If you are ever use Windows 98 before, you will know what it mean by frequent application crash and make you feel frustrated with the system. Apple releases the cool and a lot of great features on iOS 5.0.1 but does it good enough to run on all the apps without performance issue?

The graph grab from Forbes website. It is clearly show that the latest iOS 5.0.1 crash the most out of other older version. Even compare with Android apps, it does not crash as much as iOS apps.

Many people may wonder why most of the apps crash after they upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 This happen to me too as well. The newest iOS is eating up a lot memory compare to existing version. If you jailbreak your iPhone and install SBSettings, you can easily notice the memory usage is now more and drain faster than before.

One of the reason is the limitation of the hardware. I am using iPhone 3GS and with the limited 256 MB RAM (which left only half MB to run apps) is really very low compare with other Android devices in the market now. Although the current iPhone 4S had 512 MB RAM (consider Samsung Galaxy S2 is already on 1 GB RAM), Apple iPhone 4S could be running slow on apps after 1 year plus of usage.

Another reason is the iOS apps design. Apple iOS is design to run on low memory device but the new iOS 5 does not seem to be efficient enough especially many people reported their iPhone 4S battery drain faster than their iPhone 4 which does not make sense.

Unlike Android OS, Apple iOS does not allow users to update their apps automatically whenever there is a new update from developer. Thus, some users don’t update their apps. Imagine having more than 50 apps update and you need to manually update each of them. Although not all apps are used by users but they could forget to update the apps by the time they want to use the apps and developer is already fix the bugs in newer update. Then, crash happen to their device.

To protect the apps from crash, the system need to be clever enough to release unused memory when there is low memory warning. Many iOS developers also complain the Apple apps approval system is too strict and it could take weeks for the updates to appear in the App Store while Android could get the latest update almost in real time.

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Liquipel is a preventative coating using the latest waterproof technology to safeguard your iPhone and prevent any water go into the device. The awesome thing is that you can even play video and run any application in the water.

In any event, the iPhone is coincidentally contact with water, it can repel the water out. The waterproof case is very useful situation like this or will it possible to bring your iPhone to the swimming pool and take underwater picture?

Liquipel coating costs $59 and has a 1-2 day turnaround.

Rumor saying that the most anticipated iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 could be using Liquipel waterproof coating technology as the selling point also.

Waterproof technology is still very new in the market. We won’t expect the technology to become popular. Most digital cameras already equip with such feature but hardly seeing much popularity from the crowd unless it has some cool feature to offer.

Are you always working with water? This product will help you in case your iPhone drop into the water accidentally. It is not suitable for everyone but if you are looking for something unique to impress your friends, Liquipel coating could do the job fairly well.

Check out the official website to find out more information of the waterproof coating.

Apple is expected to unveiled the newest smartphone iPhone 5 in the event at WWDC which going to live on June 2012. Sources quoted the following.

The iPhone 5 will continue to utilize glass to glass (G/G) touch panel technology which will benefit current touch panel suppliers TPK Holding and Wintek, the paper quoted the securities house as saying.

According to various sources, expected date to held WWDC for iPhone 5 event will be fall on June 10th to June 15th 2012.

The most anticipated Apple smartphone is only few months more to unveil. iPhone 5 is a long wait for Apple fans while iPhone 4S may seems like a disappointment for loyal iPhone supporters.

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Siri is now working on iPhone 4 by installing SiriPort from Cydia. Note that this is require a jailbroken iPhone to work. Some users had reported not working while some are working on their device but slightly slow due to server overload and unstable.

1. Add repo.siriport.ru source to Cydia
2. Search “SiriPort” and install it.
3. Reboot your device.
4. Install the Certificate from the website siriport.ru/1.crt
5. Activate Siri and say “Hi Siri” Siri won’t work, wait 1-4 minutes and try again. (Say “Hi Siri” again)
6. Repeat step 6 until Siri is activated

The response maybe slow depends on the connection speed and server status. Probably it need some fix to enhance the stability and performance to make SiriPort perfect for normal daily use.

Note: Try at your own risk if you really want Siri so much but can’t afford to upgrade to iPhone 4S.

During the current issue cause by iPhone scalper in China, Apple has launch an iPhone 4S online reservation system on Apple Hong Kong Online Store to fight and prevent scalpers from grabbing all the iPhone stock everyday.

The Apple Hong Kong Online Store page is a special page that can only access during certain time of the day. The page with intention to block bots from keep requesting the page and causes the server to become busy. Currently, the reservation time is 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m and customers need to provide full details of government ID and full name that are match. Customers will be able to purchase up to 2 units of the same iPhone model per person.

In the recent news, Apple also saying that they will not sell iPhone 4S or iPhone 4 to walk-in customers. This is a very good move to fight against scalpers from snatching all the iPhone 4S and selling it at higher price to other customers.

Once the reservation form has been submitted, customers will be notified via email before 9.00 p.m. and pickup your iPhone by tomorrow.

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Apple released a new iTunes upgrade version which dedicate especially for iPad users. The iTunes 10.5.3 allows iPad users to sync interative iBooks textbook to your iPad.

iBooks textbooks are created with iBooks Author which are now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.

This update is important for iPad users who are occasionally use iTunes to backup their data instead of iCloud. Some users might prefer the old way to store their backup and are not comfortable with the iCloud syncing platform.

The update is available for both Mac and Windows users.

Using the most popular RedSn0w tool, you can upgrade your current jailbreak and fix issue or bugs for existing jailbreak. Normally, this fix issues such as iBooks, loading error, launchctl error and much more.

Re-jailbreak your iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS, iPad and iPod Touch can help to keep your device free from bugs and common issues while using the device. Upgrading your device to latest jailbreak tool is necessary.

Before you continue any jailbreak process, you need to turn off your device by holding the power button for a few seconds and then slide to power off. After your device is power off, you can proceed with the steps.

Steps to re-jailbreak iOS 5

1. Download the latest RedSn0w tool.
2. Extract the zip file and launch RedSn0w tool.
3. If you have not jailbreak iOS 5 untethered before, choose Extras -> Select IPSW. Select the iOS 5 ipsw file on your computer. Otherwise, skip this step.
4. Click “Jailbreak” and follow the screen instructions to reboot your device into DFU mode.
5. After you have successfully boot the device, RedSn0w will start to do the rest of the process for you.
6. Wait until the progress finish.
7. Your device has been re-jailbreak.

Make sure you have backup your data before proceed with any jailbreak action. Cydia apps can be backup using AptBackup.

iTunes has the ability to gift an app to your friends or loved one. Whenever you found a useful app or interesting game on App Store, just open iTunes and gift it to someone special. For example, Where’s my water is my favorite iPhone game at the moment and I would like to gift this app to another person.

Firstly, I launch iTunes and go to application details page. For quick shortcut, you can enter “Where’s my water” keyword in the search box. After the application page is display, choose from the drop down list. Select “Gift This App”.

A new page will be shown and ask for your information. Fill in the form with relevant information and press continue button to proceed. You can have option to send the gift via email or you can print the hard-copy by yourself.

If you have special message wants to be included in the gift card, you can customize your personal message with your creativity. You will be charge after you click “Buy Gift” button in the next page.

After the process completed, your friend will be able to redeem the iPhone app via gift card.

Happy Gifting!