10 Ways To Improve iOS 7's Battery Life

iOS 7 comes with plenty of great new features, but some features may drain your battery faster, which you might not need them.

Here are some tips to improve iOS 7's battery Life

1. Turn off Parallax
Settings > General > Accessibility, Set Reduce Motion to on
Parallax in iOS 7 makes everything look a little bit 3D with moving wallpaper

2. Turn off Bluetooth, WiFi and AirDrop when not in use
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center
AirDrop is a new feature to share files

3. Turn Brightness down or disable Auto-Brightness
Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness
Or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center


4. Don't use Dynamic Wallpaper
Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness

5. Disable Auto Downloads
Settings > iTunes and Apple Store
iOS now downloads app updates from the App Store automatically,

6. Turn off Background App Refresh
Settings > General > Background App Refresh
Background App Refresh lets apps run in the background and continually refreshes content

7. Change Location Services and Advertising Settings
Settings > Privacy > Location Services, disable any options you don't actually need
Settings > Privacy > Advertising, set Limit Ad Tracking to on


8. Change Notification Center Settings
Settings > Notification Center, choose only what you want to be notified


9. Change Spotlight Settings
Settings > General > Spotlight Search, choose only what you want to index
Spotlight takes battery power to index all of your stuff


10. Fetch New Data
Settings > Mail, Contacts and Calendar > Fetch New Data, choose fetch settings instead of push

12 Hidden iOS 7 Features You Might Not Know

Message Timestamps
Slide text messages to the left to see the messages timestamp in Message app

Closing Multiple Apps
Double click the home button, then swipe up to three apps at the same time by using three fingers and dragging them upwards to close multiple apps at once

Block Calls & Messages
Visit Settings > Phone > Blocked
Add numbers you want to block

Fingerprint (iPhone 5S only)
Settings > General > Passcode & Fingerprint
If you want to know which fingers you’ve scanned, simply touch one of your fingers to the Home button, one of the rows will turn grey for a second

Burst Mode
Press and hold the shutter button in Camera will take a rapid-fire series of shots

Slow Motion Video (iPhone 5S only)
iPhone 5S lets you take slow motion video. You may also take a photo when you are taking a slow motion video

.com
Simply press and hold the "." key and a .com, .net selections will pops up

Swipe 
iOS enabled the ability to swipe forward and backwards in many applications, such as Settings, Message, Mail

Bold Text or Change Font Size
Settings > General > Accessibility > and enable Bold Text.
Settings > General > Text Size
Changing the system wide font size

Reduce Motion
Settings > General > Accessibility, Set Reduce Motion to on
Parallax in iOS 7 makes everything look a little bit 3D with moving wallpaper
but you have the option to turn Parallax and animated motion off

Zoom Into Album Art
In Music app landscape mode, zoom in or out your music album art by simply using pinch gestures

FaceTime Audio
iOS 7 adds the ability to have audio only calls using FaceTime

PopSlate - A Second Screen Phone Case

PopSlate is an innovative iPhone 5 case that add second screen, by adding an e-ink screen on the back of the phone case.

It’s low-power, always-on and customizable.

The screen can display any picture as a black and white image, by double tap or via the PopSlate app.
API will be available to integrate the e-ink screen with other applications.

E-ink display are low power requirements, only uses power when images change, and is readable even in the direct sunlight.

The case draws power from lightning power port, and your iPhone 5 can now charge with micro-USB cord, instead of a Lightning cable.

Read more here: http://www.popslate.com/

What is New with the iPhone 5

It's finally here.
The iPhone 5 looks similar to previous models but with some improvements below.

Same width but taller 4-inch screen, 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter

Use Nano-SIM card and Lightning connector

Phone body made with aluminum and glass, support 4G LTE, up to twice as fast with A6 chip

Earbud-style headphones

Camera to shoot Panorama

iPhone 5 will come with the new iOS 6, see list of new iOS 6 features here:
http://shareah0lic.blogspot.sg/2012/06/what-is-new-in-ios-6.html
See the iPhone 5, iPhone 4s and iPhone 4 comparison here:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/

How to Get iOS 6 Features Now with Jailbreak

You do not have to wait to get some of the iOS 6 features. This post show you how to get them now with jailbreak.

FaceTime

FaceTime over cellular networks.
Get it now with "3G Unrestrictor 5". This tweak also let you view YouTube in high quality and download big sized apps 

Facebook

Facebook integration similar with Twitter.

Get it now with "Fusion"

App Store

App Store no longer closed after you download an app, you can download multiple apps at once.

Get it now with "StayOpened"

Safari

Upload photo/video from Safari.
Get it now with "Safari Upload Enabler"

Check out the Top 3 Cydia Repo Sources to get those jailbreak tweaks.

