Wednesday, January 29, 2014

How Enable Night Mode In Iphone Ios 7

How would you like to enable night mode for iOS 7? Do you feel like all the white space gets blinding at night time?
Check out the new and highly anticipated Cydia tweak called Eclipse, developed by Guillermo Moran or otherwise named fr0st on Twitter. The tweak features a night mode which darkens most of the native iOS apps and third party apps using various shades of gray for easier night viewing.
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Ever since using night mode in Tweetbot many people have wanted to see a feature like that in iOS itself and Eclipse is something that now has come to fruition. It may not be perfect right now, but the developer has since stated future updates are on its way.
Eclipse has a preference pane in general Settings where you can enable or disable the tweak and other options such as; Darken wallpapers (lighter wallpaper takes on a darker tint), enable orange tint (turns the blue text and outline buttons to orange) and an experimental option to darken UI Views (warning, may cause some issues).
After enabling the toggles users will need to kill every app on their iPhone for the effects to take place. Users can quit all apps by accessing their multitask and swiping up on each and every app if they do not have a tweak that will allow them to kill all apps at once.
Not every application looks complete in Eclipse, like iTunes, Safari, Notes, or Calendar and some like Mail or Phone look good with the omission of a few areas, but all in all it has the potential to be beneficial, just take a look no further than settings running in Eclipse mode.
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Even though Eclipse needs some improvement it’s a step in the right direction and it only cost 0.99 cents from the BigBoss repository.
Here are some tips from Guillermo so far:
  • “TIP: If you’re having trouble with some apps, disable “Darken UIViews” in settings.”
  • “Statusbarfix2 seems to darken the status bar when paired with eclipse. Not sure why you’d even need that, But I’ll look into it…”
  • “Eclipse uses almost no memory/resources, it will not have a negative impact on battery life.”
  • “For Tweetbot users experiencing conflict with Eclipse, turn Tweetbot’s Night Mode On as well, until I address this issue.”
  • “Eclipse attempts to darken most of the iOS UI”
  • “iPad support will be out very soon. New features coming as we’ll. Stay tuned”
  • “should be working on the iPod touch… Let me know if there’s any issues.”
And here are some questions answered:
  • “will you be including like a automatic mode to enable it like do not disturb like for scheduled times” – yes
  • “Are you planning on making safari dark in an update?” -yes
  • “even with eclipse enabled, it still won’t tint iTunes.” - yep, that’s a bug I’ll fix soon
  • “Are there any plans to add a feature to disable eclipse in certain apps?” -yes
  • “Eclipse is looking good, keep it up! PS. Suggestion: scheduled mode.” -yes
  • “Interest not request – Would it technically be possible (coding wise) for Eclipse to gradually change over time, similar to F.lux?” -yes, that’s a planned feature already.

New tweks SMS Stats 2, NoStoreButton7 And NowPlayingStatusBar Are 3 Subtle Cydia Tweaks Worth Checking Out

Here are 3 Cydia tweaks for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad that will bring about subtle, but convenient and useful changes.
SMS Stats 2 is a tweak worth checking out if you’re an avid texter and would like to find out how many text messages/iMessages you have sent and received in the last 28 days or over the lifetime of your device.
Upon installing SMS Stats 2 you can access it by heading into the Messages app, going into a conversation, tapping the Contacts button and then the new ‘S’ icon which stands for stats. Upon tapping this button you will be taken to a new screen with stats for that specific conversation. Then you can of course just tap the ‘S’ button within the main page of the messages app for global message statistics. You can find SMS Stats 2 on the BigBoss repo for free.
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Next up is a simple tweak by the name of NoStoreButton7 and what this tweak does is get rid of the Store button within the Music app that is often times mistakingly tapped while navigating through the app. Although you can do this on stock iOS by simply navigating to Settings > General > Restrictions and toggling off the iTunes Store, this will disable the iTunes Store functionality altogether. This tweak will just hide the button within the music app, doesn’t have any configurable options and will work as soon as you install it. You can find NoStoreButton7 on the BigBoss repo for free.
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Lastly is NowPlayingStatusBar and just like NoStoreButton7 this tweak brings about a subtle change in iOS 7 which is bringing back the now playing icon in the status bar. In iOS 6 or below, if you were playing music on your iOS Device, a small little now playing triangle would appear in the menu bar, to remind you that you were playing music in the background. This was actually useful, as if you had your device on mute, you might forget that you had songs playing, draining the battery.
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Unfortunately when Jony Ive was designing iOS 7 this feature didn’t make the cut, but if you want it back NowPlayingStatusBar is the tweak for you. You can find it in the BigBoss repo for free.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

iPhone 5s vs. Galaxy Note 3

Gizmag compares the features and specs of the Apple iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Gizmag compares the features and specs of the Apple iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy Note 3
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Compare any two high-end smartphones, and chances are they'll have a lot in common. There's usually a lot of overlap in screen size, internal components, and feature lists. But the new iPhone 5s and Galaxy Note 3 are about as different as two top-tier "phones" (if you can even call them both that) can be. Let's put the two side-by-side, compare their features and specs, and see what happens.

Size

One of these things is not like the other
See what we mean? These phones live on opposite ends of the size spectrum. The Galaxy Note 3 is 22 percent taller, 39 percent wider, and nine percent thicker than the iPhone 5s.
In fact, the difference is big enough that "phone" probably isn't the best description for the Note 3. The Galaxy Note series ushered in the term "phablet," and that portmanteau has never seemed more appropriate than when it's sitting next to the iPhone 5s.

Weight

The iPhone 5s is 33 percent lighter than the Galaxy Note 3
The Note 3 is a whopping 50 percent heavier than the iPhone 5s. You get a lot of perks in exchange for those extra ounces, but you'd be foolish to think this giganto-phone won't make its presence felt in your pocket.

Build

For the Note 3, Samsung ditched its glossy plastic backings for a soft faux leather
The new iPhone 5s is built almost exactly like its predecessor, the iPhone 5. With the Note 3, Samsung tried something new, with a soft-touch faux leather finish. It's still plastic, but we're happy Sammy finally ditched the glossy and flimsy build found on most Galaxy devices.

Colors

Each handset ships in three different colors
Each handset is sold in three different colors. The "space gray" iPhone has a black front, while the gold and silver models have white faces. The front colors of the three different Note 3 models match their backs.

Display

The Note 3 gives you 103 percent more screen area
If you were hesitant about the extra weight and huge footprint the Note 3 will leave in your pocket or purse, then maybe this will change your mind. The Note 3 gives you much more screen real estate: 103 percent more display area, to be exact.
The Note's screen is also much sharper. The iPhone 5s only gives you 35 percent as many pixels as the Note 3 does. Just remember that anything in the 320+ pixel per inch (PPI) range is going to look very sharp. Anything beyond that is more of an eye candy bonus than a necessary upgrade.

Stylus

The Galaxy Note's S Pen is a core part of its experience
Steve Jobs famously mocked styluses when he pitched the first iPhone in 2007. For a while there, it looked like he had single-handedly eviscerated the stylus, much like he did Adobe Flash and tablets with USB ports.
But the Galaxy Note line makes a great case for the stylus. The phablets' large screens lend themselves well to Samsung's "scribbling in a notebook" theme, and the company threw in a ton of software that takes advantage of the S Pen. It lets you jot notes (with handwriting recognition), highlight areas of the screen to capture, and achieve a greater overall sense of precision no matter what you're doing.

Fingerprint sensor

The iPhone 5s' Touch ID fingerprint sensor might be its killer feature
This is the big differentiating feature in the iPhone 5s. Hiding underneath the home button is a "Touch ID" fingerprint sensor that will learn your unique-as-a-snowflake print. Your fingerprint (and any other print that you teach it to trust) will unlock your phone, but anyone else will need a passcode. It's a great balance of smartphone security and convenience.

Camera

Megapixels schmegapixels: it's completely possible the iPhone 5s will take better pictures...
More megapixels don't necessarily translate to better pictures, so we'd consider this one an "incomplete" until we put both devices' cameras through their paces. We do know that the iPhone 5s' new camera features larger pixels, a new slow-motion mode, and a burst mode that automatically chooses the sharpest shot. Its flash also sports a second LED (branded as "True Tone"), which supposedly leads to more accurate tones.

Companion smartwatch

The wild card is Samsung's companion Galaxy Gear smartwatch
The thought of whipping out the gigantic Galaxy Note 3 just to check messages and send texts might sound daunting, but Samsung has an ace up its sleeve. For an extra US$300, you can snag the companion Galaxy Gear smartwatch to pair with your Note 3. It lets you make calls, read notifications, send messages (via voice), snap pictures, run apps, and more ... all on your wrist.
Unless the rumor mill is terribly misguided, Apple will launch a smartwatch of its own at some point, but there's nothing solid on that front yet. Right now you can use the Pebble watch with your iPhone, though its functionality is much more limited than the Gear.

Processor

Both phones are going to be ridiculously fast
Both devices are going to be ridiculously fast. In fact, we're really past the point of sweating speed differences in high-end smartphones, as their capabilities are beyond the limits of most apps.
The most interesting item here is Apple's shift to 64-bit processing in the iPhone 5s' A7 chip. It probably doesn't mean diddly-squat right now, but it does lay the groundwork for future mobile devices with desktop-like amounts of RAM.

Motion coprocessor

Apple's M7 motion processor should help fitness apps and accessories log data without kill...
Motion copro-what? Well, Apple threw a new M7 companion processor into the iPhone 5s, the sole job of which is to power the phone's motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass). This is good news if you use fitness apps or accessories, as they supposedly won't get the usual battery drain that other smartphones give you.
Let's be honest, though: Apple didn't throw the M7 in just to boost the popularity of fitness apps and trackers. It's almost certainly going to play a big role in that rumored iWatch, whenever it arrives.

RAM

The Note 3 triples the iPhone's RAM, but don't mistake this as a red flag for the iPhone
The Note 3 blows away the iPhone's 1 GB of RAM, though we aren't expecting any performance problems on the 5s.

Storage

The base Note 3 has more storage than the base iPhone 5s
The base model of the Note 3 gives you double the storage of the 5s' base model. It also has a microSD slot, though those are becoming less relevant on Android.

4G LTE

Both phones support 4G LTE, but some regions will receive a version of the Note without an...
Of course both devices also support speedy 4G LTE downloads, provided your local carrier has it. There's also a non-LTE (maxing out on HSPA+) version of the Note 3, though it should mostly be sold in regions that don't yet have LTE.

Battery

The Note 3's battery holds more juice, but that doesn't necessarily mean longer battery li...
Capacities can be interesting to note, but there are lots of other factors that determine actual battery life. Stay tuned for more from Gizmag on the best measure of battery life: some old-fashioned hands-on testing.

Software versions

The iPhone 5s runs Apple's new iOS 7, while the Note 3 runs the latest version of Android ...
The iPhone 5s launches with the redesigned iOS 7. Samsung has been keeping up much better on this front lately, as the Note 3 will launch with the latest version of Android, 4.3 (also known as the epic conclusion to the Jelly Bean trilogy). Samsung's TouchWiz UI, as always, makes its presence felt on top of Android.

Local file sharing

The two premier companies in mobile hardware take two different approaches to local file t...
One of iOS 7's big upgrades, AirDrop, should be familiar to Mac owners. The iOS version appears to use a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to establish a connection and transfer files with another iOS device.
Samsung has used its S Beam feature as a weapon against Apple in many a commercial. It uses near-field communication (NFC) to transfer files with any nearby Galaxy device. Here you only need to place the phones back-to-back, and tap on the screen to confirm.

NFC

The Galaxy Note 3 has an NFC chip
Speaking of NFC, Apple hasn't yet bothered including the technology in any of its devices. And it's starting to look like maybe it never will.

Side-by-side multitasking

The Note 3 lets you run multiple apps side-by-side (including multiple instances of the sa...
This is another perk of having a humongous screen. Samsung's Note series lets you run two apps on the screen at once. In the latest version, you can actually run two separate instances of the same app. This opens the door to things like running two simultaneous chat windows, or popping up a calculator window while you're drafting a message.

Infrared

The Note 3 sports an infrared blaster, that lets you change channels on your TV with your ...
Like the GS4, the Note 3 features an IR blaster, so you can use your phablet as a remote control for your TV.

Voice control

Both handsets take different approaches to voice control
The iPhone 5s has iOS 7's improved version of Siri for voice control. The Note 3 gives you a couple of native options: Samsung's S Voice (last time we checked, it was inferior to Siri) and Google Now (which we prefer over Siri for its speed and predictive abilities).
If you pick up the Galaxy Gear, it also lets you use a scaled-down version of S Voice straight from your wrist.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs. Galaxy S4: Which Phone Is Best?


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Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 are two of the hottest smartphones on the planet. And though they come from the same company and offer similar features, there are a host of differences between the two handsets. The 5-inch, quad-core-powered S4 is meant to appeal to the widest range of users.
The Note 3, on the other hand, sports a much larger 5.7-inch display and is designed to take advantage of its built-in stylus and superpowered multitasking features. But only one of these smartphones can rule Samsung’s galaxy. We pitted the S4 and Note 3 against each other in an eight-round battle royale.  Spoiler alert: It’s not even close.

Design

The Galaxy S4 uses a plastic design that’s light, but not very premium-looking. The back picks up fingerprints fairly quickly. The Note 3 is also made of plastic, but has a more refined look; it offers a faux leather rear panel meant to simulate a paper notebook, complete with a stitched leather aesthetic around the edge.
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If you’re looking for a handset that will easily fit into one hand, the Galaxy Note 3 is not the phone for you. At 6.0 x 3.1 x 0.33 inches and 5.9 ounces, the Note 3 has quite a large footprint, but at least it’s lighter than competing phablets.
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The Galaxy S4 measures 5.3 x 2.7 x 0.25 inches and weighs 4.6 ounces. That’s considerably smaller and lighter than the Note 3, making the S4 fairly easy to use with one hand. Both phones also feature removeable back panels, something we’re always happy to see on a smartphone.
MORE: Top 10 Smartphones
Winner: Tie. The Galaxy Note 3 sports more sophisticated looks, while the Galaxy S4 offers a more compact, lightweight design, resulting in both handsets getting points for this round.

Display

The Galaxy Note 3’s 5.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 resolution Super AMOLED display looked absolutely gorgeous during our testing. Colors were warm and vibrant and appeared to pop off of the screen. Text and images looked especially sharp. The S4 also features a 1920 x 1080 resolution Super AMOLED display, albeit at a smaller 5 inches. Between the two, the Note 3 offered deeper blacks than the S4.
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While watching a trailer for the film “Ender’s Game,” an image of the titular character looked just as colorful and sharp on the Note 3 as it did on the S4. But the size difference between the Note 3 and the S4, 0.5 inches, is great enough as to make viewing things on the Note 3’s display far wider than on the Galaxy S4’s. The larger text and images on the Note 3 meant we could hold it farther away from our faces than the S4 while watching a movie or reading an article.
The Note 3’s screen is also brighter than the S4. Using our light meter, Samsung’s phablet registered 539 lux, compared with 460 lux for the smaller Galaxy.
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 may use the same display technology, but the Note 3’s larger and brighter screen makes for a better viewing experience.

Audio

The Galaxy Note 3’s external speaker is positioned on its bottom edge. By contrast, the Galaxy S4’s speaker sits on the bottom of its rear panel. Between the two phones, the Galaxy S4 provided the loudest audio, offering 73 decibels of sound, while the Note 3 came in at 71 dB.
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Overall, audio sounded slightly better on the Galaxy S4, with the handset focusing more on higher notes. The Note 3 seemed to focus on lower, bass-heavy notes. While listening to TV on the Radio’s “Will Do,” bells and high-pitched guitar riffs rang out on the S4, though bass was a bit lacking. The opposite was true for the Note 3, with guitar riffs lacking and bass hits coming through clearly. In the end, neither handset provided particularly high- quality audio.
Winner: Draw. The Galaxy S4 is slightly louder, but the handsets are similarly mediocre otherwise when it comes to audio.

Interface and Software

The Galaxy Note 3 comes with Google’s Android 4.3 right out of the box. The Galaxy S4, meanwhile, includes Google’s older Android 4.2.2 OS (it should get Android 4.3 fairly soon). In truth, you won’t notice much of a difference between the two operating systems from a functionality standpoint, though 4.3 does allow for compatibility with Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Both smartphones also include Samsung’s Touchwiz overlay with its myriad quick settings and helpful notifications menu.
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The Note 3 gets a few key features that the S4 doesn’t, namely the My Magazine app. Powered by Flipboard, My Magazine gives you a single destination to check out what’s happening in the news and your social circles. The app is broken down into four image-heavy pages, including News, Personal, Here and Now and Social.
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MORE: 12 Worst Android Annoyances and How to Fix Them
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3 not only comes packing the newer version of Android Jelly Bean, it offers the slick My Magazine app.

Performance

The Galaxy Note 3 is a processing behemoth, packing a 2.3-GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB of RAM. The Galaxy S4 features Qualcomm’s last-generation Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB of RAM. Both handsets proved snappy during everyday use, with neither showing noticeable signs of lag.
That kind of horsepower lets the Note 3 easily run the latest and most demanding Android games, including “N.O.V.A. 3” and “Riptide GP 2” with ease. The Note 3 also opened its Camera app a tick faster than the S4 (2.5 versus 3 seconds). We saw a larger differential when opening “N.O.V.A. 3,” with the Note 3 taking just 13 seconds and the S4 taking 15.
That said, we didn’t see any differences between the Note 3 and S4 when exiting apps to the home screen or changing screen orientation in the Web browser.
The Note 3 transcoded a 204MB, 1080p video file to 480p using the VidTrim app in just 5 minutes and 15 seconds. The S4 and its older processor took 7:25 to finish the test. Both handsets, however, beat out the smartphone category average of 8:26.
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On the Quadrant benchmark, which tests a device’s overall performance, the Note 3 scored a sky-high 22,383, obliterating the Galaxy S4’s score of 12,251. The smartphone category average hit just 7,119.
Similarly, on the Geekbench 3 test, the Note 3 hit a monstrously high 2,979. This showing crushed the Galaxy S4’s score of 1,838.
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The results were no different on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics test, with the Note 3 topping out at 18,808. The Galaxy S4 hit 10,393, while the average smartphone scored 9,446.
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3’s quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB of RAM help it blow away both the Galaxy S4 and smartphone category averages across multiple tests.

Camera

The Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 both offer 13-megapixel rear shooters. And while Samsung representatives said the company doesn’t comment on specific camera sensor hardware, they did let slip that they may have different image sensors.
Despite that, the handsets offered incredibly similar images in both low light and normal shooting situations. A low-light photo of a young woman taken without flash with the Note 3 offered better focus than the S4, which captured a grainer image. Neither photo looked particularly good, though.
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A photo of a flower looked colorful and sharp when taken with both the Galaxy Note 3 and S4, though colors were a bit more vibrant in the Note 3’s photo. Conversely, in an image of a busy intersection, the S4 offered slightly more vibrant colors than the Note 3. We noted the same kind of results across multiple images, with one phone’s shots looking better than the other’s by the slimmest of margins. In truth, you’d have to study photos taken with both handsets very closely to notice the difference.
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Because of its Snapdragon 800 processor, the Note 3 can shoot 4K video while its little brother maxes out at 1080p. Also known as Ultra HD, 4K video is a sharp 3840 x 2160, more than double the pixels of full HD. There are already a number of high-end TVs that support the standard with less expensive models sure to come soon.
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. The 13-megapixel camera sensors on both the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 produced similarly sharp and colorful images, but the Note 3’s 4K video capabilities put it over the top.

Special Features

All of the special features found on Samsung’s Galaxy S4, including the built-in IR blaster for controlling your TV, are present and accounted for on the Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3, however, ups the ante with Samsung’s S Pen and its myriad functions. For its third-gweneration Note, Samsung offers a new Air Command app, which gives users access to five different utilities: Action Memo, Scrapbooker, Screen Write, S Finder and Pen Window.
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Action Memo lets you create a digital Post-it note that lets you write quick memos, such as phone numbers or street addresses, and lets you quickly save them to your Contact list, dial them or look them up on Google Maps. Scrapbooker allows you to circle any information you see on your phone’s screen and save it for later use. Not only does it pull in things like addresses, but it makes them actionable, as well. Better still, the tool will copy metadata from whatever you copied, so you can visit the website you got it from without having to search for it again.
The Screen Write utility simply lets you take a screenshot and write on it. S Finder is a universal search that scours your emails, videos you’ve watched, Web pages you’ve gone to and more. Pen Window is perhaps the coolest of the Air Command tools, allowing you to sketch a window in which you can run an app on your Note 3’s display.
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3 offers all of the features found on the Galaxy S4, but ups the ante with its S Pen and Air Command utilities.

Battery Life

The Galaxy Note 3 is an endurance champ, thanks to its 3,200 mAh battery. A T-Mobile version of the handset lasted a marathon 11 hours and 15 minutes on our LAPTOP Battery Test, which includes continuous Web surfing over 4G LTE with the display set to 40 percent brightness. The Verizon version lasted nearly 10 hours.
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The Galaxy S4’s smaller 2,600 mAh battery lasted 6:41 on T-Mobile’s network before calling it quits. That’s more than 4 hours short of the Note 3’s time. If you’re looking for incredible battery life, the choice is clear. The Verizon version lasted 5:25.
Winner: Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3’s awesome battery life will get you through the entire workday and then some without ever having to search for an outlet.

Value

The Galaxy S4 is available through AT&T and Verizon for $199. Sprint users can pick up the phone for $99.99. If you’re a T-Mobile customer, the S4 will cost $49.99 up front and 24 equal monthly payments of $22.
The larger Galaxy Note 3 costs $299 on AT&T and Verizon and $249 on Sprint. T-Mobile users will pay $179 up front and 24 equal monthly payments of $21.
Winner: Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 easily beats the Note 3 in the value category thanks to its much lower cost on the Big Four carriers.

Overall Winner: Galaxy Note 3

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Samsung’s $199 Galaxy S4 and $299 Galaxy Note 3 are both top-notch handsets that offer boatloads of features. However, the only two things the Galaxy S4 have going for it over the Note 4 are its lower price and more compact design. Otherwise, the Galaxy Note 3 is the hands-down winner. Speaking of hands, you’ll need two to handle this phablet, but the Galaxy Note 3’s more than justifies its larger size with its faster performance, much longer battery life and enhanced S Pen.
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As a result, the Note 3 ran away with this face-off, taking 6 of 9 rounds and tying the S4 in 2, while the S4 took just 1 outright. The Note 3 is easily the best smartphone Samsung has ever made, making it the ruler of the Galaxy.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

how iOS 7 game controller support for PS3 controllers

Although Apple has brought about official support for game
controllers in iOS 7 they are quite expensive and not yet at a level
where they are necessarily worth purchasing according to numerous
reviews. If you would still like to use a controller to play games on
your iOS devices, however, you will be glad to know a new tweak has been
released, or should I say updated, for iOS 7 called Controllers for All.


This tweak allows you to use a DualShock PS3 controller to play iOS
games and it utilizes with the new iOS 7 Game Controller APIs just like
an official controller.




In order to start playing iOS games with your DualShock PS3 controller you will simply have to buy Controllers for All from
the Cydia Store for $1.99, complete a one-time pairing process with
your iOS device and then you’re all set to. The pairing instructions are
simple can be found in the Settings app under the Controllers for All
section, or here.


