How to Use Location Services on a Mac or an iPhone

Over the past few years, Apple has brought us many breakthrough location-based features on both the Mac and iOS devices. The first of these features was Find My iPhone, which allows users to search for their lost or stolen device. The newest services, Find My Friends, lets you keep track of family or friends during outings or other events. With these two features, it’s clear that being able to easily share your location, or track your device, is the way of the future.

What You Need:

>> iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 5
>> Find My Friends App
>> Apple ID linked with iCloud
>> Mac running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 or higher

1. Using Find My iPhone and Mac to Find a Lost or Stolen Device

If you have ever misplaced one of your iOS devices, then you can definitely appreciate the services that Apple provides with Find My iPhone (and most recently Find My Mac). To enable these services, you only need an Apple ID.

The process for turning on Find My iPhone is the same on any iOS device.

To enable Find My iPhone on your iOS devices (including iPod touch and iPad), navigate to Settings > iCloud, and sign in with your Apple ID. After the signing is complete, you will be able to flip the switch for “Find My iPhone” to ON.

Compatible Macs will allow you turn on Find My Mac in the iCloud preference pane.

Turning Find My Mac on is just as easy. In Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, navigate to System Preferences > iCloud, and check the box next to “Find My Mac.” You may get a notification about allowing location services on your Mac. If you do get an alert, click Allow.

After linking your devices to iCloud’s Find My iPhone/Mac service, log into iCloud.com with the same Apple ID used to add your devices to the service. After logging in, click on the Find My iPhone icon.

Tap on the Refresh button at the top of the Devices list to update the location on-demand.

You'll see a screen that shows all of your devices that are linked to the service. Clicking on the small GPS dot that appears on the map will present you with options for tracking down your device. “Play Sound or Send Message” will let you send a push notification to your device that will also play a high-pitched sound to hopefully alert someone. Remote Lock lets you set a passcode on your device so that no one else will be able to unlock your device and begin using it. And, if all else fails, you can perform a Remote Wipe on your device to clear all of the data on your devices. You can do the same with all compatible Macs.

2. Using Find My Friends to Keep Track of People

Find My Friends is a new application that Apple launched with iOS 5. This application is similar to other location-sharing apps in that lets you subscribe to the location of other iOS devices. These applications are useful when planning a family outing, or a group outting where you need to keep track of a lot of people. There are two types of friendships available in the Find My Friends app: Permanent and Temporary.

Tap on the Invite Friends button to begin.

Tapping the All tab will let you create a permanent invite that lets you subscribe to location updates from a particular iOS device for an indefinite amount of time.

Tapping on the Temporary tab will let you create a temporary friendship that lets you subscribe to updates from someone only for a specified amount of time. During the invitation process, you can schedule the time that the location updates will expire. When that date arrives, the person will be removed from this Temporary section.

You can add multiple people to a temporary event by adding more email addresses to the “To:” field.

When inviting someone to share their location updates, you will need to type in the email address (or phone number) that is linked to the other person’s Apple ID.  You will also be able to type in a message, or if you chose to create a temporary invite, you will be able to specify an event name and the date the updates will end.

After your friends or family accept your invitation, they will appear in the All tab.

You can tap on your friends or family in the “All” to see a geo-located address and Google map of their location, but the magic really happens when you tap on View Map in a temporary location event. On a Google map, you will be able to see the locations of everyone in the group.

Tap on the location button in the toolbar to turn on automatic location updating; otherwise, press the refresh button at the top of the screen to manually update.

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German Researchers Reveal Flaw in Apple-Generated Personal Hotspot Passwords

Don't panic, but the next time you head out and decide to flip on the Personal Hotspot feature on your iOS device, you might want to think about changing the password to something else.

ZDNet reported Tuesday that the seemingly random passwords iOS generates for the Personal Hotspot feature may not be quite as secure as users might expect.

In fact, researchers at Germany's University of Erlangen were able to crack the passwords in less than a minute, all because Apple's defaults use a combination of a "short dictionary word followed by a series of random numbers."

The problem stems from the limited number of words being used -- and where they originate from.

"This list consists of around 52,500 entries, and was originated from an open-source Scrabble crossword game," the researchers reveal. "Using this unofficial Scrabble word list within offline dictionary attacks, we already had a 100 percent success rate of cracking any arbitrary iOS hotspot default password."

