Schlagwort: iphone 4s

  • Jailbreak for iOS 7 is out

    Jailbreak for iOS 7 is out

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    Happy Holidays from the ‚evad3rs‘ team.

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    They’ve released an untethered iOS 7.x Jailbreak, compatible with all iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 7.0 through 7.0.4.

    You’ve mostly been out of luck if you’ve wanted to jailbreak iOS 7 so far; what options have existed have been incomplete at best. Cracking the code just got a lot easier, though, as evasi0n 7 has just arrived. The untethered jailbreak lets Mac and Windows users freely modify iOS 7 on any device that can run the software in the first place, including newer gadgets like the iPad Air and iPhone 5s. Just be prepared for a rough experience, at least with early versions. In addition to the usual risks associated with unofficial OS tweaks, Saurik (Jay Freeman) warns that he hasn’t had a real chance to test Cydia’s app distribution platform with the new evasi0n release; you’re using it at your own risk.

    This jailbreak includes something new for Chinese markets. Instead of Cydia, these users will have access to the all Chinese „TaiG“ store. However, people found out that this store has some pirated apps. Here’s the official word from the evasi0n team:

    Dear Jailbreak Community,

    We are deeply troubled by the rumors and speculation surrounding our iOS 7 jailbreak. We would like to present the whole story to you.

    Most of the concern surrounds the inclusion of the Chinese App Store Taig. In the course of developing the iOS 7 jailbreak, we were approached by the company with an offer of partnership in offering Taig bundled with the jailbreak in China. Taig is a Chinese App Store written in Chinese. tailored and, we believe, well suited to meet the needs of users for the Chinese market. Users are not locked into Taig. Cydia can also be installed and Taig removed afterwards. It would be deeply hypocritical to remove choice from the user in the course of jailbreaking.

    Taig has never asked us to disclose our exploits to them, let alone sell them. We were simply asked to bundle their third-party app store in China in a similar way we bundle and distribute Cydia around the world as an additional App Store, and in a similar way to how previous jailbreaks like blackra1n have bundled non-Cydia stores.

    Of course, the safety and security of our users is a paramount concern, and due to the amount of close scrutiny by security professionals around the world, we offer one of the lower risk programs available for download on the Internet. We are saddened by the accusations that we would ever do such a thing, or sell weaponized exploits. If anyone ever attempted to include malware in a jailbreak, we are confident that the many security experts combing through jailbreak software would find it. The binaries are obfuscated for a similar reason to why we have in the past compiled in Cydia rather than including it as a separate file. We wish to secure the integrity of the jailbreak and discourage its use by third parties who may in fact wish to weaponize it. The obfuscation is of course not intended to deflect serious analysis by security professionals (who have quickly already fully analyzed and discussed the contents of the jailbreak), it is simply intended to prevent easy repackaging by other parties.

    Preventing piracy is also extremely important to us. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed about the piracy that was seen today. All of us have spoken out vehemently against piracy in the past. We don’t believe it’s right for developers to not get paid for their work. In our agreement with Taig, we contractually bind them to not have piracy in their store. This was an extremely important precondition of working with them. In entering the agreement with them, we had hoped and continue to hope that our cooperation with Taig will improve the piracy situation in China. Many App Stores within China, including those run by large corporations, have many issues with pirated software. Promoting an app store that is required not to have piracy with our jailbreak, we believe, will help developers.

    We are very upset that despite our agreement and review by their team, piracy was found in the store. It was not acceptable and they have been strenuously working to resolve the problem in good faith, and have removed all instances of it that we have brought to their attention. We are happy that it was not overlooked by the community. We’ve been so heads down working on the code that we didn’t see this. We are sorry. We will continue to monitor this issue and work to resolve it completely. Taig will be pulled from the jailbreak if it cannot be resolved.

    Many of you have also wondered why this jailbreak was released without Cydia and MobileSubstrate being updated for iOS 7. After we received the offer from Taig, we informed Saurik, our friend, of our decision to accept the offer. SaurikIT had been in talks with Chinese companies regarding potential partnerships, made a counteroffer. We believe they share our views on how a relationship with companies in China currently utilizing jailbreaking might benefit everyone in the community. Unfortunately, the negotiations did not work out. A few days later, we received information that SaurikIT was working with another group to release a jailbreak ahead of us. We decided to release, knowing that Cydia, MobileSubstrate, and jailbreak tweaks would be updated after a few days, just as it always has in the course of jailbreaking.

