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Tuesday 30 July 2013

iOS 7 Beta 4 Confirms New iPhone With Biometric Home Button And FingerPrint Sensor (source absinthejailbreak)


iOS 7 Beta 4 Confirms New iPhone With Biometric Home Button And FingerPrint Sensor - iPhone 5S and the rumored low-cost iPhone have been all we have been hearing about for these last few days. Finally though, we might have a good lead on something that we have been hearing rumors about for a long long time! The Home Button is perhaps the most vulnerable part of the iPhone, and it was hoped that it would be replaced with a capacitive fingerprint scanning button, and a new hint in iOS 7 Beta 4 may have confirmed that!

iOS 7 Beta 4 Confirms New iPhone With Biometric Home Button And FingerPrint Sensor

This bit of information comes from Hamza Sood(@hamzasood) who just found a new folder in the code for iOS 7 Beta 4 called “BiometricKitUI”.
iPhone with Finger sensor
Here is what this code string looks like,
bplist00‘_”enroll.tutor.image.label.left.hand_fingerprint.image_#enroll.tutor.image.label.right.hand_fingerprint.status_
hPhoto of a person holding an iPhone with their left hand while touching the Home button with their thumb_;
A fingerprint that changes colour during the setup process._
iPhoto of a person holding an iPhone with their right hand while touching the Home button with their thumb_Recognition is
Apple’s last year acquisition of AuthenTec for $365 Million had us raising eyebrows as there should be something for which Apple will make use of it! For those who are unaware, AuthenTec is a company that specializes in making fingerprint sensors and after this code got picked up by Hamza Sood, we are pretty sure that the iPhone 5S(or whatever Apple might call it’s next-gen smartphone) will use a biometric sensor.

Saturday 27 July 2013

2 new iphone coming this fall


2 New iPhone Devices Coming This September - During the last few days, we have heard about Production issues, shortage of items and God knows whatever! The rumor mill really goes haywire when an Apple product launch is looming near, and this time, it’s the same. iPhone production issues aside, a new report from iFun claims that 2 new iPhones will be coming on the 6th of September.

2 New iPhone Devices Coming This September

2 New iPhone Devices Coming This September
This report is disagrees with earlier rumors about iPhone 5S suffering from production issues. However, Apple seems to have dealt with those as a number of sources are claiming that the production for the 7th-Gen iPhone have been ramped up. Along with this flagship release, it now seems almost certain that there will be a secondary low-cost iPhone. Just yesterday, we got reports that iPhone 5 will be discontinued in favor of this budget iPhone.
iFun’s leak is certainly not something ground breaking as now, it seems almost certain that there will be a secondary low-cost iPhone release along with the flagship iPhone. Just yesterday, we got reports that iPhone 5 will be discontinued in favor of this budget iPhone. The only addition made by iFun is that they have proposed a possible release date for this big product launch by Apple, September 6.

Sunday 21 July 2013

Apple Store app to be updated this Tuesday with an all-new design, and free iTunes content


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As a part of Tim Cook’s push to get more people to buy Apple products through its retail stores, the Apple Store app would be updated with an all new design, in line with other apps like the iTunes Store, the App Store and the iBooks Store.
The update will also let users download iTunes content, that otherwise costs money, for free from Apple’s three digital content stores.
Apple, internally, positions this as a way to boost content sales as this new feature is designed to raise awareness about Apps, iTunes, and iBooks content.
Sources say that the new app update is also designed to go hand-in-hand with a new initiative in Apple Stores. When a new iOS Device is sold, Apple employees will be encouraged to install the new Apple Store app on the newly purchased device.
In turn, more customers will be exposed to Apple’s direct sales channels.
By encouraging customers to buy through channels controlled by Apple, the company can guarantee that the customer experience is up to a certain standard, and increase the chances of a return buyer.

Thursday 18 July 2013

Report claims Apple to launch iPhone 5S with 4.3-inch display, to delay launch until the end of the year



