Stories by Usman Qureshi

Apple iTunes U: 600 Million Downloads & Counting…

A story published by The Loop reveals Apple's iTunes U, a service that was launched in 2007, has already crossed 600 million downloads with over 300 million of them in the last year alone. For those who aren't aware, iTunes U service is a part of Apple's iTunes Store which was created to distribute educational audio and...

Magnifier For Safari: Easily Adjust Font Size in Mobile Safari [Cydia]

Here comes another simple yet handy Cydia tweak called Magnifier For Safari. As the name implies, the tweak works with MobileSafari allowing you to adjust the font size of viewed web pages for easy reading. Once you download and install Magnifier, you will see a new button “Adjust FontSize” added to “Add Bookmark”, “Add to Home Screen”...

Carousel, The Adobe Lightroom Alternative For iPhone / iPad Unveiled

Carousel is an upcoming photography application developed by Adobe, the creators of professional photo editing software PhotoShop, which lets you access your entire photo library on your iPhone, iPod, iPad or a Mac computer. The app uses the same photo-processing technology as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and eliminates the hassle of manual photo syncing across your...

Latest Report Suggests 3G iPod Touch Could Launch This Month

Rumors of a 3G supported iPod touch have been circulating for a couple of months now, though there hasn't been much evidence to support them. But some new claims coming from AppleNApps suggest that the fifth generation iPod touch will sport an integrated 3G radio for accessing high speed data networks, much like a "mini-iPad". According to...

FolderIcons: Customize iOS Folders With Custom Icons [Cydia]

iOS developer Vertex has just released a brand new tweak for all jailbroken iPhones and iPods called FolderIcons which brings the ability to customize iOS folder icons. Normally, each iOS folder icon is made of folder background image and thumbs of icons in folder. However, this simple tweak allows you to set your custom icon for selected...

Apple To Ship More iPhones Than All Nokia Smartphones Together In 2011

Apple was officially declared as the leading smartphone manufacture in the world back in July. Today another report by DigiTimes claims Apple will also become the largest smarphones vendor in terms of shipment volume, overtaking the collective sales of all Nokia smartphones in the year 2011. Digitimes research states that by the end of 2011, Apple...

Largan Precision Will Be The Main Lens Supplier For 8-MegaPixel iPhone 5 Camera

There have been some reports published back in May by DigiTimes pointing at Largan Precision Co. Ltd going to be the major 8-MegaPixel lens module supplier for the next generation iPhone handset. Now, another claim coming from Taiwan Economic News hints that not only Largan Precision but also Genius Electronic Optical Co. will be the mainstream suppliers of lenses for upcoming...

Apple Manufacturers Start Producing iPhone 5 For October Launch

We just told you to mark you calendars for October 21st based on a highly credible report and get ready for the iPhone 5. Well another report tells us that the next generation iPhone handset is already under production for an official launch at the projected October date. According to a latest publication from Apple...