    Yes, we have benefitted financially from our work, just as many others in the jailbreak community have, including tweak developers, repo owners, etc. Any jailbreak from us will always be free to the users but we believe we have a right to be compensated in an ethical way, just as any other developer. However, the interests of the community will always be the most important thing to us. When releasing the jailbreak, we pledged all our donations to foundations supporting the interests of the community. We are deeply upset at how we have inadvertently distressed the community and we are focused on fixing it.

    We love the jailbreak community and you motivate us to do this work. Having a choice and freeing your device is important.

    We hope you understand and we thank you for all of your support.

    evad3rs

    Official Downloadlink: https://mega.co.nz/#!U09F0LaL!NP9vXy72p652fFWBcR_4LiqX-t1HnG4qdHDcHUH2rGY

    Official Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/22/evasi0n-ios7-jailbreak/

    http://evasi0n.com/

  • Logitech’s iPhone gaming controller is called ‚Powershell‘

    Logitech’s iPhone gaming controller is called ‚Powershell‘

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    Twitter user @evleaks has -yet again- leaked another upcoming game controller for theiPhone.

    This time is from Logitech, and it will be called ‚Powershell‘:

    The most popular gadgets leak Twitter account @evleaks has first posted a photo of Logitech’s gaming controller for iPhone on October 1st but didn’t revealed the name. And yesterday on 26th October, it has revealed the name – Powershell for the gaming dock and to add more to the claim, there is a legal filing for trademark and patent at Legalforce is found, which backs the claims and shows that Logitech has applied for the trademark in last month.

    According to the Legalforce’s trademark filing, the device is an “integrated game control device and battery pack for use with computers and digital electronic devices.”

    The filing not mentioned iPhones anywhere in the filing. However, there would be an issue if Microsoft has the trademark for the term “Powershell” as they already has the product named as Windows Powershell.

    Official Source: http://thenextdigit.com/2311/logitech-launch-iphone-gaming-controller-powershell/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBiiNdKmM4

  • Top 20 Safari Tips for iPhone and iPad with iOS7

    Top 20 Safari Tips for iPhone and iPad with iOS7

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    Safari is probably one of the most used app on any iPhone or iPad, and it has got a lot of new features in iOS 7, so here are a few tips that’ll make your web browsing experience on iOS even better.

    Smart search field

    Safari on iOS 7 has a unified “smart search field” that allows you to type the url of the website or search for text. When you start typing, it displays the top url hit, suggestions from Google Search or your favorite search engine, your Bookmarks and history, and results of the text search on the webpage in real-time. To save you time, Safari also preloads the top hit result.

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    Quickly type web addresses

    To quickly type commonly used domain name extensions when entering a website address in Safari, long tap the “.” key to get a list of extensions, including ones specific to your region.

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    Safari Reader

    You can tap on the icon to the left of the smart search field to access the Safari Reader feature, which displays web articles without ads or clutter. The icon turns white when the Reader functionality is activated.

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    Increase or decrease font size

    As you might know, iOS 7 introduces a way to globally set the text size for apps that support “Dynamic type”. Safari doesn’t apply this font size to webpages, but the Reader mode does respect this setting. To set your preferred font size, go to Settings > General > Text Size and adjust the slider according to your needs.

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    Add websites to favorites

    • When you open a new tab, you’ll notice that Safari shows you a grid of websites with their favicons so that you can have one-tap access to your favorite websites. You can rearrange the icons by long pressing any one of them, and dragging it to the position you want, much like how you arrange home screen icons.

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    • To add a website as a favorite, tap on the share button, then tap on Bookmark and add it to the Favorites folder.

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    • You have the option to select which folder should be the favorites folder via the Settings app (Settings > Safari > Favorites).

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    • Safari also syncs your bookmarks (including your favorites) using iCloud. So bookmarks from Safari on the Mac, or from Chrome, IE or Firefox on Windows (via iCloud Control Panel) will sync to iOS and vice versa.

    Shared links

    • Safari on iOS 7 has a cool new “Shared Links” view that shows links shared by people you follow on Twitter.

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    Reading list

    • If you’ve come across a long article that you find interesting but don’t want to read right now, you can add it to Safari’s Reading List, which syncs across all your iOS devices and Macs.
    • You can save items to your Reading List by tapping the share button in Safari, then tapping on the glass icon. iOS 7 also lets third parties add items to Safari’s reading list, so you could even add links from the Share menu in apps.

