New Major Update Of Redsn0w Coming Within Hours

MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has announced that they're going to release a new major upgrade of Redsn0w within few hours before his trip to Korea. The team is bringing so many features within the new Redsn0w upgrade.

You can take a look on more details about the unreleased versioon here.

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Windows 8 first impressions: What happened to ‘no compromises?’

After hours fiddling with the developer preview of Windows 8, we've reached some conclusions. While there's a lot to love, Microsoft still has some work ahead of it to scrub out the past and make the Windows 8 the reinvention it needs to be.

Microsoft is in an uncomfortable position with Windows 8. On the one hand it has Windows 7, which has just breached 450 million units in sales. It’s the software maker’s most successful OS in more than a decade, and may end up being its biggest ever. On the other hand, executives see the writing on the wall and continue to watch new operating systems like Chrome, Android, iOS, and OS X (Lion) creep up on PC sales. It won’t be long before Android laptops and desktops emerge, and OS X laptops begin to look more like iOS than Macs.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is attempting to stop the momentum of Android before it invades the PC world. Borrowing heavily from the sleek “Metro” interface of Windows Phone 7​, Windows 8 is an attempt to simplify the PC interface, make it touch friendly, make it battery friendly, make it more friendly to outside connections (GPS, Bluetooth, etc), make it work on ARM, and improve its resource management. Microsoft is calling its approach a “no compromises” path toward the future of the PC. Unfortunately, after installing and using the Windows 8 developer preview, we don’t think this is true at all. By offering “no compromises,” Windows 8 is shaping up to be disappoint both power users and those craving simplicity.

Installing Windows 8

We loaded Windows 8 on two machines: A Lenovo S10 netbook and a Gateway NV59C. Neither is cutting edge or touch capable. The three-year-old Lenovo S10 netbook is the same one Sinofsky showed off at Microsoft BUILD a few days ago. It runs pretty much the absolute minimum hardware required to operate Windows 8. The Gateway is no frills, but has a Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, and other modern accouterments. On it, we were able to test out apps, etc.
Lenovo S10: It wasn’t hard installing Windows 8 on the S10. The process took less than 20 minutes and the developer preview booted up just fine. Oddly, though MS showed Windows 8 running on this device, it was incapable of running any Metro-style app except the Control Panel and the Windows 7 Desktop. We could install any Windows 7 app (Chrome installed fine), but Metro apps, we’ve learned, require at least a 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. The S10, along with many netbooks, only has a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution. Whenever we click on a Metro app, it just doesn’t work. We installed the OS several times before realizing this was the case. Split-screen functionality also doesn’t work on such a small screen, so we could not test it out on the S10. Overall, the OS runs much much slower than the OS previously running on the S10: Windows XP.
Gateway NV59C: This PC offered us a more complete picture of Windows 8. We have been able to use all of the new Metro-style apps and test out more advanced functions like splitscreen multitasking, etc. This computer showed us the potential of Windows 8 on a regular machine.

It looks beautiful, at first

We’re big proponents of Microsoft’s Metro UI. The Zune interface was fantastic, and we love how Microsoft is reskinning all of its products to have this intuitive UI. With the release of Mango, I’m even considering purchasing a Windows Phone for home use, assuming the new models by Nokia and other vendors are up to snuff. The initial menus and Start screen of Windows 8 mimic this style precisely. They look great. The apps look great, the interface looks great, the Metro UI popups look great, the Control Panel looks great. Everything about it looks like a next generation operating system, from its speed to its simplicity and fluid animation. We even like how Windows 7 compatibility has its own little app.
When you begin to actually use it as a functioning laptop though, the thin Metro-style veneer quickly fades away, revealing the same old OS underneath.

