Posted on January 27, 2012 by winston porter
We’ve seen some other Siri jailbreak tweaks, but AssistantExtensions is probably the coolest so far. AssistantExtensions lets you launch apps, send tweets, enable/disable Settings toggles like Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., control brightness, respiring Springboard, search YouTube and more. And even more commands will be added in the future. AssistantExtensions requires a jailbroken iPhone 4S and is [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by winston porter
An awesome new jailbreak tweak called Lingual turns Siri on your iPhone 4S into a multi-language voice translator. Lingual will quickly translate English sentences into over 30 different languages using the Microsoft Bing Translate API. Lingual requires a jailbroken iPhone 4S and is available in Cydia through the Big Boss repository. Check out the video [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by winston porter
Sireet is a new tweak available in Cydia that allows you to Tweet using Siri. As you can see in the video, Sireet doesn’t let you review your Tweet before sending, which is something I feel is pretty important. But it seems to work well and I’m hoping to see more features coming soon. Sireet [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by eli courey
We recently reported that the iPhone represented 55% of Verizon’s fourth quarter 2011 smartphone sales, and now AT&T’s fourth quarter earnings highlight that over 80% of smartphone activations on their network during that time were iPhones. It looks like the iPhone is by far the most popular smartphone on both networks, but especially on AT&T. [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by eli courey
Yesterday the New York Times published false claims about Apple and the way it’s dealing with working conditions at its manufacturing partner Foxconn. Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to these allegations with an email to employees, assuring them that the company cares about every worker in its supply chain. Team, As a company and [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by vincent oliver
Apple released a firmware update today to bring Lion Internet Recovery to mid-2010 MacBooks and Mac minis through Software Update. Lion Internet Recovery is needed when installing a new blank hard drive, and lets you reinstall OS X Lion on your Mac over the internet instead of a DVD or flash drive. A firmware update [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by vincent oliver
Valve released a free Steam app for iPhone today. Steam Mobile lets you chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to date with sales on Steam games. For those of you not familiar with Steam, it’s a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by eli courey
A new patent application discovered by AppleInsider shows that Apple has interest in making a simplified remote control that would automatically control a variety of devices. The filing notes that current remotes have a large number of buttons and switches to control the functions of a device, and while those buttons are necessary to control [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by eli courey
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees yesterday some “exciting new things.” Cook announced that starting June 2012, employees will be given $500 discounts on purchases of any new Macs, excluding the Mac mini, and $250 discounts on purchases of the iPad. To cut down on misuse of this benefit, it can only be utilized [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2012 by winston porter
Yesterday Apple reported record sales of both iPad and Mac last quarter, with 15.4 million iPads sold and 5.2 million Macs. With HP’s global sales of 14.7 PCs, Apple has easily surpassed the company to become the worlds largest PC manufacturer. Of course, this is if you count the iPad as a PC, but I [...]
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