∞ Siri hacked : 5 cool new features

From ReadWriteWeb :

Since launching with the iPhone 4S in October, Apple’s new voice-controlled personal assistant feature called Siri has been enamoured of Apple fans, mocked by others and been found to have a few humorous Easter eggs built in.

As cool as Siri seemed to many at launch, like so many things, it’s true potential wasn’t really unlocked until a crafty developer got his hands on it and started tinkering.

∞ Shit That Siri Says

Obviously no one actually needs an iPhone 4S. But the Siri voice recognition system looks pretty cool. Wondering if I’ll be able to hack my iPhone 4 to get it some day.

∞ Upgrade to iOS 5 Right Now

Works very smoothly

From Lifehacker : 

Even though iOS 5 won’t be released officially until October 12th, you can install the final version right now even if you’re not a developer. Thanks to some anonymous public postings of the software update files, you can update right now. Here’s how.

I mean… seriously…

I mean… seriously…

∞ WWDC 2011 : 114 Things You Should Know

Apple finally kicked off its much-anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference, and introduced the equally anticipated Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 operating systems, as well as the company’s cloud offering – iCloud. As you might imagine, there are a lot of details to take in around these three offerings , so we’ve compiled a whole bunch of them into quick, bite-sized nuggets for easy consumption.

∞ Full Apple FAQ on Location Data

Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices.

Hopefully this will reassure paranoid people who believes Apple is spying like Big Bro on their own miserable life.

∞ DropVox Records Voice Memos Directly to Dropbox

From LifeHacker:

If you’re a big fan of the audio note-to-self but you’d like more flexibility than the iPhone’s default Voice Memos app, DropVox may be for you. It’s a simple audio-recording app that links with and uploads M4A recordings directly to your Dropbox account.

Now that’s gonna be perfect for my future interviews

★ New customized iPhone theme

So after playing with CreateFreeiPhoneApps.com I played with a template for a couple of hours and finally came up with a customized iPhone version of Streamlog.net. Over all the process is rather easy.

∞ How to create free iPhone website

CreateFreeiPhoneApps.com is a very easy way to generate and download a pre-made template for iPhone that you’ll be able to modify after. I guess I’ll play with it tonight to make a mobile version of Streamlog.net. Could not be any simpler. Good job !

The smartphones clichés

The smartphones clichés