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Jailbreak: Badger redesigns how app badge notifications work

Many looking forward to a redesign of iOS have moved to jailbreaking to satisfy their desire for some redesigning. A new app, called Badger, has redesigned the way the operating system handles notification badges on app icons, and it is beautiful. The new tweak allows users to swipe on an icon, which will then bring up a box with unread…

Tumblr agrees to Yahoo purchase

Tumblr has today confirmed that it will be joining Yahoo. As you well know, Yahoo has really being going places of late, purchasing startups and more well-established companies left and right. In 2013 alone it has purchased Snip.it, Alike, Jybe, Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise and Loki Studios. Now, following rumors that began circulating last week,…

Pebble smartwatch now communicates with apps

An update to the Pebble smartwatch has today enabled two-way communication between the device and smartphone apps. Following the massive success of the device on Kickstarter, Pebble is trying to encourage developers to create “watchapps”, which can both send and receive data from smartphone apps. Such a feature would greatly increase the capabilities…

eBay for iOS gets new interface

eBay’s iPhone app has today received a UI overall, bringing a completely new look to the app. Version 3.0.0 brings a new interface, which is now much simpler to use, however there are some tweaks to the apps core features too. The app has an improved bidding feature to make bidding near the end of auctions more effective  There are also larger photo…

How many apps do iOS users download?

Yesterday, Apple blazed through its 50 billion download mark on its iOS App Store, whilst Google announced 48 billion downloads on the same day. Benedict Evans has posted an interesting article examining Apple and Android’s app download figures in order to determine the average app download figure per iOS user, a figure that I don’t believe has really…

Eurovision releases official iOS app

This week will culminate in a frightfully embarrassing aspect of European culture, the Eurovision song contest. Eurovision is infamous for bringing together all that is cheesy and awful about music, however, as a Brit, I may be slightly bitter over the fact that our own acts never seem to do very well. If you’re a fan of Eurovision, or you have designs…

DirecTV for iOS gets ‘Voice Search’

A new version of the iOS DirecTV  app brings users voice recognition. Version 2.5.0 of the streaming app allows users to control the app with their voice, searching for programs and films using a title, channel, keyword, actor, time frame and genre, in a similar format to Siri. The new TV mode allows users to display their search dialogues and…