• Spire: First Legal Siri Port for All Jailbroken iOS 5 Devices Available Now

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    Siri

    Grant Paul a.k.a chpwn and Ryan Petrich have released a legal working Siri port for older jailbroken iOS devices. The tool known as “Spire” and can be installed freely via Cydia. Its not the first and not prefect but all you need is to get access to an iPhone 4S and your own proxy to get the port working. Is been a month since the first Siri protocol cracked and put in the public.

    Grant Paul said on his blog:

    Spire is my (along with Ryan Petrich) new tool for installing Siri on previously unsupported, but jailbroken, devices. Spire is a small download, but while installing it will download Siri itself (directly from Apple). Spire is available in Cydia right now — go get it! This will use about 100 MB of data, so please connect to Wi-Fi before installing.

    Spire legal and free but you still need an iPhone 4S authentication key to enter into Spire’s proxy server address. Using SiriProxy, Siri will function in full capacity on all non-4S hardware. A tutorial on how to install your own SiriProxy can be found here.

    However, Spire is not a complete solution. Apple still requires authorization to use Siri, so information from an iPhone 4S is still required. To insert this information, Spire allows you to enter your own proxy server address. By using this (ancient) SiriProxy fork, you can setup a proxy using your own iPhone 4S to insert the needed information reasonably easily. Other solutions for proxying Siri will be listed here as they are developed — perhaps that sort of proxy might be included in the main SiriProxy repository.

    Spire uses a new method to obtain the files necessary for Siri, so it doesn’t have the copyright issues encountered by previous attempts. Similarly, rather than directing all traffic through a specific proxy server (and the associated privacy issues), Spire allows you to specify your own proxy server.

    Download Spire via this link if you are on a jailbroken iOS 5 devices.

  • Apple 12 Days of Christmas Celebration Starts Today

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    12 Days of Christmas

    Apple is celebrating this holiday season with its annual 12 Days of Christmas event in which they will be giving away loads of great apps, songs, movies, music and TV shows.

     

    The campaign starts off on December 26th and ends on January 6th. Each item will be available for 24 hours

    You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go.

     For those who don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch yet, don’t panic, Just log in to the App Store from iTunes directly.

    Download 12 Days of Christmas for iPhone and iPad

  • How To Make iPhone Home Button More Responsive

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    Home Button

    Unfortunately, your iOS device Home button can become a little sluggish over time. It works smoothly when you first buy an iPhone or iPad but eventually the Home button can become less responsive.

    Fortunately, there is a simple trick that you can perform to recalibrate your Home button. iDownloadBlog provides that helpful tip and you should get the Home button considerably more responsive after preforming that trick.

    How to recalibrate the Home button:

    Step 1: Launch one of the stock applications on your device. The preinstalled apps like weather, YouTube, stocks, etc.

    Step 2: When the app is launched, press and hold the Power button located at the top of the device until the ‘Slide to power off’ appears.

    Step 3: Press and hold the iPhone home button. Keep the button depressed until the Slide to power off slider disappears and the application quits back to Springboard.

    Step 4: Your iPhone’s Home button should now be just as responsive as ever.

  • Google Launches Currents to Rival Flipboard

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    Google Currents

    Google has unwrapped a brand new social publishing platform dubbed “Currents” for both iOS and Android Markets

    Google Currents is a new application for Android devices, iPads and iPhones that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger. It brings together this content in a beautiful and simple way so you can easily navigate between words, pictures and video on your smartphone or tablet.

    Currents is surely comes on the success of popular social reading apps such as Flipboard, which recently launched on the iPhone following the July 2010 release on the iPad.