iOS (Jailbroken): One of the quirks of the iPhone is that apps can access your personal information, including your contacts, without you knowing about it. If this bothers you, ContactPrivacy is a tweak that sends an alert when apps start digging through your address book. More »
The Notification Center feature of iOS 5 is a powerful tool to keep track of everything happening in your life, but it’s not obvious how to use it to its full extent. We’ll guide you through the basics of getting started with Notification centre and show you how to make it more useful with a few tweaks. More »
If your Windows chops extend in any capacity beyond novice, you’ve no doubt encountered the ever-cryptic Windows Registry, DLL files, User Account Control and other tools with seemingly dark and mysterious powers — but you may not know exactly what they do. In fact, some of our favourite Windows-related tricks and hacks require the use of these tools. Here, we’ll explain some of Windows’ most confusing features, so you know exactly what’s happening when you go to edit them. More »
Overclocking is a great way to eke a bit more gaming power out of your computer, and Windows users have quite a few tools to help them do it easily. Our favourite of the bunch is the insanely easy to use, feature-filled MSI Afterburner. More »
Now that you have jailbroken your first generation iPad, it’s time to start tweaking it to fit your liking. No matter what type of feature you’re looking for, there’s probably an app or tweak for it. Here are some of our favourites. More »
When my browser (Chrome, in this instance) gets its hands on a particularly meaty Flash object, the Shockwave plugin responsible goes absolutely haywire trying to render the thing at the fastest possible speed. Which is a good thing, I suppose, except when it completely dominates the CPU and causes my notebook’s temps to sore into the 70°C range. Thankfully, there’s a way to keep hyperactive threads under control. More »
Is your tech in need of troubleshooting? Or have you just messed with the settings beyond repair? Factory-Reset.com will show you how to get it back to its out-of-the-box state. More »
There’s nothing like a quick recalibration to make your gadgets feel that much faster. In the case of your iDevice, you may have noticed your home button isn’t a quick to bring up the Springboard as it used to be. If that’s the case, this easy tweak might be exactly what you’re after. More »
If you’re using the newest versions of Ubuntu, you probably have an annoyance or two with the Unity interface. MyUnity is a system tweaker based around changing Unity’s behaviour and appearance. More »
Windows users have a ton of system tweakers to choose from, but we love the Ultimate Windows Tweaker the most. It has a ton of different tweaks you can perform, it’s portable, super lightweight and completely free. More »
