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CloudLover Offers A Quick Way To Access iCloud Tabs In Safari For iOS

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When Google Chrome brought tab syncing to iOS last summer, it was pretty clear that Apple would have to add the same feature to Safari, or risk seeing it become the second best web browser on their own mobile platform. iOS 6 did add tab syncing to the stock iPhone web browser, making use of iCloud for the purpose. A bit unexpectedly though, this particular feature didn't get too much attention, even from Apple. Instead of adding a new iCloud button to the browser’s main screen, the option is hidden inside the bookmarks collection of Safari. For all avid users of iCloud, or anyone who owns more than one Apple devices, the extra taps to reach synced tabs are sure to seem pretty annoying. As is the case with most annoyances in iOS, the Cydia store has a solution. CloudLover doesn't add an iCloud tabs button to Safari, but it does something even better. The tweak lets you configure a  gesture against two of Safari’s existing buttons to access your synced tabs in the blink of an eye. Read More

Get Search Autocomplete Functionality In Safari For iOS With Platinum

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Google Chrome on iOS comes with a neat feature that autocompletes your search queries for you as you type. Based on what you start your query with, you get real-time search suggestions, and you can select one of them to search for directly or further build on. Now, while Mobile Safari does give you Google-powered search suggestions, it does not let you quickly choose a suggested query to further build on top of. Today, we came across a new tweak that ports Google Chrome’s search autocomplete functionality to Mobile Safari. Check it out after the jump. Read More

Add Articles To Read-Later Services From Safari & Chrome On iOS With Readr

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If you have ever tried to read a lengthy article (like Haroon’s extremely detailed analysis of Ubuntu Touch Preview) on your iPhone, you are sure to have realized the usefulness of Mobile Safari’s ‘Reader’ view. However, you have to wait for the Reader button to show up by itself, as there is no way of invoking the mode at will. Readr is a new Cydia tweak that adds the Reader option to the sharing menu of Safari. And if you aren't satisfied with Safari’s own Reading List, the tweak also lets you associate your Pocket, Instapaper or Readability account with the browser so that you can add any post to these services without requiring a third-party app. The fact that it works with Chrome for iOS as well makes Readr absolutely perfect at what it does. Read More

View Song Lyrics On YouTube & Grooveshark From Nine Sources

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A lot of desktop music players support on-screen lyrics, but if you mostly listen to music on YouTube or Grooveshark, you might have little or no options for viewing song lyrics. On YouTube, channels add lyrics to within the song video's description or, at times, within the video itself, but it’s rare. YouTube Lyrics is an extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer that displays lyrics for the current song playing in YouTube or Grooveshark in a small popup within the respective tab. The extension searches and loads lyrics from one of nine sources that you can manage from its options page. Read More

Encrypt Facebook Posts, Tweets Or Any Online Message For Select Contacts With Scrambls

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Sending coded messages can come handy either for fun or out of necessity. The common way to share a message publicly while ensuring that only a few people in that public forum/group can view it is to use services that encrypt them and require decryption on the other side. Services like this have a drawback; they leave it to you to share the password/decryption key with your intended audience. Scrambls is a browser extension that works with a service at the back end and lets you easily scramble your message across any public or private online medium including social media services, forums, blogs, comments and the like. You can create groups using email addresses of your intended recipients, allowing them alone to unscramble the message. In order to unscramble the text, the recipients will have to install the Scrambls extension and sign up for a free account with the service. Read More

Scrobble Your Music Preferences From Fourteen Services To Last.fm

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With the large number of music streaming services and radio stations available online, you no longer really have an excuse for not being able to find a good song for a particular mood or moment. From popular services like Pandora to relatively lesser known ones like we7, music that suits your taste is pretty easy to come by. If you have your music preferences spread out across different services, perhaps you’d like one service to rule them all. Since all online radio services have their own way of finding songs for you, you might want to try something different like channeling your all preferences together into just one service. scroblr is an extension available for Chrome and Safari that lets you scrobble songs from one of fourteen services to Last.fm. It supports SoundCloud, Google Play, Amazon Cloud Player, Turntable.fm, AccuRadio and many more. Read More

