Stories by Usman Qureshi

Zeppelin is a brand new Cydia tweak from iOS developer jivhg which lets you choose cool custom logos for your iOS device's status bar by replacing the default carrier name. Once you download and install Zeppelin from Cydia, you will need to respring your device once to get a new tab in the Settings.app. You can easily enable...

Corona iOS 5 untethered jailbreak from Chronic Dev Team has received a series of updates in the past 24 hours, the latest being Corona 1.0-8 which reportedly fixes all the major issues reported by numerous jailbreakers. @Saurik (Jay Freeman) has been tweeting about the updates as well and has strongly suggested that all users jailbroken on iOS 5.0.1,...

Apple's major iPhone / iPad parts suppliers Foxconn is reportedly planning to build at least 5 more manufacturing facilities in Brazil in order to meet Apple's growing iPad production demands (via AppleInsider). These factories are expected to produce approximately 400 million iPad units in the next five years. In addition to helping supply Apple with iPads,...

Analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray has revealed that he had recently talked to a major TV components supplier form Asia regarding Apple's plans for an upcoming HDTV. He further said that according to his sources, Apple had contacted the supplier "regarding various capabilities of their television display components." Munster also speculated that Apple could simply enable its upcoming...

Winter is upon us and majority of us would prefer to keep our gloves on at all times unless we really need to take them off for something like using a capacitive touchscreen device. Yes, that's true and frankly speaking, it's not a pleasant experience especially in a scenario when you are driving in extreme...

ColoredKnob is a simple new tweak in Cydia which lets you change the color of your 'Slide To Unlock' arrow on your iOS device's lockscreen. By default, when you visit the lockscreen you see the stock Grey colored arrow at the bottom but with ColoredKnob, you can change it to Red or Green. If you don't...

Rovio Mobile's chief executive Mikael Hed told the audience of Midem conference in Cannes this morning that piracy may not be a bad thing but instead it can get us more business at the end of the day. Angry Birds boss further explained that Rovio does not believe in going against pirates through a legal action unless...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short range (approx. 4 inches) wireless communication technology used in mobile phones for a variety of applications such as mobile payments. A lot of rumors in the past have suggested that Apple is pretty much interested in bringing this NFC technology to the iPhone and now, we have some more...

Looks like Apple's iPhone could be the next most wanted tool by Manhattan's police officers helping them track down shop lifters such as the one arrested by officer Robert Garland last week. The officer told the New York Times about the robbery of an iPhone 4 from a handbag store and how a high-tech arrest was made by him. It...

It appears that Apple's obsession with secrecy of its upcoming products goes beyond a common man's imagination. According to a report by Business Insider, Apple's new engineers are sometimes placed on fake products before Apple can actually trust them for the actual projects. Adam Lashinsky reported this in his new book "Inside Apple" and a former Apple...

Yet another iOS app with hidden tethering capabilities has made its way past Apple's tight security into the App Store. It's called QuasiDisk and helps users tether via proxy without any carrier tethering contract. Available for download at a price of $1.99, the app purports to be a file manager for the iPhone, but in the recent update...

GreenOwl Solutions Inc has just released a new iOS app called Traffic Alert which takes full advantage of TrafficAlert service, one of the best traffic reporting systems in Vancouver. The app is now live in the Canadian App Store and is free to download for iPhone and iPod touch. With Traffic Alert, you can get instant personal traffic updates...