Speeding Up iPhone Animations With A Cydia Tweak
The one thing that the iPhone presented to the everyday user when it first came out in 2007 was the improvement in navigation and how many parts of a phone were easily accessible. The one thing that polished the overall look was the animation of how things were actually opened. It no longer seemed clunky and every transition was smooth and beautiful to look out. Fast forward to the present day and it is pretty much the same thing. But with the iPhone 5, the most surprising thing is that for all the power that is stuffed into the device, there is just no explanation why the transitions...
read moreFixing Poor Performance Of Wifi On Your iPhone 5
For all the technology that is squeezed into the svelt iPhone 5, it is still surprising that one may still stumble upon all sorts of issues that should never have seen the light of day. Alas, such is still the case and there seems to be no end to the number of niggles and problems that people find with their awesome new phone from Cupertino. One of those problems deals with the insanely poor performance of the Wifi in the device. Whether this is a hardware or software problem, much of which is still subject to debate, there is at least one small solution that one can use to improve...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #355: Use Google Now Instead Of Siri
Google Now is fast becoming one of the better alternatives to Siri even on the iPhone itself. Granted, it may not be the smartest or even have better voice recognition on the device. But it does make sense for people who would like to have more data coming in from Google servers instead. Google, after all, are the search giants to beat them all. So instead of Siri popping up, you can use a new tweak to have Google Now pop up instead. To make this happen, you will need a jailbroken iPhone. Then, after jailbreaking the device, go into Cydia and then search for a package called...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #354: How To Decrypt SMS And Notes
Now that you know how to encrypt your messages and notes using the $1 tweak known as Crypt 2.0, you will be glad to know that you can decrypt what you just had coded with another tweak called Decrypt 2.0. This is not to say that you need to spend another dollar for that one. In fact, you can install this tweak for free. By jailbreaking your iPhone, you will be able to install the Crypt and the Decrypt tweaks so that you encrypt and decrypt messages as you see fit. Sign up here if you need help to jailbreak your iPhone to install Cydia. Once you have Cydia, search for Decrypt 2.0...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #353: How To Encrypt Your Messages And Notes
The one thing about the iPhone is that everyone wants to touch it when they actually see it. This can be dangerous when you have it sitting around on your desk. Once someone accesses it (assuming that you don’t have a passcode set), they have access to your messages and notes. The great thing is that there is an jailbreak tweak that allows you to encrypt your messages. On a jailbroken iPhone, you can download a tweak called Crypt 2.0. If you need to jailbreak your iPhone, then you will have to sign up with us here and we will give you the tools and tutorials to make the process...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #352: How To Force Status Bar On All Apps
If you notice, there are some applications that will manifest themselves in full screen mode when you activate them. This is because they have been coded to do so. In some cases, this may be great, especially when you are playing games on your iPhone. However, you may want to look at the status bar for the time, battery status or cell signal at all times. To make sure that you do have access to the status bar at all times, all you have to do is jailbreak your iPhone. You can do this by signing up here so that we can give you the tools and guides to do it properly. Then open the...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #351: How To Take Horizontal Panorama Pics
One thing about iOS6 that is a welcome addition as far as pictures go is something we all know as panoramic shots. The way its been displayed or demoed always shows us that the iPhone is held vertically but there is also a way to use the iPhone horizontally as well when taking pictures in panorama. To do this, all you have to do is simply open the camera application on your iPhone. Then, choose Options on the screen and then make sure that the Panorama feature is activated. Before you take a shot, hold your iPhone horizontally as if taking a regular picture instead of in the vertical...
read moreiPad 4 Jailbreak Achieved With One Minor Obstacle; iPhone 5 Soon
Although we don’t usually report on jailbreak news or anything about the bigger brother of the iPhone, it is really worth mentioning that in just the 24 hours that the iPad 4 has been around, it has been jailbroken. Also known as a failbreak because it is not something that can be immediately used by the general public, the point is that the feat has been achieved and this is important as a stepping stone toward an eventual iPhone 5 jailbreak. So what does this mean at the moment? Well, for the average user, this means that we all have something to look forward to, especially for those...
read moreUltrasn0w Now Fixed To Work On iOS 6.0.1 For Your iPhone
In a perfect world, all iPhones whole be factory unlocked, which means that you would never have to worry about unlocking them so that they could be used on any network of your choice. But sadly this has never been the case for the iPhone. In fact, it is probably one of the major reasons why the jailbreak community exists in the first place. That being said, this is the reason tools like Ultrasn0w exist and every time there is an update in firmware, there is also an update in Ultrasn0w. It can get really tricky, however, because this is a tool that relies on a jailbreak and it also...
read moreThe Future Of iOS Without Scott Forstall
With the recent brouhaha and ouster of two of Apple’s main people, many have started to speculate what iOS will be like in the far future. Of course, the future of retail looks like it may be in the right hands under Tim Cook. But what is in the mind of most is what will happen now that Apple’s most prolific inventor, Scott Forstall, is out of the picture. After some major problems in communication between Forstall and the top brass of Apple even when Steve Jobs was still around, Scott is going to make his final exit in 2013. For those of you that don’t know, Scott Forstall is...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #350: Send Audio Recordings Through Messages App
One of the great things about iOS is that it is constantly improving the ways that you can share certain things through its built-in apps. This includes sharing audio clips through the Messages application on your iPhone and this can be done quite easily. All you have to do is launch the Voice Memos application on your iDevice. Then tap on the record button, record your message and then tap on stop to finish the recording. Tap on the menu button where the stop button is located. The message that you recorded will automatically start playing. Then tap on the share button that you...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #349: More Ways To Conserve Battery Life
Even with the latst iOS 6.0.1 update being pushed out to everyone out there that promises to fix the battery issues, you might still be paranoid and want to make sure that you improve the juice on your iDevice. So it is highly suggested that you go through this following list on top of what was published before so that you can conserve your battery life. Here are some things that you need to look into: Turn off Siri’s Raise to Speak. Go to Settings, General, Siri. Readers keep telling us this has helped them with battery life due to accelerometer issues. Turn off Location Services. Go...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #348: How To Hide Stock Apps Without A Jailbreak
The thing about iOS is that it comes bundles with a lot of useless applications. This is true for international variants where things like Passbook won’t be of any use. You might also want to hide the failure known as Apple Maps as well, or Contacts, Stocks; anything that just seems useless to you as an Apple iOS device user. Of course, it used to be that one had to jailbreak an iPhone just to be able to hide an application. But with this webapp, you no longer have to jailbreak! On your iPhone Safari browser, just go to rag3hack.nop-ip.org/hidehtml (of course you will need a WIFI...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #347: How To Download Direct Firmware 6.0.1 Direct
The problem with the iPhone 5 is that it will not be able to do an over the air update without another update that it needs to do it. Apple provides this, of course, but some of you might want to do things the old-school way by downloading firmware directly from Apple’s servers and manually update your iPhone using iTunes. This can be done one of two ways. The first is to attach the iPhone straight to the computer and let iTunes download the updates for you. The other way is to direct download firmware from links provided by Apple and this means actually downloading through an http...
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