Saturday, June 30, 2012

Latest from iPhoneHacks.com

Latest from iPhoneHacks.com


How to Open Home Screen Web Clips With Chrome

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:09 AM PDT

How to Open Home Screen Web Clips With Chrome
Yesterday, we showed you how to make Google Chrome the default browser on your iPhone and iPad using jailbreak tweak BrowserChooser by Ryan Petrich. Another jailbreak tweak that allows you to change the default browser and more is jailbreak tweak Browser Changer, which we have covered earlier. Continue reading


Apple Wins Injunction Banning Sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in The U.S.

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:01 PM PDT

Apple Wins Injunction Banning Sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in The U.S.
Reuters reports that a U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California has granted Apple a,so preliminary injunction banning the sales of the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. The same judge had also granted an injunction banning the sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 few days back. The ban went into effect couple of days back after Apple paid the $2.6 million bond. Continue reading


Get Color Splash Pro for Mac Free This Weekend!

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:53 PM PDT

Get Color Splash Pro for Mac Free This Weekend!
You're going to have to act fast to get this one. MacPhun (the folks behind Snapheal and FX Photo Studio Pro) have a special deal that kicks off today and ends Sunday. If you buy (or have) Color Splash Studio for iPhone ($0.99) and email a picture edited with the app to gift [at] macphun.com they will send you a free copy of Color Splash Studio for Mac. Seriously. Continue reading


Virgin Mobile Starts Selling iPhone 4S And iPhone 4 From Today

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:54 AM PDT

Virgin Mobile Starts Selling iPhone 4S And iPhone 4 From Today
As announced earlier this month, Virgin Mobile will start selling the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S from today. The phones would be available with prepaid contracts starting from $30 a month. Since these phones come without a contract, they’re unsubsidized and would cost you $549 for an 8GB iPhone 4 or $649 for the newer iPhone 4S with 16GB of storage. Continue reading


Happy 5th Birthday iPhone

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:55 AM PDT

Happy 5th Birthday iPhone
It was this day, five years ago that the iPhone went on sale in the U.S. The now seemingly bulky device was a breakthrough back then, disrupting not just the phone industry, but the entire mobile computing industry. The iPhone was introduced six months prior to its launch at Macworld Expo, by a keynote that is considered to be one of the best product launches ever, delivered, of course, by Steve Jobs. Continue reading


The iOS App Design Bundle [Deals]

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:18 AM PDT

The iOS App Design Bundle [Deals]
You know that great app designers don't start from scratch with each new app they build, right? They all start with great templates. Not just code templates, but design templates too. Templates that don't just look great, but are also flexible enough to make sure their project don't look "cookie cutter". Buttons, textures, backgrounds, design elements, layouts. A great designer has a slew of these stashed aside to pull out for a wide range of projects. Now, why should you be any different? You shouldn't. Which is what today's deal is all about—The iOS App Design Bundle. Having great templates on hand to kick off your next iOS app project. Continue reading


What’s Google’s Real Play?

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:42 AM PDT

What’s Google’s Real Play?
It's a big day for Google. We've got Chrome and Drive for iOS hitting the app store. Chrome is solid, works well, and I'll probably use it a lot—well except for those times when an app opens something in a browser, because that will be Safari. Drive, works well, except I can only add one Google ID into it. Oh and I can't edit docs directly in it, even "Open in…" opens the document as a PDF. So what exactly is Google going for here? Continue reading


Apple’s Siri Gets a ‘D’ Grade, Google Search Gets ‘B+’ in 1600 Question Test

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:41 AM PDT

Apple’s Siri Gets a ‘D’ Grade, Google Search Gets ‘B+’ in 1600 Question Test
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster tested Apple’s Siri with Google’s Search by firing 1600 questions at each of them. Not surprisingly, Google’s search came out on top, answering correctly 86% of the time, whereas Siri managed to answer only 68% correctly. Continue reading


BlueStacks “App Player” Brings Android Apps To The Mac

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:55 AM PDT

BlueStacks “App Player” Brings Android Apps To The Mac
BlueStacks, a company specializing in Android virtualization, has released a public alpha of of the Android App Player for the Mac, that lets OS X run Android apps. The App Player was released for Windows six months back, and since then the company has improved it and expanded it to the Mac. Continue reading


Adobe to Stop Supporting Flash on Android From August 15th

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Adobe to Stop Supporting Flash on Android From August 15th
Back in November last year, Adobe had announced that it would discontinue development of Flash on the mobile browser. The end for Flash at least on the mobile is just over a month away as Adobe has announced that it won’t support Flash on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean that was unveiled earlier in the week. Adobe has also said that it will stop installs from Google Play on August 15th. Continue reading