How to Install Siri On iPhone 4/3Gs, iPad And iPod Touch

Lots of Peoples have been waiting for i4Siri Release and Finally i4Siri Released . Now you can Install Siri On iPad 1, iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs and  iPod Touch 4G .
Benefits :
Using siri without a iPhone4S .
Without a key.
Compatible Info :
It Will Only works on Jailbroken 5.0 or 5.0.1, 5.1 and on Following iDevices:
iPad 1
iPad 2
iPhone 3Gs
iPhone 4
iPod Touch 4G

Steps To Follow :
Step 1 – If you have installed Siri ports then Uninstall all.
Step 2 – Now Install the Spire from the big boss repo and Reboot after installing.
Step 3 – Now Go to the settings app/general/siri/ then Turn on.
Step 4 – Now Go to Settings/Spire/ and then in the Proxy url Input https://i4sirifree.mooo.com/
Step 5 – Now Go to the http://i4siri.com/installcertificate.html in iPhone Safari and install It .
Step 6 – Reboot .
Step 7 – Start talking to Siri and Make a Siri request.
Done !

3 Apps to Remotely View Webcam on iPad/iPhone

I have a 2 year old child and I also happen to have a computer in pretty much every room in my house. When I need to do something in another part of the house, it’s a real pain having to stop what I’m doing and go check to make sure my daughter is not about to dive off the bed. Once I realized I had a webcam already in every room of my house because of the laptops, I figured there had to be an iPad/iPhone app that would let me wirelessly stream a live webcam feed.
Actually, there ended up being a lot of apps! Too many to write about here. What I also realized is that most of them don’t work very well. After going through about 6 or 7 apps, I ended up sticking with 3 apps that work pretty well. Each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. In this article, I’ll go through the three apps I tested and verified that work well in streaming a live feed of your webcam to your iPad or iPhone over WiFi. I didn’t test the whole 3G/4G remote viewing capabilities because that doesn’t seem like it would work well in any app and I didn’t need that feature.

I

Cam

The first app that I found when doing a generic search was iCam for $4.99. It seems to be the most popular and has the highest ratings in the AppStore. It’s pretty simple to setup. Just install the Windows or Mac software and install the app on your iPad or iPhone. The interface for the Windows software looks like this:

You can add a USB, Firewire or built-in camera or you can click on the Ethernet/Wi-Fi tab and add an IP camera also if you like. Just give your camera a iCam Login and iCam password and click the Start button. That’s it! Now go to the app on your iPhone or iPad and it will automatically find the source camera as long as it’s on the same network. The iPad version of the app is also designed to use the bigger screen real estate, so that’s a plus.
Overall, the process was easy to setup, but I was not happy with the quality of the video. For some reason, the video was very choppy and also pixelated. The program has a slider bar that lets you move it from Better Frame Rate to Better Image Quality, but neither one worked too well. When I moved it to better frame rate, the video was delayed by several seconds and was very grainy. When I moved it to better quality, the image got better and the delay became even worse!
I thought it had something to do with the computer or my Wi-Fi network, but when I installed the other two apps I am about to mention, the video quality was much better and the delay was usually under a second. I still recommend this app because it’s very highly rated and it could have just been some issue with my setup.

AirCam

AirCam was probably my favorite out of all the three apps. It worked well, had only a slight lag and the quality of the video was pretty good, especially for a cheap built-in webcam on my 3 year old laptop.

AirCam also lets you add IP cameras, so that is another plus. If you want, you can also remotely access it, but that requires extra configuration of your router, etc, which I didn’t do.

If you click on Options, you can enable night vision, configure remote access, setup the listening port, setup recording, motion detection, email notifications and more. The program has quite a few options, including the ability to choose your resolution, which really made a big difference. One downside is the iPad/iPhone app. It’s a little unpolished in the sense that when you start viewing a video stream, there is no way to go back to the main menu! You literally have to exit the app and then go back into it. Very strange and hopefully something that’ll be fixed in future releases. The other downside is that it’s $7.99! A little expensive if you ask me.
Overall, though, the app works well and does a good job of streaming video from your webcam and the setup process was again very easy. It automatically finds the sources and lists them in the app.

JumiCam

JumiCam is also $4.99 and also had very good video quality, even better than AirCam. The big downside to JumiCam in my opinion is that the iPad app just displays the iPhone app window. The iPad app is not optimized for the iPad interface and therefore you see everything in the smaller iPhone-sized window. I hope they release a version soon that takes advantage of the extra real estate on the iPad.

