If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch then the Covert app found over on Cydia can be installed. What it does is adds a tweak to the browser on the iOS based device to allow you to switch browsing to a private mode, much like how Firefox and Internet Explorer have a private section of the browser.
What this mode does is allow you to browse the internet from the iOS device in complete privacy. For example, you could be looking up some health condition that you don’t want others to know you searched for.
The app integrates in to Mobile Safari and simply ads a button on the bottom tool bar that you can press to jump in to private mode. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has updated the Apple Store app in the app store. The latest update brings it more in line with the iPhone 4 and iPod touch in that it supports the Retina Display now.
Casio has introduced a new point & shoot digital camera called the Casio Exilim EX-H20G. The new EX-H20G is the worlds first camera to include a hybrid GPS system that lets users geotag photos as they are captured. This allows photos to be organised by location as well as file name.
Over the weekend, Samsung launched a new advert for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The ad covers a number of features that the new Android tablet device has such as Widgets, Google Maps Navigation, music & videos, emails (pictured above), eBooks as well as a few technical things like streaming video to a HDTV, the battery life (7 hours) and the memory expansion up to 32GB.
Another rumour is going around about the iPad 2 release date. We have heard previously that a new iPad will be launched in November this year, then it was December and now it is end of Q1 2011.
The Times is reporting that the Samsung Galaxy Tab will also have the option of installing Chrome OS when it launches. Although this is believed to be an option, it isn’t one that will be supported out of the box. Instead, you’ll need to do the update yourself.
Seems like progress is being made with the iOS 4.1 jailbreak. The Chronic Dev-Team is behind this one who posted a very brief update on the GreenPois0n tool that they are launching.
An XDA Developers user has managed to grab a full Android build from the new HTC Desire HD. The build isn’t final yet although it is a full build.
The Einstein Project is expanding further and will be soon pushing out a Newton OS emulator app for the iPhone. The Einstein Project has been running since 2004 and has a goal of bringing the Newton OS (from Apple) on to various platforms. As the iPhone is believed by some to be the grandson of the Newton, it kind of makes sense that the old Newton OS should be made compatible with the iPhone.
Yesterday, the Napster iPhone App landed in the app store. The software allows you to listen to a choice of over 10 million full length songs as often as you like.
If you have a hard time understanding what 3D is then Sky and Stephen Fry have explained it in simple terms.