Windows can’t hide its dirty past

Right from the first page of installation, Windows 8 can’t seem to decide what style to adopt. The first page of installation is clearly a Windows 7 page, but once the developer preview is installed, it has a solidly Metro-style series of setup screens. Microsoft doesn’t seem concerned with the strangeness of seeing these two Uis rub up against each other. For example, when you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open the task manager, the initial page is Metro-style, but the task manager itself pops up over the Metro-style Start screen as a Windows 7 box. Granted, it’s simpler, but it’s Windows 7. I hope that this is because Microsoft hasn’t gotten around to reskinning this particular Window, but other aspects of Windows 8 make me nervous that it’s simply content to let users work their way around these extremely different interface styles.
Seeing a Windows 7 window pop up on a Metro-style screen is as jarring as using a DOS command prompt was in Windows 3.14. They are different interfaces from different eras. It’s ugly when they mix together.
The Control Panel brings up a similar issue. There are two separate Control Panels for Windows 8. There’s the Phone-like and simple Metro-style Control Panel. The Metro CP has a ridiculously low number of options. If you want to change any actual options, you must click “More Settings.” Clicking this throws you into the Windows 7 desktop in an unchanged version of the Windows 7 Control Panel. Going from a menu with one or two On/Off toggles to the almost endless encyclopedia of options in the old CP is scary, and this is coming from someone who has dealt with it for years. But to delete an application, see what kind of processor your running, or do anything more complicated than changing your time zone, you have to go back to Windows 7. Currently, you cannot even change the time on your computer in the Metro menu. It has to be done in Windows 7 mode. Why? This needs to change before release.

Want to run Windows Update? That’s a Windows 7 app too. So is security and antivirus. These are vital Windows functions? There had better be a plan to integrate them into the new UI.

“No compromises” means “hide the junk in the basement”

You know when you clean your entire house (or computer), and organize everything into folders and boxes and whatnot, but you just don’t have time to do everything? Everybody’s been there. Maybe you came across a bunch of stuff that just doesn’t fit in your new floorplan. What do you do with it? Well, if it’s your computer files, you just put all the unsorted crap into an “Old Junk” folder, and if its your house, you shove everything into the basement. In the Windows 8 developer preview, Microsoft has reorganized a good portion of Windows to work in this pretty new Metro style, but it feels like the Windows team gave up halfway through. But instead of hiding what they didn’t finish, they’re highlighting it and promoting it as a great new feature.
So far, Microsoft seems to have no intention of hiding its box of leftover junk, nor does it plan to finish cleaning up and moving features to the new Metro-style interface. Instead, it has concentrated its efforts on making it really easy to switch between the Metro-style apps and the Windows 7 desktop. And it is easy. But being easy doesn’t make it ideal, and it’s certainly not a “no compromise” situation. Every feature Microsoft doesn’t port over to Windows 8 is a compromise in design and ease of use.

 Above is an image of all the admin tools in Windows 8. They are all Windows 7 applications. These services are hidden at first, but its clear that the underpinnings of Windows 8 is clearly Windows 7. In the past, we have criticized Google’s Android Honeycomb OS for being, well, a bit cold and robotronic. Windows 8 is more like a cyborg: part of it is beautiful and alive, but its robotic mechanics become apparent once you start using it.

Microsoft needs to break with Windows 7

Two weeks ago I wrote that Microsoft needs to start making difficult choices with Windows 8 and stop trying to please absolutely everybody. After extensively using the Windows 8 developer preview, I still agree with the assessment. There’s no excuse why Microsoft can’t attempt to make the Windows 7 desktop look more like its Metro-style and its jarring how features are spread between the two disparate interfaces.
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft completely rewrote its phone operating system, starting from scratch, and the result has been amazing. The only problem was that it took a complete market shift for the Redmond company to wake up. Now it’s playing catchup in the smartphone market it helped pioneer. With Windows 8, Microsoft has the chance to lead the way toward a new era of PCs, but to do it, the company is going to have to clean up its basement and get rid of some of the Windows 7 junk that’s filling up Windows 8.
source:Digital Trend

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Boeing has chosen Android for 787 Dreamliner's entertainment system

While Apple continues to score wins in the use of its iPad for inflight entertainment, Boeing has chosen its nemesis – Google’s Android operating system – to provide music, video and even airline-specific apps for the next-gen 787 Dreamliner​.

