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BackForwardList for Safari: Browser History, Evolved

Jeff Benjamin ∙ September 3, 2011

As most of you guys and gals are well aware of, I'm the type of person that loves keeping things stock, or at least stock looking.

My car is stock, my iMac is stock, my iOS devices are jailbroken, but they look close to stock.

For that reason, it's probably no surprise that I continue to use the built in Safari browser for all of my web needs, despite the fact that it's severely lacking when compared to third party options.

That's where handy tweaks like BackForwardList for Safari come in. It allows me to keep the stock browser, while giving it a nice usability boost. See inside for the video evidence...

Play App Store Games on the Apple TV with Joypad

Alex Heath ∙ Updated November 13, 2019

So far, Apple has missed a huge opportunity for gaming on the Apple TV. Short of a jailbreak and third party firmware, it's nearly impossible to do anything but stream and play back media on the set-top box.

The App Store is home to thousands of awesome games, and a new iOS app lets you play games on your Apple TV by turning your iDevice into NES-like controller...

Sky News for iPad – Another News App Hides Behind the Paywall

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated November 13, 2019

BSkyB's Sky News iPad app has been so well received by both users and industry pundits alike that the company has now taken the decision to put the app's content behind a paywall, removing the free content that has been available since the app's release.

The move had been planned, according to Pocket-Lint, and now the app's 500,000 users will have to pay £4.99 a month to continue using the app, unless they happen to be a Sky Television subscriber, in which case the app will continue to be free...

Apple Gestapo Reportedly Impersonates Police in Attempt to Find Lost iPhone Prototype

Alex Heath ∙ September 2, 2011

This story keeps getting crazier and crazier. As you recall, we told you the other day that another next gen iPhone prototype was presumably lost at another bar in San Francisco. CNET reported the news, citing unknown sources.

The scandal got even juicier this morning when another report from The San Francisco Weekly unveiled that no police records for the incident actually existed. Apple hadn't opened an official investigation with the police. Instead, it's being reported that an Apple security team illegally impersonated police officers and searched a man's home for the lost iPhone 5 prototype...

What’s On My iDevice? August 2011 Edition

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated November 13, 2019

So as usual, I'm a little behind on this last month's What's On My iDevice, but hopefully the wait was worth it.

You guys and gals know how I like to switch it up, and the August edition is no exception. Instead of focusing on jailbreak apps or tweaks, I give you a rundown of 5 essential App Store Apps that should be on every iPhone owner's Home screen.

Inside, you'll find an app that's great for security, the absolute best iPhone Twitter client, a wonderfully designed "diary" app, and one of my absolute favorite iOS games of all time...

Survey Finds Improved Apple Brand Reputation Since Steve Jobs Resigned

Sébastien Page ∙ September 2, 2011

When the news fell last week that Steve Jobs was resigning from the company he had built, I felt like the world was going to collapse under my feet for a few seconds. I wasn't the only one. Tech bloggers, analysts and investors knew it was the end of an era.

The news was widely covered all over the world. In France, where I currently am vacationing, I read countless stories and watched tons of news reports that were praising Steve Jobs for the amazing job he'd done at Apple. Steve Jobs. The face of Apple. The salesman. The visionary. The dictator. Gone. Nothing would ever be the same without him. Some went as far as saying Apple was done, forgetting for a minute that Tim Cook, the newly appointed CEO, had been running the company for months, in what were Apple's best financial times ever.

Like John Gruber notes, Steve Jobs' greatest creation is not the iMac, the iPhone, or the iPad. No, Jobs' greatest creation is Apple itself — the brand, its core values, what it represents. And according to a survey, the Apple brand is better today than it was before Steve's resignation...

iHome iW1 Brings Wireless Audio to Your Home with AirPlay for $300

Oliver Haslam ∙ September 2, 2011

iPhone and iPod docking station/speaker combos are nothing new – they've been around forever and come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, with models to fit every budget. iHome has taken the tried and tested formula that we've all been using for so long, and added AirPlay to the mix to create the iHome iW1: an AirPlay-equipped wireless audio system.

Set to go on sale on September 26th, the iHome iW1 will retail for $300, according to Engadget...

AViiQ Portable Charging Station Review & Giveaway

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated December 19, 2017

Does your desk resemble a bird's nest due to the mess of wires? If so, you might want to look into fixing that.

Fortunately, AViiQ is making the fix an easy one. Introducing the AViiQ Portable Charging Station: a portable cable management solution for your iOS devices.

For those of you with a few unwieldy USB cables littering your desk, this could be the solution that leads you back to organization. Check inside for the full video walkthrough & giveaway...

Doodle Jump Leaps Onto the iPad

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated March 18, 2019

Lima Sky, the team behind the award winning and hugely popular iPhone game Doodle Jump, has released an iPad version of the platformer. Sporting newly rendered full-screen graphics and other iPad-only features, Doodle Jump for iPad is almost guaranteed to be as well received as its older brother.

Priced at $2.99 and available to download now, Doodle Jump for iPad promises to bring the bouncing madness to the big screen...

Dev Team Releases RedSn0w Jailbreak for iOS 5 Beta 7

Sébastien Page ∙ September 2, 2011

Hot on the heels of the release of iOS 5 beta 7, MuscleNerd announced on Twitter that he has updated RedSn0w to bring support for the latest beta firmware.

Up until now, if you wanted to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 7, you had to point RedSn0w to beta 6. It worked, but it wasn't ideal. By pushing RedSn0w 0.9.8b7b, the Dev Team makes things square, allowing you to jailbreak beta 7 by pointing the tool directly to beta 7...

TinyUmbrella Updated for iOS 5 Beta 6

Sébastien Page ∙ September 2, 2011

Heads up for those of you who are currently running one of the beta versions of iOS 5. Notcom recently updated TinyUmbrella, which now brings support for iOS 5 Beta 4, 5 and 6.

Unfortunately, it seems that this latest version was released right before Apple dropped iOS 5 Beta 7, so TinyUmbrella won't support the latest beta...

Foxconn Expected to Manufacture 20 Million iPad 2s in 3rd Quarter

Guest Author ∙ September 2, 2011

Foxconn, the manufacturer of all Apple products, is expected to manufacture 20 million iPad 2s in Q3.

This report, which originally surfaced from DigiTimes, comes after Foxconn released their financial earnings for the first half of the year. Their earnings were a whopping NT$27.38 billion, or about $945.93 million in US dollars...