📅 November 27, 2011

FastPdfKit Reader: First Siri Controlled App [video]

FastPdfKit Reader is manipulated by various commands with SiriProxy acting in the middle. A plugin is used to add new commands to the ones recognized by Siri, and finally, the proxy then sends the final commands to the app.

A few days ago, we told you about plamoni’s Siri Proxy , a proxy server which allows developers to easily add functionality to Siri. The main example for Siri Proxy is a plugin to control a thermostat with Siri. If that’s not impressive enough, another developer by the name of Brandon Fiquett, has created a ruby plugin for Siri Proxy which allows him to control his car using Siri.

Today we’re telling you about FastPdfKit Reader, the first Siri controlled iOS app…

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📅 November 21, 2011

Siri Proxy Can Add Limitless Functionality To Siri [video]

Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple’s Siri “assistant.” The idea is to allow for the creation of custom handlers for different actions. This can allow developers to easily add functionality to Siri.

Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple’s Siri “assistant.” The idea is to allow for the creation of custom handlers for different actions. This can allow developers to easily add functionality to Siri.

The main example is a plugin to control a thermostat with Siri. It responds to commands such as, “What’s the status of the thermostat?”, or “Set the thermostat to 68 degrees”, or even “What’s the inside temperature?”

For more info and the source code for Siri Proxy check out github. Head over the break to check out the videos….

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📅 June 7, 2009

iProxy: Secure Your iPhone and iTouch Web Surfing

iProxy will let you surf the web anonymously from your iPhone or iTouch

New day, new app in Cydia: iProxy. This is a secure proxy tunnel that is implemented in an iPhone application. You can find this app in Cydia, on the BigBoss repo, which is a default repo in Cydia, so anybody should be able to find this one… as long as your device is jailbroken.

First lets see whats a proxy server: In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as a go-between for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server evaluates the request according to its filtering rules. For example, it may filter traffic by IP address or protocol. If the request is validated by the filter, the proxy provides the resource by connecting to the relevant server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client’s request or the server’s response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it ‘caches’ responses from the remote server, and returns subsequent requests for the same content directly.

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