Bring OS X Mountain Lion Desktop To Your iPhone With This Theme
The one thing that you can’t do with your iPhone on stock firmware is apply any themes to it. Of course, with a jailbreak, you can change all of that. Adding different elements from the Cydia store, you can alter the way that your iPhone looks and even functions in different ways. But did you know that you could add an almost full-on experience that is similar to OS X Mountain Lion straight to your iPhone? This is actually a really cool implementation and one that will definitely make you jailbreak your iPhone. As we have earlier mentioned, there is just no way that you can get...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #250: How To Delete Old iOS Backups
For whatever reason there is, you just might not need all those backups created whenever you sync your iPhone. And the only good reason for that is that you probably have no more space in your computer, Mac or PC, and you would like to free up some more for other things. To do this, open your iTunes program on your Mac or on your Windows computer. Then from the menu, click on Preferences. Click on the Devices tab and you will see all the iOS device backups on iTunes. You will also see the data that has been backed up. Click on the one you would like to delete. You will need to...
read moreGetting Your iDevice Screenshots Onto Your Mac Fast
One of the secrets that Apple doesn’t advertise is that by quickly pressing your iPhone power button and the home button simultaneously, you can actually take a screenshot of the current screen you have on your iDevice. Of course, this means that you are essentially taking a photo with your iPhone without really using a camera. What happens is that the photo ends up on your camera roll. From the Photos app you can then email it to yourself using the default Mail app. Now, if that doesn’t sound like a lot of work, there may be something really wrong with you. That’s...
read moreControl Other Apple Devices With SIRI In The Future
With the introduction of the iPhone 4S came the introduction of SIRI, perhaps one of the most iconic personal assistants to grace a mobile phone ever. Sure there are competitors but there is definitely no competition. SIRI has proven to be one of the most useful features on the iDevice thus far. And it looks like it will also be one of the most useful features when controlling other devices as well. We all thought that SIRI was just another gimmick that Apple was throwing to the people, kind of like when they first introduced FaceTime (although that’s actually kind of picking up now...
read moreCmdTab On iOS Is OSX’s Command+Tab App Switcher On Mac
The Mac is slowly being developed to really reflect many of the functionalities of iOS. This seems to be the direction with the release of OSX Lion and there are more and more signs that Macs will start to really replicate what happens on the iPhone and the iPad. But every once in a while, especially in the world of the jailbreak community, you will see a tweak that will reflect what is happening on Mac. The latest tweak is called CmdTab and it is a neat functionality that replicates the Macs Command+Tab feature. There are many switcher methods that one can download off of Cydia. It...
read moreTurn Your iDevice Into A TrackPad For Mac Or PC
Out of the hundreds of thousands of apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch on the App Store, there is bound to be something that is just as crazy as it sounds, right? You can bet your 30-pin connector there is! Take, for example, this application that allows you to turn your beloved device into nothing but a mere trackpad for your PC or Mac! Now, this may sound like a pretty novel idea, but if you think about it, it actually does make sense, especially if you are using something as large as an iPad as your mouse trackpad. That just makes using your Mac or PC a whole lot easier. And...
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