Month: March 2015

Apple Watch lifestyle photoshoots appear in Hong Kong and UK fashion mags

Multi-page editorial coverage of the Apple Watch in the world’s top fashion magazines continues with a new cover appearance and multi-page spread in Hong Kong street fashion and lifestyle magazine East Touch this month, Hype Beast reported Monday.

In addition, the wrist-worn device has appeared on the cover and a two-page spread inside the Big Spring issue of London-based fashion mag Style.

Apple adds virtually whole vehicle industry to its corporate description

Apple has added a number of activities related to automotive industry to its corporate description, as discovered by Swiss blog ApfelBlog.ch. The Cupertino company's law firm Baker & McKenzie has expanded Apple's corporate description in a set of documents filed recently in Zurich, Switzerland.

Virtually the whole vehicles industry is now included in Apple's activities, including vehicles, electronic car hardware, anti-theft devices, theft alarms, aftermarket parts and accessories for vehicles.

iCloud Photo Sharing: one of Apple’s best kept secrets

If you're a frequent reader then you may remember my thoughts on Apple's iCloud Photo Library beta and my lack of faith in Apple and its ability to keep my photos safe. Nobody wants to lose photographs of their kids or loved ones because Apple's cloud solution had a meltdown one day.

And I just don't have any expectation of that not happening at some point.

During my time spent testing iCloud Photo Library I rediscovered one feature that I had actually forgotten about since the days of the iOS 7 betas. It was as feature that I never made great use of at the time because some key members of my family didn't have iPhones, but now that they do, I decided to revisit it.

The feature I am talking about is iCloud Photo Sharing, and it's really rather good.

Comex releases an alpha build of Substitute, a controversial Cydia Substrate replacement

Today, Comex made good on his promise and released an alpha build of Substitute—the hacker's polarizing new Cydia Substrate replacement for jailbroken iPhones. Back in January, it was revealed that Comex was helping the iMods team—a crew that is working on a Cydia replacement—with some of the necessary fundamentals to get the project off the ground.

One of the most needed pieces of a Cydia replacement is a Cydia Substrate replacement. Without Cydia Substrate, or something like it, then a Cydia replacement doesn't make much sense. Not only has Comex pledged his support for the project, but he's just brought one of its most important puzzle pieces to reality.

ReturnToSender: press the return key to send texts in the Messages app

Are you ever annoyed by the presence of the "return" key in the Messages app? Yes, sometimes it's nice to be able to quickly insert line breaks in messages by means of this key, but it's usually a rare need, and as such, some find such a key to be unnecessary.

Instead, wouldn't it be cool if you could replace the return key with a send button? That's the premise behind a beta tweak called ReturnToSender.

DathBanners Lite brings app-specific colors to notification banners

DathBanners Lite is an innovative jailbreak tweak that just landed on the Cydia store for free. It's a tweak that takes the average color of the app icon responsible for the banner notification and applies it to the background of the banner. If you're looking to spice up the look of incoming banner notifications, then DathBanners is your ticket towards doing so.

Here are Samsung’s answers to the iPhone 6 and Apple Pay

Samsung just took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday to unveil its answer to the iPhone 6, its new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge flagships. Succeeding the Galaxy S5, which Samsung had trouble selling, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will ship April 10 on all four major US carriers.

Samsung is remaining mum on pricing for either handset, but has revealed specifications for the devices. Both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge feature a 5.1-inch quad HD display, 2.1GHz quad-core processor, Android 5.0 Lollipop, 16-megapixel OIS rear-camera, and 5-megapixel front-camera.

The introduction of both handsets wasn't in the company's typical fashion. Samsung's event at Mobile World Congress wasn't a theatrical affair, instead the South Korea-based company got to the point when it came to ushering in its reinvigorated product line. It was quite refreshing. 

Apple Watch reportedly has Power Reserve mode, displaying only time

The New York Times reports the Apple Watch will feature "Power Reserve" functionality, in order to stretch the wearable's battery longer and make for less frequent charging.

Apple has said the watch battery is estimated to last a full day, requiring a user to charge it at night, similar to a smartphone. The low-power mode will display the time only, the report says, and will be able to do so on even very little battery.

8 tweaks to take for a spin this weekend

Another week down, and another new batch of tweaks for you to check out. Indeed, there are less tweaks this week to check out than before, but there are definitely some goodies among this week's releases. Be sure to check them out, and let us know what you think about the following list of Cydia releases...

Apple Watch event wallpapers: Spring Forward

Last week, Apple sent media invitations to an event on March 9. It is widely expected the main subject will be the forthcoming Apple Watch, which Tim Cook announced will be available in April 2015. With the invitation reading "Spring Forward," it is much less cryptic than previous invite wording. "Spring forward" is a common phrase to help people remember to set their clocks forward, ending daylight savings time. The key here being the overt reference to a device telling time. Further, March 9 is the day after the end of daylight savings time.

Per usual, iDownloadBlog wants to help everyone celebrate the moment by highlighting event inspired wallpapers. Inside, you will find versions of the invitation for iPhone, iPad, and desktop.