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Fads come and go. That’s been a universal truth for centuries, perhaps even millennia. We have an innate tendency towards trends, popularity, and flavors of the month, and all of that has been made clearer with the advent of the Internet. Web trends come on the scene and die out faster than you can blink, but some stick around for a while. For example, tag clouds.
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Sometimes it feels like the “Android vs. iPhone” war is taking on epic, religious proportions. Each side has its loyal fanatics absolute in their knowledge that their platform of choice is the best one. Let's ask a difficult question: Which does more – a jailbroken iPhone, or an Android device running a recent, custom build of Ice Cream Sandwich?
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Recycle mobile phones. I wish that should be the catchphrase for all of us to live by. While researching this article, I came across quite a few official mobile industry websites of consumer rich countries dedicated to recycling old mobile phones. So, the message is being sent out. But on the ground, is it finding its place anywhere other than the dumpster? I hope so. Recycling mobile phones has never been easier.
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Jailbreaking your iPhone is awesome. It would be great if Apple offered a higher level of customization out of the box, but they do not, so we have to jailbreak in order to do cool stuff. It is an unpleasant fact, and one that jailbreakers have had to deal with since the dawn of jailbreaking. Since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we have looked for ways to make our iPhone just a little bit cooler.
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About two months ago, I shared my thoughts on an Android ROM I really like, MIUI. Judging by the comments, quite a few readers liked that review… so today, I am back with an even more cutting-edge ROM: Resurrection Remix 9.6, based on Android 4.0.3 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich).
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Be it Apple’s limitation on its App Store, or Android’s limitation on screenshots and backup, all OSs inflict some sort of restrictions. The way to get around these restrictions is Jailbreaking. There are veritable wars raging on the subject of whether you should or shouldn’t change your phone this way. So where do you stand?
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Support for CyanogenMod9’s nightly builds has been expanded to several additional devices including the Samsung Galaxy S II, the ASUS Transformer TF101 and the ASUS Transformer Prime TF201. These three join the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Nexus S and Motorola XOOM. Rooting your phone and installing a custom ROM puts you into a unique circle of [...]
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A lot of people can agree that the Android operating system is pretty awesome. Not only is it great to use, but it's also free as in open source, so that it can be modified by anyone. This is why custom ROMs, like CyanogenMod, can exist. But how the heck can you install those ROMs onto your device? This requires a couple of steps, so read carefully!
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Recently, I wrote about an awesome modification for a jailbroken iPhone 4S called AssistantExtensions. It allows you to do all kinds of new things with Siri that we never thought possible. What makes this tweak so special is the fact that other developers can use the framework to create their own tweaks. Now that the tweak has been around for a few weeks, the modifications are starting to come in.
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There are two types of Android users. Those who use their devices as their providers meant them to, and those who see their devices as flexible hardware platforms to be customized with abandon. I count myself among the latter group. A few weeks ago I decided to try out MIUI, a free, alternative ROM, and so far I have been blown away by how slick and beautiful it is.
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I think we can all agree that the Google Maps application on the iPhone is a little weak. It lacks a lot of basic functionality and one of the features that comes standard on most navigation units which is a speedometer. Fortunately, this isn't a lost cause, because through the magic of jailbreaking, you can use your iPhone to tell you how fast you are going, in the maps app, and out of it.
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While iOS can be customized, some elements of the UI come with minimal customization options, one example being the iOS lockscreen. The only official personalization you can do to it is change the background image. If you have a jailbroken iOS device and you want to customize your lockscreen, there are countless ways to do it. This is one of them.
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Many Android users have noticed that their service providers are trying to squeeze more money out of them. Most notably, many service providers have decided that tethering is no longer free and included in your contract. They prefer to charge an extra fee for the privilege of tethering, even though tethering is an expected right of an Android user.
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm perfectly happy with my iPhone's keyboard but I have yet to see someone attempt to make a good version of the Swype keyboard - until now. As long as your iPhone is jailbroken you will now be able to install the iSwipe keyboard and Swype away.
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While many people set up their mobile phone - such as rooting an Android or iPhone, for example - to allow for tethering and accessing the cellular data network with a PC, it is a practice that is generally frowned upon by the mobile providers. However, there are times when you're just desperate for Internet access, and you need the larger screen that your laptop offers.
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