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How To Get Multi-tasking Gestures On Your iPad For Free (iOS 4.3) [Video]

July 14, 2011 in iPad, Main Blog, Uncategorized

In the beta os iOS 4.3, Apple included really nifty gestures that allowed users to switch between apps, and go back to the home screen with finger gestures. These included a 4 (or 5) finger swipe in apps, to switch between opened apps, and a 5 finger pinch to go back to the home screen. Although this was included in the beta of iOS 4.3, Apple had announced that it will not be included in the final version of iOS 4.3. However, from WWDC’11, Scott Forstall had mentioned that Multi-tasking gestures will be enabled again in the release of iOS 5. Users should be able to enable or disable this feature in the Settings app.

However, many users have also found out that this feature can actually be enabled in iOS 4.3, if you Xcode 4 (downloaded from the Mac App Store) to reformat your iPad as a development device. The biggest problem with using this method is that it would cost you $4.99 to purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store, and many have actually spent their 5 bucks just to enable Multi-tasking Gestures on their iPads.

We then had a plomonet reader asking us to do a demo of how to enable Multi-tasking Gestures for free. Although iOS 5 will be coming this fall, we thought this method would be great for users who still want that feature before iOS 5 is released. Many users actually didn’t know this, but you could actually download Xcode 3, instead of Xcode 4, and enable the same features. Xcode 3 can be downloaded for free, and the link is below. Also check out the How-To video on how to enable the feature.

Please note that you will be needing a Mac to run this app.

Link to CNET download of XCode 3:
http://download.cnet.com/Apple-Xcode/3000-2212_4-464078.html

UPDATE: If the above CNET link is broken, try http://www.freemacware.com/apple-xcode-313

About the Author: Kenta Arai is a tech enthusiast who was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. His passion towards technology began to develop as he grew up in Hong Kong, where technology had its solid place in the mass market. Arai became one of the most enthusiastic technophile student in his high-school, and was also well-known for consulting many of his school-mates when purchasing new computers. His expertise in the tech industry is focused on Apple Inc. and Google Inc.

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Emoji For Everyone in iOS 5

June 14, 2011 in iPad, iPhone, Main Blog, Uncategorized

Emoji has been popular on phones, especially in Japan, as they are basically what we call “emoticons”. Emoticons are an easy way to express emotions as a facial expression. However, this has not been easy on the iPhone. In order to enable emoji, you had to install an app called “Emoji Icons Free”, by Surpax Technology Inc, and had to fiddle with it for 10 minutes as you had to go back the app itself, and also fiddle with the Settings app in order to enable it.

However, many people do not know that Emoji is actually built-in to iOS 4. Even though it doesn’t look like the emoticons we are used to seeing, it is unique. In order to enable this, you have to enable the Japanese keyboard by going into Settings-> General-> Keyboard-> International Keyboards-> and enable the Japanese Romaji keyboard. Once enabled, you can go into any app, tap on the international globe icon (to change language), tap on the shift key for symbols, and on the far bottom right is a smiley emoji. Once you tap on that, you get hundreds of emojis that you can use to have fun with your friends.

For those who cannot be bothered to install the app, or to enable Japanese just for emoji, you don’t have to worry. Apple is enabling emoji as a default feature in all keyboards in iOS 5, or at least in Beta 1 of it. The images below show you how you can enable it, and how it is usable to make custom Folder names.

About the Author: Kenta Arai is a tech enthusiast who was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. His passion towards technology began to develop as he grew up in Hong Kong, where technology had its solid place in the mass market. Arai became one of the most enthusiastic technophile student in his high-school, and was also well-known for consulting many of his school-mates when purchasing new computers. His expertise in the tech industry is focused on Apple Inc. and Google Inc.

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Discussion: What We Would Like To See In iOS 5 [Video]

May 12, 2011 in iPhone, Main Blog, Uncategorized

If you are like me, you might be sick and tired of the features and user interface of the once-ever-so-popular iOS 4. In iOS 4, Steve Jobs has introduced a whole lot of new features including: Multitasking, Folders, Better Mail, Better Enterprise support, Game Centre, iBooks and iAds. Some of these features, including Multitasking and Folders, have been widely popular amongst average consumers when iOS 4 was first launched. However since then, there have been a few things that kept clicking our minds (at least in my own) and made us think it could be so much better. These things include Multitasking itself, which was the biggest new feature of iOS 4. Multitasking on the iPad has the exact same user interface, making the whole experience seem bizarre, as the multitasking bar is located at the bottom of the screen, making the other 80% of the screen seem pointless. In the next 2 videos, I will be giving you my in-depth thoughts on iOS in general, as well as my top 10 things I would like to see in the next version of the OS, iOS 5.

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About the Author: Kenta Arai is a tech enthusiast who was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. He passion towards technology began to develop as he grew up in Hong Kong, where technology had its solid place in the mass market. Arai became one of the most enthusiastic technophile student in his high-school, and was also well-known for consulting many of his school-mates when purchasing new computers. His expertise in the tech industry is focused on Apple Inc. and Google Inc.

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