iPad Utilities

This particular week, our download servers have been one happening place. Recording some of the highest stats I've ever seen, this weekly roundup will show you all of the most amazing files that made great things happen. If you've got a PSP, PS3, or a brand new iDevice, this is one feature that you should be paying attention to!

Apple seems to be starting off 2013 with a bang. Developers have noted that mentions of a new model iPhone and even a new version of iOS are coming from their app requests and usage logs. Could this be the first real sign of two more big releases for Cupertino?

One of the biggest failure of Apple's iOS 6 was unquestionably Apple Maps. It has taken Google a little while to respond to this weakness, but the release of Google Maps on iOS this weekend certainly has a lot of folks buzzing.

If you follow Apple even in the slightest, you probably know that new patents are filed by the Cupertino company almost every nanosecond. Next in the realm of possible future releases is a concept for wireless charging that sounds quite promising.

If you're an Apple developer with a valid UDID, you'll be interested to know that iOS 6.1 Beta 3 should be available on your portal. The good news is, it has a tethered jailbreak!

The idea of a laser keyboard is something that has haunted iPhone concept features for generations. Thanks to Brookstone, the day for that innovation has come for any number of touch based devices.

With services like Spotify and Pandora hogging all of the spotlight when it comes to streaming music and radio, there's little doubt that Apple couldn't at least be thinking about cutting into that financial pie. Thanks to a new report by Bloomberg, that rumor seems to have some traction.

A few weeks ago, a kind iPhone app developer and fan of DashHacks placed a message in my LinkedIn inbox to review their FX Photo Studio app. After sitting with the program for a little bit, here are my impressions on what I liked and disliked about my experience.

Sure we tend to focus a little bit more on the jailbreak side of things, but if there's one official application that we have all come to know and love it would definitely have to be the Twitter application. That's why it's great news to see a completely new version launching alongside iOS 6.

We all know that today's Apple event is going to be all about the next iPhone, but there are a lot of smaller announcements that will be coming along the way as well. The experts  over at 9 to 5 Mac have some supposed details on the accessories to be revealed later today.

If you're looking to spice up that DashHacks forum avatar, sometimes there can be nothing more hilarious than the right animated GIF. In many instances constructing your own can be an annoying process, but this free official App Store app can have you making animations from your own photos in no time.

Even if you love the new speed enhancements found on Facebook 5.0, a true jailbreaker is still bound to feel at least a little bit constricted. Thanks to this new app, you'll be able to tweak your more rapid Facebook experience to make this mobile the social networking centerpiece to look and feel just the way you like it.

If you're a user of any smartphone or mobile device, you'll  understand that the app is everything, and should be treated with the utmost of importance. Finally, with this new and cheap release on the Cydia store, there is a tweak that understands you by bringing both customization and excitement to the app switching process.

• uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once). Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once). It then caches those pieces for future use.
• Just boot is a tethered boot. Uses whatever Preferences youve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args
• Pwned DFU puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below Recovery fix gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails). Should work on iOS5 beta too
• Select IPSW is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection
• SHSH blobs has a bunch of options…