Home button on Apple iPhone is in fact the ONLY physical button that is available on the front-side and is used extensively during the normal operation i.e., to exit out of currently running application, accessing the multi-tasking bar and so on. This is in contrast many Android phones where we may have more button on our disposal. For example, on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) I have three button on front – two additional buttons apart from typical Home button. They can be indispensable once you ...

Galaxy Nexus is latest & greatest device in the Android world from Samsung, and has generally got rave review from many experts. One thing you might have noticed, in case you bought this device is that you cant mount the USB stick/flash drives or external drives with the device! Although Google has advertised USB On-The-Go as one of the key features of the Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). And indeed there is support for this exciting feature underlying but for some reason Google has decided ...

There are already a number of ways that a user can monitor the torrent download on his or her PC from a mobile device. But what if you want to download the torrents on your smartphone? – in particular on an iOS platform such as iPhone! There are some choices that we mentioned in the past for jailbroken phones to do but iTransmission seems to be the best option yet. iTransmission of course requires a jailbroken iDevice and you can actually download the latest IPA file form the Google Repository ...

Windows 8 is expected to be pack full of new innovative features that is sure to leave all spell bound. The renowned OS brand has already released an early version of Windows 8 on a prototype tablet, and the Developer Preview can be downloaded by any person. This sneak peak of the OS that is still in developmental stage is available for download in 3 versions: a 64-bit version and a 32-bit version with only the OS, and a 64-bit version that includes developer tools. Windows 8 includes a set of many ...

There is a really huge amount of videos that are available on YouTube spanning over all kinds of categories and/or topics. Only problem is that every now and then you come across a video that is blocked in your home country and you see the nasty message denying the access. For example, there are many music videos that cannot be accessed in Europe and many other regions. Viewer can only access these videos on YouTube if they are from US. If you happen to be using Firefox and ever come across this ...

As of now almost all Android users are waiting anxiously for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update from their device manufacturer for their specific device. Only the proud owners of the shiny new Galaxy Nexus will be able to get it loaded by default on the device. If you can live with some bugs and instability then there are some pre-release versions of the ICS available for many popular devices such as Samsung Galaxy SII/S, some HTC devices among others as we have detailed in the past. However ...

You might know already about the Carrier IQ drama that happened recently. For those of you who don’t know Carrier IQ is software that comes pre-installed on many mobile handsets without the users knowing about its presence. This software is said to be used for measuring the customer experience and typical mobile usage patterns etc. However, it has been found recently that Carrier IQ can breach user privacy by logging the messages and user keystrokes and sending this sensitive data among other pieces ...

All the experienced Android users with a Samsung based Android device in their pocket are most likely familiar with the ODIN tool that is used to flash custom kernels, firmware modems, repartition, install custom firmware on the device. In fact, ODIN is also used by some users to install the insecure kernel on the device to get the root later on. But ODIN is a Windows desktop PC tool and requires the Samsung Android device to be connected to the PC for functioning which is of course not very convenient ...

Normally you can flash and then use only one ROM/firmware on your Android phone unless some specific tool (a multi-boot kernel) is used to enable the option to boot multiple ROMs on the device. If you happen to have the Samsung Galaxy SII then a free app called LolBoot can be used to achieve this multi-boot functionality. More specifically, LolBoot will allow to dual-boot two completely independent ROMs on your SGS2 device. One firmware will be the primary one that will be booted normally. However, ...

A lot of time of has passed since iPhone 4S was released by Apple. Till now many users are anxiously waiting for an unlock solution for the iPhone 4S for example in the form of Ultrasn0w a popular software unlock tool that can be installed on jailbroken iPhones to unlock the device. We are not sure that how much time it will still take for such a tool to be available for the iPhone 4S. But luckily for us there are indeed some clever people out there that managed to unlock the iPhone 4S without using ...