Those who have tested the earlier version of ProTube will feel a lot of different things in the new ProTube Extension like for example its new updated design. It’s not a drastic departure from the previous version, but many of the design elements have been tweaked and refined to make for a more cohesive experience. The new design is most apparent with the download manager, which heavily benefits from the visual refinements.

The new version contains a lot of important functional enhancements that make this new version of ProTube more of a pleasure to use. For instance, there’s now an option to tap and hold on a video to begin the download process. That means that you no longer need to start watching the video before you’re able to download it.

Along that same theme, there’s a new option in ProTube’s preferences that allows you to disabled auto-play on videos. I don’t know about you, but I find it annoying when YouTube decides to automatically start a video just because I loaded up the video page. With ProTube, you now have the option of examining the video’s description and comments before it begins playing.

The post download experience is uber refined as well. ProTube Extension for YouTube includes a new audio player, that looks and feels much like the stock Music app in iOS. This audio player complements the audio only downloads, which are an option with ProTube installed.

Speaking of audio, those of you who peruse YouTube to listen to music videos will be especially happy. ProTube has a toggle in its preferences that lets you enable or disable backgrounded audio. This means that you can start a video, close YouTube, and still listen to that video play in the background. It’s perfect for those of you who use YouTube for your music listening.

So are you looking for an app launcher and more for your new Mac ? Well let me introduce for you Alfred. You may have heard a lot about Alfred and what does it do. And today I want to take some time today to showcase a few features that you might not have come across before. I used to be the type of person that loved to have an application launcher, but only ever used it for – you guessed it – launching apps!

Although Alfred does give you a fantastic way to open software using just your keyboard, it goes well beyond that fairly basic functionality. Today we’ll take a look at a few more advanced techniques, and show you how powerful this simple piece of software really is…

Another one hit the YouTube. I can say that this new iOS 7 concept video is the most wonderful concepts and it will be the most traffic. It shows many amazing animations right from the Look screen, completely redesigned way of opening and closing the folder, and beautiful way of checking the recent emails.

For example, the new concepts has used the gestures like Zephyr as you can swipe from bottom to Top to open Multitasking tray instead of doubling clicking the home button. Also you can use the symbols buttom as the Toggles.

Steps to open the clock app.: 

From about a month ago, Apple made some minor changes to the way app information is displayed on the App Store. In an effort to help parents clearly understand what their child is downloading, an app’s age restriction has been moved to the top of the summary page, just below its name.
This doesn’t always keep kids from sneaking a download or two when you aren’t watching. In addition to securing your iPhone from unwanted in-app purchases, you can also keep your iPhone from unwanted subject matter downloads by setting content restrictions.

By the way, you can allow or restrict the use of the Safari browser, the native camera app, FaceTime, iTunes, and iBookstore by toggling the on/off switch to “Off.” This is a nice feature for keeping your five year old nephew, who likes to take close-up pictures of his nose, from accessing apps that you just don’t want him using at all.

You can fine-tune your content restrictions based on the country of origin for app age ratings. To do this, tap the “Ratings For” tab and select the country you want to use. Obviously, it makes sense to choose the country you currently reside in.

Yesterday Facebook released a new update for its social iOS app which brought a lot of great features to users. The social networking giant Facebook yesterday at the Mobile Developer Conference in New York City updated its software development kit (SDK) for iOS developers with a new native Share Dialog that also supports photos, akin to the iOS 6 Share Sheet feature.

It has built-in support for publishing Open Graph actions. In addition, people now have the option to share activity from apps through this dialog without needing to login to Facebook first.

This makes it faster and easier for people to share.

The Share Dialog can be easily seen on the top right screenshot, will be also coming to Android at a later stage, the social networking company confirmed.


Check out the improved data and publishing permission dialog

Only people living in China are going to love the following news. It wasn’t long ago that Apple was being labeled a pirate in China. Now comes word of a pirate version of Apple’s App Store, selling iOS apps that let iPhone or iPad owners skirt iTunes and install apps, no jailbreak required. However, there’s one major catch: the website is available only within China, likely to dissuade Apple lawyers coming down like a ton of bricks.

According to Hong Kong-based MIC Gadget, Kuai has basically taken bulk licenses used by companies, then acts like a copier, spitting out duplicate after duplicate of the app along with the same ID. Trouble is, along with the free iOS app may come some nasty malware.

“Specialized malware could be developed for certain popular apps that collected information and logged activity on to the device. The Android eco-systems in China are working in this way,” according to the site. Wednesday, antivirus firm McAffee said more than 90 percent of malware targets Android devices.

Although the piracy-fueled iTunes alternative is not available outside of China, that could change. An international version in English is in the works – but only for Windows users, claims MIC Gadget. Naturally pirates would chose a platform beset by security errors, worms and other nasties.

Today iH8sn0w has just released the latest versions of Sn0wbreeze v2.9.14 for Windows users, this new version comes with the support for iOS 6.1.3 jailbreak for A4 devices. This latest version of sn0wbreeze also supports APTicket validation, in light of the recent issues with APTickets. If you’re a Windows user (sn0wbreeze is for Windows only), and are looking for a way to jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 on your pre-A5 device with a tethered jailbreak, then this latest version of sn0wbreeze is your ticket to freedom.

Are you looking for a beautiful and awesome weather app for your iPhone ? Well let me introduce for you Yahoo’s new weather app, as most of you know Yahoo supplies Apple with weather data for its stock iOS Weather app (in addition to Stocks and Siri data as well) and it was reported earlier this morning that the company will be launching a dedicated weather forecast software on the App Store.

The forecast is beautiful. See the weather like never before – only Yahoo! Weather combines stunning photos with the most accurate forecasts.

In addition to an at-a-glance simplified overview of your weather forecast, the application won’t disappoint an armchair weather forecaster inside you as it also incorporates interactive radar, satellite, heat and wind maps and sunrise/sunset times.

Even these advanced features are carefully designed not to clutter the interface and intimidate users. What’s best, you can also submit your own photos to the app at Project Weather on Flickr.

But today and it was first posted by the folks at The Verge, Bell’s Chat Head integration with iOS looks to be coming along much faster than many anticipated. Take a look at a hands-on video inside.

Per The Verge:

 Chat Heads inhabit a separate layer inside the Facebook app, so it was just a matter of finding that layer and making the rest of the app transparent. “The hardest part was getting this all to render on top of everything else,” Bell says, which means Facebook is always running on your phone. 

 Even though the Facebook app will be “always running” as a transparent layer, apparently this will have minimal impact on battery life. One thing that Bell’s implementation of Chat Heads can’t do, is integrate with SMS messages like it can on Android. Given the fast turnaround time with this project, though, I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of that happening in the future.

Chat Heads for iOS will be available in the next few days for FREE on Cydia, so keep yourself updated.