According to Mark Larson, technical manager at Boeing’s Dreamliner Gallery, all 787s now in production will be fitted with Android-based servers and touchscreens.
“Those Dreamliners that are being configured right now can get (Android)” Larson told Australian Business Traveller.
Panasonic has already built the first 787-certified Android touchscreen, which is available in everything from economy seats to first-class suites.
However, Larson explains that “a lot of the larger screens (for business and first class) will be non-touch because you can't reach them, although they’ve also got a prototype of gesturing,” so if your monitor is too far away you can control it using simple hand gestures.
The new touchscreen panels (shown below fitted to economy class seats) have a wider viewing angle than today’s screens, and are less reflective of ambient light.

Boeing’s decision effectively locks out Apple, Microsoft and other Google competitors from the airline industry's next major aircraft, for which Boeing already has some 820 firm orders (including 50 from Qantas and Jetstar) at an average cost of A$210m each.
Unlike other Boeing aircraft, where airlines can specify the seats and in-flight entertainment systems of their own choice, customers for the 787 Dreamliner must choose from a list of pre-approved suppliers which Boeing has set up in an effort to reduce costs and streamline aircraft production.
In the in-flight entertainment space this is limited to Panasonic and Thales – both of whom will produce 787-ready servers and touchscreens running Android, Larson says.
Both companies' 787 product lines boast screens in a range of sizes from 7 inches to 17 inches.

 Source: Australian Business Traveller 

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Download iOS 5 Beta 7 For Developers

Today Apple has just released the new beta version of iOS 5, iOS 5 beta 7 is now available for download for the developers, and there is nothing new except that Apple user can only check if he is using private APIs (ha), and some slight changes to the way iCloud is handled by apps.

You can downlaod iOS 5 beta 7 via OTA or from your Apple iOS developer.

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Steve Jobs’ Greatest Moments, Products, Quotes (INFOGRAPHIC)

After Steve Jobs’ resignation for some health reasons, we want to take a look back at what Steve Jobs has really done to the world. We’ll show you the best and greatest memorable moments, products and quotes in Jobs’ career.

The below infographic, courtesy of Column Five Media, shows a history of the most memorable moments and products in Jobs’ life, as well as a selection of some quotes that sum up a lot of his feelings about their design, the competition and the computing landscape.

(Via RedmondPie)

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Eliminates Icon Labels with the New Tweak

A new jailbreak called Alphacon has arrived. It helps you eliminate the text under an app’s icon, making the screen look less clustered, according to news first reported by iDownloadBlog.

Remember the days when the iPhone’s home screen was one page and included just a handful of apps? Today, many are shuffling through hundreds of apps across many pages, making it difficult to find a certain app. This is where a new jailbreak comes into play.

Using the Alphacon jailbreak, users can change the transparency level of your icon labels or make them disappear completely.

Of course, the tweak doesn’t actually give you back some precious real estate; rather, it just looks that way. Still, we still love it.

Best of all, the customization extends to the transparency levels of other areas of iOS including your folders, dock, and multitasking bar.

Alphacon

Alphacon is available for free in Cydia.

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iPhone 5 Concept Features(video)

Amazing Concept iPhone 5. This CG iPhone 5 has advanced iPhone features such as a sleeker iPhone design, a laser keyboard & holographic display all rolled into this iPhone 5 video. 

The computer generated Concept iPhone 5 features is an exponential leap to the iPhone 4 or iPhone 3gs of today.

We hope you enjoy this iPhone 5 video more than the current trend of iPhone 5 rumors such as iPhone 5 leaked and iPhone 5 unboxing videos. Apple is yet to make the iPhone 5 announcement. So have your fill of this new iPhone video before the iPhone 5 release.

