Microsoft’s New Windows Phone Ad Pokes Fun at iPhone-Android Flame Wars(source--iphonehacks)

We all know how worked up people can get when it comes to defending their mobile platform of choice, be it iPhone, Android or even Windows Phone. The sheer number of Android and iPhone users, however, make iPhone vs. Android flame wars much more common than ones that involve Windows Phone or Nokia.

Taking advantage of this, Microsoft has released a new ad for the Nokia Lumia920 titled “Don’t fight. Switch,” poking fun at the enthusiastic fans on both sides of the iPhone vs. Androiddebates. Here have a look:

The ad is really funny, but goes out to show an acknowledgement from Microsoft itself that the platform doesn’t have its own set of fans. Tell us what you think of the ad in the comments below.

Cheap Plastic iPhone Coming(source--absonthejailbreak)

Cheap Plastic iPhone Coming ? - Apple is easily the most targeted company in the whole internet rumor mill. Barely a week goes by without us hearing a whole lot of new rumors about a new iPad, iPhone, MacBook or if we are lucky, even an iWatch. A budget iPhone has been a hot topic since a long time and with all the stock trouble Apple has having, it really looks like 2013 to be the year Apple may change it with a few new products and a cheap iPhone certainly would help in this situation.

Cheap Plastic iPhone Coming

Apple really isn’t a fan of cheap plastic-y products but a lot of things have been changing in the Tim Cooks-led company, so we can’t rule out the possibility of a plastic iPhone. Ferry Passchier decided to dig into it and managed to make some plastic iPhone concepts in not 1, not 2, not 3, but 10 colors!

Here is what he says about it,

Since we didn’t know which colors to pick, we decided to do ten. Tactus claimed to have the plastic shell so we threw in a little of that as well. We then fed it to one of our favorite 3D modelers Ferry Passchier. He did an incredible job combining the reports into a realistic render with the color options above. He also provided us with a real life render below.

How To Enable System-Wide Facebook Chat Heads On Your iPhone With Message Box

Earlier in the month, Facebook released a major update for its iOS app that brought iconic features such as Chat Heads, Stickers from Facebook Home for Android to the iPhone and iPad.

However, due to the limitations of iOS, Facebook hasn’t been able to bring Chat Heads system-wide.

Last week, we told you about a jailbreak tweak called Message Box was in the works that could bring Chat Heads system-wide to the iPhone. We’ve some good news if you’ve been eagerly waiting for it.

Adam Bell, developer of MessageBox has just released the beta version of GitHub. Here’s how to install it:

Update:

Message Box is now available on Cydia. Tap on the download link provided below to install it from Cydia instead of using the iFile method.

Requirements:

• Ensure Facebook app is installed on yourjailbroken iPhone.
• This method needs iFile installed on your iPhone.

Now follow these simple steps:

• Download Message Box .deb file on your jailbroken iPhone. Tap on this download link on your jailbroken iPhone.
• Tap on “Open in iFile” button on the top right corner.

• This will open iFile. Tap on the Installeroption from the menu.

• Then tap on the “Done” button. This will install the .deb file.
• Reboot your jailbroken iPhone.

That’s it. You should now be able to use Chat Heads system-wide on your jailbroken iPhone. To see if it works, launch the Facebook app, initiate a conversation by tapping on your Contacts and quit the Facebook app. The Chat Heads should still be accessible on the Home screen or even when you launch any app. You can easily remove them by tapping and dragging them to the bottom section of the screen.

Adam has also submitted the tweak to the Big Boss repo, so it should be available for free on Cydia shortly, in case you want a more hassle free way to install the tweak.

Check out the demo video of system-wide Chat Heads:

It’s quite cool and exactly how Facebook would have liked to implement the feature on the iPhone.

Let us know how it goes and what you think of system-wide Chat Heads. Kudos to Adam Bell to make this possible.

Update:

Message Box is now available on Cydia via the Big Boss repo. Tap on the download link below to install it from Cydia.

➤ Download link

Related:

How to jailbreak your iOS device

Download TinyUmbrella With iOS 6.1.3 Support(source--absunthejailbreak)

Download TinyUmbrella With iOS 6.1.3 Support- SHSH blobs is a signature file which allows iOS users to downgrade to previous versions. There are different methods of saving SHSH Blobs but the easiest method is using the Tiny Umbrella. Recently, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which fixed the Evasi0n Jailbreak.

