• Apple Used the ‘Golden Ratio’ to Design the iCloud’s Icon

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Cloud, Design No Responses

    This is an interesting tidbit and a neat spot by this cool Japanese blog post via Alan Van. The iCloud icon uses the Golden Ratio as a basis for the design, read more about the golden ratio here here.

  • How To Downgrade From iOS 5 To iOS 4.X Guide

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Cydia, Download, Featured, How To, iPhone, Jailbreak No Responses

    Well you had to do it didn’t you. You just had to taste that infamous iOS 5 beta and now you have been cast from many stuff you used to in the previous version, don’t worry! We are here to help bring you back from the abyss!

    Prerequisites:

    1. The IPSW of choice (I would recommend 4.3.3) as no need to roll back further. Just make sure you have your SHSH stored with Cydia if you choose to go older then 4.3.3).
    2. TinyUmbrella. Just download the version that will work for your system.
    3. iTunes 10.5 beta. You should have this already as you needed it to install 5.0 beta

    How To Downgrade From iOS 5 To iOS 4.X Guide:

    1. Open iTunes
    2. Plug in your device
    3. Enter DFU mode
      • Turn device off
      • Hold power button for 3 seconds
      • Without releasing power button, hold down home button for 10 seconds
      • Release power button, but continue to hold the home button until iTunes recognizes your iPhone in recovery mode. If you did it right, it should just have a black screen with no connect to iTunes logo.
    4. Hold down the option key / shift on windows and click the restore button in iTunes
    5. Browse to wherever you have your IPSW saved and select it.
    6. iTunes will give you some warning, just click the flashing ok button.
    7. Sit back while your computer is working.
    8. If you are using an iPhone 4, you should be done. If not, you have received some sort of error more then likely. This is normal. Open TinyUmbrella and click the exit from restore button.
    9. YOUR DONE!!!

    Note:

    if you have changed your host file for cydia, you have to change it back to use this guide. TinyUmbrella will do this for you in the advanced tab.

  • Facebook for iPad App Coming Soon

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Facebook, Featured, iPad, News, Rants & Raves, Social Networks No Responses

    Facebook is about to release an official iPad app, according to the NYT. Facebook has been working on it for approximately the past year and is closing up their testing ahead of a launch in the “coming weeks.” The Facebook for iPad is said to be “carefully designed and optimized for the tablet” and will be totally free:

    People who have seen the application said it has a slick design that has been tailored for the iPad and its touchscreen interface. Facebook developers and designers have also overhauled the Facebook Chat and Facebook Groups features for the application. And the app will go beyond the features available on the Facebook Web site by allowing users to shoot and upload photos and videos directly from the iPad’s built-in cameras.

    “The photo and video experience is amazing, offering full resolution and full-screen images,” said a person who has seen the app.

    Facebook for iPad is said to include everything from the Facebook website but will add mobile-optimized features like taking and uploading pics directly from iPad’s built-in cameras.

  • Apple’s iCloud is Powered by Windows Azure and Amazon S3 Services

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Cloud, Featured, Gadgets, Microsoft, News, Rants & Raves, Rumors, Tech. 5 Responses

    It looks like Apple has turned to Microsoft and Amazon for help in the cloud services. The hints of this came from an anonymous source who sent a set of screen shots to InfiniteApple. The screenshots supposedly show Apple’s new iMessage service in action – specifically, the HTTP traffic log. The images seem to indicate that iCloud is getting some assistance from S3, Amazon’s cloud storage system, and Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service.

    PUT https://mssat000001.blob.core.windows.net:443/cnt/1234.5678 HTTP/1.1
    Host: mssat000001.blob.core.windows.net:443

    HTTP/1.1 201 Created
    Content-MD5: [redacted]
    Last-Modified: [redacted]
    ETag: [redacted]
    Server: Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
    x-ms-request-id: [redacted]
    x-ms-version: 2009-09-19
    Date: [redacted]
    Connection: close
    Content-Length: 0

    Exactly how the Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3 cloud systems may be helping Apple’s iCloud is unclear, but whats there is that both companies involvements is merely related to iCloud’s back-end and it’s unlikely they had major involvement in developing iCloud per se.