Safari undoubtedly remains the most popular iOS web browser, despite the presence of some pretty good alternatives in the App Store. There are no official Chrome or Firefox clients for iPhone and iPad, but in a surprising move, Yahoo! has joined the ranks of iOS web browsers! The new Yahoo! Axis app has been released today, and comes with some pretty decent features. Yahoo! Axis is supplemented by web extensions for all major desktop browsers, and the app uses those extensions to sync your desktop bookmarks and read-it-later lists automatically across all your devices. Another innovative feature offered by Axis is its way of displaying search results. The browser makes sure that you don’t have to navigate away from the current webpage in order to view search results, made possible by the availability of a standalone search section within the app. Read on to know more about this sleek web browser for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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The iOS Maps app is rarely the focus of attention for Cydia developers, but there are still some pretty good tweaks available for its customization, like Compass for Maps (reviewed here) and Speed for Maps (review). A perfect Maps tweak should add some new feature to the app without affecting any of the existing ones. Coordinates for Maps is exactly that type. The functionality offered by the tweak isn’t too significant, but it can still prove to be helpful in a variety of situations, and that’s why we decided to take it for a spin. Basically, this tweak displays the exact GPS coordinates of any location in the iPhone Maps app. The tweak uses a HUD to show its data, and you can even customize the looks of that HUD.
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With plastic money’s rise to popularity, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of all the money you owe to different banks, organizations and other people. There is always that looming threat of suddenly finding out that there’s not enough money left in your bank account to pay all your bills. This is where the iPhone app My Cashflow can help you. Unlike other financial management apps for iOS, My Cashflow is fairly simple and doesn’t require its users to log all their bank account details before providing some meaningful stats. You just have to feed your recurring expenses in the app, store your current balance, and you are good to go. My Cashflow generates a graphical representation of the predicted state of your bank account, and indicates the exact date when your funds are expected to run out if things stay the same.
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If you think every tweak in the Cydia store is there to add some useful new feature to your iOS device, you clearly haven’t seen enough of the jailbreak store. Cydia is all about customization. There are lots and lots of themes and cosmetic tweaks available there, and the latest to join them is Unfold. Just last week, a concept video made the rounds on the internet proposing an alternative to the familiar “Slide To Unlock” employed by iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Unfold brings that concept to life, and using this tweak, you can bid a fond farewell to “Slide To Unlock”. If you are using Unfold, you will still have to swipe across the bottom of your device’s lockscreen, but instead of a moving slider, the whole screen will fold away like a paper, revealing the Home screen, passcode lock or any app that was opened when the device was last locked. Read on to know more about Unfold, and to see the tweak’s beautiful animation in our screenshots.
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Android supports Flash while iOS doesn’t, and this is a point that comes up in a lot of smartphone comparisons. Fortunately, the App Store is full to the brim with tools and utilities that cover many of the shortcomings that plague the iPhone. That’s what makes GPlayer a must-have for all iOS fans who like to use their device for watching a lot of videos. This awesome media player can play just about any video format and all popular audio formats, making it an excellent alternative to the now-Cydia-exclusive VLC Media Player for iOS. Not only that, the app supports loop playback and continuous play. Copying video files to the app is extremely easy as well; it can be done both over WiFi and via iTunes. Read past the jump for details.
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Online shopping has exponentially grown in popularity in the past few years. There are online stores for just about every genre of items, be it electronics, clothing, books or accessories. While this has certainly made life more convenient, the choices have now become so vast that you can get a bit lost if you frequently visit multiple online shopping sources. Most users don’t even know which online store they should look into if they are trying to find a particular item, and then there is all that headache of managing your shopping carts separately. So, if you plan to go on an online shopping spree in the near future, make sure that you install Buyou on your iPad before doing that. This app suggests amazing deals on various items, and connects its users with a lot of online shopping stores. Buyou makes sure that you easily find the items you want, and don’t have to worry too much about what store to shop at.
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Although the newly released iPhone app Social Stock might appear to be a copy of Klout at first glance, the two services differ from each other in almost every aspect, including the basic concept. Social Stock doesn’t just calculate your social network influence and presence; it aims to let you use that influence in real life to get deals and discounts. For now, the deals part is just a concept, as Social Stock is in its alpha phase and no commercial partners have been added, but still, you can spend a few interesting hours trying to invest in your friends and calculating their social media importance. Social Stock assigns a net worth to all your Facebook friends based on their influence and activeness on social media. The same principle holds true for places, and you can buy any person or place’s shares and reap the rewards if their activity or influence increases. Feeling a bit confused? Head past the break for details regarding this innovative app.
