iPhone Techie

Stride is a new Cydia app that allows you to create your own custom unlock animation to unlock your iDevice.

No icons are installed on your home screen, but a tab is put into your Cydia apps/tweaks section. The app allows you to enable or disable the app, to disable your iDevice’s unlock code and also allows you to customize your own animation.

The calibration process consists of three entries of your desired Read more…

The working title for the independent Steve Jobs film featuring Ashton Kutcher is ‘Jobs: Get Inspired’. The film’s producer Mark Hulme of Five Star Institute spoke to Neowin about the project.

The Steve Jobs movie is something we are already thoroughly looking forward to here at Redmond Pie, even after the news that man-child Ashton Kutcher is to play the Apple co-founder. During an interview with the movie’s producer, Mark Hulme, Neowin has managed to uncover a couple of Read more…

TomTom has updated their navigation app for iOS with updated maps, Facebook integration, destination sharing, and more.

The TomTom Navigation app. World-class TomTom navigation, on your iPhone or iPad New to v1.10: Navigation goes social with Facebook™ & Twitter™ Read more…

Semaphore has released an update to TinyUmbrella that lets you save BBTickets for use ‘later on…’

I’m pushing 5.10.11 for iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, and iPhone 4 CDMA users with functionality to save BBTickets for use later on… Read more…

As announced, AT&T has begun unlocking off contract iPhones for customers. TNW details the procedure. If you qualify you can contact the company via phone, chat, or in-store to request the unlock.

Here’s what happens:

The only piece of information required by AT&T is the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, which Read more…

As you all know since the Jailbreak 5.0.1 came out all iPhone 4 and iPad users have been able to install “Siri” the awesome Apple assistant onto their devices but now Apple may be taking steps to block Siri on unauthorized devices, according reports circulating online.

This is a big deal and I don’t think Apple will be able to do anything about it but they are trying to make an attempt to stop all Unauthorized users from using Siri.

Wolvy, a moderator on iHackMyi, reports that a new “SetActivationToken” has disabled Siri for Read more…

Lingual is a new tweak by the CodeThemed team that adds translate functionality to Siri. In my example below you will find that it has no issues translating things into Russian language or 30 other languages of your choice and that are supported

Translate to over 30+ languages using Siri. Created by the CodeThemed team, designed by Mazalthan and developed by TheNickF Read more…

AssistantExtensions is a new tweak that lets you extend Siri’s functionality. It includes built-in support for additional commands including tweet, launch app, search YouTube, toggle switch, and more.

Using a plug in architecture developers can add custom functionality to Apple’s assistant. Read more…

The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners waited patiently, then they waited some more, and finally after a little more waiting welcomed the Absinthe jailbreak software to the community.

The ‘Dream Team’ of hackers have just released their untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.

P0sixninja details some of the background in a post on the Greenpoison blog:

The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible Read more…

The iPhone Dev-Team has updated RedSn0w to resolve a problem with MobileSubstrate that occurred when rerunning the jailbreak.

The b3 version of redsn0w fixes a problem where re-running redsn0w over an existing jailbreak would cause MobileSubstrate-based apps to stop running until MS was installed again. Now you can re-run the redsn0w jailbreak step without worrying about that (but still remember to de-select the “Install Cydia” option if it’s already installed).

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