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Here’s the crazy rumor of the day.Bloomberg relays a new report from Taiwan’s Commercial Times, which claims that the launch of the next generation iPhone, unofficially dubbed iPhone 5S, will be delayed to the end of this year as Apple has decided to increase the size of the screen from 4-inches to 4.3-inches.
Bloomberg reports:
Apple Inc. (AAPL) may delay the introduction of the iPhone 5S until the end of the year after the design was changed to feature a bigger 4.3-inch retina display screen, the Commercial Times reported.
The company previously scheduled the release for September or October, the Taiwanese newspaper reported, citing unidentified people in the semiconductor industry. Takashi Takebayashi, a spokesman for Apple in Tokyo, wasn’t immediately available to comment to Bloomberg News.
Apple increased the size of the screen from 3.5-inches to 4-inches just last year with the launch of iPhone 5, so it seems highly unlikely that Apple will again increase the size of the screen this year.
There have been rumors that Apple is working on an iPhone with a larger screen (4.8 to 5-inch screen), but that will be a different model, and is rumored to be launched sometime next year.
iPhone 5S is widely expected to feature the same design as the iPhone 5 and come with improved internals such as 12-megapixel camera, faster A-series chip. It is expected to be launched around the September timeframe.
We would love to see Apple launch a 4.3-inch iPhone, but we doubt that will happen anytime soon, especially after telling us why the taller 4-inch display is perfect few months back.

Monday 8 July 2013

Here’s what’s new in iOS 7 beta 3(source--iphonehacks)



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Apple has just seeded iOS 7 beta 3 to developers of its iOS Developer program.
Here’s what’s new in iOS 7 beta 3:
  • Beta 3 includes development versions of new male and female Siri voices for U.S. English and French, and a male voice for German. 
  • The Calendar app finally tells you which days you have events in the monthly view with the dots. Thanks Stan and Duston.
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  • The font seems to be thicker in the Notification Center and the stock apps. 
  • Slightly larger status bar icons in the Lock screen compared to the Home screen.
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  • In the lock screen, when music is playing, you can toggle between the music controls and the Clock by pressing the Home button. That’s neat. ThanksJoseph! Update: Apparently it was available in the previous betas as well.
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  • There is a new animation when you’re installing an app as you can see in the screenshot below. Look at the animation on the app at the bottom row (just above the dock). Thanks Sako!
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  • You can now pinch to zoom while you’re in landscape mode in the Music app. Thanks Junior C.
  • On the iPad, when the side switch is set to Orientation lock, the button in ControlCenter changes to a mute button. Thanks Kalo.
  • Folders appear to be more transparent. Thanks Alan.
  • The clock app in Control Center has been tweaked.
  • The AirPlay button in Control Center now shows the current status such as iPhone speaker.
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  • New Reading list icon in the search bar in Safari. Thanks Alan and Danniboi.
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  • The system font in iOS 7 Beta 3 is now Helvetica Neue Regular instead of the Helvetica Neue Ultra Light (via@antichrista). Gif via @Cabel.
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  • You can now set Favorites in Safari, which can be accessed via the Bookmarks icon. Thanks Matthew.Update: Apparently this was available in beta 2.
  • Slight change in animation when you access Spotlight on the Home screen.
  • New settings under Accessibility to reduce the motion of the user interface, including the parallax effect of icons and alerts. Thanks Alan and Matthew.
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  • The icons in the Music app have been updated. Thanks Alan.
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  • The dictionary feature seems to be working now. Thanks Alan.
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  • The subject line is now show when the Notification arrives on the Lock screen. Thanks ML.
  • 9to5Mac has posted this video of some of the UI changes in iOS 7 beta 3:

  • In the Messages app, when you tap on the Contact option, it displays the icons for call, FaceTime and Info. If you tap on the call button, it gives you an option for Voice call or FaceTime call. Thanks Josh!
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  • We’re hearing reports that Siri’s voice is even more realistic. And here’s what Siri has to say about it (via@rajavijayaraman).
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  • The .com button has been replaced with a simple period button in Safari. You can still access .com and other domain extensions by holding down on the button.
  • When you run an iPhone app on the iPad, iOS 7 no longer displays 2x mode. Thanks Gonçalo!
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Let us know if you’ve found any other changes in iOS 7 beta 3 in the comments or send an email to tips@iphonehacks.com. Thanks everyone for the tips so far.
Categories: iOS 7