While the actual dictionary word can be cracked in under a minute, it took another 49 minutes to brute force the remainder of the password -- by which time many users may have finished their latte and headed home anyway.

Curiously, iOS appears to be using only a small subset of the 52,500 dictionary entries available to it, instead basing the temporary password on only 1,842 words, which makes hacking your Personal Hotspot easier than it should be.

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Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 6 launched

Stellar Data Recovery has announced the launch a new version of its flagship data recovery product for Mac OS X.

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery version 6, is the Mac-counterpart of Stellar Windows Data Recovery 6 that we reviewed earlier this month. Like its Windows equivalent, Phoenix Mac Data Recovery v6 features improvements like an all new scanning engine, that is said to be up to 30 percent faster than its predecessor.

Just like its Windows counterpart, users have the ability to choose from various data recovery modes: Drive Recovery, Photo Recovery, CD/ DVD Recovery, iPod Recovery, and Raw Recovery. Within Drive Recovery, users can choose Quick Recovery (to recover data from corrupt volumes), Deleted Recovery (to find deleted files), Formatted Media/ Lost File Recovery (to recover data after accidental formats or to recover lost files) and a mode that lets you search for Lost/ Deleted Volumes (for deleted partitions, or partitions that fail to mount).

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 6 can find and recover 122 popular file formats. The Photo Recovery mode includes a bunch of presets for media file formats that it tries to recover from your hard disk, USB drive, memory card, or any other kind of storage physically attached to your computer. The CD/ DVD recovery and iPod recovery mode do what the names suggest. If all else fails, you can opt for a low level 'Raw' scan. The new version features improved performance in Raw and Deleted Recovery modes.

The software is capable of recovering files from Boot Camp partitions as well, as it comes with support for FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems.

In case you are looking to recover data, you can give Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery a spin for free. If it shows up the files you are trying to salvage - you should see the actual names of the file in most modes, rather than cryptically named files that some other software show - you can register it for $99 to actually recover data.

As with other data recovery software, if you are trying to recover data from a drive, it's advised you do not install any fresh software or copy other data onto it. For example, if you are trying to recover deleted files from your primary drive, it's advised you download and install the recovery software, as well as recovered data, to an external drive, for best results

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Karbonn S5 Titanium review

The Karbonn S5 Titanium is the successor to the S1 Titanium featuring an upgraded 5-inch qHD display and an 8-megapixel rear camera. The phone was launched for Rs. 11,990, around Rs.1,000 more than the S1 Titanium's launch price. The S1 Titanium is now available online for Rs. 9,990. Is it worth spending Rs. 2,000 more to buy the S5 Titanium? We try to find out how the phone fares in all departments in our review.

Build/ Design

The Karbonn S5 Titanium looks a little different from its predecessor and is thinner. It also looks more refined compared to the S1 Titanium. However, it features the same rectangular slab form factor with rounded corners. The phone comes in White and Deep Blue colour variants and we got a Deep Blue phone as our review unit.

The front of the phone features the 5-inch qHD display, three capacitive touch buttons for navigation, and the front camera lens, in addition to the proximity sensor and the earpiece. The bezel is not that wide on the sides and doesn't take up a major part of the front unlike the S1 Titanium.

The Power/Screen lock is located at the right side of the phone, while the volume rocker key is located on the left side. The 3.5mm headset jack and the Micro-USB port sit at the top.

While Karbonn has mostly taken care of our gripes with the S1 Titanium's design in the S5 Titanium, the back of the phone is still made of plastic and is extremely glossy. You could use it as a mirror but it's a fingerprint magnet and it'll be full of smudges as soon as you start using the phone. The 8-megapixel rear camera lens is located towards the top along with a flash. There's some Karbonn branding towards the bottom.

The back cover is removable and hides the battery compartment. The two SIM card slots and a microSD slot are located just above the battery compartment.

Display

The S5 Titanium comes with a 5-inch qHD IPS screen that has a resolution of 540x960 pixels and pixel density of 221ppi, which is decent, and graphics and text appear sharp, although a 720p screen could have taken it to the next level. The viewing angles looked good. However, it's really difficult to read or take pictures in sunlight, as the screen is extremely reflective. Videos and pictures looked good but colours appeared to be a little saturated just like the S1 Titanium's screen.