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Downgrade 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 without SHSH Blobs - iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, 3G, iPad

Few weeks ago we showed you how to downgrade from iOS 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod touch 4G, 3G, iPad 2 (wifi) and iPad 1 with iOS 4.3.3 saved SHSH files. As most of you know that idevices users are interested in downgrading 4.3.5 / 4.3.4 to 4.3.3 to get fully untethered jailbreak.

Many users have upgrading their iOS devices to iOS 4.3.5 without saving 4.3.3 shsh files and others saved 4.3.3 shsh files but failed to follow the guide as they may faced some errors such as 3194, 1600, 1602, 1013, 1015, 20 or1611.

Anyway we have good news for you, one of our reader was successfully able to downgrade his iPhone from 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 without shsh blobs files.

Downgrade 4.3.5/4.3.4 to 4.3.3 - iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, 3G, iPad :

Required Downloads :

• Download Restore Files
• Download Redsn0w for Windows
• Download Redsn0w for Mac
• Download iOS 4.3.3 for your iOS device
• Download iTunes 10.4.1

Downgrade 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 without SHSH blobs files Tutorial :

Step 1: You have to go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc , and replace "HOST" file with the downloaded one in "Restore Files" folder

Step 2: Open redsn0w and jailbreak your device, you can follow this tutorial - Click Here - but you have to point to iOS 4.3.3 instead of 4.3.4.

Step 3: Then the iPhone will stop on the recovery mode.

Step 4: Open Tinyumbrella (can be found in "Restore Files" folder above), then click on your iPhone name at the left then press on Start Tss Server.

Step 5: Open iTunes and restore your iPhone with iOS 4.3.3 firmware (Shift + Restore) then close it.

Step 6: You will find error 1013, at this time you have to use Fixrecovery (can be found in "Restore Files" folder above).

Step 7: Open iFaith (can be found in "Restore Files" folder above) and Save shsh file.

Step 8: Open sn0wbreeze (can be found in "Restore Files" folder above) to create custom iOS 4.3.3 firmware and restore with it. Done.

Note: We have not had a chance to verify this guide, so if you gonna try it, please feed us back, specially iPad 2 users.
[Thanks Mokhles Hussien]

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Redsn0w 0.9.8b6 Tethered Jailbreak For iOS 5 Beta 6

The iPhone Dev-Team has ushered in the RedSnow 0.9.8b6 which supports performing a tethered jailbreak on iOS 5 beta 6.

Two most important remarks about this version :

(1)Let your device boot normally to IOS5b6 and do a full clean shutdown (slide to power off) before jailbreaking.
(2) Boot logos have deliberately been disabled for the time being, so you`ll see a black screen on tethered boots (you can still re-enable logos with command –line options if you really want them back).

We should stress on the importance of doing a clean shutdown before running Redsn0w due to the high sensitivity to abrupt filesystem shutdowns in iOS 5 beta 6.

This jailbreak is intended only for developers of jailbroken apps since there is too many broken components (Apple`s official apps, 3rd-party app store apps, Cydia apps, MobileSubstrate, etc). For this to be beneficial for anyone but those truly looking for bug fixes in their iOS 5 jailbroken apps.

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10 Things I hate about my iPhone

where do I start , everybody knows that our beloved iPhone is not much of a phone nor a camera it's more like a music player which you can call your friend and take some pic.with and we like it no matter what , isn't this what all of us believe in .
Here are 10 things I hate about my iPhone and wish there was not there so I can stop envy other phones and asking that question "why the hell my phone can't do that by itself without searching the globe for a fix or an app. to fill the missing blanks " ya I do ask that all the time and I bet u do to

Apple makes 1 phone a year how come not making it right.

to be continued

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

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Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II Vs Apple iPhone 4,There are other fishes in the sea