Google I/O - Google Glass / Google Chrome for iOS / Google Drive / Google Now

Here are highlight of some interesting products showcased in Google I/O.

Google Glass

An amazing demo for Google Glass live skydiving involving with a group of skydivers using Google+ hangout, jumped out of a blimp above San Francisco and landed on the roof of San Francisco's Moscone Center, where Google I/O was taking place.

What is Google Glass? Read more here

Google Chrome for iOS

The getting popular browser is now available for iOS. It's using Safari as the core, but surprisingly quicker than the native browser. It has a number of cool navigation features and support sync for settings, tabs, bookmarks etc. Tabs opened on computer can be accessed and continue reading in the Chrome on smartphone.

Read more about Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as No. 1 browser

Google Chrome on App Store

Google Drive

Google Drive is now available for iOS.  Files on Google drive can also make available offline for viewing in iOS. Offline editing and real-time collaboration is now possible on Google Drive online page. Real-time collaboration allow multiple users editing a document simultaneously from different devices, and have the changes all appear for all users (still remember Google Wave?).

What is Google Drive? Read more here

Google Drive on App Store

Read more about Set up offline access for Google Drive

Google Now

A new product expected to first available for Android, that will attempt to "gets you just the right information at just the right time". Similar with Siri on iOS, but what it does differently is to proactively "push" you every information that you appear to be interested, such as traffic information or restaurant nearby based on your location. It will do even more, when you have an appointment, it checks traffic so you can know how long it'll take to get there and notify when you should leave. 

Read more about Google Now

What is New in iOS 6

Apple had just announced details of its upcoming iOS 6, but the final version will only available to the public later this year. 
Here are the highlighted changes:

Apple Maps

No more Google Maps. 3D and turn-by-turn navigation

Siri

More languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and more), new iPad support, more 3rd party apps support, car voice control

Facebook

Facebook integration includes Safari, Photos, Maps, Siri, Calendar, Contacts, Notification Center, App Store

Photo Streams

Share photos via iCloud, like photos and make comments

Passbook

New app for boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, all in one place

FaceTime

FaceTime over cellular networks

Phone

Decline a call and reply with text message or set callback reminder, new Do Not Disturb mode

Safari

Sync pages opened accross iDevices with iCloud Tabs, offline reading with Reading List, upload  photo/video from Safari

Read more from here: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/

Why Jailbreak / Top 3 Cydia Repo Sources

Jailbreaking an iOS device is an amazing experience. Jailbreaking allows us to install various tweaks and customizations, as well as patching system files which are not allowed by Apple.

Tweaks and modifications in Jailbreak are hosted by various sources or repositories in Cydia, your Jailbreak will not complete without adding Cydia repos.
Introducing top 3 non-pre-added Cydia repos:

Insanelyi http://repo.insanelyi.com

Great tweaks to customize your iDevices

xSellize http://cydia.xsellize.com

Great tweaks to customize your iDevices

Hackulous http://cydia.hackulo.us

Get Installous to download App Store apps to try before purchase

Augmented Reality - Google Project Glass / iPhone AR Applications

What is Augmented Reality? An Augmented Reality (AR) 

-mixes surrounding real world environment with virtual computer characters

-interactive and digitally manipulable surrounding environment

-show scenes in 3D

Google Project Glass

Google started Project Glass, an Augmented Reality glasses that helps to explore and share your world.

It's pretty a cool technology. Watch the video here:

Check out Project Glass Google+ here: http://g.co/projectglass

iPhone Augmented Reality Applications

Some iPhone AR applications you might want to try:

SkyView 

Show view of sky objects within the camera’s view, helps you find stars, constellations, and satellites

WIKITUDE

Discover your surroundings by using the camera, see places, points of interests and other exciting AR content through your camera’s field of vision

buUuk

Looking for food and drink around you

iOS 5.1 / iOS Features You Might Not Know / iOS 5 输入法

Apple had just released iOS 5.1, here is the highlighted changes:
-Japanese language support for Siri
-Add Permanent Camera icon that allows the user to start camera while the device is locked
-Camera face detection now highlights all detected faces
-App Store download limit over 3G increased from 20 to 50 MB

See list of complete iOS changes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

Jailbreaker
However, always hold whenever a new version of iOS is released if you are a jailbreaker.
You will lose your jailbreak, cydia, and all your tweaks if you do the update.
You should wait until a new jailbreak is released.

Here are some features introduced in previous iOS release that you might not know:
Notification Center
-Hold the notification icon on lockscreen, and swipe to unlock and go to the specific notification.
-Drag on lockscreen to see list of notifications

Music
-Ability to delete songs from device (by swiping over the corresponding song).
-Tap and hold on a song to view extended song information.