Software/ Interface

The Karbonn S5 Titanium runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. The interface is the same as that of the S1 Titanium and you can read about it in detail in our S1 Titanium review. 

We like the fact that Karbonn has removed the redundant Search button and switched to the standard three button navigation.

Camera

The phone features an 8-megapixel autofocus shooter that takes good quality images in daylight. However, at times we observed that they were a little over-exposed. Pictures taken indoors under artificial light also came out well but suffered the same issue.

The camera app is a little different from the stock Android camera app and unlike the S1 Titanium, doesn't feature the capability to simultaneously use the rear and the 2-megapixel front camera. The camera app features settings for white balance, exposure, aspect ratio, face-detection, red eye reduction among others. It also offers a Panorama mode but leaves out the HDR mode which was present in the S1 Titanium's camera app. There's a speed shot mode as well as the normal mode takes time to click photos.

The phone is also capable of shooting 720p video and we found the recording quality to be decent.

The front camera also takes decent photos and can be used for video chats as well as for self clicks.

Performance

The Karbonn S5 Titanium is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8625 quad-core processor. It has 1GB RAM onboard, and Adreno 203 chip for processing graphics. There is 4GB of internal storage, which is expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card.

With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the overall experience of navigation through the interface was impressive, thanks to Project Butter and the phone's quad-core processor. We did not experience any lag while launching apps, playing games, scrolling web pages or switching between apps. It is safe to say that performance wise, the S5 Titanium trumps other dual-core processor powered phones in this price range.

The phone also offers FM Radio unlike its predecessor, which gives you another reason to choose this phone over the S1 Titanium.

We were not able to play full-HD clips, but the phone supported formats like .AVI, natively. 720p videos can be played but stutter. The speaker on the phone delivers average quality sound at high volume levels, but there's some muffle when the phone lies on its back, as the speaker grill is located on the back. The headphones that come with the phone offer average quality sound output.

Call quality was good.

The phone comes with a 2000mAh battery, and based on our experience, it will last you a full day with medium to heavy usage, including 1-1.5 hours of phone calls, two e-mail accounts with push notifications, screen at maximum brightness, playing some music and video clips, Twitter notifications and WhatsApp chats. It's also worth pointing out that we had turned off Wi-Fi and auto-brightness, and the phone was hooked to a 3G network. Altering these settings might help in running the phone for a longer duration, depending on your usage pattern.

Verdict

The Karbonn S5 Titanium is a worthy upgrade to the S1 Titanium, offering a better build, improved camera, albeit stripped of some features and a bigger screen. It also offers FM radio if you like tuning in to your favourite local radio station. We'd recommend buying the S5 Titanium over the S1 Titanium though it will cost you around Rs. 2,000 more at this point in time.

We also recommend you to take a look at the Zen Ultrafone 701HD that comes at the same price point and offers Android 4.2 and a 720p display along with a better build quality.

Other quad-core processor phones in the budget range include the Micromax Canvas HD and the Xolo Q800.

Price: Rs. 11,990

Karbonn S5 Titanium: In Pictures

Pros

• Decent performance
• Good camera

Cons

• Plasticky back which is a smudge magnet
• Reflective screen

Ratings (Out of 5)

Design: 3.5
Display: 3
Performance: 4
Software: 3.5
Battery Life: 3
Value for Money: 3.5
Camera: 3.5
Overall: 3.5

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New iPhone 5S prototype pictures suggest A7 processor

After the initial leak last week, more pictures of the purported iPhone 5S prototype have surfaced online, suggesting that the phone will be powered by a new A7 processor.

While the pictures of the phone's interior, that appeared online,last week did not offer too many details about the phone's main chip, except that it did not sport an A-series label like chips on the previous iPhones, the new pictures that have been received by MacRumours indicate that it sports an Apple model number of APL0698 which implies that it could be an A7 chip instead of a new variant of the A6 chip which powers the iPhone 5.

According to the website, the logic behind this is Apple's naming convention pattern. The A6 chip is associated with model number APL0598, while the A6X chip that powers the fourth-generation iPad sports the APL5598 model number. So it looks like Apple changes the second digit of the model number when it introduces a new processor family while it changes the first digit when the chip is just a variant of the same processor.

Apart from the processor, the DRAM's date code indicates that it was manufactured in September 2012 and the site claims that the iPhone 5S prototype in the picture was assembled in December 2012. The DRAM is the same 1GB as it is in the iPhone 5's A6 chip.

