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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Accessories
- Philips Hue White Ambience lightbulbs include HomeKit functionality for a lower price
- How to install a glowing Apple logo on iPhone 6s
Apple & related news
- Apple sends out invites for September 7 iPhone 7 event
- What we’re expecting from Apple’s September 7 event
- Apple to impose 50-character limit on app names, remove poorly maintained apps
- Apple launches an official Twitter account
- EU orders Apple to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes
- Here’s Tim Cook’s message to Apple community regarding massive Irish tax bill
- The government of Ireland will back Apple in its fight against EU’s tax bill from hell
- Apple pushes new music discovery feature to beta testers ahead of iOS 10 release
- KGI on iPhone 7: IPX7 waterproofing, 2.4GHz chip, new Force Touch sensor, LED flash & more
- iPhone 7 Plus could come bundled with Apple’s new AirPods Wireless Earphones
- Apple Watch 2’s thinner screen & larger battery allegedly caught on video
- Apple Watch 2 could offer a few hours of additional run time via a stronger 334 mAh battery
- Bloomberg: new Macs and 5K monitor could debut as early as October
- New Beats products to be unveiled at iPhone event next week
- You can now buy 2TB of iCloud storage for $20/month, but free tier is still just 5GB
- Samsung issues global Note 7 recall after complaints of exploding batteries
Jailbreaking
- AppDye 2 subtly throws a splash of color across the UI in iOS
- StatusbarVolume is a another type of Status Bar-based volume HUD
- This tweak lets you keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on when you toggle Airplane Mode
- Set animated GIF images as your Lock screen wallpaper with GIFLock
- Amalthea: a video-friendly volume HUD for your iOS Status Bar
- NightOwl enables Twitter’s night mode automatically based on the time
- Customize your Notification Center interface with CustomNC
- How to send texts and iMessages from Windows [jailbreak]
- New Activator extension lets you assign actions to closing apps
- LiveIconDisabler disables the Clock app’s icon animation
Apps
Tips
- Pro Tip: create an applet to watermark images
- Converting a regular video to slow motion with iMovie on Mac
- How to create your own Geofilters for Snapchat
- How to reveal a file’s path in Spotlight for Mac with a simple keystroke
Wallpapers
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