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Now not everyone can be a developer and can purchase the Apple’s developer account for $99 in order to Download Xcode and to make Apps and submit them on the Developer Portal. And to use Xcode is not easy. Some coding skills are required for you to use Xcode and compile the App and test it on your iDevice. The procedure is very long, and not everyone can afford a MAC or Apple’s Developers Account.
However, people can get an iPad some how. So those people who got an iPad must be thankful to Two Lives Left, The developers behind the App Codify, which lets you make anything on your iPad and run it. Codify is a platform that game designers, educators and students can use to create games and experiment with visual ideas. Codify is an iPad app that allows users to create and play interactive games and simulations directly on their device without any hard skills required.

Codify is made on Lua programming language. Users can simply adjust numbers by dragging them, adjust colors by touching them and can add many feature like Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Multi-Touch and much more.
Codify is designed for simple Development and for the end users who are willing to test their skills with the App. To use the App is really fun and user friendly. First see the official demo below:
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After After seeing the wonderful demo you must be moe clear now regarding the app and its functions. Codify is pretty good for programmers, beginners and for those, who want to learn coding. This App provides you everything on your finger tips. All you have to do is touch, and you are done.
Codify, comes with many great samples, which can be viewed, edited, and ran at the same time. The App also includes a Getting Started Document which helps an end user to know about the App in a useful way. Codify is really an awesome app for coding. We can learn many things from this App and make them for real. We can make our small dreams come true.
Obviously, this App cannot replace Xcode, but still we can do something small and learn something from this app to proceed further on to use Xcode.
The App is only available in New Zealand, Australian and Japanese App Stores. So if you are one of the users from the above places, you can proceed on with the download of this App. Obviously the App is not for free because everything precious has a cost.
Codify is available for US$7.99 / AU$8.49. You can download the app from the iTunes link below.
Download Codify (iTunes Link)
UpdateX1:
The App was released early in the above stores and is ahead of launch in other Stores also. It should be available shortly in other stores. The only difference is of Time Zone, as told by the Developer.
Another great news is that when the App is available in he other stores, we will be doing a small give away of this app. So stay tuned with us.

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Folk’s the notification center has been rolled over the minds of the developers and they are just doing all the development for it. We also got the special theme over for the notification center and the SBSettings also was changed to BBSettings as they were shifted to the Notification center. Most of the rocking tweaks were shifted to the Notification Center as it was the best place to place all the bulk at one place.
We have another tweak now for the Notification Center which will send and receive the SMS or Email right on your Notification center and you can right on the notification center send it back to the folk whom messaged/emailed you.

This tweak is available at the BigBoss repository for $1.99.

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Some folks around the globe do not like the interface of the Mail in the iDevice. As you cant get any custom folder in the Mail. Well Cydia developers have got over this problem by getting your mail more open to roll over the app so that you can add subtract your thoughs in mail. You can add any custom folder with your custom icon with it. Its really easy.

The management of SmartFolders boxes for Mail is based on these criteria:

• Account
• Folder
• Heading
• Sender
• Receiving
• Object
• Summary
• In the inbox
• It is / is not marked
• It is / was not read
• Has / has not been answered
• Presents attachments
• It was received before / after this date

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The famous Apple iPhone 4S is finally released. Many people have already bought it, and some have even tried to drop it and see what will happen; I guess you have already seen this video with an iPhone 4S drop test showing that Apple’s new device isn’t durable at all – its glass case was shattered after a couple of drops. Well, if you don’t want the same thing to happen to your new iPhone 4S, it’s a good idea to find a strong case that will protect your phone in case of accidental drops.

