March 8, 2012
Smartphone users have been going mad over the past few months, since the launch of Siri on iPhone made the activity of talking to your phone a desirable option. Google was soon quick to follow with a powerful revision of its Google voice search system, but what options do the growing number of Windows Phone owners have? Can they talk to their phones in the same way?
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February 25, 2012
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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February 14, 2012
Virtual assistant software, such as Siri, might just be a step forward in converting our smartphones to smart personal assistants. Today, we'll take a look at Skyvi, an ad-supported app that's currently free for a limited time only. It can help you read your social networking updates, find restaurants and answers, convert speech to text and more.
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February 2, 2012
One of the most compelling reasons to own an iPhone 4S is the voice assistant known as Siri. Siri does some awesome stuff, but what if you could make Siri even more awesome with a simple tweak? From the beginning, people have messed with Siri using proxies, but for the average user, that is too much work. Thankfully, there is Assistant Extensions for owners of jailbroken iPhones.
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January 16, 2012
The key to using your phone while driving is to reduce the number of steps it takes to make a call, send a text message, or check driving directions. The iPhone includes a few built-in features and apps that might be useful while driving, and there a few third-party apps that can help keep your eyes on the road.
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January 3, 2012
If you own a jailbroken device running iOS 5 and you feel like you are missing all the fun with Siri, fear not, because the iPhone hacking community has launched a Siri port that works on all jailbroken iOS 5 devices. Best of all, this port is actually legal. There have been other ports, but they all violated Apple's terms of service. Instead of using workarounds to get Siri's files, Spire downloads Siri directly from Apple.
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