iCaughtU: Jailbreak App Takes a Photo When Someone Enters Wrong Passcode

News | Friday December 16 2011 12:25 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , ,

that allows you to take a picture with the front camera when someone enters the wrong passcode and sends the photo along with information such as location and a map to you via email.
The jailbreak app also doesn’t allow someone to turn off the iOS device when it is locked.
While iCaughtU is available on Cydia for free, iCaughtUPro is available for $2.5 offers you a number of features:
Take Picture with Front Camera (if available) when password (more…)

Holga iPhone filter case takes retro photos

iPhone | Sunday November 20 2011 4:38 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

Holga iPhone filter case takes retro photos

The cases are as colorful as the filters.

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Holga)

The original Holga toy cameras were all about reveling in low fidelity. Just because you have fancy modern camera technology in your iPhone doesn’t mean you have to forgo all the fun.

The Holga quadruple image lens produces results like this.

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Holga)

The Holga iPhone Lens Filter Kit will whisk your iPhone back to an ’80s level (more…)

Apple takes baby steps with iOS 5

iPhone,iPod | Sunday October 2 2011 2:03 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , ,

Apple takes baby steps with iOS 5

This article was originally posted June 6, 2011 and updated on October 4, 2011.

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CNET)

Just as many predicted, Apple gave a brief look at iOS 5 today at the Apple Event (Full event and iPhone 4S coverage here) this morning in Cupertino. Tim Cook opened the event, but he turned to Scott Forstall, Apple ‘s senior vice president of iOS, to show off many of the new features in iOS 5 of a promised 200 (more…)

Amazon Takes The Web App Approach With Kindle Cloud Reader To Bypass Apple’s App Store Policies

News | Monday August 8 2011 12:07 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Apple ‘s In-App purchases policy had managed to upset quite a lot of developers, even after
. Amazon’s Kindle app was directly affected by these policies and
.
Today, Amazon has silently launched
, a web based Kindle avatar to tackle this problem. It not only allows users to read books, but also purchase them through Amazon and keep them on their devices for later use just like the native app.
Currently, Kindle Cloud Reader works on the
(more…)

AT&T Takes a Dig At Verizon, Warns CDMA iPhone Users Of Life In the Slow Lane

News | Tuesday January 4 2011 7:04 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Dev Team Releases Redsn0w 0.9.7 Beta 5 For iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak
JailbreakMe 2.0 Released To Jailbreak iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G On iOS 4, iOS 4.0.1 And iPad On iOS 3.2.1, iOS 3.2 Using Mobile Safari [Updated]
Android 2.3 Gingerbread Ported To iPhone 3G
Redsn0w 0.9.7b1 For iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak For iPhone 4, iPad And iPod Touch 4G Released [Updated]
How To Jailbreak iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G Using Limera1n [Windows]
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Sony Takes A Dig At iPhone Games In New PSP Ad

News | Monday August 16 2010 11:36 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , ,

It's interesting: the PSP is basically setting itself up as an alternative to iPhone games, which is the opposite of how that argument usually plays out. Sony is also promoting inexpensive, older games as a reason to enjoy the PSP instead of looking ahead to big-name upcoming titles.
By trying to take a dig at a smartphone to promote a mobile gaming device like the PSP, Sony has probably highlighted it’s desperation.Ars Technica rightly point (more…)

Adobe Demos Flash On HP’s Upcoming ‘Slate Device’; Takes A Dig At Apple

News | Friday March 5 2010 2:49 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

” in the fight for market share in the nascent tablet segment. A case in point is a recent demo video for HP Slate, which is scheduled to launch in the market later this year. In this video, Alex Tam from the Adobe Flash product marketing team demonstrates the capabilities of HP Slate in rendering Flash based content.
that Flash would bring down the iPad's battery life from 10 hours to a measly 1.5 hours, Tam asserts that hardware acceleration (more…)

Verizon Takes a Dig at AT&T Once More With New Ad Campaign

News | Sunday January 31 2010 10:04 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

However, that does not seem to have happened. Verizon has now launched a new series of ads that once again flaunt the network's superior 3G coverage area over AT&T's. Two of these ads titled ”
” are targeted at the younger crowd for the upcoming Valentine's Day. As
notes, both these ads are spoofs of the classic
commercials. Another commercial titled ”
” focuses on the upcoming Winter Olympics season. As you might have already (more…)

Sudoku Grab iPhone App Takes Augmented Reality to The Next Level

News | Sunday December 27 2009 12:21 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

The latest version of the iPhone app integrates augmented reality with behind-the-scenes image processing to produce some really fine Sudoku solving software.
This is how the iPhone app works: When you point the iPhone camera towards a Sudoku puzzle from any newspaper or computer screen, the app first identifies the basic grids and number images. Using image processing techniques, these images of the numbers that are captured on screen are interpreted (more…)