• Swype For iPhone, iPad Now Available in Cydia, Lets You Type Without Lifting Your Finger

    // Gradly // Android, Apple, blog, Cydia, Download, Hack, How To, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreak, Tech., Tutorials 2 Responses

    For those οn thе Android platform аrе probably familiar οf Swype, a tweak thаt lets users type οn thеіr virtual keyboards without еνеr lifting thеіr fingers, bу simply quickly swiping thеіr finger асrοѕѕ thе keyboard over аnу letter іn order tο form a word, аnԁ οnƖу thеn releasing іt. This tweak hаѕ now bееn unofficially ported tο iOS and its called iSwipe.

    Thе creators οf thе official Swype fοr Android hаνе ԁеѕсrіbеԁ thе tweak аѕ serious patented time-saver:

    Wіth one continuous finger οr stylus motion асrοѕѕ thе screen keyboard, thе patented technology enables users tο input words fаѕtеr аnԁ easier thаn οthеr data input methods—аt over 40 words per minute.

    How to install Swype:

    1. Jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch, οr iPad, Its better on smaller devices though.
    2. Add thе following repository tο Cydia: wynd.x10.mx/repo
    3. Search for iSwipe and you are done

  • Diaspora Invites Giveaway: Get Diaspora Free Invite Now

    // Gradly // blog, Facebook, Featured, Giveaways, google, How To, News, Social Networks 73 Responses

    Diaspora unlike Facebook or Google+ is a decentralized Social Network run by distributed Web servers maintained by some of their own users in “pods”. The Project is still under Development stage and is an invite only signup. Diaspora is gaining popularity because of the privacy concerns haunting people in major social networking sites like Facebook and Google+ which are centralized.

    For those of you who still haven’t registered for Google+, how about checking out Diaspora for the time being until that time. Diaspora allows invites of a limited number of users, so I will be giving some of you until we figure out a way for a possibility to send more invites. So follow these steps to land yourself an invite to the most popular closed social networking site available on the internet.

    How to get invited?

    follow the easy simple steps below:

      1. Follow @iGradly on twitter or like the Facebook Page and share this on Facebook.
      2. Tweet the post in the format given below with the username.

    Get Free Diaspora invite Now | #Diaspora Free Giveaway – http://t.co/MFejI2X @iGradly #Giveaway

    • After you done with the 2 steps , don’t forget to leave your comment on why you want to join Diaspora along with your email address, so that i can send you the invite to Diaspora.

    Note: Please don’t post your email directly in the body of the comment to avoid spamming but instead you have a specific box for that to do so.

  • Google Realtime Search Goes Offline As The Deal With Twitter Expires

    // Gradly // blog, google, News, Rants & Raves, Social Networks, Tech., Twitter No Responses

    Google’s agreement with Twitter to carry its results has expired, taking with it much of the content that was in the service with it. Google has this explanation:

    Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2.

    While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google.

    As for other features such as social search, they will continue to exist, though without Twitter data from the special feed.

    Our vision is to have google.com/realtime include Google+ information along with other realtime data from a variety of sources.

    Google Realtime Search had carried content from a variety of services beyond Twitter, including Facebook fan page updates, Quora and Gowalla content, Check out the full source list:

    • Twitter tweets
    • Google News links
    • Google Blog Search links
    • Newly created web pages
    • Freshly updated web pages
    • FriendFeed updates
    • Jaiku updates
    • Identi.ca updates
    • TwitArmy updates
    • Google Buzz posts
    • MySpace updates
    • Facebook fan page updates
    • Quora
    • Gowolla
    • Plixi
    • Me2day
    • Twitgoo

    Still, as said, Twitter was the by far the most dominant content within the service. It’s unclear why the agreement was allowed to expire. Twitter has this to reply:

    Since October 2009, Twitter has provided Google with the stream of public tweets for incorporation into their real-time search product and other uses. That agreement has now expired. We continue to provide this type of access to Microsoft, Yahoo!, NTT Docomo, Yahoo! Japan and dozens of other smaller developers. And, we work with Google in many other ways.

    For its part, Google said:

    Twitter has been a valuable partner for nearly two years, and we remain open to exploring other collaborations in the future.

    Twitter has largely outsourced the service of Twitter search longer than a few days to Google, a deliberate decision so that Twitter could focus on other search features, such as its new Top Tweets feature

    You can certainly understand why Google+ has become even more important to the service now. While Google has gotten by largely without social signals from Facebook, having its own data from Google+ gives it insulation if it now has to get by without Twitter signals, as well.

    [via searchengineland]

  • Apple’s iOS Is More Secure Than Google’s Android!

    // Gradly // Android, Apple, blog, Featured, Gadgets, google, iPhone, News, Rants & Raves, Tech. 1 Response

    An interesting report run by security experts at Symantec indicates that Apple iOS devices are much “less prone” to most security risks than Google’s Android platform.

    For its closed app distribution nature, the iOS is more secure and its increased resistance to resource abuse, data loss, and data integrity attacks among the factors.

    In a head-to-head comparison, Symantec found that iOS was just more secure in many areas, and was found, contrary to their findings regarding Android, to have full protection against malware attacks. Apple’s platform was also found to have greater security feature implementation in the categories of access control, application provenance, and encryption.

    The report also applauds Apple for their thorough and excellent job in designing the non-interface aspects of iOS. Check out the full report in all of its detail over at Symantec.

    [via mactrast]