iOS 5.0 hidden features: auto correct words
It seems that iOS has more goodies hidden inside the system itself. Now there is another interesting feature discovered which is can be used even without jailbreaking, which we by the way advise to every iPhone and iPad user. This option was discovered by an iOS developer, Sonny Dickinson. This hidden option works similar to the solution which is currently available only on Android devices.
New cooking textbook released as an iPad app
Culinary institute of USA has just published their new cooking textbook named: ‘The Professional Chef’. This major work will teach you how to cook like a real pro right in your own kitchen. This textbook is widely known in professional culinary circles as the ‘bible for chefs’. The book is beign produced as a complete guide to modern art of cooking, and it was build to make best use of iPads large, high resolution touch screen. This edition of the book includes a lot of rich multi media content as well. You can see a variety of interactive photos, videos, notes by famous cooks and much more.
iPhone pocket projector
iPhone has already being used in so many different even strange situations and for so various purposes that it is even hard to remember all of them. Some of more interesting were using an iPhone as a microscope, or remote sensor, or flying drones with your iPhone or, well you know, anything else imaginable under the sun. Now here is another great option for your iPhone. You will be soon able to carry around your pocket sized projector in this special iPhone case. This will probably become a important option for those business folks always running around showing their sales numbers or whatever they need to present while on the run.
Siri voice assistant ported to iPhone 3GS
One of the best devices in the world today, if not the best handheld device today is certainly Apple’s latest iPhone model, the mighty iPhone 4S. This smartphone besides having a plethora other great features and capabilities uses something not available before on any other device or platform. Smart voice assistant Siri is perhaps the best upgrade Apple has offered ever on their devices. Because of this, many iOS users have been wondering whether it would be possible to use Siri on their older devices like iPhone 4 or even iPhone 3GS, which are fully compatible with iOS 5.0 as it is required for Siri to work. The biggest success in this line of hacking is being now revealed by famous developers Chpwn and Smith Troughton.
iPhone jailbeak tweaks: Firebreak to enable panorama mode for iPhone on iOS 5
Cydia has featured another interesting tweak for jailbroken iPhones on iOS 5. This time we have a tweak named Firebreak. Firebrak has such a strange name because of the method on which the tweak is based. Firebreak works thanks to a specific plist value, and to use this tweak is much easier than editing the same plist value with some editor like iFile. So if you would like to use panoramic camera on your iPhone on iOS 5, this is a simple way to get what you want.
Facebooks founder received advices from Steve Jobs
Mark Zuckerberg talked with and received advices from late Steve Jobs on Facebook and its future. Would you believe in a such statement, as it sounds quite incredibly?Tech news magazines and blogs are full of stories about the giants: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft clash against each other as they fight for the heart and minds of users around the globe. It seems that despite this Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook was wise enough to take step aside and learn from one of the greatest business leaders of our times, Steve Jobs. As he revealed in a recent interview, he wasn’t afraid or ashamed to say that he had a lot of questions for Jobs. He wanted to learn from the number one about building quality and providing best services to users, which is something Apple is well known about. He also discussed about designs, aesthetics and missions of today’s large companies.
iOS security hole revealed
A serious security hole in Apple’s iOS fortress has just being discovered bu renowned security expert Charlie Miller. The vulnerability enables apps which are downloaded from the official App Store to download and run harmful code from any remote third party computer. This app which Charlie Miller uploaded successfully to App Store by circumventing Apple security policies and checks, behaves like any regular app displaying stock informations, but it was able to download code from distant computer and run selected commands therefore becoming able to steal user files without any permission.
New Apple TV screensaver
Apple is well known by superior designing capabilities and great user interfaces in their devices. And from time to time they tend to release a small but really nice feature for their products or services. Not surprisingly, this happened with their last upgrade for Apple TV too. They have added an interesting screensaver named PhotoWall. If you choose this screensaver, your Apple TV will rotate your photos in different frames sliding slowly across your TV screen. It looks quite nice, and we bet many users will agree with us.
Apple porting Siri voice assistant to iPhone 4?
We have heard recently some rumors and reports about Apple’s intentions to add Siri to iPhone 4. Since Apple is recently busilly working on iOS 5.0.1 to solve battery life issues they apparently also want to include in this upgrade Siri to become comaptible with iPhone 4. A source close to Cupertino Company revealed that Apple’s engineers are testing Siri in their other iPhone models. Model which will most probably receive Siri upgrade will be iPhone 4 which has enough hardware capacities for supporting Siri. But we wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that Apple is also testing other iPhone models. Could this mean that Apple is working on another iOS upgrade?
Is Apple’s Siri assistant a Google killer?
Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has said in a public hearing that Siri represents a great development in search and that Google’s core business of internet search could be significantly threatened by Apple’s Siri technology. While such a statement could be dismissed as a overreaction, it is certain that Siri represents something completely new on the market. But nonetheless such a bold statement is questionable especially since Schmidt said it in front of a US Senat commission, probably to decrease the incredible significance and impact Google has over the Internet. Siri indeed could hurt Google’s business as it offers a voice assistance thus circumventing the need for visiting Google’s website with served adds which yield most of the profits for Google.
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