Smile To Unlock: iPhone App Uses Facial Recognition to Secure Your Phone

It there's one thing really irritating about leaving your iPhone out with friends, it's when they unlock to unleash all kinds of madness (usually on your Facebook) while your back's turned. You can always use a passcode, but maybe it's time to add an extra step to the "Slide to Unlock" screen, by adding facial recognition.

RecognizeMe is an app aimed at jailbroken iPhones, and basically gives you the option of not just using a passcode to unlock your phone, but to require facial recognition too. After adding a few images into an image

Order & Chaos Online leads iPhone Games of the Week

This week’s best games list offers a pretty wide variety of quality titles at (mostly) bargain prices, and it kicks off with Gameloft’s newest entry to the App Store, Order & Chaos Online. If you’ve heard of World of Warcraft, you probably get the gist of the developer’s expansive and ambitious title. There are a lot of players to team up with in Order & Chaos, and the first three months of gameplay are free without a subscription. Get the goods below, and keep reading, because we’ve got several great offerings for you this week, and you aren’t going to want to miss any of them.

The iPad Will See You Now: Meet Dr. Chrono

We've seen consumer gadgets being used by medical practitionersalready, but an iPad app called Drchrono is taking medicine to a new level of paper-free convenience.

Drchrono is an EHR (electronic health record) app for the iPad. It allows doctors to complete everyday tasks and access information without having to turn to paper records. The information gathered and accessed through the app is also available from any web browser, iPhone or Android device, since the app syncs with the Drchrono web-based healthcare platform.

Tweetbot app steals Twitter's iPhone thunder

Despite sudo-demands by Twitter that third-party developers no longer release clients that replicate Twitter’s functionality, the folks at TapBot have launched a new app for iPhone, Tweetbot, that could unseat Twitter’s official app as the go-to mobile software.

Last night’s release of Tweetbot immediately had Twitter abuzz with micro-chatter about the new client, which doesn’t bode well for Twitter’s quest to keep its official Twitter for iPhone app the primary mobile client.

Apple Releases the iBoy [Video]

Eretz Nehederet, a show on Israeli channel 22, has aired a video report announcing the release of the iBoy.
Without a doubt, Apple is the leading company in technology today but soon Steve Jobs and his engineers are going to surprise even the most dedicated Apple fans.

UltraSn0w Unlock Gets Updated to Support iOS 4.3.1

These are instructions on how to unlock the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G for use with any GSM cellphone carrier using UltraSn0w. This will work with the iOS 4.2.1 firmware if you are on the 06.15.00baseband.

Before you can follow these instructions you must have a  jailbroken iPhone and you must be on the 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04, 06.15.00, or 01.59 baseband(modem firmware).

Cydia 1.1: Faster, Slimmer, More Stable Now LIVE!

Saurik has just announced a major upgrade release for Cydia, bumping the version number up to 1.1. The highlighted features of this new major upgrade are said to be speed improvements, “resume where you left off”, and lots of bug fixes.

How To Fix Mobile Substrate in Cydia After iOS 4.3 Jailbreak [Guide]

The following step by step guide will help you fix Mobile Substrate issues in Cydia after jailbreaking iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on iOS 4.3.

For those of you who don’t know, Apple implemented ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in iOS 4.3 to make iOS devices more secure against vulnerabilities, such as the one demonstrated at the recent Pwn2Own contest. This ASLR implementation unfortunately also resulted in breaking Mobile Substrate which is an essential component for many tweaks and add-ons available on Cydia.

Now with this new update (thanks to FSM for the find) to Mobile Substrate by Saurik, ASLR issues have been reportedly fixed, which means that you can now install your favorite apps and tweaks from Cydia on your jailbroken iOS 4.3 based devices.

You Can Now Jailbreak iOS 4.3 on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod touch on Windows Using Sn0wbreeze 2.3 [Guide]

Sn0wbreeze 2.3b1 is now available for Windows users to jailbreak iOS 4.3 running on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad and iPod touch. Just like PwnageTool for Mac, Sn0wbreeze jailbreak is alsotethered for all devices, which means you will have to boot into a jailbroken state every time you reboot your device.