The developer stated that support for the DualShock PS4 controller would be added soon as well.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

SleekSleep, UnlockSound7 And ScreenshotDam Are 3 Tweaks You Won’t Want To Miss

There are a ton of new Cydia tweaks coming out daily, but very few of them are worth your time installing. So here are 3 tweaks that we feel you should check out right away.
SleekSleep is a brand new tweak that allows you to forget having to press the sleep button and instead allows you to emulate a press of the sleep button through your iPhone’s proximity sensor. In other words you simply wave your hand in front of your iPhone’s screen and it will wake or sleep. For someone with a broken sleep button this tweak is great, but unfortunately as it means the proximity sensor stays active it will result in extra battery drainage. The tweak does have configurable options as well that allow you to adjust the sensitivity of the tweak. It also includes a FlipSwitch toggle.
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If you are interested in SleekSleep you can find it in the BigBoss repo for $0.99.
UnlockSound7 is another tweak worth checking out for those of you who just can’t get over iOS 6, but updated anyways. What the tweak does is bring back the iPhone’s iconic unlock sound that happens when unlock your device. That’s all the tweak does, but it does contain preferences that allow you to toggle the tweak on or off, choose a custom unlock sound (instructions provided on where to place sound file) and also a custom volume level toggle and slider.
You can find UnlockSound7 for free on the BigBoss repo.
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ScreenshotDam is the last tweak worth mentioning, especially if like me you take a ton of screenshots weekly on your device. See the problem with screenshots is you only really take them to utilize once and after the usage they can be deleted, but because they get mixed in with your iCloud Photo Stream they can become annoying very quickly. ScreenshotDam will block out screenshots from automatically being uploaded to the cloud. That’s it. Although I feel there should be some additional preferences associated with this tweak, it does the job and is definitely worth the install for those who also take a lot of screenshots.
You can find ScreenshotDam for free on the BigBoss repo.

iTouchSecure, And MultiIconMover iOS 7 Cydia Tweaks To Check Out

iTouchSecure is a recently released tweak that as its name suggests takes advantage of TouchID on the iPhone 5S. So how does this tweak differ from the many other TouchID tweaks popping up left right and center? Well this particular tweak allows you to autofill every password in any app using Touch ID. This of course how we all envision TouchID to become once Apple has a chance to perfect the technology, but the great thing is the Jailbreaking community gets access to all this functionality early.

All you do is download iTouchSecrue to your iPhone 5S, venture into the tweaks preferences found within the Settings app and enable the first two options: iTouchSecure enabled and Auto Press OK enabled. Next go to an app or website that requires you to login, in most cases you will first have to manually login (indicated by a yellow box in the password field) so that the password will be saved to your local keychain.
Once you do login the password box should be surrounded by a green box and you can simply login utilizing Touch ID. If you are interested in iTouchSecure you can find it in the BigBoss repo for $4.99 it is definitely worth it for Jailbroken iPhone 5S’. A more in-depth review can be
MultiIconMover+ is a great tweak for any Jailbroken device that is perfect for if you have apps scattered across multiple homescreen pages. As rather than having to manually move each one, you can group multiple icons together for one big move.
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Here’s how you move multiple icons to another Home screen page or a folder with MultiIconMover+:
  • Tap and hold on an icon until the icons enter wiggle mode
  • Next select the icons you want to move
  • Go to the folder or Homescreen page you want to move them to
  • Press the Home button
The icons will then be moved. If you are interested in MultiIconMove+ you can find it on the BigBoss repo for $0.99. It is also worth noting there is a free version of this tweak available with limited functionality for you to test it out.

The StatusHUD 2 Cydia Tweak Moves The Volume HUD To The Status Bar

The StatusHUD 2 Cydia Tweak Moves The Volume HUD To The Status Bar

Do you find the heads up display for volume a little distracting at times? If you find yourself annoyed with the volume or silent mode pop up window when watching videos, playing games, listening to music, or simply using any application, then look no further than a free tweak named StatusHUD 2 developed by Alan Yip.
StatusHUD 2 Cydia Tweak Before and After
StatusHUD moves the heads up display for both volume and silent mode to the status bar. This is a great tweak to move the somewhat interfering heads up display away from the center of the screen. Users will notice that the tweak also works in fullscreen applications.
The tweak provides its own preference pane in general Settings where you can enable, disable the tweak, adjust the style, size and dismiss delay. Users can choose from seeing circles or squares when they increase or decrease the volume on their device. There are four dismiss delay speeds, which is the speed in which users see the volume on the status bar change to the original one.
StatusHUD 2 Cydia Tweak Settings App
Don’t forget StatusHUD 2 is a free tweak which can be found in the BigBoss repository and it’s compatible with iOS 7 and 64-bit devices.