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    • Tapping any of the links will open the page in a new tab, with the tweet displayed at the top for additional context.

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    • You can access your Reading List by tapping the Bookmarks icon in Safari’s toolbar, and switching to the tab with the Glasses icon.

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    Search on current page

    • To search for something on the current webpage, type your search text in the new smart search field, and right at the bottom, you’ll see a section called “On This Page” that shows you the number of matches.

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    • On tapping the last cell under the “On This Page”, Safari will take you to the first occurrence of your search text on the current page, and from there you can jump through all the occurrences using the back and forward button at the bottom.

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    Close and reorder tabs

    • To close a webpage, just swipe a tab offscreen to the left or tap on the x button. Sadly, you can close only one tab at a time, and there is no option to close all tabs.

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    • You can also reorder tabs by tapping and holding on a tab, and moving it to the place you want it.

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    • Not very useful, but the tabs in the tab switcher view react to device movement by moving in the opposite direction.

    iCloud tabs

    iCloud tabs let you access the tabs you’ve opened on your Mac on your iOS device and vice versa. You can access your iCloud tabs, by scrolling down beyond your local tabs. They’re displayed as a list against a translucent background, sorted by device.

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    Full screen view

    Screen real estate is quite important for web browsing, and in iOS 7, the address bar and the toolbar disappear when you’re browsing, and shows you the content with domain name of the website in the status bar.

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    Quickly unhide toolbar and address bar

    Of course the full screen mode might become annoying when you want to switch tabs, since the toolbar isn’t visible. To bring it back quickly, just tap at the bottom of the screen. Here’s a video demo:

    Private browsing

    • It is easier and quicker to turn on or turn off private browsing session in iOS 7 Safari. To enable or disable private browsing, enter the tab switcher view by tapping the tab button at the bottom, followed by the Private button on the bottom left corner. (In iOS 6, you had to go through the hassle of accessing the Settings app to enable or disable Private browsing.)

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    • You’ll see the interface change to black to help you differentiate between private and normal browsing mode.
    • Note that Safari’s private browsing mode is much safer than the one on other third-party browsers, including Chrome’s incognito mode, since they may preserve your private searches even after you exit private browsing.

    Restrict websites

    You can restrict certain websites from loading in Safari by using iOS’ inbuilt parental control tools. Open Settings and navigate to General > Restrictions > Websites under Allowed Content and you can:

    • Limit Adult content

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    • Blacklist certain websites
    • Allow access to specific websites only. Apple has added a list of children friendly websites like Discovery Kids, Disney, National Geographic – Kids etc. Parents can also add a website by tapping on the “Add a Website” option.

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    Gestures to go back and forward

    Instead of using buttons, you can use edge-swipe gestures to navigate between webpages. Swipe from the left edge to go back one page and swipe from the right edge to go forward. These gestures are very useful in full screen mode, since you don’t have the buttons immediately available.

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    Quickly open a webpage in Chrome

    If you use Chrome, but arrived in Safari because iOS can’t set a default web browser, you can quickly open the same page in Chrome by replacing the “http://” in the smart search field with “googlechrome://”. If there’s no http in the URL, simply prepend ”googlechrome://” in the field and press go.

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    Add a Credit Card

    If you do a lot of purchases on your iPhone, you’ll be happy to know that you can add your credit card information to Safari’s autofill, so that you don’t have to manually fill it again. To enter your credit card info, open Settings and navigate to Safari > Passwords and AutoFill > Saved Credit Cards > Add Credit Card.

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    Share a page using AirDrop

    Although the Share panel in Safari on iOS 7 has received a facelift, it largely has the same features as iOS 6, except for AirDrop. If you have any AirDrop enabled devices near you, you’ll see an option to share the URL of the webpage with people nearby.

    See page load progress of all tabs on iPad

    On iPad, Apple utilises the tab bar to show the page load progress of each of the tabs by using thin blue progress bars. Pretty useful if you open a lot of tabs at once, and don’t want to switch to each one of them, just to view its progress.

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    Recently closed tabs on iPad

    If you’ve mistakenly closed a tab, or simply want to open a tab you’ve closed from your last browsing session, just tap and hold the “+” button on the iPad to see a list of all your recently closed tabs.

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    Official Source + Picture Credit: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/10/safari-tips-iphone-ipad.html