If you find that one of your iPhone apps is hanging and causing your device to stop working, you don’t have to reboot it entirely. Here’s how to force quit the current app if it stops responding.
iOS (Jailbroken): Activator is a jailbreak hack that has been around since the early days and we love it. As software blog Addictive Tips has noted, a recent upgrade brought a neat new feature: actions based on headphone connections and disconnections. That means that you can now use Activator to make your phone launch an app whenever your plug your headphones in or take them out. Here’s how.
We’ve talked about Activator before, the cool app that lets you add new functionality to your jailbroken iPhone’s buttons (like opening the camera by hitting the home button three times). It just updated to include the ability to launch any app when you plug in your headphones.
Ever wish you could edit the contents of your iPhone’s clipboard before you paste? ClipboardEdit makes that possible by sticking a tiny text field inside of Notification Center. From there you can edit any copied text before you paste it.
Your iPhone is a powerful computer, and powerful computers benefit from cleaning and maintenance. Here are some simple, easy–to-follow tips to give your trusted iPhone a new spring in its step.
iPhone: You won’t find a shortage of how-to guides and websites on the internet, but if you’re looking for a dead easy way to create and explore them on your iPhone, Snapguide is a new app that is about as simple as it gets.
It’s not hard to find instrument apps in the iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPad. Actually finding a use for most of them is a different story. However, a few simple hacks and an understanding of touch-screen capabilities and limitations can produce some great musical results. Here’s how to do it.
Dear Lifehacker,
I’m thinking about grabbing a new iPad, but I want to transfer all my app data from my iPhone over to it so I can continue using some of the data from my apps and finish up some games. Is this possible?
Sincerely,
Dana Transfer
Today Apple announced the availability of iOS 5.1 for most of the world and, in a couple of weeks, Japan (which will finally get Siri). While there are few significant changes, there are minor but notable updates. Here are the elements we think are the most relevant:
We’ve looked extensively at apps designed to improve your sleep patterns, but there’s always a lingering question: can the data from the apps be trusted? Writing at open academic site The Conversation, University of Western Australia software expert David Glance suggests the answer is “yes”.