The other big downside to JumiCam is that it only has software that will run on Windows and not Mac. AirCam and iCam have both Windows and Mac software. The last downside is that you can only use it with webcams attached to your computer not IP cameras. However, for me it worked because I was only using built-in webcams on Windows machines. The quality of the video is where JumiCam stands out. Apparently, they wrote their own optimization algorithms and that’s why the quality is good. I would have preferred JumiCam over AirCam if only they had an optimized iPad version since the price is a lot better.
So those are three apps you can use to wireless stream your webcam to your iPhone or iPad. If you have used a different app or software or have issues setting these up

Use a Tablet or iPad as a Computer Monitor

If you are an Android or iPad tablet owner, you can setup your device as a secondary external monitor that can compliment your Mac or PC. This is a great way to add more screen real estate without having to purchase an additional monitor. It also provides a more versatile workspace.

Setting up a tablet or iPad as a computer monitor doesn’t require jail breaking or anything like that, as there are some readily available apps in the AppStore and Google Play that make the process quite simple.

Android Tablets

Android users who want to setup their Google based tablet as an external monitor may want to consider using the following apps:
Screen Slider
Screen Slider, a software development of REDFLY, uses Wi-Fi connection technologies to allow you to pair an Android based tablet with a computer wirelessly. This app is also ultra affordable, currently priced at only $0.99 USD in Google Play. To setup the Screen Slider app, you must of course download the app to your tablet, but like most external monitor apps, you must also download a lightweight application to your computer.

This app is also offered in a pro version, which provides even more features such as additional gestures, and more display options such as dedicated mirror mode.
iDisplay
The name iDisplay might come off at first as an Apple product. However, the iDisplay app, available in Google Play, offers both Mac and PC compatibility.

The app is currently priced a bit higher than Screen Slider, at $4.99 USD.
iDisplay of course offers basic monitor extension, but some other notable features offered by the app are zoom options, gestures, and support for different display modes such as portrait and landscape.

iPad

iPhone users who want to setup their Apple based tablet as an external monitor may want to consider using the following apps:
Air Display
Want to use your new iPad’s crisp, Retina Display as a computer monitor? Air Display is a $9.99 USD application that is available for download in the Apple AppStore.

Advertised as being compatible with Mac & Windows computing environments, Air Display is a full featured monitor app that not only adds a monitor to your setup, but also offers a wide range of features that allow for on-screen/touch screen productivity support.
You can draw and input directly on the iPad even when being used in monitor mode. Alternatively, convenience features such as Auto-rotate make this one of the more versatile apps on the list.
DisplayPad
DisplayPad is a one of the more highly reviewed apps that we’ve covered on this list thus far. Currently, it’s available in the AppStore for $2.99 USD.

This app of course offers the basic feature of turning an iPad into a secondary monitor. However, it also, notably, offers some other distinctive features also:
• Tap your iPad to click.
• Two finger tap to right click.
• Two finger drag to scroll, just like on a laptop trackpad.
• Rotate the screen and DisplayPad automatically changes the mode of the display.
• Position the display anywhere relative to your desktop, just like an external display.
Thank you for stopping by the site for today’s post, which provides four options for using a tablet or iPad as a monitor. If any of our site visitors have any other apps that they recommend over these, for either iPad or Android based applications

How to Copy/Transfer Files to iPad

I love my iPad ever since I got it a year ago, but one thing that really sucks majorly is transferring files. You would think that Apple would have thought about this and made it seamless either via iTunes or via iCloud, but they didn’t. As far as cloud services go, iCloud is the worst cloud service ever. You can’t sync any of your personal content other than photos, contacts, bookmarks, and documents only from Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
Managing files is something they obviously didn’t put much time into, maybe because they felt not too many people would use the iPad like a normal computer. However, it’s really handy sometimes to be able to copy videos, documents, etc to the iPad quickly so you don’t have to use your bulky desktop or laptop.
In this article, I’ll walk you through the various ways you can get files on and off your iPad. Some methods are definitely better than others, but no method is anywhere near perfect. Hopefully, iCloud gets some significant updates in the coming months that makes this process a lot easier. Until then, enjoy the pain!

iTunes File Transfer

The most common method you’ve probably heard about is transferring using iTunes. Unfortunately, this is a very limited option. Yes, you can transfer some files to the iPad, but only if the app supports file sharing with iTunes. Secondly, you can only view that file in that particular app. This method is best if you simply need to transfer a few PDF files to your iPad or something like that.
First connect your iPad to your computer. Then, go to iTunes, click on Devices, click on your iPad, then click on Apps and then scroll down to the bottom where it says File Sharing.

