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Daily Tip: How to setup Emoji keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5

Submitted by Andrew Wray on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:31

Curious how to make it easier to insert Emoji icons into a text message, email or iMessage? It turns out there's a great workaround to switching between the normal keyboard and the Emoji keyboard, navigating to the emoticon you're looking for, then switching back to the normal keyboard to resume your message. In this tip, we'll show you how to use Emoji much more efficiently using keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5.

Ally's most-used iPhone and iPad apps of 2011

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 09:00

Some of my favorite apps have managed to stay the same year after year, but app updates and new contenders are always finding their way onto my device. While there are tons of great apps in the App Store, these are the apps that currently earn a place on the homescreen of my iPhone or iPad, or even both.

No Uninstall makes deleting apps from the Home screen impossible [Jailbreak]

Submitted by Andrew Wray on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 03:16

No Uninstall is a A jailbreak mod in Cydia that prevents 3rd party apps from being deleted from the Home screen on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

This tweak removes the "X" when uninstalling an iPhone app. Good for pranking your friends and preventing accidental app removal.

Why Facebook and other apps sometimes say "Cleaning..."

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 09:21

With iOS 5 it's not uncommon to sometimes see the label under many apps, including Facebook, sometimes change to read "Cleaning..." This is a feature of iOS 5 that Apple hasn't really explained, so it's caused a lot of you to write in an ask about it. Here's the deal...

Basically, that's iOS 5 deleting cache and temporary files so that when iCloud or iTunes does a backup of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, that backup is smaller and faster.

Untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1 shown off

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 19:44

pod2g has shown off an iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak running on an iPhone 4.

Here is a new video demo of the current status of the 5.0.1 jailbreak running on an iPhone 4. This is meant to reassure people that were thinking it only works on older iPods. The jailbreak is near ready for prime time (excluding 4S and iPad 2).

AlbumArt on AppSwitcher [Jailbreak]

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 16:11

AlbumArt on AppSwitcher does exactly what the title says - adds album art to your app switcher. I personally like having this functionality because I have a tendency to forget what songs come from what albums. This way I don't have to jump into my iPod app, I can simply bring up my app switcher and look without having to stop what I'm doing.

Once installed from Cydia there's nothing to configure or set up, it should just work. It's available for free and requires iOS 5.0 or higher.

Free - Cydia Search Link

Daily Tip: How to get your music artwork to show up on all tracks of an album when using iTunes Match

Submitted by chrisoldroyd on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 00:22

If you are like me and spent hours ensuring your album and track artwork is all in order in iTunes only to find that when you subscribed to iTunes Match it all went haywire, you are not alone. I signed up for iTunes Match last week when the international launch went live. I uploaded all of my music only to find that the album artwork showed up fine in album view but only the first track of each album showed any artwork, all of the other tracks had missing artwork.

Forums: 50 days with the iPhone 4S, What else do you own?

Submitted by Chris Parsons on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 19:39

A new week has started and we're already well under way here at TiPb. If you happened to miss out on any of today's or this weekends events make sure you get caught up either here on the blogs or in the TiPb forums -- and stay tuned for what the rest of this week will bring. You can register now to get started today:

iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak update

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 10:59

pod2g has updated his blog with the current status of his iPhone 4S jailbreak he's been working on. The good news is he seems to be working extremely hard on this one. The bad news is he seems to have hit a bit of a snag when it comes to the untethered part.

The untether fails right now because I'm having processor cache issues.

I'm close, but I can't figure out what happens. It certainly has something to do with the Cortex-A9 cache management.

I could sort it out quick, it's a matter of chance.

I'll report you my progress tomorrow.

Forums: Freeing up iCloud space, iPhone 4S restores

Submitted by Chris Parsons on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 18:17

As we roll on into the weekend, it's always a good chance to get caught up on the things you may have missed out on from the week. You can skip on back a few pages, and see if you missed out on anything and while you're at it -- make sure you check out the TiPb forums as well. You can register now to get started today:

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