How to enable spoken notifications on your iPhone

How to enable spoken notifications on your iPhone

Whether you’re an uber busy person or you just like the sounds of Siri’s soothing tones, we have a tip today that you’ll like. If you don’t want to break from what you’re doing to check out every single notification noise on your iPhone, then did you know how to make it read out notifications? It’s not quite Siri, but it is using Siri’s voice bank. Read on to find out, how to configure your device, and things to watch out for.

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How to use Siri to generate strong, unique passwords

How to use Siri to generate strong, unique passwords

Coming up with unique passwords all the time can be a struggle with you’re supposed to be doing a hundred and one other things. If only Siri, your in-phone digital assistant, could help. Fortunately, it can. As you may already know, Siri takes many of its answers from the Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine, and that includes generating random passwords.

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How to use Google voice recognition with Siri

How to use Google voice recognition with Siri

I prefer using Google’s Search app instead of Siri for couple of reasons, Google’s voice recognition technology does a better job of translating and I also love the way the text is streamed on the fly, so I can quickly figure out if it has translated what I saying correctly.

However, one of the disadvantages of using Google Search is the lack of integration with stock iOS apps like you have with Siri.

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LS Climacons: A minimal lock screen theme for your iPhone

LS Climacons: A minimal lock screen theme for your iPhone

iPhone’s lock screen seem to be all the rage as of late in the jailbreaking world. Whether it be a lock screen theme like Peekly, or a lock screen tweak like Atom, jailbreak developers seem to be coming up with unique ways to redesign it.

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How to make Google Now the start page in Google Search app

How to make Google Now the start page in Google Search app

Google launched the much eagerly awaited Google Now feature for the iPhone and iPad earlier in the week.

If you’re not worried about it impacting battery life then here’s a useful jailbreak tweak for Google Now.

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How To Disable In-App Purchases on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

How To Disable In-App Purchases on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

After listening to the horror stories due to the in-app purchase feature, I thought it was high time I wrote a tutorial that shows parents how to disable the feature before giving a child an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Apple had added the feature to restrict access to In-App Purchases back in 2010, so I am quite sure many of you already know how to disable it. If you don’t then continue reading.

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How To Enable Two-Step Verification For Your Apple ID

How To Enable Two-Step Verification For Your Apple ID

Earlier in the week, Apple rolled out the much needed two-step verification process for Apple ID to add an extra layer of security.

Since we use the Apple ID for everything we do with Apple such as shop on the iTunes Store, enable iCloud on all our devices, buy from Apple’s Online Store and lots more, it is highly recommended that you enable it to increase the security of your Apple ID, especially after yesterday’s scare.

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How To Fix Google Chrome Crashing Issue On Jailbroken iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch [Updatedx3]

How To Fix Google Chrome Crashing Issue On Jailbroken iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch [Updatedx3]

Yesterday, Google released an update for Chrome app (version: 25.0.1364.86) for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that makes it easier to search and share content.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be playing nice on a jailbroken iOS device as it keeps crashing almost immediately after launching it. 

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How To Enable Battery Percentage On Your Jailbroken iPod Touch

How To Enable Battery Percentage On Your Jailbroken iPod Touch

If you’ve jailbroken your iPod touch using evasi0n jailbreak and wondering what you should do, then enabling battery percentage is probably the some popular trick.

It’s possible to enable the feature using Springtomize 2, which is the mother of all jailbreak tweaks, and also allows you to customize almost every aspect of your iOS device.

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How to Jailbreak iOS 6.1.1 With evasi0n

How to Jailbreak iOS 6.1.1 With evasi0n

evad3rs Dev team has just released evasi0n 1.3 to jailbreak iPhone 4S on iOS 6.1.1 that was released few hours back .

In this guide, we will take you through the step by step procedure to jailbreak your iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.1 with evasi0n.

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