Safari

How to Quickly Launch Apps With Siri

Alex Heath ∙ Updated January 6, 2017

One of the glaring features that Apple left out of Siri is the ability to integrate with and launch apps. You can do all sorts of things with your voice and Siri, but you can't use third-party apps (short of a few exceptions and the services Apple officially partnered with for launch) or open apps with a voice command.

Thanks to the widely undocumented world of iOS URL schemes, you can actually trigger app shortcuts with Siri on your iPhone 4S. While it's not the cleanest method, there are tons of possibilities for quickly launching apps with Siri. Let's take a closer look...

Save Web Pages For Offline Viewing With ‘WebOffline’

Jeff Benjamin ∙ November 6, 2011

WebOffline is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to save entire web pages for offline viewing in Safari. It's tightly integrated with Apple's stock iPhone browser, and makes offline reading fairly effortless.

While there are other 3rd-party offline browsing solutions available, if you're looking for the most native implementation you can come by, WebOffline may be worth a look...

iOS 5 Tip: Restore Recently Closed Tabs on the iPad

Oliver Haslam ∙ November 3, 2011

When Apple announced that iOS 5 for the iPad was going to feature proper tabbed browsing, the tablet-using world rejoiced. Safari worked well before, but there is just no substitute for good, old fashioned tabbed browsing.

Now iOS 5 has found its way into millions of hands worldwide, some handy little tips and tricks are starting to pop up for our iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, and one in particular caught our eyes.

Hidden inside Mobile Safari on the iPad, you'll find a little-known feature that will allow you to re-open recently closed tabs, all without having to go digging through your History...

SemiTether Jailbreak Updated For Stability

Jeff Benjamin ∙ October 30, 2011

The popular SemiTether jailbreak was updated to v0.9.1 this morning, and it's quite the update.

Working with Saurik, the team was able to fully incorporate the new mobile substrate, which allowed them to get rid of the daemon patching and restarting.

Mobile substrate now does all of the heavy lifting when it comes to the SemiTether. There's even an option to patch Safari to work in non-jailbreak mode now.

Perhaps most importantly, the new version of SemiTether will protect your iOS 5 Notification Center plugins...

How to Push Links from iOS to Your Desktop

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 5, 2018

How many times have you realized you needed to continue your iPhone browsing session on your laptop or desktop PC? What about when you come across an app for your Mac that you want to download to your PC, not your iPhone?

Sure, there are plenty of options for downloading something to your iPhone or iPad, or even to Dropbox , but there is an unparalleled advantage to seamlessly transferring a link or webpage to your Mac. Whether you want to send a DMG, an installer package, a torrent, or a website that only supports Flash, your options are limited when you try to view them from an iOS app.

Luckily, there are several solutions that have sprung up over the past year. Pushing from a browser to an iPhone has been relatively simple for quite some time, but one-tap solutions to go from iOS to Mac are finally available. Read on for our list of creative services that offer you just that…

iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 [Video]

Jeff Benjamin ∙ October 14, 2011

Which is faster? Well, obviously the iPhone 4S is faster, but you might be surprised at just how much faster.

In certain areas, namely gaming, the iPhone 4S blows the iPhone 4 out of the water. In other areas, the differences are surprisingly less discernable.

We've pitted the former heavyweight champ against the newcomer, and we've documented the results on video. Who wins? Watch and see...

Safari UniBar: Add Google Chrome’s OmniBar to Mobile Safari

Jeff Benjamin ∙ October 5, 2011

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a staunch Google Chrome advocate for basically two reasons: a) It's incredibly easy it is to restore all of your bookmarks, history, and extensions. And b). The OmniBar.

The OmniBar is the feature that I always end up missing the most when I'm forced to use another browser. The OmniBar is great, because it does something incredibly simple: It lets you perform searches and web queries from within the same box.

Safari UniBar is a jailbreak tweak that brings this same functionality to the iPhone's Mobile Safari...

QuickSafari: Search Google From Anywhere

Jeff Benjamin ∙ September 26, 2011

QuickSafari is another Activator-based Google search tool, that allows you to perform searches and browse to specific URLs from anywhere on your iPhone.

It's a great tool, and one that I believe should be included as a native iOS feature. Until then, we'll have to rely on the great jailbreak community to meet our needs in this area, and QuickSafari doesn't disappoint...

‘Magnifier for Safari’ Makes Reading Websites Easier

Jeff Benjamin ∙ September 6, 2011

Reading small text is difficult. Reading small text on a 3.5" screen is insane. Sure, Safari allows for pinch to zoom, but what if you just want to magnify your text old-school style? Sadly, there's no default provision to do so.

As always, that's where the jailbreak community comes in. This latest tweak — Magnifier for Safari — makes it really simple to dynamically boost the size of your text. Check inside for a brief demonstration of this text-size boosting tweak...

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...

Fan Favorite Dolphin Browser on Android Arrives in the App Store

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated February 18, 2018

Arguably the best web browser available for the Android platform, Dolphin, is now also strutting its stuff on iOS. Dolphin's claim to fame is its deep gesture integration, which reduces the need for quite so many on-screen buttons. Perfect for smartphones with smaller screens, just like the iPhone.

Offering its wares for free, Dolphin joins a long list of web browsers in the App Store which aim to take a piece of the browsing pie from the stock Safari software, but it may need to offer something unique if it's going to make people switch...

Sleipnizer Might Just be Mobile Safari’s Best Friend

Cody Lee ∙ August 16, 2011

We've discussed several jailbreak utilities for Safari over the last few years, but Sleipnizer could be its new best friend. The package adds two major features to the option-starved browser.

Sleipnizer borrows its peculiar title and feature-set from a Japanse browser named Sleipnir. It installs into the native Safari application in iOS, and makes surfing the web with the native browser a little bit more fun...