Facebook’s continuing quest to touch all areas of our life (and be the place to share it) is getting bigger today with the company’s new camera specific app, “Facebook Camera”. The app, as the name suggests, is built entirely for quickly snapping photos, applying filters, and sharing them online. How does it work and is a separate app outside of the Facebook app for taking/sharing photos really necessary? GS investigates… User Interface Upon...
If you’re like some of us here at GS and anxiously awaiting the highly anticipated Absinthe 2.0/iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, you have less than 24 hours left. A recent tweet from the @HITBsecConf twitter account for said conference says that on Friday, May 25th, pod2g and friends will be showing off a live demonstration of the new jailbreak, with a public release hitting the interwebs (reportedly) shortly thereafter. The event is kicking off at 11:30am CET (5:30am...
Remember that awesome Unfold iOS lockscreen tweak we showed you just last week? Well, the jailbreak community (specifically, German developer Jonas Gessner) apparently loved the concept too as they’ve already whipped something up and shot it onto the Cydia App Store. As the concept depicted, the tweak itself is pretty basic; you unlock your screen by sliding across as normal. Though, instead the usual sliding button at the bottom, the screen folds in on itself into a...
We all know a new iPhone is coming this year. This is not news nor surprising (at least it shouldn’t be). But the specifics of the next-gen iPhone likely dropping this fall (October-ish) have remained unknown. The biggest object of contention is the display; will it get bigger or will Apple keep it 3.5″ in a time of 4.5″ giants? According to a new post by 9to5 Mac citing there all-knowing sources, Apple will release a new iPhone this fall with a...
Good news. We’ve found a way through for iPod 3G and iPhone 3Gs users. Upcoming jailbreak will be compatible. — pod2g (@pod2g) May 18, 2012 A few days ago we reported that infamous jailbreak hacker, pod2g, had found a way to jailbreak the latest versions of iOS (5.1.1) on pretty much all devices. The only devices that weren’t working at the time included the Apple TV 3, 3rd-gen iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS. Today we can thankfully scratch the latter two off...
A fair amount of China Mobile’s 660 million+ subscribers have no doubt lusted over the Apple iPhone over the last few years. But potentially later this year, those wants and desires for one of the most successful line of smartphones ever could come to an end. Speaking in Hong Kong yesterday, China Mobile’s Chairman Xi Guohua confirmed that it and Apple were currently going through talks to bring the iPhone to the world’s largest mobile carrier – 667...
