost a week later, Google Voice is now back in the App Store, with some stability improvement and also a new feature...

Faster RedSn0w Jailbreak Demonstrated on Video

Jeff Benjamin ∙ October 21, 2011

As you may have heard, RedSn0w was recently updated to 0.9.9b7, and is now 60% faster by default.

While it's technically true that the actual jailbreak process is a lot faster; as the Dev Team has noted, you'll still end up making up the time on the back end with Cydia.

Interested in how the new RedSn0w works in a real world test? Check inside as we take it for a spin on video...

Hey, We’re Giving Away A Bunch of Apps!

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated February 21, 2018

Usually when we do a giveaway, we ask you to do something in return, like follow us on Twitter or on Facebook, subscribe to our RSS feed, or even leave a comment to tell us why you should win.

Today, we're going to make this dead simple. You have nothing to do but be fast. As a matter of fact, if you're still reading this, you're probably already too late...

TomTom Navigation App Gets Updated for the iPad

Guest Author ∙ Updated February 19, 2018

Today TomTom released an update to its iPhone app that adds an iPad version. This means that, with a 3G iPad, you can use your iPad as a turn-by-turn navigation device.

The app takes great advantage of the iPad's screen real estate. The universal update was updated for all of the international TomTom apps, too.

How Jailbreakers Helped Create the App Store

Cody Lee ∙ October 21, 2011

The Associated Press seems to have gotten its hands on the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. The highly anticipated book is due out later this month, but excerpts have been surfacing on the web over the last 48 hours.

One of the more interesting tidbits that has come to light is a passage regarding Jobs' thoughts and comments on third-party applications. Apparently at one point, Jobs thought that web apps were the wave of the future...

T-Mobile US Eagerly Awaits the iPhone

Alex Heath ∙ Updated July 24, 2016

T-Mobile is the only main US carrier that doesn't carry the iPhone. It's currently unclear as to why Apple hasn't partnered with T-Mobile to sell the iPhone, but the most logical assumption would be that it has something to do with the AT&T/T-Mobile acquisition that is currently being reviewed by the FCC.

The CEO of T-Mobile has gone on the record time and time again to explain that his company really wants the iPhone. And Apple is apparently to blame for all of the unhappy, iPhone-less T-Mobile customers out there...

How to Create Text Shortcuts in iOS 5

Sébastien Page ∙ October 21, 2011

One of my all-time favorite jailbreak tweaks is Xpandr, a simple tool that lets you create a library of shortcuts for snippets of text that you use frequently, such as addresses, URLs, and standard replies.

There is no jailbreak for iOS 5 yet, which means no Xpandr for me. Fortunately, Apple has implemented this very same feature in iOS 5. This is how it works...

Enterprise Market Leaning Towards iPhone and iPad Instead of Android

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated April 3, 2018

Apple's iOS platform rules the roost in the enterprise, according to new figures released by Good Technology.

The firm, which offers push e-mail, mobile device management, and security products for mobile phones, released the numbers that appear to show both the iPhone and iPad dominating device usage in the enterprise market.

According to Good Technology, the results show a "clear preference for Apple products," with the figures seemingly proving their point conclusively...

iPhone 3GS “Tremendously” Popular on AT&T

Guest Author ∙ October 21, 2011

After announcing the iPhone 4S pricing at its "Let's Talk iPhone" event on October 4th, Apple also announced that it would be further reducing the pricing for the older generation iPhone 3GS 8GB from $49 to $0 with a 2-year carrier agreement.

According to President and CEO of AT&T Mobility Ralph de la Vega, this price drop has translated to "tremendous" demand for the device...

Siri Can Also Search Bing and Yahoo

Oliver Haslam ∙ October 21, 2011

If you've spent any time with Siri, you may have noticed that you can actually ask it to search the web for pretty much anything. At this point, Siri fires up a Google search and populates the search field with whatever it thinks you asked. The degree of accuracy here very much depends on your accent and whether it's a full moon or not, but on the whole, it does the job fairly well.

But did you know that you can also have Siri work its magic with both the Microsoft Bing and Yahoo search engines? Well, you can...