Tiny Umbrella is developed and updated by a famous developer NotCom who has recently released TinyUmbrella 6.13.00 to support iOS 6.1.3. This means you can save SHSH Blobs for iOS 6.1.3 using the latest version of TinyUmbrella.

Download TinyUmbrella With iOS 6.1.3 Support

This latest version doesn’t have apticket validation but according to the developer’s tweet the next version will have Apticket validation. Here’s what he tweeted:

TU 6.13.00 supports iOS 6.1.3. Would have added apticket validation but couldn’t get it in. It’ll be in 6.13.01.

TinyUmbrella is a very useful tool and you can even save SHSH blobs on your computer. Simply download the latest version ofTinyUmbrella from the links given at the end of this post. Connect your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad using Cable. Run the TinyUmbrella and click on “Save SHSH”. It will automatically save all available SHSH blobs on your computer. In case of any problem, don’t forget to comment below:

Download Links:

• Download TinyUmbrella for Windows [Click Here]
• Download TinyUmbrella for Mac [Click Here]

New cydia tweak MessageSwipe Lets you Swipe between Different Conversation on iPhone

MessageSwipe Lets you Swipe between Different Conversation on iPhone – With every passing day, a new Jailbreak tweak is released in the Cydia Store, some of these tweaks are really useful and have tons of options while others are simple and will not have any specific settings. But they may prove very useful for some users; MessageSwiper is a new jailbreak tweak which allows you to switch between different conversation using simple gestures from left to right or right or left.

MessageSwipe Lets you Swipe between Different Conversation on iPhone

This is a very simple Jailbreak tweak; you can swipe on the specific area in a conversation to navigate to the other conversation. After the installation of MessageSwiper, it will not add any icon on Homescreen and you don’t have any options to configure in the settings panel. Moreover, the developer has also promised that he will add the support for BiteSMS in the future update.

How to get cydia tweak ''atom'' for free

To get Atom cydia tweak for free add source given bellow and search for atom and get it :)

http://cydia.myrepospace.com/idevice-hack

Atom Cydia Tweak Amazing Lock Screen Launcher for iOS – While we are posting some gorgeous concepts of iOS 7, the amazing Jailbreak developers are also posting some astonishing tweaks for iOS 6 users. Some of these tweaks are related to Home screen while others are related to the lock screen of iOS. Atom is such an amazing lock screen launcher which is different from all other tweaks. This tweak doesn’t not only let you launch applications from the Lock screen but it will remove the “Slide to Unlock” bar and you can launch the applications in a different yet beautiful way.

Atom Cydia Tweak Amazing Lock Screen Launcher for iOS

Atom will add a small yet beautiful knob on your home screen; you can move this knob to any application or the middle of applications which will simply navigate you to the spring board. It uses a pretty impressive animation style which we have never seen in a lock screen application. The folks at IDB have got a preview of this un-released Jailbreak tweak and this application is pretty much cleared from the screenshots.

After the installation of this tweak, you will have different options in the settings panel. However, the settings panel is much simpler as compared to the options of any other Cydia tweaks. There are six different positions according to the positions of the applications, you can select from “Top Left” to “Bottom Right”. However, there is only one downside of this tweak which is that you must have to fill the each position from the settings panel and you can’t let any vacant position on the lock screen. Other than this, it is pretty smooth, elegant and must have Lock screen launcher for iOS 6 users.

How to use your idevice without home screen or how to use iPhone or IPad with faulty home key

How To Navigate iDevices When Home Key is Faulty - One of the most important buttons on all iDevices is the Home Key. On the average, the home key is pressed 30 times per day in order to achieve various tasks. This is why its very important on an iDevice. There are numerous reasons for this.

1. Without home key, navigating the idevice will be very difficult, irritating and a challenging task
2. On a non-jailbroken iDevice you won’t be able to access your home screen while running an app if your Home key is faulty.
3. Without Home key, you won’t be able to close running apps in the background without switching off device.
4. With a faulty home screen, it will be difficult to put device in DFU mode.

The list can be endless, however, Apple understand that this can happen to any of its devices and made a simple intelligent decision check below

How To Navigate iDevices When Home Key is Faulty

Requirement

• An iDevice running iOS 5.0 or above

Compatible Devices

• iPhone 3Gs, 4, 4S, 5
• iPad 1, 2, 3, 4
• iPad mini
• iPod Touch 3G, 4G, 5G

Procedures

Step 1: On your device, click on Settings, General and then Click on Accessibility

Step 2: Scroll down until you see Assistive Touch, toggle it on

Step 3: Once on, a transparent round icon will show up. This icon, will serve as your home key and you can move it around from place to place .

