Wrapping up our extensive coverage of yesterday's Tim Cook appearance at the D10: All Things Digital conference, we just learned that event organizer, News Corp.-owned the Wall Street Journal, has reached an agreement with Apple to make all six Steve Jobs chats at D events available free on iTunes.
This is good news for anyone with the slightest interest in Steve Jobs and his public speaking, even more so knowing only Jobs' D5 and D8 interviews have been available on iTunes so far...
You've read the snippets of Tim Cook's talk at D10: All Things Digital conference from yesterday. We've been publishing those throughout the day and now here are the videos. No fillers, no longish articles or a bunch of backlinks, just what you want - short and up to the point clips. Enjoy...
Push Notifications are one thing, but support for the iPad is a whole 'nother area where Sparrow is lacking for iOS. As of now, the popular 3rd party email client is iPhone-only, making it difficult for users who have both devices to fully commit to using it.
But as usual, a jailbreak developer is making serious headway on bringing native-like iPad support to Sparrow via a handy tweak. SparrowPlus may already be familiar to a lot of you, it's the same tweak that allows you to make Sparrow your iPhone's default mail client, along with Push Notifications.
Now the developer behind SparrowPlus is working on an update to bring improved Sparrow support to the iPad. It's not perfect, but as you'll see from our hands-on video, it certainly shows some promise...
Are you finding that your iPhone's banner notifications are a bit on the large side? If so, then do we have the perfect jailbreak tweak to fit your needs. SmallBanners is a tweak that performs one function, and does so fairly well — it reduces the size of your iPhone's banner notifications.
Personally I think the stock size of the banner notifications is perfect, but I realize that there are probably a few of you out there that don't. If you fit that description, then head inside and check out our video walkthrough for SmallBanners.
RapidLinks is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to quick access a batch of up to five links by means of an Activator action. Each link is configurable via a settings panel in the Settings app. From that same panel you can also configure the Activator action that you would like to associate with the tweak.
Once all of your settings are configured, simply invoke RapidLinks by means of Activator, and a panel will surface from the bottom of the screen yielding the links that you configured. This allows you to access any of your favorite websites from anywhere within seconds. Check out our video walkthrough inside for a demonstration of how it works.
If you ever wondered how the smooth and shiny finish of Apple products is achieved in manufacturing, here's your answer. The process called anodizing makes metals such as aluminum and titanium corrosion-resistant by growing an oxide layer into the metal.
A nice clip based on a chapter in the book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories explains the anodizing process in Layman's terms through the mouth of Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy.
As you know, anodizing is used on many Apple products, including most of the Macs sold today, and is likely to be applied to an upcoming iPhone 5 said to feature metal-clad back...
Dater is a recently released jailbreak tweak that adds a few nifty identification features to the photos in your camera roll.
First and foremost are the timestamps. Dater adds timestamps to all of the photos contained within the camera roll, and it will even retroactively add stamps to photos that already exist prior to installing the tweak. Don't worry; the timestamps aren't hardcoded on your photos, so they don't actually appear when you export or print them.
The timestamps are a very nice feature, but not alone worth the $0.99 asking price. Fortunately, there's more to Dater than what initially meets the eye...
Jukebox is an upcoming Notification Center widget that also does double duty as a Dashboard X widget. Its purpose is to allow you to control your music from literally anywhere, which is primarily attributed to its flexibility as both a Notification Center widget, while at the same time maintaining a spot on your Home screen.
The initial release of Jukebox will only feature integration with the stock Music app, but the developer is hard at work at making it play nice with 3rd party music apps like Spotify and Pandora. Besides this one obvious shortcoming, Jukebox is shaping up to be a top tier Notification Center widget, and by far the best Dashboard X widget yet...
Blackout is a simple tweak that replaces the stock silver status bar with a solid black background. It's a change that's purely aesthetic, and it features no options or settings to configure.
Developer, Adam bell, suggests that Blackout looks best when paired with chpwn's Zephyr tweak, and I have to concur. The black status bar blend seamlessly when switching between apps using Zephyr's multitouch gestures. Take a look inside for our full video walkthrough of Blackout.
Anton Kudin's "fold to unlock" concept didn't stop short at just inspiring one Cydia developer to turn the concept a reality, it inspired two.
Unlockize is the latest jailbreak tweak to harness key aspects from Kudin's concept, but it doesn't just stop there. Unlike the previously released Unfold, Unlockize features five additional lock screen animations, and they're all very unique. Extra animations do come at a cost, however. Is Unlockize worth its $1.99 asking price?
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Music Widget, the Dashboard X compatible music interface that we previewed a couple of days ago, has now appeared for download on Cydia.
Music Widget allows you to view your "now playing" album art, along with placing play/pause, skip, and previous buttons conveniently near the bottom of the interface.
Take a look at our full walkthough, and head over to Cydia's BigBoss repo to download it for free. What do you think?
Fret not Windows users, you can now download Absinthe 2.0 in order to perform an untethered jailbreak on your iOS device running iOS 5.1.1. The procedure is pretty much exactly the same as it was for Mac users, beside a few minor details like running Absinthe as an administrator, and the self extracting zip file. Outside of that, if you can follow the steps from our Mac tutorial, you should be fine to use our Windows tutorial as well.
Check inside for the full dedicated tutorial for jailbreak your iOS 5.1.1 device on Windows, because hey, we love our Windows readers and viewers!