Sunday 7 July 2013

BatteryDoctorPro: A must-have Battery management tweak for jailbroken iPhone



BatteryDoctorPro is a must-have battery management app for your jailbroken iPhone. It offers tons of features to manage your iPhone’s battery, and even gives you quick access to settings toggles and app switcher/multitasking bar.
BatteryDoctorPro app:
Unlike most jailbreak tweaks, BatteryDoctorPro comes as a standalone app.
  • When you launch the app, it gives you information about the hours of battery life left.
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  • It also gives you access to three default presets namely Outdoor, Indoor and Alarm. The presets are like profiles, the tweak will automatically enable or disable system toggles to save battery life. For example:
  • Indoor: When you are at home, you can select the Indoor preset. It turns off location services, mobile data and Bluetooth to save battery life.
  • Alarm: When you go to sleep, you can select the Alarm preset, which turns off Wi-Fi, data, location services, Bluetooth, reduces brightness to 30% and enables AirPlane mode.
  • Outdoor: When you’re stepping out, you can select the Outdoor mode, which turns off Wi-Fi, but enables mobile data and location services.
batterydoctorpro-preset
  • You have the option to configure the presets based on your preference by tapping on the icon in the top right corner and selecting the appropriate preset tab. You can play around with 7 different setting such as Wi-Fi, mobile data, LTE, Brightness control, Airplane mode, Location services and Bluetooth.
  • When you connect your iPhone to a power source, it automatically launches the BatteryDoctorPro app and it gives useful information such as how much time it will take to recharge your iPhone. It also tells you it’s in which stage of the charging cycle such as High-speed (a stage where your iPhone’s battery is recharged very fast), Continuation (a stage where your iPhone’s battery is recharged at lower speed) and Trickle (in this stage, you must continue to charge your iPhone even though the battery is fully charged to improve battery life).
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  • You can also access previous charging history by tapping on the menu icon in the top left corner and tapping on Records from the menu.
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  • You can also check System information from the menu, which gives you the health of the battery, the temperature of the battery and the number of cycles, used RAM, CPU usage and amount of free storage.
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  • The Manager option gives you the energy level of each app, and also gives you quick access to the whitelisted apps (we’ll explain how to whitelist the app shortly).
  • The Cleapup option lets you free up storage space by deleting junk files such as Safari cache files, Cydia cache and temp files, system log files, system cache files, temporary files, OTA software updates, Safari cookies and history, location cache, clipboard history and Spotlight caches. You have the option to configure, which files you want to delete via the Settings panel, which can be accessed by tapping on the settings icon in the top right corner. After you have configured the settings based on the preference, tap on theClean now button. After it completes the clean up process, it will inform you how many junk files were deleted and how much storage space was feed up. I ended up reclaiming just over 300MB of storage space using this option.
batterydoctorpro-cleanup
Status Bar Widget
The tweak also offers a cool custom widget, which can be accessed by tapping on the battery indicator on the Status bar.
As you can see in the screenshot below, it displays the current preset such as Indoor, Outdoor or Alarm, the battery life and amount of RAM used currently. You can change the preset by tapping on the preset/battery life section of the widget. You can kill all the apps running in the background by tapping on the RAM section of the widget to free up memory.
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The widget also gives you quick access to the system toggles and shortcuts so you can enable and disable them or take appropriate action from anywhere in iOS. It offers toggles such as BadgeClear (allows you to clear the notification badges from the apps), virtual Home button (can be very handy if you have a broken Home button), Auto-lock settings and Lock screen that are not typically available in such Quick settings tweaks. It also includes a shortcut for TaskClear, which kills all the apps running in the background to free up RAM.
It also gives you quick access to the app switcher/multitasking bar. If you’ve Auxo installed then it will display the app switcher with the Auxo styling. You can kill apps by swiping down on the app icon. If you do not want an app to be closed when you tap on the RAM section of the widget, then swipe up on the app icon to add it to a whitelist (though it doesn’t seem to work if you’ve Auxo installed). Whitelisted apps get a badge in the bottom right corner of the app icon.
You can also access a similar widget from the Notification Center and the Lock screen (if you’ve lock screen tweaks like LockInfo installed).
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BatteryDoctorPro widget in Notification Center
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BatteryDoctorPro widget in the Lock screen
Smart Save Settings
If you think that changing the preset is too cumbersome, the tweak comes with smart save settings, which gets triggered when your device goes into standby mode, while you’re sleeping or when there is low battery.
  • In standby mode, you can auto kill background apps (disabled by default) or disable LTE to save battery life after a delay of x minutes (default is 10 mins).
  • In low power mode, it automatically disables mobile data when there is x% of battery life left (30% by default) and reduces the screen brightness.
  • In sleep mode, it automatically enables the Sleep preset based on sleep time you have configured (2:00 am to 8:00 am by default).
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Settings
You can access Settings for BatteryDoctorPro at the bottom of the menu in the standalone app.
  • It allows you to enable or disable the widget in the Status bar and Notification Center.
  • You also have the option to disable the preset changer, multitasking bar in the Notification Center widget. You can also choose to display the toggles in a single row or in two rows.
  • As I mentioned earlier by default BatteryDoctorPro is launched when you connect it to a power source, but you can disable this via the Settings (Run BDP when plugged in On/Off toggle).
  • You can also disable the alert that reminds you when recharging is completed, so you do not overcharge the battery.
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Folks at TechShowsYou have created a detailed walkthrough of the tweak, so check it out in action below:

I have been playing around with BatteryDoctorPro for couple of days and it seems to work exactly as advertised, and comes with a very slick UI. The amount of features it offers is quite overwhelming and easily one of the most comprehensive tweaks available on Cydia. The tweak has been developed by Kingsoft Security.
It is compatible with iOS 5.x.x and iOS 6.x.x. It supports iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 5 and iPod touch 4.
And that’s not all, the unbelievable thing is that, the tweak is available for free on Cydia. So if you’ve a jailbroken device, then you must definitely check it out.
BatteryDoctorPro seems to have sneaked past our radar as it has been available for quite sometime so our apologies for not covering this earlier. Thanks @Vicari0 for the tip!
As always, let us know what you think of BatteryDoctorPro in the comments below.
➤ Download link (works only on a jailbroken device)

Wednesday 3 July 2013

iOS 7 Beta 2 Download


iOS 7 Beta Download

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iOS 7 Beta 2 Download Links:

iOS 7 beta 2 for iPhone

iOS 7 beta 2 for iPad




  • iPad Mini A1432 (Wi-Fi) [Mirror]
  • iPad Mini A1454 (GSM) [Mirror]
  • iPad Mini A1455 [Mirror]

Cycloramic, the awesome handsfree panorama app, goes free for a limited time


Cycloramic is an awesome photography app for the iPhone that lets you shoot panoramas or 360 degree videos handsfree. We were pretty impressed with the app when it launched last year, and since then it has got multiple updates adding a ton of features.

If you haven’t heard of the app, Cycloramic uses the iPhone 5’s vibration motor to automatically rotate the device around its y-axis, as it shoots a video or stitches a panorama. There’s also an option to manually shoot panoramas in case a flat surface isn’t available.

The app, usually priced $0.99, has gone free for a limited time, so hit the download link below to install Cycloramic on your iPhone.
Download link:

How to make your iphone look like iOS 7


iOS 7 Theme
iOS 7 Theme by Philip Wong (pw5a29) is a most comprehensive theme for iOS 7 compared to the iOS 7 theme by AR7 we had covered earlier. The theme by Wong adds support for the following:
  • App Icons
  • Signal Bars
  • Wallpapers
  • Batteries
  • Revamps UI of apps such as Settings, Messages, Bitesms, Phone, WhatsApp, Notes, Safari, Music, Voice Memo, Weather with iOS 7 look and feel.
  • Dock
  • Switches
  • Siri
  • Minimal Lockscreen
  • Flat App Skin for App Store Apps
  • Flat notification Bubble
  • Flat Linen
  • NotificationCenter
  • Folders Icon and Background
  • Close Boxes
  • Lockscreen Music Controls
  • Music Controls
  • Grabber
  • Slider
  • ColorKeyboard
  • Auxo
  • NCSettings
After installing the theme, you will need to select these UI elements in theWinterBoard app (WinterBoard -> Select Themes). You also need to install Wallpaper JPEGifer from Cydia and set the wallpaper again to prevent the black Lock screen issue.
It fully supports the following iOS devices:
  • iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4
  • iPod touch 5G, iPod touch 4G
  • iPad 2, iPad 1
It partially supports:
  • iPad 4, iPad 3
  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPod touch 3G
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iOS 7 animated lockscreen
If you’re just looking for the iOS 7′s new Lock screen then check out the iOS 7 animated lockscreen theme developed by Sil66.
It replaces the Lock screen with an iOS 7-like animated wallpaper, it even highlights the slide to unlock text in the same way as iOS 7 does and comes with the translucent camera shortcut at the bottom right corner.
It doesn’t feature iOS 7′s 3D parallax effect, but it has subtle animation like the iOS 7 animated wallpaper. Unlike iOS 7, you need to unlock by swiping on the slide to unlock text.
Parallax Effect
iOS 7′s 3D Parallax effect makes the“position or direction of an object appear different when viewed from different angles”.  DeepEnd by Ryan Petrich, developer of popular apps such as Activator, allows you to check out the 3D-effect on your jailbroken iOS device right now. You need to add Petrich’s repository  http://rpetri.ch/repo/ to install the tweak.

Panoramic Wallpaper
Jailbreak tweaks like LiveWallpaperallows you to set panoramic images as your wallpaper, which are scrollable when you flip through home screen pages.

Let us know how it goes in the comments below.
Download links (will work only on jailbroken iOS devices):