Step 4: Tapping this transparent icon will mimic the same function of the physical Home key. Also, if your ringer doesn’t function, you can use the is icon to activate it as shown above.

Note: For those who have a jailbroken devices, there is a tweak called Activator will help you to set up custom gesture as you like, follow the guide below will help you.

How To Navigate iDevices When Home Key is Faulty on Jailbroken Devices

Step 1: Go to Cydia and search for Activator, then press install.

Step 2: Go to Settings you will find Activator.

Step 3: Click on it and you will see a screen like the one below. Configure your custom gestures from this screen.

How To Restore iPhone, iPod To The Same Firmware (source--absinthejailbreak)

How To Restore iPhone, iPod To The Same Firmware - For one reason or the other, you might need to re-install the same firmware you have running on your device. It might be the latest firmware (which is easier) or a non-latest firmware (which is less easier). These two process is described below and tagged as Process 1 & Process 2. This tutorial, tries to guide you in achieving your task by following the steps below.

How To Restore iPhone, iPod To The Same Firmware

Process One: Restoring to a Latest Firmware (6.1.3) Requirements

• Your current Firmware
• Download iTunes 11 from here
• Download Sn0wbreeze 2.9.14 from here

Supported Devices

• iPhone 3GS, 4
• iPod Touch 4G

How To Restore iPhone, iPod To The Same Firmware

Step 1: Download your iOS 6.1.3 firmware

Step 2: Download iTunes 11

Step 3: Download Sn0wbreeze and extract it to your desktop

Step 4: Launch Sn0wbreeze and click “Ok“, then click on the Blue Right arrow,

Step 5: Click on “Browse for an IPSW“ Select your iOS 6.1.3 IPSW.

Step 6: After choosing your current firmawre for your device click on the right blue arrow.

Step 7: Click Simple Mode

Step 8: Click Yes to activate your device and let Sn0wbreeze build your IPSW

Step 9: Once Sn0wbreeze finishes, your new IPSW would be saved to desktop

Step 10: Put your device in DFU following instructions from Sn0wbreeze and launch iTunes

Step 11: At device summary page of iTunes, hold Shift and click Restore, select your IPSW which saved on Step 9 (s0wbreeze version)

Step 12: iTunes, will begin restoring your device. After 15 mins, your device will be on 6.1.3.

Woz Says Apple’s Future Products Will Surprise and Shock us All

Apple’s stock fell below the $400 point, a 16-month low two days ago. This obviously resurfaced questions about the company’s future, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that the company is working on products that will surprise us all.

Speaking at a technology conference in Lithuania, Woz said:

Apple’s stock price is a little low right now. Over time I’ve seen Apple go up or down 2x over a few months. It’s very disappointing because if you look at the amount of cash that Apples holds that cash translates to one to two hundred dollars per share of stock just in cash form. So the expectations are a little lower even than they expect.

But where are the profits of the whole industry though? They are still with Apple and profits are all that really matter in the long run. Apple’s business model tends to be new products, even products that didn’t exist before and doing well out of them and not re-making the same thing, as eventually that just gets a little bit stale. So I would guess that Apple is very well prepared, and working on new things that are going to surprise and shock us all. And I honestly don’t know [what].

Though Woz’s information isn’t based on any inside info, we can’t help but think that Apple’s working on something big, given how silent it has been this year.

Woz did share his thoughts on what he’d like computers to become in the future:

“Computers should save us from a lot of thinking, like calculating numbers. When electronic calculators came about they freed our minds to think of other things and enabled us to get to where we are today.”

Voice recognition, Woz says, would become more common, enabling people to interact with their devices using another medium. Siri’s promise was exactly this, but it hasn’t quite lived upto people’s expectations.

Atom Cydia Tweak Amazing Lock Screen Launcher for iOS(source--abdinthejailbreak)

Atom Cydia Tweak Amazing Lock Screen Launcher for iOS – While we are posting some gorgeous concepts of iOS 7, the amazing Jailbreak developers are also posting some astonishing tweaks for iOS 6 users. Some of these tweaks are related to Home screen while others are related to the lock screen of iOS. Atom is such an amazing lock screen launcher which is different from all other tweaks. This tweak doesn’t not only let you launch applications from the Lock screen but it will remove the “Slide to Unlock” bar and you can launch the applications in a different yet beautiful way.