Save Webpages As PDFs With Selectable Text In Safari For iOS

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The Cydia store has a handful of tweaks that let users cache Safari content for offline viewing. You can even find one or two that convert webpages into PDF files, which can be read and exported in a variety of ways. The new PDF Printer for Safari, however, is at the pinnacle of this genre of tweaks. Don’t be confused by the name, as it doesn’t have much to do with printing. The biggest edge PDF Printer enjoys over its competitors is its ability to refrain from rasterizing text on the page, so that you can copy and edit it with ease from the generated PDF document. Another great thing about the tweak is its support for various apps. In fact just about every app installed on your iPhone that can handle PDFs is listed in PDF Printer’s ‘Open With’ menu. Read More

iOS 6 Safari Adds iCloud Tab Syncing, Offline Reading List, Full Screen View & More

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In this age of mass connectivity and high speed wireless broadband access, one of the most major parts of any smartphone OS is its web browser. While there are several third party web browsers available for most platforms, most of the users stick with the default. That’s why Safari is the most used mobile web browser in the world and in iOS 6, Apple has added some much-needed features to enhance the browsing experience for its users. In what follows, we will take a look at the new features introduced in Safari in iOS 6. Read More

Start A Private Browsing Session From Within iPhone Safari

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The Chrome app for iOS has a lot of advantages when pitted against Mobile Safari, and one of these plus points is the easy access to incognito mode in Google’s web browser. If you are using Safari on your iPhone, you will have to go to the stock Settings app in your iDevice in order to start a private browsing session. This means going a long way just to press one button, and has made many people turn to Chrome or other iOS web browsers. However, things might not be all doom and gloom for Safari, as the Cydia community seems determined to keep Apple’s stock iOS browser on par with its competitors. Privata is the latest Cydia tweak aimed at Safari, and adds the much-needed private browsing toggle to the app’s own options, allowing you to easily toggle on private browsing without having to leave Safari. Read More

Tap-Dictionary For iPhone & iPad: View Definitions & Listen To Pronunciation Of Words Within Safari

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The Define feature in iOS is a pretty decent option if you want to look for meanings of different words on the go. The definitions it offers are quite comprehensive - at times, a bit too comprehensive. Also, it is always nice to have some competition in any field, but presently, there aren’t many apps that integrate their dictionary with Safari, and offer offline use as icing on the cake. Tap-Dictionary might not work offline, but does let you look up any word without having to leave Safari. Not only that, the definitions offered by the app are very precise, and you can listen to the pronunciation from the definition box as well, If you want to look for apps related to the searched word, the app will take you to the App Store, and it is also possible to search Google for results matching the selected word. Read More

Set Mobile Safari’s Default Search Engine To Wolfram Alpha, Baidu, Yandex & Others

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A few months back, we covered a rather complicated method for adding more options to the list of default search engines in Safari for iOS. While that method (involving iFile and file system editing) still works perfectly, the margin for error in it is very little. One wrong entry in the registry, and you might end up rendering your iPhone’s Safari completely unusable (I landed my iPhone in that condition doing that, so that's personal experience right there). So, it was about time some clever developer came up with a one-touch solution for this issue. SearchEnable is a new tweak that automatically adds 8 new search engines to Safari’s stock list, which natively includes only Google, Yahoo and Bing. Of course, you cannot add a search engine of your choice to the list using this Cydia tweak, but the offered options should prove to be sufficient for most people. Read More

Get Chrome-Like Omnibar With “Find On Page” In iOS Safari

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It is a known fact that competition always improves the quality of a product. Ever since the awesome Chrome for iOS came out (along with a slew of Cydia tweaks aimed at Google’s web browser) there have been some pretty decent tweaks for Mobile Safari as well. Most of the recent Safari tweaks are trying to bring Chrome’s features to the stock iOS web browser, but Safari Omnibar does a bit more than that. Admittedly, this tweak borrows the Omnibar from Chrome, but it also adds a new functionality to Safari’s address bar. Safari Omnibar will remove the search box from Safari, and in addition to that, you will also be able to find anything on the current page from the same area of the browser. Read More

Send Any Link From Mobile Safari To Chrome For iPhone & iPad [Tip]

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Chrome for iPhone and iPad came out a couple of days back, much to the delight of the iOS user community. The browser brought with a lot of the familiar goodies of its popular desktop and Android variants, including Google Sync, speed dial tabs and loads more. We even did an article elaborating the goodies in Chrome for iOS just yesterday. Whether Chrome is the best browser our there for your iDevice or not, is yet debatable, and while there are mixed feelings on that ground, a majority seems to believe Chrome is definitely better. faster, and more feature-packed. Wherever you lie in the spectrum, sometimes we do things just because we can. And so it turns out, while you cannot change the default browser in iOS (well, actually you can, if you are jailbroken), you can still play a cool little JavaScript trick to launch any page that has been opened in Mobile Safari directly in Chrome, with there mere tap of a button! Read More

