Like every Sunday, we get to take a look at some of the most popular posts that were published on iDB during the week that just ended. Whether it is a news item, a new jailbreak tweak, a tutorial, or an app review, we sum it all up in one convenient place for you.
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Deals
- Apple’s free app of the week: Vantage Calendar
- Daily Deal: $5 iTunes movies, $44 Razer gaming headset, and more
- Deal: get 60% off a one-year subscription to TextExpander
- PDFConverterOCR 4: a one-stop PDF converter for Mac
Accessories
Apple & related news
- Tim Cook: you will see Apple do more in the pro space
- WSJ: iPhone 8 to sport curved OLED screen, supplant Lightning with USB-C
- KGI: All 2017 iPhones to retain Lightning ports while supporting faster charging
- DigiTimes: iPhone 8 with in-screen fingerprint sensor entering mass production in September
- Senior Apple executives reportedly clashing over who gets to secure major Hollywood deals
- Third-party iPhone screen repairs no longer void warranty
- UBS: Apple has 1,000 engineers working on augmented reality, tech to debut in iPhone 8
- Leaked render depicts nearly full-screen Galaxy S8 design with utterly minimal bezels
Jailbreaking
- LiberTV jailbreak for Apple TV 4 running tvOS 9.1-10.1 released
- How to jailbreak your Apple TV 4 with liberTV
- SpringChanger lets you customize your respring screen with backgrounds and colors
- This tweak shrinks and relocates the Lock screen’s date and time indicator
- This tweak lets you use a 3D Touch gesture to clear app icons badges
- BlurTouchClean removes the blur from your Home screen’s 3D Touch menu backgrounds
- HideMeX: an all-inclusive SpringBoard customization tweak for iOS 10
- ColorFlow 3 uses dominant colors of album artwork to colorize your Now Playing screen
- Customize and add new functions to Control Center with Onizuka
- ColorBanners 2 adds a splash of color to your notification banners
- 3DSwitcher 2 brings three-dimensional animations to your App Switcher
- LockMusic makes subtle changes to your Lock screen’s Now Playing interface
- This tweak brings a touch of Android Nougat to your iPhone
- LockGlyphX puts a nice twist on your Touch ID unlocking experience
- Jailbreak tweaks of last week
Apps
- Yoop, Laughable, Calorie Mama AI, and other apps to check out this weekend
- Facebook launches Video app for Apple TV
Tips
- How to change the AirDrop destination folder on Mac
- How to mute keywords and filter out “eggs” from your Twitter timeline
- How to hide contact photos from the Messages app
- Tip: open video pages in Safari from YouTube app
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