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Friday, April 18

Hack Siri to make your Experience much Better - No Jailbreak

Earlier A team of University of Pennsylvania freshmen turned Siri into the useful companion she was always meant to be by a tool at Hackathon event this year. Their creation, GoogolPlex, routes Siri commands through a proxy, allowing their system to add custom commands. Also no Jailbreak is required for this.

Siri would now be able to play a certain Spotify song on demand, Or control a Nest Thermostat , Control lights by Philips Hue Lights, take an instagram selfie etc.
Enabling GoogolPlex involves adding a proxy to an iPhone’s WIFI settings and take about three minutes for set up. Once added, a user needs to create an account with GoogolPlex using Siri and then its good to go.
GoogolPlex is bit hacky at the moment as its playing with siri, after all its a project born at a hackathon.
The system allows Siri to perform nearly any function. Using the edit function on the GoogolPlex’s website, a user can add nearly any command of their choice and as per their need. Also an extra feature makes an iPhone can give directions through Google Maps.

The project isn’t ready for mainstream consumption yet. It took around 40 hours for the team to complete at the hackathon, and then several weeks to build the platform.
There are somw flaws with Googolplex as for now like the phone has to be unlocked during the process as it uses Safari to work through. By keeping it locked, all the custom commands go unrealized. Had Apple should have brought this up with Siri themselves, letting the users to add custom commands hence providing the real complete personal assistant.

Check out the video demonstrating the use of Googolplex,
Sounds like Googleplus all the time lol

Get the instructions from their official site below :
Googolplex

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