Here you will see the list of apps that support file sharing with iTunes. You can then click on the app and if there are any documents on the iPad, you can drag them to your computer or you can click Save to to save to the hard drive. To add files to the iPad, click on the app and then click the Add button or simply drag the files into the window to transfer them automatically.
Like I said before, this works, but far from ideal and definitely not cool like most Apple products are. They have great hardware, but a lot of work needs to be done on the software side. The other major downside to this approach is that you physically have to connect your iPad to your computer in order to transfer the files. Definitely not cool considering we can beam whatever is showing on our iPad screens to a TV via AirPlay. So is there a way to do transfer files to the iPad without a physical connection? Yes, but it’s again limited.

Email

The quickest and easiest way to do this is via email. It’s simple, but very limited. If you want to keep files in sync, you have to keep emailing them back and forth and remember which one is the latest version. Secondly, you are limited in size to the max attachment size for your email provider, usually around 20 MBs. Not good for videos or other large type of files. Lastly, you can only email a few files at a time. What if you want to transfer 500 PDF files to your iPad? Not the best solution.

So the only other option left that tries to make the experience slightly better is the cloud. Not iCloud. iCloud is useless for anything other than syncing a few Numbers, Pages or Keynote presentations between your iPad and Mac and even that doesn’t work so well. In order to get them to show up on your iPad, you have to manually go to iCloud.com and upload the presentations. Hmmm, so much for syncing! So we are only left with third-party cloud services.

Cloud Services

The best way I have currently found to quickly transfer files to my iPad is to use a third-party cloud service like DropBox. You can quickly drop pretty much any kind of file into your DropBox on your Mac or PC and then load it up on your iPad using their app. The nice thing about their app is that it will allow you to open the files using other apps that are installed on your iPad. So, for example, if you tap on a PDF file, you then have the option to open that PDF in other apps that can read PDF files like Adobe Reader, iBooks, Kindle, etc.

That’s a nifty little feature so you are not stuck trying to view everything in the DropBox app. There are lots of other cloud services out there with iPad apps, so you have to see what works best for you. By far, though, Dropbox has the most apps for the iPad that are compatible with it. What does that mean? Well, basically a lot of apps already integrate with Dropbox, so you can drop a file into your Dropbox on your computer and then go directly to QuickOffice, for example, and open the file there and then push it back to Dropbox once you are done editing it.
This is by far the closest you can get to actual file syncing on the iPad. The only downside is that you have to find an app that is Dropbox compatible in order to get the benefits. If you are using something else, then you are out of luck.
There are other ways you can try also like using an FTP app on your iPad, etc, but they are fairly complicated and not for the faint of heart. Plus, they still don’t work that great. Overall, getting files onto and off your iPad is a serious pain. If you really need access to a lot of files while on the go, your best bet is to buy an Ultrabook like the MacBook Air or one of the new Intel Ultrabooks. The iPad can do a lot, but it’s not a computer and therefore when you try to get it to do computer stuff, it falls short big time.
If you have found a better solution for syncing files back and forth between your iPad and your computer wirelessly

Sync Gmail Contacts with iPhone, iPad, and iCloud

I use my Mac a lot and one of the annoying problems I’ve always found is that when using the Mail app, I don’t get the autocomplete for my Gmail contacts. I have a bunch of Gmail contacts and unfortunately, none of them show up when I start typing a new email in Mail. Mail uses the Mac Address Book and if the contacts are not in there, then you won’t have access to them in Mail.
Also, I have iCloud enabled on my Mac, iPhone and iPad and even though it syncs the contacts that I have stored in iCloud, all my Gmail contacts were still not available on the iPhone or iPad mail apps. After playing around for a long time, I finally figured out how to get the Address Book, OS X, iCloud and my iPhone and iPad all synced up properly! In this article, I’m going to show you how to do it.
First, let’s understand a few things:
1. Whatever contacts you want to appear in the mail app on your iPhone and iPad, you must have those added to your Address Book on your Mac in the iCloud account, not the local On My Mac account.
2. The Address Book program has an option under Preferences, On My Mac to synchronize with Google. This is NOT what we want to do.

