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Facebook, WhatsApp app are draining your iPhone, iPad battery
If you’re constantly using the Facebook or WhatsApp app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, then that may be the reason the battery dies so fast on your device. A German iOS developer recently conducted a test of his iPhone’s CPU using developer tool Instruments. Using the Instruments tool, he was able to check which processes are consuming the most CPU time. It turned ...
Apple updates Mountain Lion to 10.8.3, brings Windows 8 Boot Camp support and more
Apple today released an update to OS X Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8.3. The update comes with new features that benefit Windows users and many fixes for OS X. OS X 10.8.3 includes new features such as support for installing Windows 8 via Boot Camp, and Boot Camp support for Mac using a hard drive bigger than 3 TB. Now for those running OS X on their Mac, OS X 10.8.3 brings Safari ...
BlackBerry 10 WhatsApp app now available for download
WhatApps Messenger for BlackBerry 10 devices is now available in the BlackBerry World app store. BlackBerry Inc today released a native version of its WhatsApp cross-platform messaging app to BlackBerry 10 users.
The cross chatting messaging app, WhatsApp, lets you chat with people using different phones or platform than the one you’re using. It lets you send text ...
iOS 6.1.3 to patch evasi0n jailbreak exploits
If you still haven’t jailbroken your iDevice, now it’s the time to do it before it’s too late – because after iOS 6.1.3 comes out, you won’t be able to do it. One of the creator of the Evasion jailbreak for iOS 6, David Wang or mostly known as Planetbeing, told Forbes that Apple has fixed one out of the five exploits used in order for evasi0n to jailbreak ...
How to jailbreak the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1
Now that the iOS 6 evasi0n jailbreaking tool is available, here’s how you can jailbreak your iPhone 5, iPad mini, or any iOS device you have lying around that is running iOS 6, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, or 6.1.
These are the devices that can be jailbroken using evasion:
iPhone 5
iPhone 4S
iPhone 4
iPhone 3GS
iPad 4
iPad 3
iPad 2
iPad mini
iPod touch 4
iPod touch 5
Before starting ...
Google Maps out now in App Store for iPhone 5 and iOS 6 devices
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 users not happy with Apple Maps can finally use Google Maps as an alternative. The Google Maps app replaced with Apple Maps in iOS 6 is now available in the App Store as a separated app with more features than it had in iOS 5. The app now features Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, and Street View.
Navigate ...
Chrome for iPhone updated to open PDFs externally, Passbook, bugs fixes
A new Chrome for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) update from Google is now available in the App Store. The update, version 23.0.1271.91, brings more features and improvements. One of the feature this update bring is that now it allows you to open PDF files externally in other apps. It also brings Passbook support, which let you save boarding passes and tickets. Now you can turn ...
Google Voice Search is quicker, more accurate than Siri (video)
So you want the best voice assistant on your iPhone? Apparently you’ll likely to dump Siri and download Google’s new search app from the App Store. In a comparison test by Gizmodo, while comparing Google Voice Search to Siri, it was found out that Google Voice Search outperforms Siri.
But in the end, and as you can see above, Siri was just a bit too slow and erratic ...
Windows Phone 8 syncing app for Windows 8 and RT released in Windows Store
Ahead of Windows Phone 8 release, Microsoft has released the application that will transfer files between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8/RT. The Windows Phone 8 application for Windows 8 and RT, My Windows Phone, will manage Windows Phone 8 devices, like iTunes does for iOS devices. Unlike iTunes, the Windows Phone app allow you to transfer music, photos, and videos from the ...
iOS 6.0.1 arriving in coming weeks to fix bugs, iOS 6.1 after Christmas
Your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch will reportedly get another iOS update in coming weeks. Apple is allegedly testing iOS 6.0.1 with its partnered carriers in the US (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon). As expected on minor iOS updates, the release of iOS 6.0.1 will fix many bugs found in iOS 6 but won’t include any new feature. The news of this rumored update comes from BGR.com, where ...
