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Interesting accessory gives you a front facing camera on your old phone
With the plethora of apps that support video calling now, it’s no surprise that video calling is going to be the next big thing, and most of the latest phones seem to have a front facing camera as well. What about those of us who are stuck on our last/current generation, 1-camera phones? Well, the folks at CiccareseDesign came up with a solution in the form of a clip on mirror. The product is still at its concept-only stage, but I can tell that it’s going to be a hit when it does get released. All you have to do is clip on this device aptly named OneMoreFace over your phone’s camera, and it will do its magic using mirrors to reflect your image onto the screen of the camera. Hopefully it’ll hit the market soon, and work with many models to extend the life of our phones that we’re not ready to let go yet.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.