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RIP Safari for Windows and older Macs

Apple has finally shipped Safari 6 with the the new  Mountain Lion , but has silently removed Safari for Windows and users of previous versions of Mac OS will get limited new features of the new browser, the reason behind this is that in order to take full advantage of new web browser, you'll need to be latest OS. As announced back in June, Safari 6 on Mountain Lion incorporates some ideas taken from Google Chrome. One big Mountain-Lion-only addition is a feature called iCloud Tabs, which lets Apple users with iCloud sync their tabs across Macs and iPhones, iPads, and iPods running iOS 6. Another cool feature is “Tab View,” which makes it easy to quickly look through all your open tabs. The new browser also includes built-in sharing to Facebook and Twitter.  While most of Safari 6′s new features are for Mountain Lion users only, users on Lion, can still take advantage of the new omnibar that combines the address bar and unified search made famous by Google Chrome, Do No...

Download Siri legally for your iOS 5 devices (iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch, iPad etc...)

Great! News for older iPhone users trying to get some Siri love on their phones can finally rejoice. Thanks to hackers  Grant Paul  (aka chpwn),  Steve Troughton-Smith  and Ryan Petrich. After months of work, they have developed an installer called Spire .  With Spire you can install Siri legally on your iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch, iPad (all iOS 5) devices. The creators claim that their is no copyright infringement issues unlike previous Siri hacks. To achieve this they are using Proxy servers to connect to Apple's servers. Once installed it will connect to Apple servers to initiate official Siri download of about 100MB. Although, some limitations still exist for you before you can have Siri up and running on your device. To begin with, Your iDevice must be jailbroken in order to install Spire. Then you need to have some technical knowledge to set up the proxy servers, to identify your device as iPhone 4S.(Check back for official step-by...

Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock iPhone 4S/4/3Gs iOS 5.0.1/5.0 Patch Available Online

  Now your latest iPhone 4 can be carrier unlocked which works now on iOS 4.3.5/5 firmware. With it you are can unlock iPhone 4 (and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.5/5) and use it on any compatible GSM network. Head on to www.BestUnlockiPhone.com to unlock you iPhone. Their site states that it will work, not only to unlock the iPhone 4 running the latest iOS version but it will work with any iPhone model and any firmware or baseband version. If you still own the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS then it is probably the best unlock for you. Remember that unlocking the iPhone can only be performed once you have jailbroken the device. By unlocking your iPhone you unlock your iPhone to thousands of new features that will your make your iPhone experience a more pleasurable experience. Like the ability to install free games, free themes, free wallpapers, use Bluetooth to its full potential (read transfer and receive files) and many many other things that will make yo...

Alternative Web Browser Choices for your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

The built-in Safari web browser of your iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) is pretty nice but it still lacks a few essentials features that are now part of every modern browser. What’s Missing in Safari Mobile Browser iPad’s Safari browser doesn’t support tabs so it takes more time to switch between open web pages. There’s no private browsing mode so if there’s anything in your iPad’s web history that you don’t want other family members to see, you’ll have to clear the entire browser history. You cannot disable images from downloading, a feature that otherwise come very handy when you are on metered Wi-Fi connection where you have to pay per byte. Safari ships pre-configured with Google, Yahoo and Bing but you just can’t add Wikipedia or any of the search engines to that list. Alternative Web Browsers for your iPad Opera Mini , which is now among the most popular alternative mobile browser for iPhone and iPod Touch, is not iPad-friendly yet but there are some other good browser apps tha...

Apple Enables Safari Extensions

Apple on Wednesday released an update to Safari 5 which turns on extensions support akin to what browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer have been offering for years. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine’s and Web site’s coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media’s internetnetnews.com. Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter Agree … He had reported the problem to Apple more than a month before, but decided to disclose the vulnerability after he received only automated replies to his e-mailed queries. Like its App Store, it appears that the extension must carry some type of digital signature provided by Apple in order to install. It was not specified though whether this meant that an extension would ne...