If you check the box in the above image, it will download all your Gmail contacts and sync them with your Mac Address Book, locally only. That means none of those contacts will show up in iCloud, which means none of those contacts will show up on your iPhone or iPad.
Instead, what we have to do is export all of our contacts from Google and then import them into the iCloud account. Once you do that, they will automatically be available in the Mail app on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Now the only problem with this is that it’s not a real two-way sync because if you add a new contact to Gmail, it won’t sync to iCloud since we did an export/import. Unfortunately, there is no way around this if you want the contacts to appear on your Apple mobile devices.
You can always sync the Gmail contacts to your local Mac and those will update automatically when you add new contacts, etc, but it’ll only show up on your Mail app on your Mac. There’s also no problem with doing both, i.e., importing all the contacts into iCloud and synchronizing the local Mac Address Book with Google. That’s how I have my system setup and it works great. All I have to do every month or so is export all the contacts again and then import them into the iCloud account in Address Book. It automatically detects duplicates, so only the new contacts will be added.
The other concern about doing this is that you really have to make sure you don’t import hundreds of contacts that are just email addresses otherwise when you go to the Phone app on your iPhone, you’ll see all those contact listed there. The best thing is to import just the contacts that have full names with numbers and email addresses. What you should do is go to Google Contacts and then create a new group and add only the contacts you want to import onto your phone/iPad, etc. Then just export out that group instead of everything under the sun.
So to export the contacts, this is what you need to do. First, go here:
https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts
Click on the More button and then click on Export.

You can either choose All Contacts (which I don’t suggest) or you can choose a group or even one of your circles on Google+.

Then, you need to choose the vCard for importing into Apple Address Book.

Go ahead and click Export and it’ll download the file to your computer. Next, open up Mac Address Book. Click on All iCloud and then click on File – Import.

Choose the file you exported and click OK. If there are any duplicates, you’ll get a message like this:

That’s it. Now you should have all those Gmail contacts in your iCloud Address Book. On your iPad and iPhone, go to Settings – iCloud  and turn off Contacts and then turn it back on. When given the option, go ahead and choose delete contacts from your iPhone/iPad.

 This will update your mobile devices with all the latest contacts you just added to your Address Book on the Mac. And that’s it, you should be good to go! Now when you type an email on your iPhone or iPad, all those email addresses and names will show up in the autocomplete! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them here! Enjoy!

5 iPhone Apps to Write on Pictures

So yesterday I took a photo of my daughter that I thought was very funny, but I needed to add some text to the photo to really make it funny for other people. I started searching around for some good iPhone apps that I could use to add text to photos before I sent it off to family and friends.
Now I buy iPhone and iPad apps all the time, so I don’t mind spending a buck or two for good apps. The list here will include free and paid apps, so for those of you who hate spending a dime on an app, you’ll have some choices too! Not all paid apps are worth it, but a lot of times the extra 99 cents adds a lot of value.

InstaFrame

This is a cool app and probably my favorite. There is a free version that was all I needed for what I wanted to do. They also have a pro version for 99 cents that basically adds more frames and borders and effects. I didn’t care about all that fancy stuff, mostly just wanted some nice text on the picture, so the free one is good.

The main features include the ability to add text to images quickly, change the text size, font and color, resize/rotate the text, over 80 different fonts choices, and lots more. I really like this app because you can really customize the text. Some other apps let you add text, but you don’t get a lot of options. With this app, you can really go crazy. On top of that, they have a lot of cool frames and effects too, which I ended up using on the picture of my daughter.
Download InstaFrame

FX Photo Studio

Another cool app is FX Photo Studio, which costs $2. The advantage of this app over InstaFrame is that it has a lot of effects and filters, over 190 of them. On top of that, you can mix and customize each effect, so you have a lot more control. In addition, you don’t have to apply the effect to the entire image, you can paint an effect onto any part of an image, which is really neat.

Of course, you can add text and even though they don’t have as many fonts as InstaFrame, you still have quite a few choices that makes the text look really nice.
Download FX Photo Studio

TypeDrawing

TypeDrawing is $2, but it’s pretty awesome. It’s a typographic drawing app, which I didn’t even know existed until I found this little gem of an app. You can create some really artistic looking text on your photos using your finger and the various controls that are in the app.

They have a lot of controls and settings for managing color, outlines, shadows, symbols, text and lot of other stuff. You can really get creative with adding text to your photos using this app.
Download TypeDrawing

Photo Notes

This is another app that I like quite a bit. They also have a free and pro version, but the free one does a pretty good job. You can add thought bubbles, speech bubbles and text shapes to pictures and also create interesting photo collages, which is one of it’s unique features. You can also add smileys and clipart to your photos.

If you want to simply add plain text, you can do that too. It also has a nice interface and a lot of controls for color, rotation, effects, etc.
Download Photo Notes

I’d Cap That

This is one app where you choose a caption from a bank and add it to your photos instead of writing your own. It’s basically a bunch of ridiculous and crude captions that you can add to your photos. I personally don’t use it much, but a lot of people I know like it, so I threw it into the list.

Of course, it’s nice that the app is free, so even if you don’t find a caption you like, you won’t be wasting any money.
Download I’d Cap That
Is there an iPhone app that you use to write on pictures that you like better than the ones I mentioned? If so, post a comment and let us know! Enjoy!

