iPhone Users

DimInCall Brings New Options To Control The Screen During A Call

Costea Lestoc — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:48:24 +0000

Any smartphone made by a smart manufacturer automatically closes the screen when we are talking on the phone and have our ear close to the device, but iPhones have often had problems with this system. To solve the problem there is now a tweak called DimInCall, it closes the screen automatically when a call is initiated/accepted. The screen can be re-opened by pressing the Home/Lock button, but if we want we can set the closing/opening to be made by means of physical buttons and not automatically.

Compatible with iOS 5 and 6. One great feature in iOS is that when you put iPhone near your ear during a call, the screen blacks out automatically, in case your face touches the buttons by mistake. But what doesn’t make it perfect is that if you’re not holding the phone like the proximity sensor expects, the screen stays visible, thus making it easy to mess the call. In my humble opinion, the screen should be turned off as soon as a call is connected, rather than let the proximity sensor decide. So here comes “DimInCall”.

DimInCall comes of course with a settings menu where we can customize its functionality, so you can choose exactly how you want to use it, as needed. This tweak is available at a price of $2 in the BigBoss repo of Cydia and only works with iPhones.

iPhone 6 Concept – What Fans Want For The Next iPhone

Costea Lestoc — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:18:46 +0000

Fans waiting for the new smartphone from Apple have made a clip showing a potential version of the iPhone in June. Inspired more from the Transformers comics, the concept it’s not quite possible to be made nowadays. It integrates two projectors, one for the keyboard that appears on the desktop, and the second to display the main screen. Unfortunately, the producers chose to use a clip of Mac OS X desktop for this presentation, suggesting that the iPhone should be able to run a remote desktop application.

Interestingly is that the smartphone from the presentation is very similar to the iPhone 5 and at first glance could be considered an iPhone 5S. It lacks many of the elements of futuristic building that we saw on other concepts like transparent screen, curved display, etc. Given that ergonomics is a very important factor for Apple, we will not see anytime soon or ever a keyboard displayed on a hard surface that doesn’t provide a feedback on display. The integrated projector is a reality today in Samsung Galaxy Beam, but requires a generous battery and the quality and brightness of the image is poor. We are pleased however for this interesting clip about a concept that will not become a reality in the near future.

The video can be seen on the upper right side of this page.

Learn To Share PDFs Right From The iBooks App

Costea Lestoc — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:22:32 +0000

If you have found a book that you think would appeal to one of your friends, iBooks offers a simple way to send them a link to the book that they can use to buy it. Also, if you use iBooks to save PDFs, you can print them or send them to a friend by email in just a few steps:

How to distribute a book to a friend from the iBooks app:

- Open the iBooks app from the home screen of your iOS device;

- In the Library section, click on the book cover you want to distribute;

- Now click the Contents icon represented by three parallel lines at the top of the page (right next to the library);

- In the page that displays the contents of the book, click on the Share button from the top right of the screen;

- Choose how you want to distribute the book by clicking on the application icon. The options are E-mail, SMS/iMessage, Twitter, Facebook and copy link to attach it to another place;

- If you chose one of the first four options, then there will be a preview of your message. For your email and SMS/iMessage you will need to enter your address, or email/phone number. Tap the Send/Post button to send it.

How to print or send via email a PDF from the iBooks app:

- Open the iBooks app from the home screen of your iOS device;

- From the PDF collection click on the PDF cover that you want to send or print;

- At the top of the page, click on the Share button;

- Select E-mail or Print, depending on your preference;

- If you select E-mail, the PDF will be inserted directly into an email. Enter your email address and click Send to send the PDF.

Apple Web OS – An iPhone Theme Inspired By Apple’s Website

Costea Lestoc — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:59:05 +0000

I do not know how many of you would have wanted when using your iPhone to have in your face a similar interface with the Apple website, but a theme called Web OS Apple aims to give you that experience. The theme is built on implemented tiles in Windows Phone, faithfully mimics Apple’s website and the most interesting part is that it can be customized by us. There are 54 tiles around the topic, many automatically generated for various applications, the native applications interface is modified and the LockScreen has a different “face”.

Inspired by Apple.com, Apple Web OS is the cleanest light theme around. Everything is fully customizable so you can have the theme set up exactly how you want it. There are 54 pre-made tiles that you can select from for each page, along with auto-generated tiles from your own apps, to ensure everything is themed 100%. A WinterBoard lockscreen is also included; install Lockscreen Clock Hide from Cydia for the full effect.

The theme is of course dedicated to only those who really admire Apple’s online store interface and would not mind to see it constantly in their main display, so do not test if you are thinking differently. Apple Web OS is available in the ModMyi repo of Cydia.

How to Change the Keyboard Color, Form of the Letters and Make the Keyboard Vibrate

Costea Lestoc — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:40:45 +0000

Sometimes, the size of the letters bothers us as well as its color, if you want to change them, make sure you have:

- An idevice (preferably iPhone).

- WLAN.

- Jailbreak done, doesn’t matter on what Firmware.

Step I:

Connect to a WLAN and start the Cydia app.

Step II:

After you start the application go to “Manage-> Sources-> Edit-> Add”.

Step III:

Add Source: “http://repo.insanelyi.com” and wait for it to load.

Step IV:

Go to the search section and type: “COLOR KEYBOARD” after you find the tweek for changing the color and shapes, install it and respring your iPhone.

Step V:

After the respring, start the Cydia app again and go to search section where you will write “Haptic” and is the first package from the top, install it and give a respring (vibration hack).

Step VI:

Go to the Settings app and look for where it says “HapticPro”, open it and make sure all are on, you can adjust the vibration intensity from the “Duration” bar (I prefer a quite small one).

