If you’re trying to become the winner of Apple’s giveaway for the 50 billionth download from the App Store, I recommend you head on over to Apple.com and check out the home page. Apple’s official counter of App Store downloads has begun, and it appears on the home page of the Apple website, along with an iPad and random facts about the number 50…
Facebook is on the hunt for a new acquisition, and it has apparently found a new company to buy: Waze, the crowdsourced map and traffic navigation app. Multiple sources have reported that Facebook is in negotiations to buy Waze for a rumored $1 billion. If this sounds familiar to you, that’s because it should. Just last year, Facebook purchased…
So, Apple was sued again. Big surprise, right? This time it was by a small New York publishing company called Black Tower Press. Apparently the sci-fi and fantasy book publisher obtained the “ibooks” mark in 2006 after purchasing another publishing company that had been using the name. It’s worth noting that Black Tower never actually obtained…
iRadio is getting closer to reality, so audiophiles, get ready. People familiar with negations claim that Apple has reached a deal with Universal Music Group, which is the largest record company in the world. Sources claim that the deal is much better than the one record labels currently have with Pandora, and the same deal is on the table for other…
We’ve been talking about the iRadio for months but in case you missed it, this rumored music streaming service would be Apple’s answer to Pandora and Spotify. With the enormous customer base of iTunes built right in and Apple’s experience when it comes to online music, it would seem like iRadio couldn’t fail. Of course, all that is assuming that the…
There are two ways you can go about deleting a message: either hold down the backspace button or select all the text and delete it. Now there is one more option for you to choose from. You can now triple tap anywhere in the text field and the message will instantly be erased. “Triple Tap To Clear” is a free tweak created by iOS developer…
In all the chaos and controversy surrounding Apple’s own Maps application last year, you could be forgiven for missing its new and pretty awesome 3D Flyover feature. I mean, a few good looking cities isn’t going to pull attention away from the fact that Maps was labelled potentially life-threatening in Australia, or making Brooklyn Bridge look like a…
1. MiniPlayer tweak This cool little tweak brings the iTunes mini player right to your iOS device. This isn’t really groundbreaking or anything, but it’s the customization like this that makes jailbreaking so great. Apple would never allow a customer to choose between the standard music controls and something like this, but jailbreaking gives iOS users…
Paper for iPad, a popular iPad drawing app made by FifteeThree, released a major update today. In version 1.3.1 of Paper, developers finally added true pinch-to-zoom functionality that allows users to zoom in on a specific region of a drawing. This is a much-needed improvement over the old zoom feature, which just zoomed in on the whole…
Thanks to a new Cydia tweak users will now be able to see the status of an outgoing message represented by a percentage. The tweak Message Send Percent was developer by iOS developer greensnow. As shown in the video above “Message Send Percent” will add a percentage indicator above the send bar in your messages application. One important thing to…
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