Atom Cydia Tweak Amazing Lock Screen Launcher for iOS

Atom will add a small yet beautiful knob on your home screen; you can move this knob to any application or the middle of applications which will simply navigate you to the spring board. It uses a pretty impressive animation style which we have never seen in a lock screen application. The folks at IDB have got a preview of this un-released Jailbreak tweak and this application is pretty much cleared from the screenshots.

After the installation of this tweak, you will have different options in the settings panel. However, the settings panel is much simpler as compared to the options of any other Cydia tweaks. There are six different positions according to the positions of the applications, you can select from “Top Left” to “Bottom Right”. However, there is only one downside of this tweak which is that you must have to fill the each position from the settings panel and you can’t let any vacant position on the lock screen. Other than this, it is pretty smooth, elegant and must have Lock screen launcher for iOS 6 users.

Atom is not yet released in the Cydia Store; however, it will be available on BigBoss repo in Cydia Store in next week. What do you think about Atom? Let us know in the comments section below.

iOS 6.1.3 Untethered Jailbreak Status(source--absinthejailbreak)

iOS 6.1.3 Untethered Jailbreak Status – Apple released iOS 6.1.3 to the public. Prior to the release of this firmware, it was said that Apple fixed few bugs and also patched exploits used by Evasi0n to jailbreak all iOS capable devices running iOS 6.0 -6.1.2. Hackers have warned those that wants an untethered jailbreak to refrain from updating to the latest firmware (iOS 6.1.3).

iOS 6.1.3 Untethered Jailbreak Status

Some heeded to this warning and some didn’t. Consequently, those that upgraded to this latest firmware are still waiting for an untethered jailbreak for their devices.

Sadly, there won’t be an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3 for all iDevices. According to tweets by one of the notable hackers @pod2j, ”

we (Evad3rs) are not working on a iOS 6.1.3 jailbreak that would be too much effort for a minimal update. We’re waiting for a major release.

Truly speaking, it will be useless to expend so much energy on a minor update like iOS 6.1.3 just to please a minor few that updated to it.

Although, its not all bad news as some devices can be tethered jailbroken like iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G on iOS 6.1.3 with the help ofRedsn0w 0.9.15b3 and snowbreeze 2.9.14.

Furthermore, even if you downgraded from iOS 6.1.3 to  6.1.2, you will be able to convert tethered to untethered.

Therefore, if you want an untethered jailbreak on your device, you should stay away from updating to iOS 6.1.3.

According to these hackers, work is more focused on jailbreaking a newer major firmware that would be released (iOS 6.2 or 7.0) in order to release its untethered jailbreak in record time. This can  be seen in one of the tweets of Joshua Hill below

According to Joshua Hill tweet, he is making substantial progress on perhaps untethered jailbreak of this major firmware release. This isn’t surprising because he started working on it long ago. The effort to bring untethered jailbreak to iOS 7 is really going strong and we can expect an untethered jailbreak as soon as this iOS 7 is released.

For those that would be getting new iDevices shipped with iOS 6.0, use evasi0n to jailbreak your device. Do not try updating to 6.1.3 for now if you want untethered jailbreak.

In Summary,

• There is no untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3 only on old bootrom 3GS.
• Tethered jailbreak only support iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G.
• iPhone 4S and 5 users cannot downgrade there firmware from iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 6.1.2. Only A4 devices can.

Finally, our esteemed hackers who just finished the Hack In The Box (HITB) conference are working intensely on an untethered jailbreak for iOS 7. That should put smiles on our faces again when iOS 7 is released.

Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 On iPhone And iPod Touch Using Sn0wbreeze 2.9.14(source--absinthejailbreak)

Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 On iPhone And iPod Touch Using Sn0wbreeze 2.9.14 - Last month, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 to fix the famous “Bypass Lock screen bug”. This new update also brought a bad news for the Jailbreak community; Apple has already fixed the Evasi0n Jailbreak in iOS 6.1.3. On the other side, Jailbreak developers are not working for iOS 6.1.3 Jailbreak. However, if you have iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G or iPhone 3Gs and have accidently updated it to iOS 6.1.3, you can jailbreak it using Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze v2.9.14 (Tethered). Yes, the Toronto based hacker, iH8sn0w has updated the sn0wbreeze to Jailbreak iPhone 3Gs, 4 or iPod Touch 4G.

Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 On iPhone And iPod Touch Using Sn0wbreeze 2.9.14

Like Redsn0w, it is also a tethered Jailbreak but it is suitable for those iPhone users whose iPhone relies on ultrasn0w for unlock. The other benefit of sn0wbreeze is that you can install certain Cydia Packages right from your computer. For all those, who don’t know, sn0wbreeze is only available for Windows PC. You can download the sn0wbreeze v2.9.14 from links given at the end of this post andclick here for the Jailbreak guide.

Download Links:

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.9.14  [Click Here ]

Note: For who don’t know how to jailbreak there iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G or iPhone 3GS check our tutorial posted here

How To Fix Blank App Store Update Page(source--absinthejailbreak)

Just immediately after restoring to iOS 6.1 and jailbreak untethered, I re-installed all my apps, connected to the internet. Within minutes, badge of 17 updates showed up on my App Store icon. This means that I have apps that needs to be updated.

Immediately I launched the App Store app, clicked Updates and waited for 5 minutes only to be greeted with a blank white update screen. At first I though my internet connection was the problem or maybe iOS 6.1 had a bug. However, I found out that other people have reported the issue on 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 too.

How To Fix Blank App Store Update Page

After 5 days of searching for solution, I finally stumbled on a fix for this problem which am about to share with you after the jump

How To Fix Blank App Store Update Page

Step 1: On your device, first, close Updates from the multi task pane. click onSettings>General>International>Language

Step 2: Change the language from any language there (Bahasa Melayu in my case. It could be British English in your case) to English: Even if you have English, change to another language then back to English again

Step 3: After changing language, launch App Store Updates again and the problem should be resolved.

Step 4: If the above steps didn’t help, go toSettings>General>Date and Time>Set Automatically>Off.

Step 5: Set the date one year ahead (e.g change 2013 to 2014). After doing this, try to update the apps again. You may get an error message

Step 6: Go to date and time settings again and change back to normal time and date by changing  Set Automatically to On.

Step 7: Go back to App Store Updates and it should start displaying

Step 8: If the above steps didn’t help either, Go to your Podcasts and off all subscriptions.

Step 9: Go back to App Store Updates and it should start working again.

If all of these methods above still didn’t work, you may have to install your app updates using iTunes and then transfer them to your device.

Please let us know if these steps fixed your problem. If you did anything different to solve yours also drop comments to help others in fixing their issue.

Purported ‘iPhone 5S’ Part Reveals Push Button Mute Switch(source--iphonehacks)

Japanese parts vendor, iLab Factory, has published photos, which they claim are parts of the next generation iPhone.
The photos show a flex cable for the device’s home button, a second flex cable housing the vibrator and volume/mute controls and also a third flex cable that appears to house the device’s front camera.
Eric Slivka of MacRumors who was the first to report on these alleged photos of iPhone 5S parts makes an interesting observation:

The part contains a strip of three buttons to run along the edge of the device, corresponding to the locations of the two volume buttons and the mute switch on previous iPhone models. But on this part, all three features appear to be buttons, suggesting that this upcoming iPhone may see the mute switch become a push button. 

Vibrator/audio control flex cable

iLab Factory also notes that the vibrator in this part uses a dual-head design, which is different from the iPhone 5 vibrator design, though it’s not clear what are the advantages of using a dual-head design.
MacRumors also reports:

The other two parts shared by iLab Factory reveal little information, with the home button flex cable appearing essentially identical to the previously seen part except for a part number change from 821-1684-01 to 821-1684-02. These parts do, however, contain a significantly longer cable than seen on the corresponding iPhone 5 part.
The layout of the front camera flex cable is nearly identical to the corresponding iPhone 5 part, although this leaked part is missing the microphone and other sensors seen on the iPhone 5 part offered by iFixit. 

Home button flex cable

front camera flex cable

Apple has used a small metallic toggle switch as the mute switch for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, which works quite well, so push button style mute switch seems quite odd. You can’t press the toggle switch accidentally and the orange indicator can quickly tell you if your iPhone is in silent/vibrate mode. It is quite possible that these parts are meant for the rumored low-cost iPhone.
Apple’s next generation iPhone, unofficially dubbediPhone 5S, is widely expected to look similar to iPhone 5, but come with improved internals such as a faster chip and improved camera.
iLab Factory via MacRumors

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