Month: August 2011

D.A.R.K: This Sci-Fi iOS Shooter Should Be on Your Short List

Guest Author ∙ Updated February 18, 2018

D.A.R.K. is the latest from Chillingo, and it is a dark outer space horror-themed dual stick shooter. It’s set up as a super-soldiers vs. aliens mystery thrill ride in 3D.

As a member of the D.A.R.K. Squadron, the player is on a mission to find out the events leading up to the current condition of the USS Stormbringer, an enormous military ship. The D.A.R.K. Squadron is a military unit - think outerspace version of the Marines, or maybe Special Forces. Serious tough guys suited up in serious armor and packing serious heat...

Jailbreak iOS 5 Beta 5 With RedSn0w

Jeff Benjamin ∙ August 9, 2011

As usual, that didn't take long. Hot of the heels of the Beta 5 release of iOS 5, the iPhone Dev Team has released RedSn0w 0.9.8b5, which, of course, allows you to jailbreak Apple's bleeding edge firmware.

Per the norm, this is a tethered jailbreak, meaning you'll have to be near a computer to perform a tethered boot if you have to restart your device for any reason.

This latest version of RedSn0w is available for both Mac and Windows users. Check inside for more details...

Fedex Delivery Man Caught Forging iPad Deliveries

Cody Lee ∙ August 8, 2011

As you're probably well aware of, we love it when criminals get their comeuppance. It's even a little extra entertaining if the crooks get nabbed due to a lack of common sense. Such is the case for our next 2 villains.

KPLCTV is reporting that 2 men have been arrested in Jennings, Louisiana in connection with multiple 'forged iPad deliveries'. Apparently, over the last few months, a FedEx driver has been stealing iPads from his truck and forging customers' signatures...

‘Caffeine’ Adds a Convenient Autolock Toggle to Your iPhone

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

One of my favorite Mac apps has finally made its way to iOS...well, kind of. Caffeine, is a popular Mac app that prevents your Mac from going into sleep mode for a set interval of your choosing.

The Caffeine on the jailbreak store isn't related in anyway besides the name, but it aims to do something similar.

The jailbreak version allows you to prevent your iOS device from autolocking by means of a handy Activator action. It's not nearly as polished as the app it borrows its name from, but it's not too shabby either. Check past the jump to see Caffeine in action on video...

There Are Now 450,000 Active Apps in the App Store

Cody Lee ∙ Updated May 11, 2018

Last month, Apple announced that their iOS App Store had reached 425,000 live applications. By "live" I mean currently active and ready to download, not the total number of apps that have ever been published.

Now, nearly a month later, it seems the mobile world's favorite application destination has reached another significant milestone. There are now 450,000 active applications in the App Store...

iPhone Cufflinks: a Touch of Geek for the Fashionable You

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated August 14, 2017

I've always thought that elegance was all about the little details, like your choice of socks, the color of your suit's inner lining, or what kind of cufflinks you're wearing.

Now for the stylish geek in you with a bit of cash to spare on fashion accessories, let me introduce you to the iPhone Style Cufflinks...

‘iStartupMovie’ Adds a Customizable Boot Up Movie to Your iPhone

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Not too long ago we posted an article and video about iStartupSound, a jailbreak tweak that allowed you to add custom boot up sounds to your iPhone upon restart or respring.

Now, the jailbreak community has taken the next obvious step by allowing full startup movies to accompany your restarts and resprings.

Logically, the tweak is called iStartupMovie, and it works somewhat similar to its audio only predecessor. Check after the break for an in-depth video walkthrough of iStartupMovie in action...

Google+ App Updated for iPad/iPod Touch

Cody Lee ∙ August 8, 2011

Even though it seems like the new car smell has kind of worn off, Google+ is still seeing tons of traffic. The company took the social networking space by storm last month, and Google+ still consists of 20 million+ members.

It's had a native iPhone app for weeks, but for some reason the software has been blocked from installing on both the iPad and iPod touch. Users had to go through several steps to install the application on their tablets, and half the time it didn't work...

UK Carrier Orange Offers One iTunes Movie Rental a Week to Customers

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated January 28, 2019

Here is a surprising initiative from Orange, one of the UK's largest carrier. The company has started offering its customer one free movie rental a week via iTunes.

With Orange Film to Go, every week the company will select a new movie that customers can access simply by sending a text message to the carrier. Orange then sends the customer a promo code to redeem in iTunes...

And So it Begins: Apple TV Gets its First Jailbreak Game

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Ever since Apple released the $99 Apple TV 2 with AirPlay compatibility last year, fans have been holding vigilant for an App Store on the set-top box. Applications would mean games on a larger screen, and AirPlay would mean iDevices could join in on the fun.

But after nearly 12 months of waiting, Cupertino has yet to make an announcement regarding 3rd-party application support. Just as jailbreaking paved the way for the iPhone, it's also slowly unlocking the Apple TV's potential...

appMobi Lets Developers Code HTML 5 Apps for Submitting to the App Store

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated June 25, 2016

Google's Chrome web-based app store received a new entry this week, and believe it or not, it does have a link to the world of iOS.

The newly released appMobi is a web app designed to help developers to code HTML 5 web apps, but it also packs a sucker punch that we didn't see coming. If after writing your HTML 5 app, you decide you'd like to submit it as a native iOS app to Apple's App Store, then appMobi will let you do that, too...

10 Year Old Hacker Shows Off iOS Game Exploit at DefCon

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated November 13, 2019

Remember when kids used to sit and play with plastic toys and run around outside? Me neither. It seems that these days, the joys of hacking are too strong a pull for our little ones.

CNET highlights a 10-year old hacker, going by the name of CyFi, who has presented an exploit to the "Kids" section of the popular hacking conference, DefCon. The exploit, which currently works on both iOS and Android, allows certain games to be prematurely advanced by simply altering the device's clock...