There are so many other fishes in the sea , it's a call for all iOS lovers or we may say slaves it might be the time to jailbreak your selfs and look for more efficient and less dominating  phones , here is a comparison in features between the Dictatorship of  iOS  which treat you like a child gives you what he wants when he wants and fight your freedom of controlling your own phone like any other phone user who enjoy the freedom of exploring your own files or using the storage in your iphone to put your favorite files  by allowing something exist in All what so called Smart phones from ages and for some reason it's too hard for iphone to do not mention :

• No true multitasking for all applications
• No Flash support in the web browser
• iOS4 for iPhone 3G has limited new feature set
• Poor performance on iPhone 3G
• No quick toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or 3G
• No social networking integration
• No info widgets on lockscreen or homescreen
• SMS tones are still not customizable
• No mass mark emails as read
• No proper file browser or access to the file system
• No USB mass storage mode
• No vibration feedback when touching the screen
• No Bluetooth file transfers to other mobile phones
• Contacts lack a swipe-to-delete or mass delete feature
• No SMS/MMS delivery notifications
• No smart dialing (but Spotlight is a somewhat of a substitute)
• No DivX or XviD video support and no official third-party application to play that
• The whole iPhone is too dependent on iTunes - you cannot add the same type of content (video, photos, apps) to the phone from two computers, a regular file management interface would have been much better 

The smartest thing about iphone is not the phone itself or even the operating system ,it's the Apps that made by others it what gives iphone it's glory

Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II Vs Apple iPhone 4
GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2010, June	2011, February
	Status	Available. Released 2010, June	Available. Released 2011, April
SIZE	Dimensions	115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm	125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm
	Weight	137 g	116 g
DISPLAY	Type	LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors	Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	640 x 960 pixels, 3.5 inches	480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches
		- Scratch-resistant oleophobic surface - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Three-axis gyro sensor - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off	- Gorilla Glass display - TouchWiz UI v4.0 - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate - Touch-sensitive controls - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Gyroscope sensor
SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes	Yes
MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	100 received, dialed and missed calls	Practically unlimited
	Internal	16/32 GB storage, 512 MB RAM	16GB/32GB storage, 1 GB RAM
	Card slot	No	microSD, up to 32GB, 8 GB included, buy memory
DATA	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps	Class 12
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps	HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP	Yes, v3.0+HS
CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Touch focus, geo-tagging	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
	Video	Yes, 720p@30fps, LED video light, geo-tagging	Yes, 1080p@30fps
	Secondary	Yes, videocalling over Wi-Fi only	Yes, 2 MP
FEATURES	OS	iOS 4	Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
	CPU	1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX535GPU, Apple A4 chipset	Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, Mali-400MP GPU, Orion chipset
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
	Browser	HTML (Safari)	HTML
	Radio	No	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Downloadable, incl. motion-based	Yes
	Colors	Black, White	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	No	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		- MicroSIM card support only - Scratch-resistant glass back panel - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Digital compass - Google Maps - Audio/video player and editor - Voice command/dial - TV-out	- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - NFC support (optional) - TV-out (via MHL A/V link) - SNS integration - Digital compass - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Adobe Flash 10.1 support - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input (Swype)
BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Po 1420mAh	Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 300 h (2G) / Up to 300 h (3G)	Up to 710 h (2G) / Up to 610 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)	Up to 18 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 40 min (3G)
	Music play	Up to 40 h
MISC	SAR US		0.16 W/kg (head)     0.96 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU		0.34 W/kg (head)
What’s new:	Folder organization of the homescreen icons Homescreen wallpapers Multitasking and fast app switching Google/Wikipedia search in Spotlight Bluetooth keyboard pairing support SMS character counter SMS search Email threading Unified Email inbox Email archiving is now available when you setup Gmail Spell checker iPod music player can now create, edit and delete playlists 5x digital zoom in still camera Touch-focus in video capture (for video enabled iPhones) Keyboard layouts span over QWERTY, QWERTZ, and AZERTY Minor icon design facelifts Video call support (only in iPhone 4 and only over Wi-Fi) iBooks e-book and PDF reader

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