Step VII:

Log in to Color Keyboard application also from the settings menu, make sure it is opened, from the “color” select the one you want, now on the “shape” you can pull that bar and can therefore round the letters as much as you want.

0-Hour – An Amazing “Metallic” Theme For Your iPhone

Costea Lestoc — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:54 +0000

0-Hour is a newly launched theme during last night in Cydia, and it is suitable for those who want to implement a “metallic” look in their iOS’s interface. The theme implements a new design for a slider with particular LockScreen and has special icons for native apps, but for a multitude of third-party applications from the App Store, has one dedicated interface for each native application and special menus for popular tweak from Cydia, so you will have a completely changed experience after installation.

Times up to bring something new and Innovative. 0-HOUR brings a new idea to the normal UI with its Unique SLIDE EFFECT. For my 10th theme and 1 yr anniversary theming I wanted to go all out. 0-HOUR includes – custom details icons made from scratch, SB Widgets, Color Keyboard, SBSettings, Screen loaders (can be turned off in WB), All Native apps themed to match. The new SLIDE EFFECT for the UI is integrated through out the theme from the Dialer to the Calculator.

0-Hour is available on the ZodTTD & MacCiti repo of Cydia and is compatible with iPhones/iPod Touch. Keep close for more of these interesting thems.

Incoming search terms: cydia 0 hour theme

SemiRestore Allow Us To Re-restore Our iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Costea Lestoc — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:30:48 +0000

Basically if you have an iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5 an iPad 2/3/4/Mini or iPod Touch, you have iOS 5.0 – iOS 6.1.2 and have already jailbroken your terminal, then you could do a partial re-restore only on the version that you have in your terminal without using SHSH. iPhones that doesn’t have jailbreak cannot use SemiRestore, doesn’t matter what version of iOS have, and if your terminal is not included in the aforementioned boundaries, then the solution will not work under any circumstances, so do not bother to ask.

Okay, you are “qualified” to do the restore, now you are probably wondering what is happening. Well Semi Restore procedure removes almost all from your device: applications from the App Store and the information in them, plus most of the Cydia tweak, except application Cydia, iFile and jailbreak. Basically SemiRestore doesn’t make a full restore, does not erase all the data, lets some of them, but before using the solution it is advisable to make a backup of all data because you will have to copy them back to the terminal.

Semi Restore is presented as a safe solution to make a partial restore, you will not actually reinstall your operating system, you will not change any baseband/etc, and as soon as it is available I will explain the method by which you can effectively make a partial restore.

Here’s how to use Facebook Chat from OS X Messages app

Costea Lestoc — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:21:38 +0000

Facebook Chat is a messaging system developed by the Facebook Company for its social network users, and through it you can chat with any of your friends quickly. Facebook provides us a suite of applications from where we can use Facebook Chat, but on Macs there is a dedicated application. Those who still want to access the chat using an application, they can configure the Messages application offered by Apple since OS X Mountain Lion.

Everything starts from the assumption that you already have an iMessage/Yahoo account set in Messages app, otherwise you need to connect using one.

Open the Messages application and access the Preferences menu.

Select the Account tab and click the + button from the left bottom of the window.

Next to Account Type select Jabber. In the Account Name enter username@chat.facebook.com (username is referring to your facebook user name, one that appears in the URL after facebook.com/), then enter the password.

Select the Server Options and in the right of the Server enter chat.facebook.com. For the port input the value of 5222 and press Done.

If you followed the steps correctly, then the application should be displayed to all your friends who are online chatting at the moment.

How Can You Disable In-App Purchases on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Costea Lestoc — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:24 +0000

Because we have told you the story of that child in the UK who has spent not less than 1,700 pounds per in-app purchases after his father initially enter the password in the App Store for free download of the Ninjas vs. Zombies game, after Apple returned parents that amount of money, we thought to present you a small tutorial that show you how you can disable content that purchasing these items, I’m sure most of you do not use or did not use them ever.

So if you have a child who used to play with your iPhone, to avoid an unpleasant situation like the one above, we invite you to find out how you can disable in-app purchases from the App Store.

1) Navigate to Settings>General>Restrictions and press the Enable Restrictions;

2) Enter a 4-digit code, then confirm it;

3) Navigate down to the “Allowed Content” and disable the “In-App Purchases”

4) (Optional) You can choose from the next section, “Require Password” the “Immediately” option. In this way you will be prompted to enter your password on the App Store account every time you try to purchase something. Obviously this will not help at all if your child know the password so in this situation remains to follow only the first 3 steps.

So no one, not even you, will be able to buy stuff from games through the “in-app purchase” system.

Smartphones Sales In The First Quarter: Android vs iOS

Costea Lestoc — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:34:59 +0000

IDC released smartphones deliveries figures from the first quarter of this year, they gave the domination to Android platform, but also the iOS leap on the second position of the stack.

In the first three months of this year, Android phone manufacturers shipped 162.1 million pieces, an increase of nearly 80 percent over the same period last year, when they were delivered to 90 million pieces. These figures place first among Android smartphone software platforms, with a market share of 75 percent landslide. A year ago, Android was only 59.1 percent of sales.

Apple’s sales increased to 37.4 million units, marking a jump of 6 percent compared to the same period last year. iPhones ranks second place with a market share of 17 percent, but losing market share compared to the first quarter of last year, they represented nearly a quarter of the sales.

Windows Phone platform managed to get to the third place, displacing BlackBerry products. In the first three months of this year, Microsoft operating system run on 7 million of new terminals, representing 3.2 percent of the market, while BlackBerry has managed to sell only 6.3 million units and settle for four. A year ago, Microsoft had a market share of only two percent, while BlackBerry ranked third with 6.4 percent.

On the free fall is the defunct Symbian platform, which reached a market share of 0.6 percent from the 6.8 percent recorded a year ago, while various Linux platforms are also down slightly.