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  • How to Enable Multi-Touch Gestures in iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4 Using Cydia Hack

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, How To, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreak 1 Response

    We have previously showed you a way to enable multitouch gestures in iOS 4.3.1 using a manual method to SSH through the device but thanks to Cydia Hacks that can fix the issue and do all the dirty work on behalves of you. All you need is a jailbroken iPhone and make sure, currently the tweak only works with iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G.

    Step 1: Search for MT Gestures via ModMyi repo

    Step 2: Install / respring and its done

    You can now do the following three gestures using four or five fingers:

    • Pinch to home screen
    • Swipe up for Multitasking bar
    • Swipe left/right to switch apps.

  • Apple Blows us Away with Smart Illuminated Bezel Details!

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, News, Patents, Tech. No Responses

    Smart bezel patents from Apple are old news, but Patently Apple has discovered some blow-away details. Put simply, Apple is proposing a bezel that doubles as a secondary display built around a printed segmented electroluminescence technology:

    Apple intends to use the secondary display to introduce a set of new illuminated indicators that are able morph into various controls for work and play. Illuminated gaming and productivity controls could be built into the face-side of the bezel and/or selected back-side areas of iOS devices like the iPad.

    This opens up a whole new world of creative possibilities…

    The bezel running around iOS gadgets could be made touch sensitive, allowing users to tap the illuminated control to access common features such as media playback and game controls.

    The new smart bezel may not have a traditional home button. Well, below is an example of how that could look like using Apple’s display. Apple could create a very simple yet very cool illuminated home button that only appears when your hand approaches the home button area as shown below in a generic example that shows off this technology.

    If this patent ends up used in future iOS gadgets, expect easier, more convenient handling of everyday tasks. It’s sexy, there’s a substantial wow factor involved and it enhances the user experience in a Star Trek manner.

  • THE HOBBIT Shooting At 48 Frames Per Second!

    // Gradly // blog, LOTR, Movies, News, Rants & Raves, Tech. 2 Responses

    James Cameron recently talked about how the future of filmmaking will be shooting films at a higher frame rate, which will up the visual presentation of the film. This is something he plans on doing with Avatar 2 and 3. He talked about how Peter Jackson was thinking of doing it for The Hobbit and now it looks like he’s actually going to move forward with it. It was recently discovered that the director is currently shooting The Hobbit at a higher frame rate of 48 frames per second. The industry standard has always been 24 frames per second, but it looks like that is all going to change.

    All of this come from The Hobbit‘s cinematographer Andrew Lesnie:

    – Being shot on 30 RED EPIC cameras
    – Using Zeiss Ultra Primes, Master Primes and Optimo zoom lenses (would expect no less)
    – Shooting at 47.96 frames per second
    – Using 3ality Digital rigs.

    So why 48 fps and not 60? Cameron had said that one of the reasons why Jackson didn’t choose the higher frame rate was because he didn’t want to select the wrong frame rate if the industry went to the alternative. So it looks like the industry is going to move forward with 48 fps, which mean Cameron will most likely be shooting Avatar 2 and 3 in 48 fps as well. The fact of the matter is “60 fps would be significantly more expensive to implement for the modest visual gains.”

  • How to Enable Multi-Touch Gestures in iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4, iPod Touch and iPad

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, How To, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreak 1 Response

    Remember the four and five finger multi-touch gestures shown off by Apple in the iOS 4.3 Beta for iPad. However, these features were only meant for the developers and never made it to the final public release of iOS 4.3.

    Now, there is a way to enable multitouch gestures in iOS 4.3.1. All you need is a jailbroken iPhone 4/3GS, iPod Touch or iPad running iOS 4.3.1 and some tweaking.

    We will be editing some plist files in this tutorial. Windows users can use plist editor while Mac users can use TextWrangler. If you have Xcode installed then no need for an additional application. I’ll be using iFile app which is available on Cydia.

    There is a simple tweak available in Cydia which you can simply search for and run check it out here

    Instructions:

    Step 1:

    Navigate to Root > var > mobile > Library > Preferences > com.apple.springboard.plist

    Copy this file to your computer and add the following two lines of code:

    <key>SBUseSystemGestures</key>
<true/>

    Step 2:

    Navigate to Root > System > Library > CoreServices > SpringBoard.app > N90AP.plist

    Update: N90AP.plist exists on iPhone 4 only. The corresponding file for iPhone 3GS is N88AP.plist, iPod Touch is N81AP.plist and for iPad K48AP.plist. Usually, there’s just one of this file’s kind in the specified folder, so it should not be very difficult to identify.

    Add the following two lines:

    <key>multitasking-gestures</key>
<true/>

    That’s it. We’re done. After you have saved these edit files put them back in their locations and restart or respring your iOS device for the changes to take effect.

    You can now do the following three gestures using four fingers, though in my opinion the iPhone or iPod Touch screens are too small for these many fingers.

    • Pinch to home screen
    • Swipe up for Multitasking bar
    • Swipe left/right to switch apps.