There are many good cases for the new iPhone 4S, but many people want their cases to be not only durable, but also very stylish, too, so today I would like to speak about some really cool cases that will make you and your phone stand out in the crowd.
Here they are:
1. ID America Gasket Case

This cool case costs $29.99, which seems to be quite a reasonable price.
2. Speck CandyShell Card Case
The CandyShell Card Case designed by Speck is an example of a case that is both stylish and really useful – it has a slot on its back for keeping credit cards and maybe some cash, too. So you can get rid of your old wallet and use this nice case instead.
Speck CandyShell Card Case comes in three colors – blue, grey and white – and costs $39.95.
3. XtremeMac Tuffwrap Shift Case
I guess ladies will like the third case for the iPhone 4S I’m going to introduce – the XtremeMac Tuffwrap Shift Case. If you think that fingerprints on a phone don’t look stylish at all, you haven’t seen the fingerprints of this this cool case! XtremeMac Tuffwrap Shift Case uses a special heat-activated color changing technology that reveals stylish palm prints on the case when you hold it in your hand.
The pink, grey, green and blue version of this case have white palm prints on them, and the purple and orange versions come with blue and yellow prints respectively. You’ll have to pay only $29.99 for this stylish case, and it’s worth it.
Of course, there are many other cool cases in the market designed for the new iPhone 4S, and I’ll try to write about more of them soon.

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Once again, we are here with the LTE-enabled 4G iPhone device news. It appears that Apple is again expected by the industry sources of the publication, which claims that Apple to launch 4G LTE iPhone next year as the iPhone 5, the report comes from the sources of Digitimes. According to their source, the next iPhone from Apple will support the embedded 4G LTE radio. It’s been a long time when apple is rumored to power its iPhone with the next-generation network.

Firstly, sources claimed this year that Apple is preparing the next-generation iPhone with the latest 4G LTE technology, but later this year we found that Apple had not implemented the LTE technology instead of it. They added the support of the next generation 3G network called HSDPA+. The report comes from the anonymous industry source of Digitimes, the past track of Digitimes in breaking news about the iPhone is bit sketchy.
On the other hand, the report also suggests that Nokia, RIM and Sony Erricson will also join the 4G LTE enabled the phone party by next year. It appears most of the smartphone vendors stop due to incompatibility of the 4G network with most of the current available technology. Currently, there are 35 LTE networks and that number is expected to bypass 100 by the end of 2012.
The 4G LTE network is a super-fast network and will change the way you see wireless. With 4G LTE networks, you can download movies, music and games in minutes.

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In last few years, Apple has been radically improving the iPhone camera lens, since they have launched the first iPhone back in 2007. Apple has launched the couple of next-generation versions of its iPhone, and the latest iPhone 4S gets the 8-MegaPixel camera lens which is said to be the best smartphone camera yet. Many of the iPhone 4S owners compared its camera lens with the latest DSLR camera, but the smartphone camera gives great performance From the history of the iPhone, we learnt all the iPhone camera lenses had produced great performance.

After the couple of iPhone camera versions, the founder of the most popular application “Camera+” for an iPhone comes up with an interesting side by side comparison of the iPhone lens improvement in the last couple of years, and shows how Apple has improved the iPhone camera in last few years. The comparison was done between the iPhone (2G), iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S. The latest iPhone 4S camera seems to be the highly improved from the original iPhone, where the picture of the iPhone 2G look’s bit blurry.

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A day ago we have posted about the video showing the iBook fix on iOS 5 by the infamous jailbreak hacker iH8sn0w. The hacker shows up iBook application running on iOS 5 jailbroken device and claimed that he is working on the fix, and the current status of the fix is enough to launch publicly as the fix is not much stable to get the air of public launch.

After a day of demo video, It appears that someone is also actively working on the iBook fix on iOS 5 jailbroken devices, and as well comes up with a little fix to get the application back working on iOS 5 jailbreaked device. The fix for iBook on iOS 5 that appears today still not enough to get you all features of iBook on the device, but can at least allow you to read or use your iBook app for reading books or the most awaited Steve Jobs biography.
In the above talked solution you also face some errors on your iOS device, especially while syncing the books on your device with iTunes. The fix also does not allow you to make or transfer any old purchase of books, to get books on it; you have to manually add them through the jailbreak tweaks/ tools available for Windows or Mac OS X.

