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FullScreen for Safari Adds Multitouch Functionality to Your iPhone Browsing Experience

tanloc2t — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:56:08 +0000

Even with plenty of browser alternatives out there, I always find myself going back to Safari. There’s just something aesthetically pleasing about Apple’s stock browser that keeps me coming back, even though it’s totally devoid of some basic features.

For this reason, whenever I hear about any tweaks that add additional functionality to Safari, I’m all over it like white on rice. The latest tweak to come out of the jailbreak community is called FullScreen for Safari, and it packs quite the punch.

Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Beta 3 to Developers [Update]

nhiepphong — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:26:18 +0000

Swearch – A Swanky Startpage for Your iPhone

nhiepphong — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:37:15 +0000

Swearch.me is a web app created by Steve Streza, a web and mobile developer. The app uses HTML5, CSS, and Javascript to deliver an elegant search engine experience in mobile Safari. Everything is retina display-optimized and lighting fast.

The current engines offered are Google, Twitter, Wikipedia and Flickr. When you visit Swearch.me on your iPhone, you see the Google engine first. Simply swipe your finger from right to left to switch between Twitter, Wikipedia and Flickr’s engines… Read More

New Jailbreak App Lets You Set a Home Page in Safari

zulu — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:56:22 +0000

Home Page in Safari is a new jailbreak application that lets you set a home page in Mobile Safari, simply by tapping the ” + ” button while visiting the website of your choice, then tapping “set as home”.

This is a very simple and convenient tweak that seems to be more useful on the iPad than it really is on the iPhone, as Mark from 9 to 5 Mac noted… Read More

iOS 4 vs iOS 4.1 – Guess Who Wins

pietro842 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:39:06 +0000

It was bad enough that many of the exciting features that accompanied iOS 4 weren’t going to be added to the iPhone 3G. It was a whole different debacle when we reported that the device was basically crippled in many instances after making the upgrade.

According to a demo by Life Hacker, iOS 4.1 works much smoother on the 2 year old device than the previous version. The site notes the following regarding their little experiment: Read More