Also, the identifier of the chip - K1A0062, is different from previous models that were made by Samsung and mostly started with the letter 'N'. This could possibly mean that the chip has not been made by Samsung, as suggested by previous rumours. But recent rumours have also indicated that TMSC will start making a new chip for Apple with the A8 series, so the A7 chip might not be made by the Taiwanese chip maker. 

The pill shaped LED flash at the back of the phone shows two different coloured flash lights. It was earlier suggested that Apple could use a smart flash offering different light settings for different light conditions for more natural pictures.

The pictures that appeared last week indicated that the phone's battery sports a recent Apple Part Number and has a higher capacity of 5.92WHr, compared to the 5.45WHr capacity of the iPhone 5's battery. The regulatory certification labels are not present on the battery.

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iOS 6.1.3 Isn’t The End Of Jailbreaking, iOS 7 Jailbreak In Development

Jailbreaking: iOS 6.1.3 Isn’t The End, iOS 7 Jailbreak In The Works

While the day jailbreaking is officially over will certainly be one filled with sorrow, that day is far from us. Every year Apple patches various UnTethered iOS jailbreak utilities released by numerous hackers on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch jailbreak scene, and every year people immediately assume the worst following the correction of the vulnerabilities that allowed for said jailbreak utilities. Although the release of iOS 6.1.3 permanently compromised the evasion jailbreak utility’s ability to function, the latest firmware is by no means the harbinger of an era without jailbreaking.

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New WWDC 2013 App Hints iOS 7 Redesign And Jailbreak Details

New WWDC 2013 App Hints iOS 7 Redesign And Jailbreak Details

New WWDC 2013 App Suggests Major iOS 7 Redesign And Jailbreak Details

Today, only one week away from Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (commonly referred to as WWDC), the company released a new WWDC app for iOS to assist those attending the conference and to provide videos. As I’m sure the majority of our readers are already aware, during the event, Apple plans to unveil iOS 7 to the world. Moreover, as stated in one of our recent articles, iOS 7 is a prerequisite for the next major UnTethered jailbreak utility. Unfortunately, those who either mistakenly updated to one of Apple’s latest firmwares (6.1.3 and 6.1.4) or purchased their iDevice recently will simply have to wait until the days of iOS 7 before jailbreaking is, once again, a possibility.

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Jailbreak 6.1.3 Semi UnTethered iOS on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G

Jailbreak 6.1.3 Semi UnTethered iOS on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G

Jailbreak 6.1.3 iOS Semi UnTethered on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod touch 4G withRedsn0w – Following Apple’s release of iOS 6.1.3 today, a popular jailbreak tutorial YouTuber named iCrackUriDevice published an updated semi UnTethered jailbreak guide for the new firmware using a simple RedSn0w workaround. Unfortunately, because the Untethered exploits employed by Evasion are patched in iOS 6.1.3, this jailbreak remains exclusive to A4-powered devices and is Tethered by default, which we’ll explain later. If you own a newer iDevice on a previous version of iOS 6, including 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.1 and 6.1.2, we strongly advise following our evasi0n jailbreak tutorial, as it includes untethered support for all devices.

As mentioned above, the Redsn0w Jailbreak is compatible with, and can jailbreak, the following iPhone and iPod touch models running iOS 6.1.3.

• iPhone 4 (both GSM and CMDA models)
• iPhone 3GS
• iPod touch 4^th generation

While the following newer iDevices are incompatible with this 6.1.3 jailbreak, they are still able to be jailbroken on all previous versions of iOS 6, even 6.1.2, using evasion.

• iPhone 5
• iPhone 4S
• iPad mini
• iPod touch 5^th generation
• iPad 4 powered by Apple’s A6X chip and Retina display
• iPad 3
• iPad 2

Furthermore, even though it’s possible to use redsn0w on 6.1.3, iPhone and iPod touch owners will only be able to jailbreak using what’s referred to as a “Tethered Jailbreak”. Consequently, devices jailbroken using this method will require Redsnowto boot into their fully jailbroken state every time they power off. However, it is possible to install what’s known as a semi Tethered or a Semi UnTethered jailbreak on iOS 6.1.3 after completing this tutorial. This will allow the iPhone or iPod touch to reboot without the assistance of a computer with limited functionality. If you’ve previously jailbroken using a tethered version of redsn0w, jailbreaking 6.1.3 should be easy for you.Read more…

