Jaku, the work of Canadian graphic designer William Szilveszter, is one of the most popular themes available on Cydia for iOS devices. Not only does Jaku have a pixel-perfect design, but the jailbreaking community has collaborated to release hundreds of additional custom icons for the theme. These icons can be browsed and downloaded from the Jaku Community Icons Repository. Instructions on how to add or change Jaku icons follows. (more…)
Ever since the iOS 6 untethered jailbreak was released three months ago, the jailbreaking community has released arguably the greatest tweaks and themes we’ve seen to date. Cydia now has several great offerings that make jailbreaking your iOS device all that more enticing, and we’ve got a roundup of some of the best jailbreak tweaks for iPod touch 5th gen ahead. As you would expect, these tweaks are cross-compatible with the iPhone 5. (more…)
In the next few weeks, American carrier Verizon Wireless could slash $100 off the iPhone 5 as part of a sales promotion. According to @evleaks, the price drop will kick in mid-month. Meanwhile, Sprint discounts $100 off the iPhone 5 for customers switching from competing networks, and T-Mobile offers the iPhone 5 for $99 with a financing plan.
Upcoming Verizon promotion: $100 off iPhone 5 beginning mid-month.
— @evleaks (@evleaks) May 6, 2013
Velox, arguably one of the best jailbreak tweaks, is now available on Cydia for $1.99. This gallery shows what the tweak looks like on iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1. Post your own screenshots in the comments section.
The hotly-anticipated jailbreak tweak Velox is now available on Cydia, in the BigBoss repository, for $1.99. Velox adds context menus to native apps and certain third-party apps, greatly expanding the functionality of the home screen. Make sure to read our hands-on look at the tweak for further details.
The jailbreaking community has already discovered a few bugs here and there, but the developers of the tweak promise that updates will be made to resolve these issues. Nevertheless, this tweak is one of the best we’ve ever seen. If you grab a copy of Velox, let us know how it performs for you.
Samsung has outed a new Galaxy S4 ad that promotes a number of the smartphone’s features, including air gestures, the camera, the ability to use it as a TV remote, and S Beam, which allows users to share files with a nearby smartphone using NFC.
The 93-second advertisement is centered upon a summer graduation party, with energetic and hip young adults all using Galaxy S4 smartphones. Later in the spot, Samsung shows an older couple with iPhones coming to the realization that some smartphones are “smarter” than others.
This is far from the first time that Samsung has attempted to undermine the iPhone as part of its marketing efforts. In fact, this commercial is just the latest in a string of TV ads — watch all four: one, two, three, four — that promote the Galaxy S III or Galaxy S4 over iPhone.
Samsung released the Galaxy S4 in late April, and it has received mixed reviews from major publications. While the smartphone is certainly a welcomed improvement over the Galaxy S III, it’s an iterative refresh at best and has several so-called “gimmicky” features.
If this calculator looks awfully familiar to you, it’s probably because you’ve used it before. Probably not this exact physical calculator, but the lookalike Calculator app on iPhone or iPod touch. As the late Steve Jobs once said, “good artists copy, great artists steal.” Very much true. Apple’s original Calculator.app was inspired by the Braun ET66 calculator, which now has a replica model that has been re-released. Touché.
This isn’t the first time that Apple has been “inspired” by a popular object in real life. Most recently, Apple was forced to settle with the Swiss Railway for using its iconic clock design in the Clock app for iPad. The two parties eventually reached an agreement that has Apple license the famous clock from Swiss Railways. Hopefully these incidents will be few and far between when iOS 7 arrives with less skeuomorphism. (more…)
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Apple on Thursday released iOS 6.1.4 as a minor update for iPhone 5. No other iOS devices are believed to be eligible for this build, and the update was not preceded by any sort of beta testing by developers. An “updated audio profile for speakerphone” is the only item listed on the changelog. The update weighs in at 18.2 MB and is available on iTunes or over-the-air by tapping Settings > General > Software Update.
As always, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone should stay away from this update until further notice. Apple patched the iOS 6 untethered jailbreak as of iOS 6.1.3 and later, and iOS 6.1.4 is no exception. Anyone that wishes to jailbreak their iPhone in the future should also refrain from this update, until word is provided from prominent iOS hackers in MuscleNerd and so forth.
[9to5Mac]
MIUI is one of the most popular custom ROMs available for Android, redefining the look of the platform with an original user interface and improvements to over 200 software features. And while the iPhone is obviously incompatible with the software, several graphic designers have been working on porting the design of MIUI into an iOS theme. Last month it was Minimal MIUI, and now it’s iMIUI.
iMIUI is a MIUI V5 port on deviantART that promises to be better than the original concept on Android, or so its maker onehalfkiller claims. The theme remains a work-in-progress thus far, with the lock screen, clock widget, custom icons and Compass app redesign completed. All that remains is some work on the Phone dialer, and then iMIUI should appear on Cydia. We’ll let you know when it’s available. A video demo of MIUI V5 follows. (more…)
In a recent post on his Facebook page, influential business magnate Donald Trump claimed that he thinks Apple needs to increase the size of the iPhone display to be slightly larger than Galaxy devices. More so, the television personality claims that Tim Cook and company must do so quickly, before they lose a lot of business and, subsequently, yield market share to Samsung and other competitors.
I have a lot of @Apple stock— and I miss Steve Jobs. Tim Cook must immediately increase the size of the screen on the iPhone. It should be slightly larger than the Samsung screen- and they better get it right fast because they will lose a lot of business. I like the larger screen.
Trump, an Apple shareholder himself, quickly attracted a lot of reaction from his social network followers. One top-liked comment on his Facebook post claims that the iPhone is the proper size for a smartphone, since it needs to be compact and fit into your pocket or purse. Another comment that has garnered a number of likes is a woman who posted that her Galaxy S III is a much better handset than the iPhone. (more…)