One of the Oppo Find 7a and Find 7’s biggest downfalls has to be the software. Misspelled alerts, strange cartoony icons and animations, it just doesn’t scream premium in the way it’s hardware does. Thankfully though it’s easy to flash a much better software onto the Find 7’s; CyanogenMod to […]
Recently, I got an Oppo Find 7a to play with and with it, did an unboxing and then showed you how to root it. Now, it’s its big brother’s turn for an unboxing: the Oppo Find 7. There are a lot of similarities between these two devices. Both have the same sensors,
UPDATE 10.19.14: The full version of Android 5.0 has been released! Head to my How to Get Android 5.0 “Lollipop” on the Nexus 5 / Nexus 7 instead! Google I/O just passed and one of the most exciting thing for most people was the revamp Android got with Android L. Android
Well, the normal team didn’t do it, but there is now a (albeit slightly shady looking) jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1. Using a downloadable .exe file from a team calling themselves Pangu, you can jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch by clicking a few things on your computer with the
Thanks to Geohot, that kid who first jailbroke an iPhone a long time ago, we have a root method that works for most Android device that are running Kitkat. After his long history of working in the jailbreaking community for iOS, he decided a few days ago to release an
Text shortcuts are essentially phrases or words you can add to your device’s dictionary and use custom abbreviations to call them when typing instead of having to type them out entirely. Do you type your email a lot? Your street address? Phone number? Maybe you just want to reuse certain
Thanks to Geohot, that kid who first jailbroke an iPhone a long time ago, we have a root method for the Samsung Galaxy S5. After his long history of working in the jailbreaking community for iOS, he decided a few days ago to release an app that can allow you
I, for one, HATE group chats. They always seem to go off on tangents that I simply don’t need to be a part of or they simply end up becoming a drunken symphony of vibrations on my nightstand if I was the one who had to get up early the
Every Android manufacturer adds their own UI skin on top of Android as a way to differentiate themselves from other manufacturers also running Android. Oppo, the new Chinese manufacturer getting a decent amount of publicity lately, is no different. Their UI is called ColorOS and it’s, um, different. I figured I’d
Here’s another jailbreak tweak that helps you further customize the look and feel of iOS 7. In this case, it’s not the UI color, or the icons, or any other part of the constant parts of iOS that you see every time you look down at your phone, but it’s
Motorola’s new budget friendly device, the Moto E, is getting a ton of praise from around the web for it’s extremely low price tag coupled with “better than expected” performance, styling, and pretty much all other aspects of it. I plan to do a full video review ASAP, but in
There’s a universal search tool that a lot of people are familiar with on Mac called Alfred. This program sort of takes the idea of Spotlight, and searching one place to find anything on your computer, and kicks it up a notch by adding in the ability to also search
Thanks to a jailbreak tweak developer, you can now have that “show in finder” functionality found in OS X on your Mac carried over to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 7. The tweak is free and requires no setup. Simply install it and then you have the
UPDATE 06.18.14: Apparently, some people are having luck doing this without having to register their UDID (and pay the $8). Feel free to actually do this and skip Section II altogether and see if it will let you continue without doing so first, then if it ever tells you to
Based on someone’s iOS 8 concept of a “mission control” upgrade to control center in iOS 7, a jailbreak tweak developer came up with Vertex. Vertex allows you to replace the app switcher and the control center with a sleek combination of the two. Essentially it takes the app switcher and