10 Useful iPhone Shortcuts and Tips

I love my iPhone and since I’ve had it for over 2 years, I’ve really learned a lot of cool shortcuts and tricks over time. Knowing a few handy shortcuts can really save you time as I proved to my wife recently. A song was playing on her phone and I got a call on my phone so I asked her to turn off the music. She unlocked the phone by sliding her finger, then exited the app she was currently in, then found the Music app, then tapped on Now Playing and then paused the song!
I was like wow, that only took 10 times longer than it should have taken. Instead, I showed her that she only needed to double-press the Home button and the music control would automatically pop up on the locked screen, no need to even unlock the phone! She was impressed.
Anyway, in addition to that tip, I’ll mention 10 more useful iPhone shortcuts that I pretty much use on a daily basis. There are a lot more, but you’ll only end up using or remembering a couple, so may as well learn the better ones.

Tip #1 – Manage Incoming Calls

The iPhone is a phone right, so you probably get a lot of calls. You should probably know that pressing either of the volume controls while the phone is ringing will silence your phone, but continue ringing for the caller. Whether on vibrate or loud, the phone will become completely silent.

In addition, pressing the On/Off button at the top of the phone will send the call to voicemail. So instead of your phone ringing away, just press the top button to send them straight to voicemail.

Tip #2 – Scroll to the Top

I can’t even begin to tell you how useful it is to quickly scroll up to the top of a window on the iPhone. Since the screen is so small, you can end up scrolling down a lot when viewing a webpage, reading an email, or sending a text. In Safari, in order to type in a new URL in the address bar, you have to go back to the top. In Messages, you can quickly call or email someone by going to the top.

On the iPhone, just tap the status bar at the very top and you’ll be bought to the very top of the page. Note that you want to tap on the status bar that has the time listed. Saves a lot of finger swiping!

Tip #3 – Hide the Keyboard

I’ve always found it majorly annoying in Messages that there is not a button to hide the keyboard. Instead, if you are in landscape mode and have the keyboard up, you can barely read one line of a message conversation:

To get rid of the keyboard, you need to tap and swipe down from just above the box where you type in the message like shown below:

Tip #4 – Multitasking

Of course, you should probably already know this one by now, but it’s gotta be mentioned since it’s another one I constantly use. Just double tap the Home button while you’re in any app and the multitasking bar will pop up at the bottom. Then you can switch to another open app by just tapping it. Very useful than exiting the app and then finding the other app and then opening it.

Tip #5 – Partial Redial

There’s a neat little trick that I learned by accident when messing with my phone. It’s like redial, but not exactly. Basically, if you go into the Phone app and tap on Keypad and then press the Call button, it will automatically load up the last number you called.

Then just press the Call button again and it’ll call that number. So not automatic redial but partial. Don’t use it all the time, but it comes in handy sometimes.

Tip #6 – Caps Lock

Sometimes you need to type something and it has to be in all caps. You can press the Shift arrow key with one finger and type with the other or you can simply double-tap the Shift key and it’ll turn blue and white, meaning that Caps Lock is on.

Tip #7 – Zoom into Position

Another super useful trick when typing on your iPhone is the zoom option. A lot of times you have to go back and edit something you typed, but trying to tap with your finger between two characters is half the time impossible and the cursor ends up somewhere else. All you have to do is press and hold your finger over the text and then a magnifier glass will pop up. Slide your finger left or right to move one character left or right at a time. This makes editing text a hundred times easier!

Tip #8 – Emoji Icons

Want to type emoticons while writing text messages? Well, they are already built into the iPhone and I didn’t even know this for the longest time. Go to Settings, then General, then Keyboards, then International Keyboard and tap to add Emoji.
Now when you go to type, click on the small globe icon and you’ll get a whole bunch of awesome emoticons.

Tip #9 – Open Camera from Lockscreen

One of the newest and most requested features was the ability to open the Camera app from the lock screen. This has been added and all you have to do is slide your finger up from the lock screen to enter the Camera app directly. This has saved me a ton of time and has allowed me to catch some great moments with my kids, which I normally would have missed because it took longer to unlock the phone and find the camera app.

Tip #10 – Hide Text Message Content

Even though you can’t hide the fact that you have received a text message, you can at least hide the actual message so someone can’t read that your wife is mad at you because you didn’t talk to her enough the night before! To do this, you just turn off message previews. You can do this by going to Settings, Notifications, Messages and then toggling Show Preview to Off.

And that’s about it! Those are my favorite tips and tricks for the iPhone. Hope you enjoy them. Tell us what your favorite shortcuts are in the comments. Enjoy!