PocketSafari: Easily Send Pages To Your Pocket (Read It Later) Account From Within iOS Safari

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Pocket (formerly Read It Later) is a really useful service if you are always on the move, as it allows you to bookmark stuff with ease, and you can also use it as your personal repository of content that you want to view offline at a later time. So, if you come across something really good while surfing the web on your iPhone’s Safari web browser, there is no easy and straightforward way of adding content to your Pocket account without having to go through a few annoying steps. Won't it be just wonderful for Pocket users if there was some way of adding content to your Pocket account with a single tap? Fortunately, the newly released PocketSafari Cydia tweak does exactly that. PocketSafari adds a new button to the action menu in Safari, and you just have to hit that button to save anything to your Pocket! So, head past the break if you are a fan of the amazingly useful Pocket service and own a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Read More

How To Download Any File Using Safari For iPhone [Cydia]

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By default, Safari only supports downloading very few file formats, and if you want to grab any other file, you will need the assistance of some third-party app. However, if you are familiar with iFile, you are sure to have noticed that it can handle almost all popular file formats. Now combine iFile with Safari, and the possibilities are endless. That’s what Safari Download Enabler does, to some extent, at least. If you have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, this newly-released Cydia tweak will let you download any file, opening it in iFile or any cloud service of your choice (like SkyDrive or Dropbox). Does Safari Download Enabler sound like a tweak you can use? Read on to learn more about it. Read More

Add Any New Search Engine To Safari On Your Jailbroken iPhone

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Jailbreaking is all about getting complete control over your iOS device and making changes to every area of your iPhone’s operating system. Mostly, jailbreak users don’t have to go through too much trouble to make these changes, thanks to the tweaks available in the Cydia store. However, you can’t rely on tweaks for everything, and at times, things have to be done manually. If you are a fan of any search engine other than Google, Yahoo and Bing (the ones included in Mobile Safari’s default list), there isn’t any clear and easy way of changing Safari’s search engine to the one of your choice. Fortunately, thanks to the steps recently highlighted by our friends over at LifeHacker, you can add any search source to Safari’s search engine list. Read on to discover the procedure, which makes use of iFile, and thus, requires a jailbroken iDevice. Read More

Switch: Transfer All Tabs In Current Window To Another Browser [Mac]

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We’ve covered quite a few extensions that allow you to send your currently open tabs from one browser to another. These extensions, although not for the general web surfer, are nonetheless useful for developers and designers who need to check how their developments are rendered across different browsers. The slight drawback with these extensions is that not all browsers have one such extension available, not all extensions work the same, and you might have compatibility issues if any one of the browsers is updated. Switch is a free Mac app that goes above and beyond all this, (literally - it sits in the Menu bar) and allows you to send all open tabs in the current window to anyone of the browsers that you have installed. Read More

Set A Homepage In iOS’ Mobile Safari With HomeSafari [Cydia]

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Last year in August, we covered a Cydia tweak which went by the rather lengthy name of Home button in Safari. It was a pretty useful tweak, as it added the much-needed home button to Mobile Safari in iOS devices. By default, it is not possible to navigate to a predefined homepage in Safari on your iPhone, and that tweak added a simple button which let you do that. If you read the review mentioned above, or have used the tweak yourself, then you surely know that Home Button in Safari has a rather drab interface, and is quite single-purpose. HomeSafari is a tweak that (in addition to having a better name than Home button in Safari) performs almost the same function, but in a really comprehensive manner. Apart from adding a home button to your iDevice’s Safari, the tweak also ensures that every time the browser is launched on a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, it opens to your defined homepage. This can prove to be a useful feature for a lot of users, even if they don't want a Home button in the browser. Setting up a homepage like Google.com will make Safari launch in less time, as by default it tries to load the page that was last opened, and that often takes time. Read More

SendTab: Send Open Tabs To Other Browsers & iOS Devices [Chrome]

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SendTab, a Chrome extension, allows you to send tabs to any device on the internet. With it, you can send tabs from one browser or computer to another with only a click or two. You can also quickly share important links with coworkers, or send tabs to your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.  SendTab enables you to share links with other devices that are within the SendTab network. Once you’ve installed the extension, all you have to do is create a SendTab network from the service's homepage. After that, just install the extension on all your computers and browsers, and start sharing tabs between multiple browsers and devices. Read More