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One of our most popular iOS guides is the one dealing with enabling push notifications, iMessage and FaceTime on hacktivated iDevices (you can read it here). As is apparent from that post, if your phone isn’t activated via iTunes, push notifications and some other features won’t work for you. While you can use our guide to get the vanishing features back, they will disappear once again as soon as you upgrade to a newer version of iOS. Not anymore! With Certificate Backup, you can create a backup of your push and YouTube certificates with complete ease. Not only that, this Cydia app comes with the option to let users inject the backed up certificates back into their jailbroken and hacktivated iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, thus saving you from having to perform all the complicated steps involved in getting push notifications up and running on a hacktivated device.
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There are Cydia tweaks that turn off iOS notifications via a single Notification Center toggle, like DoNotDisturb (review), and then there are those that disable the Notification Center as soon as you launch an app that runs in full screen mode. While those tweaks are certainly useful in their own right, they are not as useful and customizable as the newly released NotiQuiet. This Cydia tweak doesn’t rely on a fixed parameter (like entering full screen mode) to disable notifications, nor does it act as a universal notification blocker. With NotiQuiet, the user gets the freedom to define the apps for which all iOS notifications need to be silenced; the tweak does so automatically, whenever said apps are running. You can select any app, system or third-party, and the tweak makes sure you aren’t disturbed by any notification while using the chosen apps.
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Pastebin is essentially the web’s notepad – used by millions regularly for sharing their plain text and code snippets with others. And now everyone’s favorite ubiquitous text pasting and sharing service has an iOS app. Released recently for both the iPhone and the iPad, the app allows you easy access to Pastebin from your iOS device on the go. Read on for our complete hands-on review.
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By Haroon Q. Raja on May 22, 2012
You’ve all probably heard about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia for readers by readers. Seriously, who hasn’t? If you often find yourself on the website, looking through its massive database of articles, you should know you can do the same on the go with WikiView for iPad. It incorporates most Wikipedia features and even provides additional features like saving an article for offline reading, removing those pesky references at the bottom of the page, searching articles by location via a world map and much more.
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By Zeeshan on May 22, 2012
If you own or manage multiple (or even one) Facebook pages, then you should know that the mobile version and the official iOS app for the social network simply aren’t enough to get everything done on the go. You can view notifications related to your Facebook pages and post content, but the procedure is not streamlined at all. Apparently, Facebook agrees with this too, and that is why Facebook Pages Manager has been released. The official Facebook app lets you manage all your Facebook pages in one place, from the convenience of your mobile device. Not only that, Facebook Pages Manager will show you the statistics for each page, and insights for individual posts on that page! So, if you own an iDevice and moderate a few Facebook pages, read on to know all about this super useful app.
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Cydia store is all about customization, and no matter which part of iOS you are talking about, the jailbreak store is sure to offer something related to it. There are a lot of themes and cosmetic tweaks in the Cydia store, but there are some areas of an iPhone that are just taken for granted, and people never think about changing their appearance. One such item is the volume HUD in iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The translucent square is a seemingly unchangeable aspect of iOS, but a new Cydia tweak attempts to modify all that. VolumeCustomize lets you change the color and opacity of the volume HUD, and not only that; you can even choose a custom image to use as the background for the volume indicator!
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There are a lot of Twitter clients on iOS, and as they all perform essentially the same task, the only room for innovation is left regarding the app’s interface and its way of presenting your timeline. That’s exactly what Thirst for Twitter focuses on, bringing a whole new way of looking at your Twitter timeline. The app infers your interests from your timeline, and presents a graphical feed on its homepage, much akin to a newspaper. There are several of these personalized newspapers on Thirst’s main page, and you can even view a feed related to a topic of your choice by simply searching for that particular keyword. The overall interface of this iPad-only app is pretty sleek, and you can learn all about Thirst for Twitter by heading past the break.
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Thanks to the Cydia store, there are many ways of customizing the Spotlight search area of iOS devices. SpotSiri is the latest in a long line of tweaks that are designed to let users do something new and different from the otherwise mostly-redundant Spotlight search. This tweak serves a dual purpose. With SpotSiri, you get an extra and easily accessible Siri launch button on your iDevice, and you will also be able to type your query in the Spotlight search text box to get Siri to answer it without having to speak at all, making it super helpful to use Apple’s virtual assistant in quiet environments. So, if you have a Siri-enabled device, read on to know all about SpotSiri.
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