So you saw all of the tracking information that Apple keeps from your iPhone? You want to do something about it? Well, you can either jailbreak the device and then remove the phone’s ability to be tracked altogether, or you can do this procedure to encrypt the tracking data so […]
Curious where Apple has been tracking you? Want to know exactly when your iPhone checked in? Using a special open source program developers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, have created a way for you to check to see where your iPhone has been tracked. You’d be surprised how far back the
Typing on your tablet just not what you hoped it would be? Want to change that on-screen keyboard to something that suits your needs? No problem. In this how to we show you how to do just that. Take the Android stock keyboard and replace it with any of
Now that we have access to the microsd access via a custom kernel, Koush has released his Clockworkmod recovery image for the Motorola Xoom. What can you do with a custom recovery, you ask? Well, you can create and restore backups of the entire system, ability to flash kernels, and
Sick of seeing the same wallpaper everytime you look down at your phone? Well, with a quick app from the Market, you can do just that. Simply download the wallpaper changing app, put images in a folder on your SD card, choose the interval to have the wallpapers change,
Now, it’s not too functional, but it’s still great news nonetheless. zFr3eak over on XDA Developers has released a very alpha build of a Honeycomb (Android 3.0) ROM he is working on for the HTC Desire HD. What is working and what is not working are listed on the developer’s
Want to be able to transfer all of your music, pictures, videos, and other fun stuff on your Blackberry Playbook onto your Windows PC and vise versa but don’t want to use the USB cable? No problem. RIM came up with an easy way to do just that with just
Blackberry Playbook having issues? Or just feel like starting from scratch? Well, here’s a quick how to on what to do in just such a case. Today, we’re going to show you how to factory reset your Blackberry Playbook and get it back to how it was out of the
So even though Motorola hasn’t officially fixed the MicroSD card slot on the Xoom to enable it to work, some hard working developers at XDA Developers managed to fix it anyway. Here’s how to get it done. BIG THANKS TO THE TIAMAT TEAM AND BIG THANKS TO JASON TYLER FOR THIS
An XDA member posted a leaked test version of the official Gingerbread ROM for the Sprint HTC Evo that is supposed to come out soon. This version is a rooted version of what they believe is the official HTC update for the Evo. Nothing has been changed besides adding root
What are gestures? Well, they are basically anything you do on the device involving touching it with your fingers. Things like tapping an icon, swiping across the screen, etc. are all gestures. Ah, but there is more. RIM, it would seem, added a few hidden gestures to the list,
Just like with most other purchases from retailers, apps can be returned for a refund if you don’t like them. Android handles this in a very basic way; you hav15 minutes to try out the app and decide if you want to keep it or not. Very straight forward and
So maybe you don’t have the Android Market on your device, or maybe the app you want just isn’t in the Android Market for whatever reason. How do you install an app that isn’t in the Market? Well, Android uses these small files call APK’s to install your app in
So maybe you’ve seen one of these square barcodes that have a bunch of dots in them somewhere and wondered, “What the hell is that mess?” Well, that mess is called a QR code, which stands for Quick Reference Code. A QR code is basically a barcode like you find
So for most I’m sure copy and paste is quite a basic feature, and well, it is. But it can be kind of tough getting used to how to do it on a device with a touchscreen instead of a mouse if you’re not sure how to do it.
