18 Hidden Features Of iOS 8

1. iOS 8 Has New Popups To Notify Users Of Apps That Access Location Information While Running In The Background

2. Siri Now Uses Shazam To Identify Songs

3. The New Health App Has A Medical ID Which Can Be Accessed From The Lock Screen In Case Of Emergency

4. Bring Back Accidentally Deleted Photos Since Photo App Now Stores Deleted Photos For 30 Days

5. Photo App Can Add Location Of The Picture Where It Was Taken

6. New Settings Option Include Viewing The Battery Usage Of Apps

7. You Can Now Scan Credit Card Information Rather Than Entering Manually

8. You Can Hide Images In Photo App

9. Send Your Last Location To Apple Before Your Battery Dies

10. Real Time Talk To Type Option In Messages

11. Speak Screen Can Speak The Contents Of Screen Out Loud

12.  Send SMS From Your Macbook Using Your IOS 8 Device 

13. Apple Has Added A Timer To Its Camera App For Perfect Selfies

14. iOS 8 Can Notify And Give Tips Of All The New Features Added From Time To Time

15. iOS 8 Includes Option Of Making A Phone Call Over Wi-Fi

16. New Grayscale Mode Shifts The Entire OS To Shades Of Black And White

17. Safari Now Has The Option Of Request Desktop Site To Load the Desktop Version of Any Website

18. Create a blank home screen iOS 8 lets you go minimalist on the home screen. Just move all icons to the next home screen and you can finally create a blank home screen. This is really not useful, unless you want to make sure people can check out your cool wallpaper

Get your Google+ Plus without Invite

1. Setup a Google Profile

Google “Google Profiles” and set one up. Be sure to fill it out completely, including uploading pictures and setting up a Buzz account.

2. Download Google Chrome

Make sure you’re logged into Google after you download google chrome. You can do this at www.google.com.

3. +1 a few things on Google Search

Just go to www.google.com and do a search on anything. If you’re logged in, next to each link you should see a +1 button. Try to +1 about 5 different links:

Now go to plus.google.com and sign up

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Does Anyone Want a Google Plus Invite?

Want a Google+ Invite let me know your email address easy as that!

How to fully activate iOS 5 beta (the right way)

This guide explains how to fully activate iOS 5 beta for non-developers without crippling your iPhone or iPod Touch. Notifications work, push works, multitasking works, sync works and iMessage works. If you've already installed iOS 5 skip to instruction 4 and if you've already installed and jailbroken skip to step 5. This tutorial is unlikely to work on iPads and since the redsn0w beta is mac only you must have a mac.
1. Download the iOS 5 beta firmware (torrent or http://imzdl.com/#)
2. On your device screen in iTunes 10.5(Download from above link) hold the shift key and click update
3. Select the beta firmware you downloaded and restore it
4. Once the update has finished use redsn0w(download) to jailbreak your device. Once its jailbroken open redsn0w again and select "just boot tethered" from the second screen

5. Once your device has finished jailbreakng and the lock screen has loaded triple tap the home button to turn on voice over
6. Tap the status bar then drag with 3 fingers from the top of the screen down to the bottom to open the notification center
7. Triple tap the home button again and click on the Yahoo logo to open the stock app then press the home button to get to the springboard
8. Open Cydia, go to the search tab, search for iFile and download it
9. In iFile navigate to the locationSystem/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and open it in the property list editor
10. Remove the release type key and save
11. (iPhone only) Go back to Cydia, add the source "http://repo.bingner.com/" search for "SAM" and install SAMSprefs
12. (iPhone only) Go into settings, then SAM, and setup the carrier
13. Reboot your device and boot tethered with redsn0w and setup your device.
Once you've done this you'll be able to use multitasking, iCloud, syncing and iMessage along with all the other features that required activation to work!

WhenToTweet Tells You When Your Followers Are Active

If you’re curious when the best time to tweet your interesting finds and hot links is, WhenToTweet tells you when the people following you are active on Twitter.

Plug in your Twitter handle and WhenToTweet analyzes your 300 latest followers and their 200 previous tweets to determine when they’re active (if you feel like shelling out for a “Pro” analysis you can get up to a million followers and a 1,000 tweets per follower for $20). We tested it with the free analysis and the result was 18:45 GMT was the ideal time to share something if we wanted it to be fresh in the feeds of a maximum number of followers.

Hit up the link below to try out the service.

WhenToTweet

Hello Chrome 12, good-bye Google Gears

Google updated its stable browser channel today, pushing Chrome 12 to its widest base of users. Chrome 12 stable (download for Windows | Mac | Linux) doesn't contain any surprises from the Chrome 12 beta that was released a month ago, but it does bring more hardware acceleration support and better browsing security. It also marks the end of public support for Google Gears, the offline Web app tool.

The security improvements are the biggest change in version 12. In addition to 14 security holes getting patched, including five marked high priority, Google has expanded its "Safe Browsing" technology to include malicious file protection. It won't block all malicious file downloads, but it does do a better job of examining your downloads before they reach your hard drive. In the blog post announcing the new Chrome release, Google was careful to address privacy concerns and point out that the enhancements don't track which sites you've been downloading files from.

Another security change adds the user's ability to delete Flash cookies. This makes sense, given that Flash has come baked into Chrome for some time.

SOURCE-www.download.cnet.com

iOS 5 Jailbroken with Redsnow and Tethered Boot immediately after WWDC 2011 !!!

iPhone Dev Team’s key member, MuscleNerd, confirms iOS 5 jailbreak through his twitter account and posts some screenshots of jailbroken iPod Touch 4G running on iOS 5.

Apple announced iOS 5 at the WWDC 2011 conference in San Francisco and released iOS 5 beta 1 for developers immediately. The final and public version will be shipped in this fall.

iOS 5 brings more than 200 new features including 10 important ones like Notification Center, Newsstand, Twitter Integration, iMessaging, AirPlay, PC Free activation, camera and mail updates, tabbed browsing, reading list etc.

Here are the screenshots of jailbroken iOS 5 device:

iOS 5 jailbreak is made possible using ever-lasting Limera1n exploit and Tethered Boot utility, meaning you will have to connect your device with PC after every boot to get jailbroken state on it. The official jailbreak tools and procedures will be posted after Apple release iOS 5 for common users. If you are already registered with Apple’s developer program, you can get the beta copy for your device.

MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team's redsn0w 0.9.8b1 to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1 tethered. However, do keep in mind that redsn0w 0.9.8b1 has only been released for Mac users at the moment, so Windows users can not jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1 tethered at this time.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 for Mac.