16/02/2012 |
Many features came with the release of iOS 5 in October 2011. Along with enhancements like the Notification Center, Siri was also released with the iPhone 4S. We covered why other iOS devices won’t get Siri officially, as it is by official measures exclusive to the iPhone 4S hardware. Initially, the developers were facing difficulties in creating and testing Siri-based tweaks. But after the release of greenpois0n absinthe tool which allowed for untethered jailbreak of all A5 devices, the...
Siri is one of the major reasons why people prefer Apple over its competitors. We have seen Siri alternatives on other operating systems but they have failed to match up to the power of real Siri. It exclusively belongs to the iPhone 4S and since the jailbreak of the A5 devices, there have been m...
We posted about SpeakEvents Cydia tweak that reads out SMS, emails and iMessage notifications. This can come in handy when your iDevice is not accessible when you're driving or are just not in the mood to hold it. Another somewhat similar tweak has been released. Details below!The new Cydia tweak...
Grand Paul recently updated Zephyr and Infinidock Cydia tweaks to be compatible with iOS 5.1. He is also the developer for the popular Spire tweak which allows for Siri access on non-4S devices. However, there's an issue with Spire. It only provides the Siri GUI, and relies on a functioning proxy...
Siri tweaks have flooded the Cydia Store since the release of the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak. Earlier, I posted about the Sirilovelyrics tweak. Now a new Cydia tweak has emerged which allows users to launch Siri with just a downward swipe of the status bar. A little more use of the notificati...
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could use Siri to the lyrics of a particular song? Well now we can! The jailbreaking community has developed a new Cydia tweak which enables us to know about the lyrics of a song being played! The tweak is known as SiriLoveLyrics.The new tweak is available via...
Since Apple unveiled Siri as an iPhone 4S-exclusive feature back in October, the entire jailbreak community has been waiting for it to be ported to older devices. We’ve seen videos of hackers running the digital assistant on non-4S hardware, but never a public release.Tonight it would seem ...
System wide voice-to-text dictation, once exclusive to iPhone 4S, has now been replicated on other iOS devices thanks to a Jailbreak hack called Siri0us.In order to use the dictation hack, you will need to have a jailbroken iOS 5 device. A point to note, the hack does not use Apple’s serve...
Sure, Apple may have released Siri without all of the functionality that we’d like. But luckily, for those of us who are jailbroken, Cydia has a plethora of tweaks and add-ons available that make the digital assistant much more capable.Such is the case with SiriSports. The new tweak, develo...
There are so many different nations, cultures and beliefs in the world. But there's one thing that brings people from different nations together and that is sports! It brings a sense of brotherhood among all nations and also plays a role of a worldwide language and promotes peace all over.A new t...
While iPhone 4S owners in the U.S. enjoy a host of location-based Siri functions, folks outside the country are out of luck. Try going to the UK and asking Siri where the nearest McDonalds is, and you’re sure to get shot down.But as usual, the jailbreak community has figured out a way to ma...