By: Shazia Yousuf

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”‒Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is not just a method of communication; it is a means of bonding which brings one closer to the culture to which that language belongs.

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Most iPhone 4S users are still waiting for a jailbreak for their device. It is more than a month now since iPhone 4S was officially released and still there is no news about Jailbreak availability. I believe the iPhone 4S users would still have to wait for some more time to get a tethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S.

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Remember we posted about Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung that barred Samsung to initiate the sales of the Galaxy Tab in Australia. Well, the lawsuit is finally over and the results are out. Apple fans will not be happy with this. The same can’t be said for Samsung fans though. Herald Sun is a daily newspaper [...]

Are you exhausted with typing long names, words and sentences and thinking how to generate shortcuts of text? Fortunately, one of the new characteristics of iOS 5 is capable to do that. Such as, instead of typing the complete sentence “On my way” you just need to type “omw” and iPhone will automatically change this short form to its actual full expression.

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I hope you all you Apple fans were waiting for a working JailBreak for your iDevices. Well, that moment has almost arrived. A video was uploaded a while back by a developer who has been into JailBreaking the iDevices for a while now. We have the video link at the end of the article. I’m [...]

Have you guys heard about the Flipboard? I’m sure you have. It is one of the extremely successful and an award winning application developed for the iPad only. Well it recently received an update to version 1.7 and guess what? Flipboard FINALLY supports the iPhone and the iPod touch. Flipboard was originally released in 2010 [...]

The latest version of Apple’s book reading app, iBooks 1.5, contains a new Night Theme that is designed to make reading easier on your eyes in low-light conditions.

When you activate the night-time reading mode from the fonts menu in iBooks, the default white-on-black color scheme is reversed – background goes black while the text color turns white thus causing less strain to your eyes in the dark (screenshot). The Instapaper app too offers a similar dark theme for your late-night reading sessions.

Use the Dark Theme for Night-time Reading in any App!

iBooks or Instapaper aren’t the only apps where you read content. There’s your RSS feed reader, your email client and even Safari where you read web pages. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could bring iBooks style night-reading mode to all the other apps on your iPad /iPhone?

There’s an easy workaround. On your iOS device, tap the Settings icon and choose General –> Accessibility –> Triple-click Home and and set it to “Toggle White on Black.”

Press the Home button to exit Settings and launch any reading app. Triple-click the Home button on your iOS device in quick succession and it should enable white-on-black effect quite similar to iBooks Night mode. Triple-click again to switch to normal mode. Simple!

Also see: Relax Eyes with the 20-20-20 Rule

This inverted color scheme is however not suitable for viewing images as they’ll mostly look like photograph negatives. Big thanks to Atul Chitnis for sharing this tip.

This story, Enable the Night-Reading Mode inside any iOS App, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 07/12/2011 under Eyes, IPad, Software.

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