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By Stephen Cleary on November 18th, 2011

Justin Horn from WhenWillApple.com has discovered a neat trick for sending group messages. Using Siri, it’s possible to create a group text message by separating individual names with the conjunction “and”. He offers the following example: Me: Send text to Girlfriend and Chiyin and Jason and Miguel and Tom and Monica Siri: What do you…

By Usman on November 15th, 2011

Our friends over at FSM have posted a nice little tutorial on how you can enable FaceTime over 3G natively in iOS 5 on your jailbroken device. You must be already aware that FaceTime calls require both the caller and the recipient to be connected to a WiFi network. Even though 3G connections are found to…

By Gary Ng on November 14th, 2011

A couple days ago we mentioned a tweak to bring shortcuts to your iPhone homescreen for various iOS settings such as Bluetooth, WiFi, Airplane Mode, etc. It required purchasing a 99 cent app called IconProject, but there is a free alternative out there. Just visit http://jp.deckers.net/iconsettings and follow the instructions below: 1) Choose the Settings…

By Gary Ng on November 14th, 2011

Siri in Canada lacks location, map services, and restaurant queries, but there still are workarounds to get her to help you tell the time here. If you ask her what the time is, she will say: “Sorry, I don’t know what time it is in _______ .” You can bypass this by asking: “What time…

By Usman on November 13th, 2011

Update 3: Don’t bother purchasing IconProject–just visit http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/ and it’ll do the same, but for free (thx @justinluey)! Update 2: For Personal Hotspot, use (thx Paullomax): prefs:root=INTERNET_TETHERING Update: Here is a screenshot of my homescreen folder with shortcuts made, plus the images I used for the icons. If you want others, just do a Google…

By Gary Ng on November 10th, 2011

Congrats to the following winners: @torontopeter JimCru @yeeitsjc Thanks to everyone for entering! ===== If you purchased the iPhone 4S, then you probably are using it in a case, naked, or with some sort of film protector. ZAGG finalized their iPhone 4S invisibleSHIELDs and sent us one for review. The new packages have an extra…

By Gary Ng on November 9th, 2011

Earlier today we learned how to enable the hidden panorama feature in the Camera app within iOS 5, and now a further hidden tweak has been discovered by 9to5Mac. This feature within iOS 5 is an auto-correct bar, that resembles something from Android smartphones. This tweak was a discovery by Australia’s @sonnydickson, and can be…

By Usman on November 9th, 2011

Recently it has been discovered that iOS 5 has a hidden built in panorama mode for the native Camera app. Enabling the option allows users to tap and move the camera from left to right along a blue line after hitting the shutter button to capture a panoramic image. Even though @chpwn has released a Cydia package installing which…

By Gary Ng on November 7th, 2011

Do you have multiple Google Calendars? Want to have them all synced to your iPhone or iPad? I’ve received a few questions about how this is accomplished and it’s fairly straight forward. You’ll need to setup Google Sync (push) on your iPhone first to enable it. If it’s not, you won’t be able to see…

By Gary Ng on November 7th, 2011

If you have notification banners set in iOS 5, they are a real treat as they can show you relevant information and then disappear quickly. However, if you are in an application that requires concentration, constant notification banners can be distracting and annoying. It might seem like an eternity for them to disappear on their…