Calendar
-Can now create, rename, and delete calendars right on the device.
-Tap and hold or double-tap to create a new event.
-Week view in landscape orientation.
-Drag appointments to a new time slot.
-Drag handles to change start and end times.

Photos
-Built-in basic photo editing: crop, red-eye, auto-enhance and rotate photos.
-Ability to create and edit local photo albums folders

Safari
-Private Browsing (interface colors change from blue to black. Change via settings).
-Search text on web pages from the search box

Settings
-Ability to rename your device.
-The Usage screen is improved and now shows how much of the memory is consumed by each app.

Keyboard
-Ability to create keyboard shortcuts (autotext) to replace custom phrases. By default includes “omw” which expands to “On my way!”.

PC-Free
-Ability to wirelessly sync to iTunes over Wi-Fi added (an initial tethered sync is needed to pair them together and the setting must be enabled in iTunes).
-OTA delta software updates: from iOS 5 forward, devices can now self-update the system software right on the device itself through Wi-Fi or 3G. No iTunes needed.

VoiceOver
-Option to speak text selection.

General
-Built-in system-wide dictionary (press and hold on a word gives the option to copy or define. Define brings up a view with definition of the selected word).
-Customized vibrate alert patterns (can be set per-contact).
-LED flash alerts

iPad Multi-Touch Gestures
-Pinch to the home screen.
-Swipe up to reveal the App Switcher (multitasking) tray.
-Swipe left or right to switch between apps.

iOS 5 输入法新功能
iPhone 的拼音输入法在 iOS 5 有了更好的更新：候选框固定在键盘上方，候选区域也变得更加大。
以下再举三个 iOS 5 中文输入法新功能，你知不知道？
句子输入
-拼音现支持整句句子输入

繁简转换
-点选句子选择“替换”(Suggest)即可进行繁简体转换

表情符号
-可直接输入表情符号，如：笑脸 花朵 虫子 苹果

What is New with the New iPad

It's out! The 3rd generation iPad, it's called "The New iPad", instead of iPad 3.

So, what is new with the new iPad?

Retina Display 4x more pixels than iPad 2, sharper text, richer colors

A5X chip with quad-core graphics

iSight camera for 5-megapixel picture and 1080p HD video

Connect up to 4G LTE

Talking instead of typing with voice Dictation

See the full feature list here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/
See the iPad2 comparison here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/

How to Convert iTunes MP3 to Ringtone

1. Open iTunes and find the MP3 you want to convert. Right-click the song and choose "Get Info".
2. Click the Options tab. Check the Start Time and Stop Time boxes, then enter times for the ringtone (maximum length for a ringtone is 30 seconds).
3. Click OK, then right-click the song again and choose "Create AAC Version". A new 30-second version of the song will be created in music library.
4. Right-click the new 30-second version song and choose "Show in Windows Explorer". Copy the converted m4a song to a temporary folder.
5. Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r. If you cannot change file extension, open Folder Options from Control Panel, click View tab, uncheck the "Hide extensions for known file types"
6. Double-click it (or drag into iTunes) and it immediately gets added to iTunes' ringtone library.
7. Delete the 30-second version song from  music library and undo the Start Time/Stop Time changes to the original MP3.
8. Finally, sync your iPhone. Go to ringtone settings and you should able to select your new ringtone!

Top Cloud Based Webapps

A cloud based webapps will enable you to access files or applications that you need from the Internet, anytime anywhere, through a web browser or mobile app.

Introducing some of the top cloud based webapps:

Google Docs https://docs.google.com/

With Google Documents, you will have a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and even a program to do PowerPoint presentations, all from online




Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/

Web-based reader for Atom and RSS feeds to get blogs and news feeds.
Also works for iPhone with MobileRSS





Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/

Web-based file hosting service uses cloud storage to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet
Also works for iPhone

Xmarks http://www.xmarks.com/

This bookmark synchronizer is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari that synchronizes bookmarks between computers, can also synchronize passwords, open tabs, and browsing history. The bookmark can also access via online.

Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/

Help to do online file conversion

iPhone iOS 5 Battery Cydia Fix Tweak is a Scam

iPhone users had been complaining about battery drain problem in the iPhone 4S or iOS 5, and Apple seem still failed to fix the issue.

A tweak named "Battery Fix For iOS 5" was released on Cydia for a price of US$4.99, and everyone had been circling over the internet about this tweak in the past few days. However, according to recent news, this tweak is in fact a scam.

Read more here: http://www.ijailbreak.com/cydia/ios-5-battery-fix-cydia-tweak-scam/