Fix iBooks On iOS 5 Jailbroken Devices
Now follow the steps below & embedded video provided by iDownloadBlog:

Step 1: Uninstall iBooks, and then reinstall iBooks from the App Store. Do not open the app.
Step 2: Open iFile, and copy iBooks.app from /var/mobile/Applications/(iBook’s folder)/ to /Applications. You can use SBSettings, or just go through each folder to identify the correct iBooks folder. If you don’t have a lot of App Store apps, this should be simple.
Step 3: Tap on /Applications/iBooks.app/Info.plist and select property list editor. Tap CFBundleIdentifier and change com.apple.iBooks to com.apple.iBooksFix
Step 4: Exit iFile and Respring.
Step 5: Delete the original iBooks app (rounded corners) and keep the square iBooks app.
Step 6: Since you can’t use the iBookstore on device, and you can’t sync with iTunes, upload your .epub files using the methods outlined on the video, dropbox, etc. From there you can open them using iBooks where you will be able to read them.

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In the last few days, we have seen rumors regarding the Apple HDTV making a lot of sound around the web, since the excerpt from Steve Jobs biography quoted by the publication that he got a way to get into the TV business, and he cracked a way to introduce a new elegant way of TV. It is lately reported that Apple HDTV project actually in the prototype phase, may be the device could come later next year or in the start of 2013.

According to the today’s Bloomberg report, it is reported that publication got some words from their sources inside the Apple and claimed that the person who invented the iTunes and was co-leader at Apple in the invention of iPod has been assigned to the project of Apple’s television.
Jeff Robbin, the guy who introduced the iTunes and its idea to Apple has assigned by the executives to lead the Apple television project and is the same person who co-leads the iPod invention with Tony Fadell. The earlier report comes to us from the research note of Piper Jaffray’s, Gene Munster, which comes up with a hell of tidbits regarding the Apple television project. He noted that Apple to introduce a television with the couple of new features and to revolutionize the television industry.
The device is now rumored to support the Apple’s new Siri service, iCloud and the other numerous unnamed services by Apple, which could enrich the use of television.

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After releasing the iOS 5 to all iOS devices, Apple releases a firmware update to the Apple TV to include many of the latest available features around the other iOS devices. Apple had released the Apple TV firmware version 4.4, to add the numerous new features of iOS to the set-top box, including the feature of Photo Stream, NHL, AirPlay Mirroring for the support of iPhone 4S and the Wall Street Journal content. And as usual, the update comes up with a lot of bugs, which cause problems to many users and the update temporarily bricked their devices, which Apple solved the problem with a quick update to the Apple TV firmware but still the many users reported that have been facing issues after updating to the new firmware since last week.

After facing all the problems with Apple TV users, finally they released tonight again with a minor update to the firmware 4.4.2 to fix hopefully all the highlighted bugs from the firmware, and Apple also details some of the issues in a new support document regarding the release of new firmware to the Apple TV users.

Apple TV devices with software version 4.4 and 4.4.1 have an issue with updating software to later versions. The recommended way to resolve this is go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings, prior to updating. Note: If you apply the software update without resetting all settings first, the updater will reset the settings for you.
Once the Apple TV has been reset, you can then successfully update to the latest software by going to Settings -> General -> Update Software.
We recognize that this is an inconvenience and apologize.

So if you are one of those who have been facing the issues with your Apple’s TV set-top box after updating it to 4.4.X new firmware, take a look into a new support document and download the new firmware update for your device to get it back hopefully in the working condition. Apple TV firmware version 4.4.2 allows you to enjoy the Photo Stream, and Airplay Miring with set-top box.

