Month: March 2015

Tim Cook on post-Jobs era after being named Fortune’s ‘World’s Greatest Leader’

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 26, 2015

It's officially Tim Cook's era at Apple as Fortune has named the Apple CEO the ‘World’s Greatest Leader’. After winning the coveted tittle, Cook gave an interview to Fortune in which he reflected on a post-Jobs era and shared interesting tidbits on what it's like to cope with the pressure that comes with leading such a huge company as Apple.

For starters, he had to learn to ignore his critics. “I’m not running for office,” Cook said in an in-depth Fortune profile.

“I don’t need your vote. I have to feel myself doing what’s right,” Cook continued. “If I’m the arbiter of that instead of letting the guy on TV be that or someone who doesn’t know me at all, then I think that’s a much better way to live.”

Apple also bought UK data analytics company Acunu

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 26, 2015

Bloomberg is shedding more light on Apple's recent acquisition of database firm FoundationDB, with a report Thursday revealing that the iPhone maker had secretly snapped up U.K.-based data analytics company Acunu, presumably to help bolster its iCloud and web services.

The transaction for an undisclosed sum occurred in late 2013. Together, the Acunu and FoundationDB acquisitions inject some fresh blood into Apple to help bulk up the company's data and cloud-computing capabilities.

Apple Watch can track workouts without an iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 26, 2015

The Apple Watch uses Wi-Fi and GPS from your iPhone, in addition to its own accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate and barometer sensors, to track your physical activity and movement. Now, there's been a lot of commotion regarding whether or not the wrist-worn gizmo can operate independently as a fitness tracker.

As first noted by MacObserver, American model and activist Christy Turlington-Burns, who blogs about the Apple Watch on Apple's website, said in her most recent blog entry that the device can learn about the user's stride enough over time to start accurately track workouts without an iPhone.

Apple rumored to launch four-inch iPhone 6c this year, in addition to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 26, 2015

In addition to this year's S-upgrade to the iPhone in the form of an ‘iPhone 6s’ and ‘iPhone 6s Plus’, Apple is also expected to release a third iPhone model, a four-inch ‘iPhone 6c’, according to a sketchy rumor last night by DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based trade publication.

Citing industry sources, the hit-and-miss publication claims the three devices will release in the second half of 2015.

Twitter releases live-streaming app Periscope

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 26, 2015

Ever since Twitter shut down Meerkat, the popular live-streaming app that cleverly uses Twitter existing account and social graph infrastructure, it became clear that the micro-blogging startup was about to launch a similar service of its own.

Indeed, on Thursday the company announced immediate availability of Periscope, a live-streaming video service it acquired back in January.

The free iPhone app, like Meerkat, allows users to start live-streams from their device in an instant.

Four Letters review: a surprisingly challenging word game

Josh Gallagher ∙ Updated February 6, 2018

How many four letter words can you think of? No, this isn’t some crass joke. It’s the concept of Prodigy Design’s new word game, Four Letters. Four Letters assigns players the deceptively simple task of rearranging four random characters into a word. It may seem easy at first, but coming up with all 2,465 possible combinations may present a bit of a challenge.

GoPix lets you create short slideshows to share with friends

Lory Gil ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

If you like sharing pictures with friends and family on social networking sites like Facebook and Instagram, you are probably itching for a new medium to show them off. Instead of static pics or multi-panel collages, you could really wow them with a slideshow.

GoPix is a slideshow creator that turns your pictures into memories by combining image transitions and music into one simple action. We’ve got an app review of GoPix for you today.

How to troubleshoot Cydia refresh issues

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

From time to time, you may encounter a situation where Cydia will not stop "Reloading Data". This usually has something to do with a bad repo, or a repo that may be unresponsive, offline, etc. If you have a lot of third-party repos added to Cydia, then the chances of you encountering this error increase. In this post, I'll show you how to successfully troubleshoot this issue, and make it so that Cydia can successfully refresh.

Apple to begin iPhone trade-in program in China, with Foxconn’s help

Jake Smith ∙ March 25, 2015

Bloomberg reports Apple plans to introduce an iPhone trade-in program in China, similar to what's currently available from the company in the US, UK, India, and other countries. As China becomes one of Apple's most important markets, the ability to sell more iPhones is always a plus.

NY Times: Apple/Beats music streaming service to rival Spotify, iTunes Radio overhaul coming

Jake Smith ∙ March 25, 2015

Stating what's pretty close to the obvious, the New York Times reports the teams at Apple and Beats are working on a digital music service to directly compete with Spotify, one year after the Cupertino-based company paid $3 billion for the headphone maker. It won't bring lower prices than its competitors, the publication says, and is currently being planned for launch this year.

Let’s Talk Jailbreak 100: A signed Alf picture

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Episode 100: Reminiscing about Let's Talk Jailbreak and its history over 100 episodes. A hacker creates a new brute force tool. A new TinyUmbrella beta. We also discuss several big jailbreak tweaks like Multify, Couria, and DockWare.

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