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Jailbreak 6.1.3 iOS 7 Evasion

Jailbreak 6.1.3 Situation And iOS 7 iPhone 5S Future UnTethered Utility

iOS Jailbreak 6.1.3 Details and Future UnTethered iOS 7 iPhone 5S Utility
Jailbreaking: the subject that’s the focal point of Evasion Jailbreak. It’s certainly safe to say that without jailbreaking, the iOS community wouldn’t be nearly as strong as it is today. However, not all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners can simply jailbreak – when Apple released iOS 6.1.3, they effectively patched the evasion jailbreak, which functioned on all devices running iOS 6.0 through 6.1.2. Furthermore, the iOS 6.1.4 iPhone 5 exclusive release didn’t change much, other than adding a layer of device fragmentation and solidifying the public’s inability to jailbreak 6.1.3 and the latest 6.1.4 exclusive firmware. Now, with this week’s demo of iOS 7, the jailbreak community has something to look forward to: the promise of another untethered  jailbreak past 6.1.3.

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iOS 6.1.3 Jailbreak Untethered Released

Looking for jailbreaking the device? You came to the right place. Aplha team recently jailbroken the firmware 6.1.3 and using this you can easily jailbreak the device. A lot of bugs have been fixed in this version and now you will be able to run all the applications without paying a single penny. You can download the application for free. From below you can download the application as well as you can check out the instructions as well for the application.

Steps and Instructions for iOS 6.1.3 Jailbreak Untethered

By clicking the download button below you will be able to download the jailbreak tool. You will be redirected towards the offer page and on completion your download will begin. 

• Select your device from the tool option.
• Select your device baseband which you want to jailbreak
• Click on the connect device button, it will take sometime for detecting the device.
• Once your device has been detected now click on the make it ra1n button.
• Now the process will start for jailbreaking the device and it will be done within few minutes.
• Once the process completes you will need to reboot your device.
• Enjoy!

This tool has been released in the private forum and it was for testing purpose and proven to be successfull for jailbreaking the iOS 6.1.3 and now you can use this to jailbreak your device. Remember that this tool will be given to the only 300 users and after that we will be closing the offer. So if you are looking for jailbreaking the device then you will have to get it on the right time.
If you are having problem while jailbreaking the device, you can reach us at support@alphajailbreak.com

How to Download

• The file is protected with with the surveys and in order to get the file you will have to complete an offer. This is to protect the file from spammers.
• Click on the offer and fill it out with the valid information and make sure that you enter valid information so that file gets unlock.
• Mobile offers are the easiest one and you can get the hack tool within 30 seconds if you are completing the mobile offer.

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The Best Hidden Features in iOS 7

iOS 7 was released yesterday for beta testers and developers, and Heavy managed to get a hands-on look at the brand new operating system from Apple. Apple didn't announce 24 brand new features available only on iOS 7. Here are all the of the new 24 features in iOS 7:

- Enterprise single sign-on

- View PDF annotations

- Inclinometer

- Long MMS support

- Per app VPN

- Maps bookmark syncing

- Phone, FaceTime and Message blocking

- Smart download of TV episodes

- Notification sync

- Night mode for Maps

- WiFi HotSpot 2.0

- Scan to acquire Passbook passes

- Turn-by-turn walking directions

- FaceTime audio

- New smart Mailboxes

- Managed app configuration

- App Store Volume Purchase

- Tencent Weibo

- Chinese English bilingual dictionary

- Handwriting recognition for multiple Chinese characters

- Improved Mail search

- Streamline MDM enrollment

- Do Not Track option in Safari

- Italian, Korean and Dutch dictionaries

But which are the best features? Here's what we think

FaceTime Audio

FaceTime Audio is definitely one of the best additions in iOS 7. Now, with FaceTime Audio, you can call your friends using Apple's FaceTime app, but you don't need to actually video chat with them. Instead, you can just talk to them like you would normally. What's the benefit? It'll help you preserve those constantly dwindling cell phone minutes. In addition, FaceTime Audio features free long-distance calling. As long as the other person has an iPhone as well, you can call them for free. Squeezing customers with cell phone minute plans, FaceTime Audio could prove to be quite a thorn in the side of carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.

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