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China is one of the most targeted land for Apple’s iOS devices, as we have already learned from the CEO of Apple that they have different plans for the China mainland to throw their device and to expand their business in the biggest land of the world with the World’s largest carrier. It appears that Apple has currently only one Chinese carrier in its partner list, while others are still trying to make the deal with Apple.

According to the Reuters today report, China Mobile has announced the achievement of the new milestone of ten million iPhone users on its network, despite the company failed to make a deal with Apple to get their device legally for their network customers. China Mobile is not an official Apple’s Partner Carrier for the distribution of the iPhone in the China mainland.

Having a 10 Million iPhone users on a carrier is might be not a big deal, but having much amount of users on the carrier where users only get the speed of 2G network, and the rest of the world moving to 4G. Apple’s iPhone is not compatible with the TD-SCDMA 3G network used by the China Mobile. At the current time, China Unicom is only the exclusive official carrier who supplies the iPhone in China’s mainland, although all the other big carriers of the country still trying make a deal with Apple for selling its iPhone on their network. In the last few months, we learned that China Mobile and Apple had having some meetings on launching the new iPhone on the carrier. China Mobile is currently the world’s largest wireless carrier with over 600 million customers.

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iPhone 4S Siri has already given a deep shot on the Apple’s rival business, as the folks losing their patience to run it on their device, and because of the Apple strategy of limiting it only to the latest iPhone 4S hardware currently. It appears that some Android developers has copied the same concept and the same alphabets of the Apple’s iPhone 4S Siri to introduce the new clone app of Siri, “IRIS” app for the Android devices to provide them a virtual assistant. But how far it works?

It appears that large number of android users have already installed the application on their devices and started making buzz around the internet by making fun of its ugly behavior towards the owners of the device. The “IRIS” app is said to be developed in the 8 hours of work, which attracts more people to itself. The application is currently available in the Android Market for free. No doubt, Siri is an intelligent application and service of Apple on iPhone 4S, but this time Android developers tried to make something in very less time, but sigh… still copying the concept and the name concept of the original application.
IRIS for Android is not the first app there who provides the voice recognition and talking assistant features, there are several apps available in the Android Market, who provides the same functionality on the Android devices, but the IRIS is a bit different from all of them and works similar to the Apple’s iPhone 4S Siri. While the IRIS start making round on tech blogs, a user come up with a really ugly thing of the app which totally lies in the favor of Apple, in short at least saying the truth.

The user asked the IRIS on his Samsung Galaxy S II about the iPhone and the best device of the world, and the answer was a bit shocking for the user who holds the device, the IRIS believes that the Apple’s iPhone is the best device ever created till now. After spending couple of minutes with the application, we think the app will blow the Android reputation with its answers to the users.

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Since the Apple has released the iBook for the iOS, we have seen it always comes up with some bugs on the arrival of jailbreak for the device. We have seen Apple has blocked the usage of iBook on jailbroken device such as many other app vendor tries to block their application access on the jailbroken iOS devices. Last week Apple has releases the iOS 5 and almost every third person had updated its device to the latest version of iOS and after the upgrade, most of them jailbreaked their device.

It appears that iBook does not work on the iOS 5 tethered or semi-tethered jailbreak due to Apple restrictions of app in the sandbox of iOS 5. The app immediately crashes on jailbroken iOS 5 device when user tap on its icon in the Springboard of the device. It looks like some infamous hacker has managed to fix the bug, just ahead of the Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs first official biography launch. Many of the users wanted to run the iBook on their device to read the biography or other books but due to iOS 5 jailbreak they can’t run it on their device.

iBook Fix For iOS 5 Jailbreak iH8Sn0w, one of the most famous iPhone jailbreak hacker has just teased a video today on his official twitter account on which he shows the iBook running perfectly on the iOS 5 jailbroken device. iH8sn0w has managed to fix the sandbox error problem with Sn0wbreeze/redsn0w iOS 5 jailbreak, and make the application to run on iOS 5 jailbroken device. However, iH8sn0w says that he won’t release the fix for public since it’s not stable.

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