When Apple releases a new iOS software update, one of the most interesting things to do was to go through the configuration files to find out references to future iOS devices.
Unfortunately,
that was seeded to developers few hours back, Apple has started adding dozens of new fake references to future iOS devices such as “iPhone 11,3″, “iPad11,1″, ”iPod 11,1″, and “AppleTV10,3″ in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist file in an attempt to make it difficult (more…)

In the latest build of iOS 5.1, now beta 2, Apple has finally decided to take steps against the popular rumor site tactic of rifling through iOS code to find references to new hardware models.

Apple is now making it tougher for rumor sites to evaluate future hardware updates.

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Mark Gurman)

These references, typically something like iPhone 3,1, were a great way for rumor sites to predict (more…)

Few months back, ih8sn0w – developer of popular jailbreaking tool
 of the iOS running on their iPhone , iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV 2G.
that also takes a backup of SHSH blobs.
The key difference between iFaith and TinyUmbrella was that, while TinyUmbrella only allows you to take SHSH blobs of iOS that Apple is signing by contacting Apple ’s servers, iFaith dumped SHSH blobs for whatever iOS that is currently installed on your iOS device (more…)

earlier today, Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut revealed that many Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones come bundled with software called “IQRD” developed by a company called Carrier IQ that secretly logs everything a user does on the mobile phone.
The creepy thing is that Eckhart found Carrier IQ’s software logging even personal information such as text messages and web searches, which has raised serious privacy concerns. Unfortunately, there is (more…)

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Despite the overwhelming success of Apple ‘s “walled garden” approach to the iPhone , iPad, and iPod Touch, many users still wish to part ways with the benefits of control in favor of the unbridled technology (good and bad) available when jailbreaking iOS. If you are one of those users, you can actually become an integral part of the jailbreaking community.

Jailbreaking your iOS device largely depends (more…)

devices from cracking when dropped.
devices, and subsequently takes action to protect the glass screen. Apple uses the
, to protect hard drives from damage arising due to drops.
The patent filing details the use of a “tunable shock mount” which would reside between the glass and the body of the device. When free fall is detected, the mount would instantly inflate, thus preventing damage to the glass. The images below illustrate the process:
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- iPhone 4S’ new voice activated personal assistant feature was revolutionary then checkout Project Black Mirror.
It is a project started by two guys who have figured out a way to give commands to Siri using brain waves and lot of hardware. So far they’ve managed to 25 brain waves to specific Siri commands.
Okay, if it sounds unbelievable then here is how they’ve managed to get it to work according to
1. ECG pads provide raw skin conductivity (more…)

, almost everyone (including me) wondered
. Although the qualities he imbibed in
would live long, his power to say “No” is what will perhaps be irreplaceable.
We all know that Apple ‘s roadmap is set for several years to come, and that has been confirmed today by Masayoshi Son, president of Japanese
Softbank.
The Softbank president told Reuters that Steve’s vision would be seen not just in the iPhone 4S, but in the
as well. He didn’t say (more…)

users utilizing the wide array of sensors available on iOS devices. This would eliminate the shakiness in a video when shot while moving and result in much better video captures.
Presently all video stabilising algorithms hog up a lot of system resources which reduces the overall performance of the device, especially mobile devices. The filing says that some algorithms might even generate incorrect estimates which would hamper the quality of a video (more…)

devices heavily relies on Google’s data, something which
surely doesn’t like. With acquisitions of mapping companies Poly9 and
, Apple hopes to change this very soon and a new patent filing indicates that it might use the data from these companies to build Augmented Reality right into the default Maps app. The patent filing also hints at turn by turn navigation, which would be superimposed on a real time video feed from the camera.
into a single (more…)