Friday, February 24, 2012

ProTube HD Lets You Experience YouTube As It Should Be On Your iPad


A few weeks ago the reinvention of the YouTube application for the iPhone was made public as it was imagined by developer Jonas Gessner. This is available to all those who have a jailbroken iPhone and is available through the Cydia store. This new app has a number of features and additions that many feel should have been native in Apple's stock implementation of YouTube. ProTube has been a huge success for jailbroken devices and following on from this Gessner has released a HD version of the app for the iPad. 

If you are not familiar with the ProTube app then all you need to know is that it is a complete reinvention of the YouTube application which combines a professional look with a powerful feature set.

ProTube HD is not just another tweak, it is a full self sufficient application and when you launch it ProTube presents the standard mobile version of the YouTube website with some really powerful features. By taking advantage of the mobile version of YouTube and then coupling this with the iPad screen and the recognized interface controls, ProTube HD represents what many people are saying is a superior alternative to the native experience. This application has some great features including all of the expected YouTube activities such as commenting, sharing and rating videos, you gain control over your user account, you get high and standard definition video downloads and the option to save only the sound track of a video in high quality MP3 format. There are plenty more features built in and you can view the full list in the Cydia store.

ProTube HD is a bargain price at just $1.49 and it is available now through the Big Boss repository. It is compatible with iOS 4 and above.

Leaked Images Shows iPad 3 Will Have A Rear 8 Megapixel Camera?


Leaked images of the new iPad 3 have surfaced again and this time they reveal more tapered edges and a rear 8 megapixel camera. Rumors suggest that the iPad 3 announcement event will take place on the 7th of March and tension and excitement is building. More and more people are anxious to find out about the proposed design and technical specifications of the new tablet. 

We are all well aware of the fact that Apple product announcements are big news but with the iPad growing in popularity the public attention for this launch is going to be at an all time high. As the date of the announcement grows closer it seems that more information is being leaked which provides an insight into the design of the new iPad 3. Apple Daily has posted an article that features images of the new tablet device. These images show the rear of the new iPad 3 and the article also shows a comparison between the slight change in the form between all three iPad devices.

There are no major changes to the design of the iPad 3 although these images do show a notable exaggerated taper around the edges which cause the camera to actually be embedded within the taper. The camera is rumored to be an 8 megapixel camera. Additional speculation that relates to the retina display and quad core CPU and the March 7th announcement date have yet to be confirmed but they seem to be holding strong. The leaked images do seem to tally with other reports which means there is no reason to doubt their legitimacy. We will have to wait and see though.

Send Files To Your iOS Device Via iMessage Using The OS X Message App


OS X Messages App lets users send files of any type to iOS devices via iMessage. The beta release of Apple's new messages app for Mac may have a hidden secret and this is something that could make getting files onto iOS devices very easy. 

Apple just recently released the beta version of their messages app to the public. This isn't fully complete yet and there will more than likely be visual tweaks as well as other changes and the addition of more features before this app ships as part of the new release of OS X Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is currently available for developers to test and with the new Messages app theere are plenty of new things to try. As with all Apple software releases, people are keen to see just what can be done with the messages app and the implementation of iMessage on anything other than an iOS device.

The people over at iPhoneil have discovered that Messages in particular appears to have a hidden secret. It appears that users of the Messages app on the Mac can actually send pretty much any file to iOS device owners with the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch able to open them. This includes sending videos, PDF files and more. It is something that isn't being discussed that much but it could open up a lot of opportunities for getting files on an iOS device without having to jump through lots of hoops. The files that are already confirmed to be working include PDF, TXT and also .app files.

It isn't clear whether this is an intentional feature or whether Apple just never thought about such a thing being possible so hopefully this feature won't go missing when Mountain Lion makes its official debut later this year.

Transform Your iPhone With Some Great Themes


If you are looking to transform the tired look of your iPhone then jailbreaking is the way to go. If you have a jailbroken iPhone you can transform it with some amazing themes. Cydia is the place to go for those amazing themes and this app store is packed full of themes and customizations that have been designed to make your iPhone or iPad look as different as possible from the iOS that you are familiar with. 

Jailbreaking is all about having the freedom to alter and change the way the native iOS device looks and behaves and themes are one way to do this. WinterBoard was the main application used to execute themes but this is all about to change thanks to a new application called DreamBoard. DreamBoard is an advanced theming platform which takes control of the device's SpringBoard and lets user take almost complete control over placing widgets and apps, removing the limitations which existed through traditional theme methods.

DreamBoard has plenty of great options with great themes and aesthetic modifications which are compatible with DreamBoard are available through Cydia. These include the Metro DreamBoard theme which was the first complete Windows Phone/Windows 8 inspired theme. This theme consists of twenty one tiles with two animated one and there is no external setup required. OS7 is another DreamBoard compatible plug and play theme which benefits from the auto creation of home page tiles as well as an alphabetical list of installed applications. Metro 8 is another Windows Phone theme for DreamBoard which comes with a basic theme setup and is a great alternative advanced theme for those looking for more.

These three themes are just some of what is available for DreamBoard and there are plenty more available in Cydia. In order to use any of these themes you do need to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad.

What's Different - iPad 3 Leaked Parts Have Been Compared With The iPad 2


The iPad 3 is getting closer and iPad 3 leaked parts have been compared with iPad 2 parts and the findings show a slightly thicker profile, bigger battery, bigger retina display and high resolution camera. 

It is just a matter of weeks before the iPad 3 event if rumors are to be believed and to add fuel to the fire it seems that iPad 3 parts and components have been leaked and if this is correct they reveal some interesting information about the brand new iPad 3 device.

This news came from the folks over at 9to5Mac in the form of a report in which they cite a post over on ilab.cc which is full of photos of some of the iPad 3's leaked components. The back panel suggests that the iPad 3 will be about 10mm thick which is 1mm thicker than the iPad 2 and this is supposedly due to the newer more powerful components such as a larger camera sensor, bigger battery and thicker dual LEB backlit LCD panel. Ilab.cc compared one of the rumored sharp high resolution LDC panels and found that it fits absolutely perfectly with the leaked iPad 3 back plate.

That's not all, the iPad 3's camera hole is different to the iPad 2 design and this suggests that the iPad 3 may just come with a more respectable rear camera too. The results of this iPad 3 component leak study match perfectly with the rumored hardware specifications which are a longer lasting battery, a 2048x1536 9.7” retina display and better camera sensors to match the higher resolution. It isn't clear as yet if there will be a quad core A6 or just a faster more efficient dual core A5.

According to latest reports the iPad 3 is set to be announced in the first week of March at Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco.